Solo Technology

Google announced this morning more Gmail storage is coming for everyone. Essentially, they’re speeding up the ever-climbing storage counter. Good stuff.

But what I found more interesting:

By the way, businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps to get Gmail on their own custom addresses (like Google does for our @google.com accounts) will get a storage boost in the coming days, too. Standard and Education Edition storage (now at 2GB) will begin matching Gmail’s counter, and Premier Edition users get a whopping 25 GB (up from 10 GB).

I just checked my solo-technology mail (hosted on the free plan) and see it already up to 2.9GB from the 2 that was.  Sweet!  30% increase in storage for free? I can’t imagine ever configuring and managing a mail server ever again….

At work we’re using Premier. I’m not sure how we’ll ever use 10MB, let alone the upcoming 25GB.  But yet, I bet I have some folks that are game to try.  Packrats…

9 Responses to “Google Mail Storage”

1. Nathan on October 12th, 2007 11:18 am
   

   I will have to rev up gspace:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593
   and start using the extra space as a backup for my personal files. Saweet news.

2. Trent on October 12th, 2007 1:14 pm
   

   This is great news! While most people don’t really ever use the space that is increasing, I sure do! It is because all my faxes also come to email. Nice to never have to delete them! Great post Chris!

3. Brock on October 12th, 2007 1:32 pm
   

   That’s too bad for me. I was just planning on setting up a mail server - just because I’ve never done it before and I wanted to understand it a bit better.

   Now I’m torn. Sounds like a big waste of time if the big G does it so much better. Do I do it for the knowledge knowing a mail server is something no one wants to maintain?

   (I’m guessing I’ll say yes)

4. Chris on October 12th, 2007 3:38 pm
   

   @Nathan - That plugin could come in handy. Dunno why I keep forgetting about options like that!

   @Trent - Glad you liked it. Faxes, eh? What fax to email service/gateway do you use?

   @Brock - oh geeze, don’t let a little thing like this stop you. Knowledge doesn’t have to provide immediate benefit

5. Myspace Codes on October 12th, 2007 10:27 pm
   

   are you kidding me…I have had my gmail account since the first week it was launched and I have still yet to even use a fraction of the space…i wont be complaining about it though. Google is such a show off

6. site funda on October 12th, 2007 10:54 pm
   

   I hardly use a few MB of email storage, so it’s not going to help me much. But then, it’s always good to see a lot of email space around.

7. Trent on October 15th, 2007 11:49 pm
   

   I use the service from myfax.com because I started with it and really haven’t compared since now that my toll free fax number is entrenched!

8. Andy on October 18th, 2007 2:07 pm
   

   Thanks for the heads up! I now have my email routing to gmail through my own domain.

9. sam on January 9th, 2008 5:33 pm
   

   yahoo provides unlimites space. the loadtime is pretty fast too, well not as fast as gmail thou.
   I still prefer to use yahoo as my main mailing address.

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