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Work started on this the 20241114 in Madrid

Google Drive's costs ads up quickly as your users grow

You start with workspace basic, 6 USD a month per user. Gives you basic functionality and 30gb per user pooled. That works for a while, maybe a year or two.

Then you notice that you need shared drives otherwise things get messy quickly. That costs you another 8 USD a month for a total of 14 USD a month per user. Get yourself 7 users and you are seeing an invoice of over 1K USD a year! That escalated quickly.

That is where NextCloud comes in. Not the paranoid, self hosted, I have too much time on my hands kind of NextCloud. The hosted Nextcloud that gives you 1Tb of storage and infinite users for 6 USD a month!

The Storage Share kind of Nextcloud. It took me nearly 20 hours of searching and googling to stumble on this solution. I found it by looking for SMTP storage solutions - rsync.net or Hetzner's own Storage Box.

This solution is a small entrepreneur's dream!

If I hadn't started with google I would have already changed out my email provider to someone like Forward Email which gives you unlimited accounts for 9 USD a month.
I'm sad to know that it was so hard to find this solution and I want to do at least the small gesture of writing about it to help maybe one small business save thousands a year by using this solution.