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#onpremisesinfrastructure is vastly underrated. What are you going to do when #GoogleWorkspace or #Microsoft365 shut your account down because their AI decides to and you have no recourse. You can’t sue them because you’ve agreed to their terms of service. Oops? 🤷‍♂️

Also, what many don’t know is even if data is stored in the cloud, the customer is still responsible for backing up and archiving their data. The cloud company does some rudimentary disaster recovery but has specific indemnification against data loss. Marketing conveniently glosses over this. 😈

The #cloud cannot be trusted for small businesses. #Selfhosting is the way to go. It’s not hard at all and I am in the midst of writing a book for people with a minimal technical background to get started as easily as possible. Or even for them to have a technical friend help them out.

Google are increasing the prices for Google Workspace customers (like myself) in order to offset the "rising prices" of "technology and infrastructure" - which I understand is in large part due to Google's big investments in generative AI (Google Gemini) and the cost of the related technology and infrastructure.

Google are forcing their existing customers to pay for it, since far too few people actally need or want this - and definitely do not want to buy it.

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3/ Meines Erachtens nach muss die Nutzung von Maildiensten wie #MS365, #GoogleWorkspace, ... die über unverdächtige DE-Domains, oder Incoming-Mailserver von #Hornetsecurity verschleiert werden, auch in der Datenschutzerklärung der Website kenntlich gemacht werden.

Auf den Websites werden Mailadressen für die Kontaktaufnahme zu Personen, aber auch zu den Organisationen bereitgestellt, Info wohin Mails mit personenbezogenen Daten in Wirklichkeit gehen - Fehlanzeige!