<story><title>ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/49041-protonmail-ceo-andy-yen-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>There are two reasons I&amp;#x27;m still with Google for mail at this point:  Inertia, and cost.  The former is pretty easy to understand.  The latter has more to do with the fact that I have a private domain for our family and I&amp;#x27;ve been using Google Apps since the days when it was free. If I want to convert to another service like ProtonMail then I&amp;#x27;m either going to tell a bunch of people in my family to pay up (with all the accompanying annoyances), or I pay $50+&amp;#x2F;year on their behalf out of my own pocket.  And in either case I probably get to move their email for them.  It&amp;#x27;s hard to get up the enthusiasm to do any of that, even if I do have a growing desire to disconnect from Google.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done any thorough searching recently, but if I could find a reputable provider that had a reasonable family-priced solution that would be ideal.  The per-account pricing adds up relatively quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eikenberry</author><text>Just as someone who has done a decent amount of research on what would be the best&amp;#x2F;cheapest way to host my family email... I found that runbox.com had the best deal. You pay more for a base&amp;#x2F;master account w&amp;#x2F; a custom domain ($35&amp;#x2F;yr and up) then you pay a lesser amount for sub-accounts ($8&amp;#x2F;yr and up). It quickly overtakes the 2-3&amp;#x2F;mon&amp;#x2F;account rates that the other providers cost.</text></comment>
<story><title>ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/49041-protonmail-ceo-andy-yen-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>There are two reasons I&amp;#x27;m still with Google for mail at this point:  Inertia, and cost.  The former is pretty easy to understand.  The latter has more to do with the fact that I have a private domain for our family and I&amp;#x27;ve been using Google Apps since the days when it was free. If I want to convert to another service like ProtonMail then I&amp;#x27;m either going to tell a bunch of people in my family to pay up (with all the accompanying annoyances), or I pay $50+&amp;#x2F;year on their behalf out of my own pocket.  And in either case I probably get to move their email for them.  It&amp;#x27;s hard to get up the enthusiasm to do any of that, even if I do have a growing desire to disconnect from Google.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t done any thorough searching recently, but if I could find a reputable provider that had a reasonable family-priced solution that would be ideal.  The per-account pricing adds up relatively quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nigifabio</author><text>I was in a similar situation and I moved everything to Runbox &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;Runbox.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;Runbox.com&lt;/a&gt;, the business and social model are amazing and running on green energy</text></comment>