Moving Personal Email From Google (or M365)

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

Maybe it is because I am a bit stingy, but I currently have my family domain email on Google and I despise paying £34 a month/£408 a year for the pleasure (4 accounts).

I want to retain push email, a shared calendar and file sharing/document store and wondered what the perceived negatives would be in setting my own server up or using another service.

My options include:
Move to Zoho - they have a free level which includes a lot of features and, even if paid for, it is £2/m user, saving £300 a year.
Use the web hosting - I can use the benefits of (my own web hosting), however, it isn't push email out of the box. No office apps. (not really an option)
Set up service like Nextcloud - the cost is a basic server (or, again, my own hosting) and a powerful app could be built. Can add office apps.

Setting the mail server up to be workable isn't an issue for me.

Anyone broken away from the big 2?

 

[fisicx]

Why doesn’t your hosting push emails? I use thunderbird and it updates every 10 minutes. Which is generally adequate.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

t updates every 10 minutes

That will be Thunderbird pulling, not push, won't it?

How can I live the instant gratification life style if I have to wait 10 minutes to know I have a million dollars waiting for me in Nigeria?

 

[fisicx]

Change the settings on Thunderbird.

Note that email isn’t IM. Can take hours to get delivered.

 

[tony84]

I asked this same question a month or 2 back.
We switched over to zoho about 2 weeks ago.

Zoho is fine, within the settings you can make it look like google.
However for me the biggest let down (which I use a lot) is the search facility in zoho mail. Its pretty bad.

Aside from that everything else is ok.