

You can go down the rabbit hole of self-hosting ( Helm is an interesting solution here but I don't want the server inside my house) and dealing with maintenance, deliverability issues and reliability. Similar to how you need to fetch an auth code to transfer a domain, perhaps you just need a payment code to setup billing. But a solution that is optimized for keeping accounts separate for security but somehow allowing for one account to pay for them. What I'm getting at is nothing novel: just easy and reliable turnkey email hosting. I often don't need all the assorted Google Workspace functionality, in fact I often prefer not having yet another Google account show up in the user account dropdown. That's not quite what I'm looking for.įor something so common, it should be easy and not cost an extra $5 per month just to setup one more custom domain and a few addresses. While certain email providers can let you maintain separate user accounts together, they all seem to have the same sort of admin setup where an admin account can still control user accounts. Not great if you have everything under one account or admin control - if one account gets hacked, they're all hacked. You want each domain to have its own password and 2FA/security key setup for security. You want to separate business from personal. There are definitely benefits to keeping all of our email accounts entirely separate: It shouldn't be this complex to manage and setup email for all of your domains. While email is becoming less and less the backbone of any new venture, it's still a core and required piece of being an Internet citizen. I use Fastmail for some too but it's a hassle to setup/manage them all.- Paul Stamatiou March 18, 2021 I probably have 10 for various needs/projects, all on custom domains, and I love G Suite but it's ~$6/mo per email. There's really no one that makes it easy to own/manage lots of email addresses.

And let's be honest, most of these addresses get just a few emails per week, if any. Then I need to decide if I really want to pay ~$5-6 per month to setup email by setting it up with Google Workspace Essentials (née G Suite), Fastmail, ProtonMail or their ilk.īefore you know it you have a handful of different email addresses on different domains for various needs and you're paying $50+ per month for that privilege. Eventually I may need to setup some email addresses on those domains. I have some idea or other need and before I know it I've registered a few new domains.
