I read the sidebar and didn’t see anything about asking questions so apologies in advance if this post breaks a rule.
I’m in the U.S. and wanting to knowif Proton Family is a good choice for my use case.
Two decades ago I got tired of changing email addresses whenever my ISP changed so I registered my surname as a .net vanity domain and started running my own email server at home. When Google started offering Google for Organizations for free if you had less than 10 users I folded up my personal email server and shifted everything over. We use it for e-mail and basic family calendaring.
Last month when going through bills my wife and I were once again frustrated by coordination required to sign into various accounts. “Hey what’s the password for $CreditCard?” or “What’s the MFA you just got for $BankAccount?” or “What’s the password for Disney”?"
That got me started looking for a family password manager so we could easily share and keep this stuff up to date.
At the same time we realized that were paying for YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, two YouTube Music, and an Amazon Music subscription. Whoops.
Well, no problem. We’ll just “family share” the YTTV and YTP subscriptions so everyone has everything and we save some money.
Nope. G-Suite doesn’t allow family sharing. So we’re all going to have to create seperate @gmail.com addresses to make this work. Oh, and I’ll have to shift the YTTV subscription from my vanity domain to a regular @gmail as well. Which breaks the entire idea behind the vanity domain in the first place.
While I researching a Family Password Manager of course I found Proton Pass. While I was looking at the pricing for it I realized that they also have a “Family” setup for email which looks interesting.
So now I’m considering porting my vanity domain and all it’s email out of G-Suite and over to Proton Family. At nearly $300 a year it’s not exactly inexpensive, since I’d basically be paying it until I die, and it will be a fair bit of work to switch everything over so I don’t want to do it unless it’s going to work.
So would Proton Family be a good choice? Are there any significant technical challenges to migrating a custom domain and email out of G-Suite and into Proton?
Edit: This post was rambly and unclear. The TL;DR is that I’m increasingly annoyed with G-Suite and since I’m looking at Proton Pass anyway I’m wondering about Proton Suite (which includes Email, Calendar, and Pass).
I’m not sure how any service will help with your YouTube problem. I’m a bit unclear on the details you described, but switching emails doesn’t change YT dynamics at all.
But I can comment on Proton. I willingly pay through the nose for their services, to get the suite and support their cause. I recommend them to everybody.
But their services aren’t perfect.
They have their own contact list (which makes sense since it’s encrypted) but that essentially means you have to maintain 2 lists now (because your phone can’t access the list for calls and messages).
Their calendar is functional, but lacking compared to other modern calendars. I’ve used it as my primary calendar for a while now, so its usable, but I mention its not great because the calendar seems to be a big feature for you. I’m testing out Fossify Calendar myself now.
Proton Pass is meh. A lot of people like it, and I haven’t tried it since it launched (or maybe was beta) so it wouldnt be fair to critique the details, but I like Bitwarden better. Regardless though, I don’t like the idea of my password manager password being the same as my proton account. That’s not an option though.
But overall yes, the proton suite is great and I think well worth the money. Just understand it’s not Google, nor will anything be like Google. In lots of ways that’s a good thing.