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25 Mar 2017, 12:11 AM | #1 |
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G Suite and G Suite for Business
I have a legacy Google Apps account. I've heard that G Suite for Business includes unlimited drive storage, so I wanted to give it a try.
I couldn't find a way to sign up for the G Suite for Business directly. I had to "upgrade" to G Suite first ($5/mo/user), then upgrade to G Suite for Business ($10/mo/user). Anyone have either (or both)? Do I do this correctly? |
25 Mar 2017, 02:13 AM | #2 |
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Just logged into my Legacy account, and I'm offered upgrades to either Basic, Business or Enterprise.
What is the attraction to you to consider an upgrade - the unlimited storage? |
27 Mar 2017, 12:52 PM | #3 |
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You did it properly. However if you have under 5 users you will only get 1 TB per user instead of unlimited.
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28 Mar 2017, 06:53 AM | #6 |
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I'm one of those "TON of people," but I always assumed it was because I've been a paying Google Apps user pretty much since it came out almost ten years ago. I'm not completely certain whether the restriction applies to new users or not.
That said, there is the real possibility that Google could start enforcing the 1TB limit at any time, but that's just another reason to never trust a cloud service with exclusive copies of anything important |
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To the original point, while I'd certainly hope that if Google decided to start enforcing the 1TB limit they'd do it in a "nice" way, they'd arguably be well within their rights to just cut off everything uploaded after the 1TB limit was reached. While I strongly doubt such an extreme scenario would ever happen, even blocking a user's account for exceeding the limit could be a huge inconvenience if they were relying on that for their cloud storage (picture a scenario where you've got a project due, but now you've got to spend the afternoon freeing up hundreds of gigabytes of space just so that you can upload and share your documents with your colleagues). Quote:
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However, I still tell almost everybody I know that they should also keep backups of everything, and cloud-based sync solutions are not a backup service (for all of the reasons I noted above). I'm not even doing anything all that complicated for my backups — I subscribe to Backblaze for cloud-based backups and then use a local hard drive to do Time Machine backups. It's all completely automated and effortless, and nothing that the average person shouldn't be doing — in fact the only opposition I've ever encountered from friends, family, and clients in this area is a reluctance to spend the money on external hard drives or cloud-based backup services, but that ultimately comes down to the question of how much your data is worth to you. |
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Of course, I realize that's also a cloud service, but again my earlier point was about trusting the cloud exclusively — if you're using Backblaze, everything is still on your local computer, and if you're using Backblaze in addition to Google Drive, then you're covered on both ends. For my friends who have Macs, I've had no problem convincing them to invest in something like a Time Capsule and simply flipping on the built-in Time Machine feature. Quote:
Honestly, though, since most typical users will be syncing to services like Google Drive, I don't really see it as a problem for the average person. Your data is local, and your data is in the cloud. If you don't have an Internet connection, or forget your password and can't figure out how to reset it, at least that important project file isn't going to be rendered inaccessible to you two hours before it's due. Conversely, if your hard drive suddenly fails, you can find a web browser somewhere, log onto your cloud service, and you'll still have access to it. Adding something like Backblaze is really mostly just to prevent those "user error" situations that come up all the time with typical users who accidentally delete, corrupt, or misfile a document. The backup increases your chances of easily getting an old copy back, whereas that can be much more complicated with a cloud sync service, if it's even possible at all. |
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23 Apr 2017, 01:05 AM | #11 |
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Back to the original question, new single users of G Suite are offered 30GB for $5 per month or 1TB for $10 per month. It is not easy to answer how to do anything with G Suite correctly. They have lots of online resources with written answers and you need to refer to them frequently. Frankly, that it is one thing I don't like about G Suite--it is not the easiest to do many things in the backend. I suppose once you have everything set up it operates about the same as the consumer, free version, but backend controls can be obscure. For example, I signed up for what I thought was going to be a Google hosted domain, but instead it was hosted by eNom. That wasn't clear to me from the various instructions I read. It is not the regular eNom portal you go to, and various domain settings and controls that you would normally expect to have are not available--or at least not apparent. Like, how do you get the code needed to move your domain off of eNom? Apparently you need to request one from Google somehow.
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