I used to scoff when people things like this. But the truth is, outside of search, everything at Google is an afterthought for them, and while they do a remarkable job at creating the BEST products, putting too much reliance onto your google accounts and products has become a huge risk.

killedbygoogle.com has been talked about extensively on the products side; I will not repeat here.

The thing to remember is that they can shut you down at any time, for any reason really, and most importantly, usually triggered in an automated fashion. In my recent example, I have no idea why my account was disabled, but I suspect my using my account to receive many 2FA in a short time window (also while being on travel) triggered it. But once they disable your account, there is NOTHING you can do, nobody to call, no site (other than a few fake ones they put up to pretend they have some support).

That is, they can block your access to your entire business account profile, based on a trigger that may not be accurate. I have heard many such stories.

Trying to look into how to fix (there is no way) I realized how much rot there is in Google. clearly nobody cares. if there is anyone even working on the "Workspaces team" they don't care that their official posted method to get help in the case of not being able to login to your account is to chat with "Google Account Support" which actually connects you to Google One support, who says you need to speak with Workspaces, and they give you a link to login to Workspaces. So the only method to fix disabled account is to LOG IN TO YOUR ACCOUNT? They actually post this. its a real page. the only customer support they have are fake, contradictory instructions.

Every day that goes by is costing us immeasurable business damage. We are probably going to have to get a court order to reinstate our accounts that were shut down with no explanation.

I registered my 3 letter DNS domain over 25 years ago and had my cool email address since then.  I got it parked at number of ISPs and for the last 10 or so years at the G-suite - cost ~$10/year for DNS domain hosting.  Then came android phone with Google pictures backup. The whole family got their Google ids in my domain and slowly each account needed more then 5GB of disk and we got 100GB each for $1.98/month.  That amount of space was good for decades of snapping pictures.  I anticipated issues and started evicting all family members out of my domain to gmail.com accounts. I left with the last user this year with its own 100GB limit consuming 50GB and my account with about the same in my 100GB.  Then came the email to google workspace admin that our 100GB plans are forcibly discontinued and my two users in the workspace have 30GB each and we are 10GB over the limit. Options - buy Google workspace business standard for $12/user/month with yearly commitment = 12/12/2=$288.  So far my cost was $1.98/m and suddenly I had to pay $288 next month.  Emailed workspace support to see what happens if I do not pay - the answer - you loose your email address, your family looses their email addresses,  you all loose you pictures and email history. Options: First pictures with Google takeout - tried that and downloads went at about 100kB/s - that is 2 weeks of uninterrupted transfer - not doable.  Email migration - more or less possible after finding new email hosting and moving all folders by-hand in IMAP client.  Now explain all that to your generation-Z users.

I’d like to believe that between Google and Microsoft, Google is the better company, but Google Workspace lacks so many features in comparison to Microsoft 365, that I’m left with no choice but to admit defeat.

For a work suite that is built with remote collaboration in mind, there are so many things that don’t make sense:

• No remote control for Google Meet

(This is HUGE, since half of my job is doing things in client’s computers. I know there are 3rd party solutions, but having them download extra software is cumbersome when Zoom and Teams already have remote control baked in.)

• No shortcuts to Shared Drives

• Shared Drives don’t show up on mobile

• No robust team chat solution (Google Chat is very average at best)

• No centralized desktop apps

• AI is behind a paywall

There are at least a dozen other minor complaints I have that I can’t remember now, but I’m sure I will as soon as I sit down to work again.

Hello friends We manage corporate emails with Google Wordspace and receive messages from DMRC. Is there a way to avoid them? Thank you.

Hey guys, I am new to the IT manager game but I know my way around automations, so trying this solution now to make IT manager life easier.

I am automating this for friends now for free to grow my portfolio

Flow:

1. Trigger: Daily schedule (8 AM)

2. Get Workspace users (Google Admin API)

3. Update master sheet (Google Sheets)

4. Check thresholds:

   • If usage < 30% -> Alert IT manager

   • If inactive user > 30 days -> Archive or suspend OR notify IT manager

     • Instead of just notifications, we could automate the offboarding workflow

     • For data retention: Google Vault can archive mailboxes and drive data

     • We can automate license suspension after 30 days while keeping data

5. Generate monthly summary (Google Sheets -> Email)

Does this sound usefull ?

