Been looking into Posteo and I saw the price for additional storage is 0.25/GB/month with a cap of 75GB. I calculated this to seem to be 18.75 (including the initial 4GB) per month. When looking at Proton, Tuta, and Startmail, this feels very expensive compared to their competitors. Is there something I’m missing here? Does Posteo do a bunch of stuff that warrants a high rate for the higher end compared to the very affordable low end?

  • dihutenosa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I self-host mine for free. It breaks very rarely, and when it does, incoming mail gets replayed by the sending server for a coupde of days, so I have time to fix it.

  • CountVlad47@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    It may be because the basic account is so much cheaper (€1/mo) that they offset it with higher prices for additional storage. Just out of genuine curiosity, why would anyone need that much storage for e-mail?

    • steve_freiheit@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      But if most people would use the lower end, wouldn’t that make it less sustainable as a company that also states they very sustainable? (which I’m very happy for and support of course) I’m not an expert in business economics tho :p

      I believe you’d see high usage if you use attachments a lot.

      • RogueBanana@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        But if they set the same prices as other popular options like proton and tuta, they will simply lose a lot of customers who could have been someone ready to pay the extra fees. It certainly Isn’t all black and white but a more delicate balance.