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I moved my email to Fastmail this week in the wake of the Google Apps announcement. Having your own domain is great since your email becomes provider-agnostic. While Fastmail had a great import tool, I could have transferred my Gmail myself from backups. I'll be ready to do the same if Fastmail goes under or is no longer competitive.

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I've heard this from a several posts this week. Genuine question: since maintaining GSuite is expect to cost $6/user/month and Fastmail costs $5/user/month, do you really find the $1/user/month in savings worth the trouble of moving email providers and losing Drive/Docs etc.?

I'm planning a move too, but Fastmail's price doesn't strike me as competitive enough compared to Google's price. Amazon WorkMail is $4/user/month and Rackspace Email is $3/user/month.

Fastmail is doing only email and has been doing it for a long time. I simply trust them more to care for their users and for me it is worth the price.

There's going to be a lot of hassle, but I'm planning to move many of the Google services to old Gmail accounts. To some extent it's more of a justification to reduce reliance on Google. When running the numbers I was initially confused about the pricing for Gsuite and thought "standard" was the lowest tier ($10/month/user), so it's not the most strategic decision price-wise.

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