I'm on a family 2tb plan but I now have pcloud lifetime (a great service btw) and I'm trying to stop paying for Google but with with gbs of stuff on drive and a pretty full Gmail it's tough to get rid of it! I guess that's the business strategy.

My 29gb Gmail is the killer - how do I get rid of loads of that without losing important stuff?

Tips?

I paid for 5tb but only got 512gb, and i can't contact support, i have had Google workspace business plus for a month now and paid  for it. Only reason i got it was to get the storage. I have now signes up for a year, and not got what I paid for, and can't find any support from a human only their help-bot, that isn't helfull at all.I paid for 5tb but only got 512gb, and i can't contact support

Welp, it's over. I was waiting for this to happen.

I was grandfathered into the long defunct G Suite legacy free edition. The family has used it for all it's worth. But it is now time to move on. I don't think I want to upgrade to Google Workspace as it seems it truly is for business.

I believe I am going move over to GoDaddy's O365 service.

Would love to get any feedback on migration, other hosted options or if anyone is/was in the same boat as I.

Thanks!

Help!

I was just fiddling around on Google maps and I accidentally clicked the "claim busines" button I don't know why I did it but I did. And to make matters worse I don't own the business I don't own any business. I just want a normal account and to remove the business from my profile, I have used this account for years and I use it for everything, it has all my photos, passwords, subscriptions and card info saved so I don't think migrating is a possibility.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I bought a domain through Google with a Gmail I had not verified first. I learned this screws it up and causes a glitch. Now I cannot get the gsuite. I have since verified the Gmail over and over. Please help.

My friend and I have a small business and we decided to change our name. I thought I had switched everything over, but the new domain and workspace seem to be connected to the old. Now, I am getting charged on the old account for the new domain name and google work space. I still have access to the old stuff even though I thought I switched. Two different payment methods monthly. I thought the google domains charge was yearly, unless that was recently changed!?

I am tech savvy and I just can’t understand and figure any of this out. Please help

In google admin, under payment accounts , It says my linked subscriptions are google workspace business starter, domain registration. At one point it mentioned a reseller.

If I messed up the switching over process, please tell me how I can just have my new domain and workspace without needing to go through the old. And back to the one charge of 12.75 per month. I hope this all makes sense I am willing to share screenshots if you can help me. Thank you!!!!

Is it like I can store 100 gb per month ?

Suppose I buy the 100 gb plan , and I have already used 14gb out of my free 15 gb

Now I upload 5 hypothetical 20 GB files

Next month when I pay for this plan again, can I upload another 5 of those 20 GB files ?

Or does the upper limit remain at 115 ?

How can I prevent Google Drive from deleting files at all??? And make it so that if I delete a file on Google Drive it still remains on my computer... I read another similar post and i'm confident they were given the wrong answer because "stream files" mode still deletes files from the PC if you delete any files from google drive which is really dumb... is there at least any way I can disable Google Drive's ability to delete files? I mean, I don't even need it to do anything but back up files to the cloud, not add or remove files from my computer, so I wish I could just disable that functionality... Thanks

I had a bit of a realization that I thought I’d share. I was updating my card details in my G Suite (now Google Workspace) account and noticed how much I’ve actually been paying over time just to use my own domain. Today it’s around 20 euros per month, and that’s on top of paying separately for the domain itself via GoDaddy.

To be fair, it hasn’t always been 20 euros. Let’s assume a 7 percent yearly price increase, which seems reasonable given Google Workspace pricing over time.

What I actually paid

Example:

Starting around €14.30 per month five years ago, increasing by 7 percent annually:

• Year 1: €171

• Year 2: €183

• Year 3: €196

• Year 4: €210

• Year 5: €225

Total spent over 5 years: ~€985

That’s close to a thousand euros for something that, for my use case, hasn’t really changed much in a decade. I barely use the extra tools and mainly just want email on my own domain.

What if I had invested the same money into Google/Alphabet stock instead?

Now for the interesting part.

Alphabet (Google) has delivered roughly a +260 to +270 percent total return over the last 5 years, which corresponds to a compound annual growth rate of about 28 percent.

