I was setting up Google Apps for a small company (25 employees) and discovered that google want to be paid for each user when your organisation has more than 10 users. I am sure the limit used to be much higher (50 users).
Is there an alternative to using google apps that has similar feature set and can be used for free by a small organisation (25 users)
Edit: Additionally...
If I already have an account, can I add another domain as a sub-organisation, and therefore benefit from my existing higher user limit? Has anyone done this?
The limit used to be higher (25-50, though I don't recall for certain) and if the account was set up then, it's grandfathered.
Subdomain's are only available in the paid version, and they'd only get you an alternative domain going to the same inbox, rather than additional addresses. So you'd be able to have billy#domain.com and billy#subdomain.com, rather than bill#domain.com and billy2#subdomain.com.
I've not seen anything approaching the same features.
Is there an alternative to using google apps that has similar feature set and can be used for free by a small organisation (25 users)
You can use Microsoft's Live Domains for a similiar functionality to Google apps. It's free too. However the kind of powerful filters and email customization proivided by Gapps is lacking here.
If I already have an account, can I add another domain as a sub-organisation, and therefore benefit from my existing higher user limit? Has anyone done this?
Yes you can add any number of additional domains which allow use of the existing unused licenses on one domain's Google apps, or domain aliases which share the inbox of other domains, in Google Apps.
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I'm trying to sign up for Google Workspace Essentials Starter with a "private person" *.pp.ua domain, which is free to use in my country. I have a new one just registered and set up at zoho.com free plan account.
After completing several steps on account creation, I'm facing the page saying:
Sorry, we can't complete your signup
Google works hard to keep spammers from using Google Workspace. As part of this effort, we refuse to create domains that we believe will be used for spam. Unfortunately, we may sometimes refuse legitimate signups. If you've been stopped in error, we're sorry for the inconvenience.
Google weighs several factors when evaluating registration attempts, including the number of domains that have been created from that location and whether the domains have just been created or have a good reputation on the internet. Users trying to create a lot of domains, who are using shared computers or computers infected with malware; or signing up for low reputation domains may hit this limit.
Also, I have an old domain in *.pp.ua, which hasn't been used before and failed that check the same way. Can't find any reason why my domain can't pass that check nor any documentation regarding this issue. So any clue is highly appreciated.
There is nothing in the GitHub guidelines, as far as I can see, that prevents people from making multiple personal accounts. I would like to create a "more serious" account and move my serious projects there, and keep the trash on a side-account.
The problem is that I used to have two accounts a few years ago, and GitHub actually banned both accounts due to that. They told me that "you are only allowed to have 1 account". I had to petition their support to reopen my main account. But it seems like they've changed their stance now, because I can't find any wording that prevents multiple accounts anymore.
I am Googling for the term multiple accounts site:help.github.com and the pages that come up seem to indicate that it's allowed these days.
For example, https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/merging-multiple-user-accounts says "We recommend using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories", which sounds like they accept multiple accounts too.
Does anyone know? Perhaps some of you have multiple accounts successfully!
It would be better to create an Organization instead and keep your important projects there. It's always much easier to have a single account in terms on maintainability.
For instance: in BitBucket you cannot have your single public key attached to two different accounts.
I found the actual answer in the Terms of Service:
https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service
"One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)."
So that's why they banned me all those years ago. You're only allowed to have 1 account if you aren't a paying user.
But I will accept #emix answer, since he was the first to suggest the smart solution of making an Organization for my serious projects!
You can create New organisations linked to your main personal account.
My users register on my website (200 per day) and can select from a large pool of categories (100) of content they are interested in: Tech, Business, Health... and so on.
I want to send them an email every week with a digest of the categories they selected.
What's the best tool for the job?
I'm not sure you can do that with Mailchimp and is really expensive considering my user count growth. Plus, users would register on my database and then would have to re register and confirm it on Mailchimp.
I was thinking of making my own / buying something custom that uses Amazon SES.. Looks cheaper. Is that a good idea? What would the obstacles be? Is it very hard to manage bounces, getting your domain through spam blockers and stuff?
Mailchimp is a great way to go here. You can use their API so that your users do not need to re-register. Their content creation tools are great as well so you can build everything you need with them. https://apidocs.mailchimp.com/gettingstarted/connectivity.php
Building out your own tools really depends on what all your platform does today.. that make vs buy decision is a complex one.
I originally posted this question as an 'answer' to:
Can a single company really not use QB API?...Semi Rant
but am reposting, because it is a question.
The original poster and I face a similar problem wanting to use the QBO API for an application designed for a single company. What would be the disadvantage of connecting my app to my QBO account using the intuit development server indefinitely, i.e., never take my app through the production qualification process?
Thank you.
I believe that is possible but then you can use at max 10 developer connections.
As we already mentioned we do not not support custom integrations at this time.
Even we wouldn’t recommend moving you to production as it would cost us $1k per year to security review it, and we would only recover about $60 per year in connection fees.
So, the disadvantage for you will be in terms of number of connections, limited support and your app vulnerability since it has not gone through the security review process.
Please read the policy docs mentioned here:
https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0005_introduction_to_quickbooksapi/z_developer_policies_and_guidelines
Edit for the question asked:
When you login into developer.intuit.com, Go to Manage My Apps, then click your app.
You will see the number of connections for that app under Test connections.
It refers to the numbers of company files your app is associated with or has been authorized to access data.
is it possible to let my own facebook apps (not generating revenue) being hosted by facebook?
The problem is that by using the iframe-version the traffic/requests are killing the server :-(
But I need to connect to a database and print/calculate values, so I think there is no other way than hosting everything on own servers. But maybe there are things I don't know.
What is the way you would go?
I don't think Facebook has an option to host apps, at least not that I've ever heard of or was quickly able to find on their developers site.
Honestly, when it comes to hosting a high-demand website, there's no free way to do it. Resources cost money. You can pick from tons of hosting providers and see who gives you the features you need at the best rate. Maybe some will offer free hosting if you include ads in the Facebook app, maybe some will offer free hosting for other means, etc.
For a non-revenue-generating app, when it becomes popular and successful and requires real resources to keep it running, it's generally time to start thinking about how to generate revenue from it. Maybe use it as a free gateway app to other revenue-generating apps (a loss leader), maybe have ads, maybe use it to generate useful marketing data, etc. For a successful site it may involve a good bit of personal investment and risk before the profits roll in (Facebook being a good, though extreme and uncommon example of this).
You have to host the application on your own, there's no way that FB does it for you.