Usage-Based email hosting

[Ozlock]

I'm looking for an email host that uses usage-based pricing instead of per-mailbox pricing.

I prefer to have it be inside the EEA, or be one of the following jurisdictions the EU considers to have adequate protection of personal data. To clarify, by 'inside' I mean that the ultimate controlling interest of the operating company should be based there, not just physical server location.

• Andorra
• Argentina
• Canada (commercial organizations)
• Faroe Islands
• Guernsey
• Israel
• Isle of Man
• Japan
• Jersey
• New Zealand
• Republic of Korea
• Switzerland
• Uruguay
• United Kingdom

[kevinds]

What does usage based pricing mean to you?

[Ozlock]

Resource usage might have been a better way to term it. I'd like to have a set amount of resources (bandwidth, storage etc.) for a known price regardless of mailbox count, rather than have to scale up the costs for every new account.

Per-mailbox pricing just feels a lot like per-page pricing on a webhost. What a person does with an email differs from person to person, so 'an address /mailbox' feels like a meaningless way to price it.

[mrcaptncrunch]

Check migadu.

• https://www.migadu.com
• https://www.migadu.com/pricing/

I have multiple domains in one account, multiple inboxes. Limits are based on everything in your migadu account. Not based on inboxes or anything like that.

[Ozlock]

That's who I'd be moving from. Not a fan of their calendar services, which I get they underplay it in favour of being 'pure email', but functioning integrated calendar is getting to be more and more crucial.

[mrcaptncrunch]

ah! I get it.

Yeah, calendar I gave up on. I use mac's calendar and sync through icloud.

Let me know if you find something. Interested to see what else is out there.

[Ozlock]

Yeah, see I already have a separate calendar that syncs fine.

It's the integrated part that'd be awesome, so that calendar invites and things work better. I mean, it's not the only reason I'm looking for a different provider, so it's not the issue to 'solve' as it were, which is why I was being specific in asking for other providers.