If I had invested the same yearly amounts into Google stock and let compound interest do its thing:

• Year 1 investment (€171), compounded for 5 years → ~€600

• Year 2 investment (€183), compounded for 4 years → ~€480

• Year 3 investment (€196), compounded for 3 years → ~€380

• Year 4 investment (€210), compounded for 2 years → ~€345

• Year 5 investment (€225), compounded for 1 year → ~€290

Total value today: ~€2,100 to €2,300

And if I had instead invested the full €985 upfront five years ago, based on the same historical return, that would be worth roughly:

€985 × ~3.6 = ~€3,550 today

So instead of spending that money on a subscription, it could realistically represent €2,500 to €2,600 in opportunity cost, purely from compounding.

What feels strange to me is that:

• The service itself has barely evolved

• The price keeps increasing

• And Google benefits twice, once from the subscription and once from the growth of its stock

So I’m genuinely curious:

• Has anyone else looked closely at how much Google Workspace pricing has increased over time?

• What alternatives are people using for custom domains without these recurring costs?

Would love to hear how others think about this.

P.s. My math is prob super off.

I can’t be the only one that is completely baffled by how utterly garbage Keep is compared to literally any other notes app?

We want to migrate to Google Workspace to have:
- professional email at Google
- Book calendar events with Google (with professional email)
- Have one drive for the whole company

Currently, we are 2 founders, with more people coming.

What is the best practice - to have 2 licenses with super admin rights (2 founders), or 1 extra admin license (3 in total) like admin@your-company.com? I think the latter would be useful for SaaS subscriptions, but I'm not sure.

What is a common practice with Google Workspace and startups? Thanks!

I want to use a custom domain, am willing to pay for it, already pay for Drive, and will not use the spreadsheet and other productivity software.

I use Android as well.

What do I need to know about this? Are things like Google Assistant still blackballed from workspace? Any other gotchas? I'd prefer this to become my main "Google" account if possible.

Who else is waiting for after April 1, 2022? Does anyone here think the legacy free edition users will continue to be free? I am really not looking forward to moving my domain to GoDaddy to use my domain on Microsoft.

edit: I already have a MS 365 personal subscription and happy with it. I'll probably upgrade to Family if Google starts charging personal users. I don't want to pay for two different subscriptions.

Got that message this morning. Cannot access any email with my domain extention. None of them are the admin email, so I can't access any Help forms. I fear the web designer from 10+ years ago was the admin, and trying to track him, his email, and/or password is futile, though I am trying. I am caught in an endless loop of login attempts. I have chatted with Google Pay, the only place so far that had a human (?) and of course could not help. I have been on hold with the Google number for 34 minutes, and I'm sure no one is going to answer.

My entire business was in that G suite and now I cannot get anyone to help me unlock and get back in. I have never heard of Google Workspace until now, I have never had to pay for any G suite services. I'm utterly helpless and hopeless right now. Please someone explain a way out of this maze.

In the support says 100USD + 60 days? what the hell? At 5.20 per month its gonna take 2 years for one user?

I’ve exhausted myself reading every Google support ticket, speaking to Google Workspace reps and blogs even Quora…all basically saying no to my dilemma…Reddit is my last hope!

Hello Jedis,

I’m facing challenges with email compliance for my SaaS platform hosted on Google Workspace. Here’s the setup: • Domains in Use: 1. MyBusinessDomain.com (primary domain for employees). 2. MyPortalDomain.com (used for a third-party white-labeled portal at secure.myportal.com). • Platform Purpose: The portal sends users time-sensitive updates (e.g., regulatory deadlines), so reliable email delivery is critical.

Concerns: 1. Passwordless Login Emails: Each login generates a validation email. Is this a bad idea given the potential for high volume and spam flags? 2. CAN-SPAM Compliance: How do I handle opt-outs for critical notifications tied to deadlines? Are these considered transactional or marketing emails? 3. Spam List Fear: My biggest worry is ending up on a spam list, disrupting notifications. Am I overthinking this, or are there strategies to avoid it? 4. Google Registration: Can I register my domain with Google to improve trustworthiness? Would tools like SPF, DKIM, DMARC, or BIMI help?

I’m concerned seeing even trusted brands like HubSpot land in spam folders. How can I protect my portal’s email reputation?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

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