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What do you use to host your photos - personal files?
I currently use nextcloud but I still have some files on google drive.
On the storage side I use the s3 backend with regular backups to a cold storage solution.
It used to be fairly inexpensive, but as the number of files increases, it becomes more and more expensive.
Knowing that these are crucial files for me, I'm wondering if I wouldn't be safer using a managed solution (Google drive, One drive, pcloud ....).
And it would also be simpler.
I have the impression that nowadays, with all the media being digitized, most people aren't well organized in this respect.
By this I mean providing for the family to have access to administrative documents and photos in the event of a sudden death, for example.
I've done a bit of asking around.
Many people interested in technology have a NAS at home, but external backups are often neglected.
Less technical people usually take out an annual google one subscription.
So where do you host your personal files?
Which services do you recommend?
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Microsoft 365 bought through Friends and Family costs 20$ per year for 6 users (1TB each )
It's true that I hadn't thought of a family subscription, but I'll discuss it with my family.
This could be a good solution
Not photos, but I save my videos to [censored]hub.com
Turned out you can even earn money from saving them there instead of paying for cloud storage!
Can we put mountain videos there too?
After all, there are fetishists for everything.
https://sye.dk/sfpg/ is very light and easy. At least for my minimal needs it's pretty much perfect.
My photos are auto-uploaded to Seafile or Dropbox.
Every few months I upload them to Facebook (public albums) and then move the files to a USB HDD attached to my home router.
The HDD is making weird noise at night, do I need to worry?
I avoid sending photos to social media. I don't know what the social platform does with them (Meta, X, Google, or whatever) or what some evil third party could use them for. Now with investments in AI, I don't want to have my photos used for that either (even though my effort won't help, but at least I play my part for privacy).
I store my photos on multiple external HDDs. I got them for cheap on online stores, and I use the same data stored on separate drives for redundancy. The external HDDs are stored in an army metal box which normally was used for bullets, just to simulate a Faraday Cage.
With regards to cloud, I have a lifetime plan from Koofr on which I also store the data encrypted using Cryptomator.
All this sorting and redundancy of data is done once a year, every year. Meanwhile a single HDD is used from time to time, during the year, to backup photos, just in case my phone is stolen or something bad happens to it.
In my opinion cold storage is still the best solution, because I care about my privacy and my anonymity, as much as I can have it in these troubled times of corrupted people who literally want to show how they control the world by playing with wars.
What tier is that? Link please. I thought it's only 100GB for that price (aka basic plan).
I pretty much agree with you. If one actually has to use external cloud storage something like ecryptfs might be somewhat of a middle ground but i am personally wouldn't trust it. Having the content encrypted would pretty much erase any convenience features the online storage might have anyways.
To this day i couldn't even convince myself to use a selfhosted IMAP server since i think my eMails are better stored offline, even though there is very little inside them that would be even the slightest bit interesting.
Anything in my image gallery is stuff i want to share with the world anyways, so it's not a big deal if anything leaks.
Right now I just have an android phone flashed with custom rom that spoofs a pixel phone to get google photos unlimited. Then I just periodically sync photos to that phone.
Will try Immich when I get the time to do so or when they're aren't anymore major changes.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-365
Family plan is 99$ normally but 20$ if bought using Friends and Family
Prices are not the same in Europe and the United States
It's more like $99
Unless you've specified the price per person.
Family plan is 99$ normally but 20$ if bought using Friends and Family
It looks like you just ignored their question and repeated what you said before without explaining what "bought using Friends and Family" means.
You beat meat to it
It means if you have a friend or family working for Microsoft, they can invite you Microsoft Store where all this is sold at a discount. Each employee can invite 10 people and each invited person can buy 250$ worth of stuff on the store.
Additionally, employees can also buy something to pass on and their limits are different.
$20 per user or $20 for six users?
20$ for 6 users
I have seen and hear HDD's that did sing the song of the end of the world.
Despite that, they still worked fine and SMART said they are fine.
Don't believe what you hear.
SMART never lies, ever.
However, if you believe what you hearing, then pull all important files off the drive asap.
Don't try to clone it or put any not necessary load on it.
Pull the most important files first then pull the rest and go to the church to pray.
Onedrive with 365 family subscription shared among 6 friends.
Nice deal. Unfortunately not practical unless you invite me.
Bought via Argentina trick?
Turkey tricks will cost around $10 instead of $99 😉
I don't care too much about pictures but I am paying to Amazon Photos (+ what is included with Prime) for his service. From time to time I have to rescue one from there.
Im using my NAS at home which is isolated in my netowrk and im also using google drive 2TB for 9€ per YEAR
How?
Is Argentina better than Turkey?
I prefer chicken
Our new server in Finland has Nextcloud installed:
https://netdynamics24.com/backup-services.php
Contact us for details.
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/google-one-2tb-vpn-turkey-4151383
Take photos using Film SLR cameras 📸, never worry anymore about storing them on the cloud.