Where do you store your photos?

I have moved away from Google Photos and it took me a looong time to find another service that was as reliable and easy to use. I didn't want to spend too much money on it and I wanted it to be reliable and that it would give me enough control.

I tried a few photos-only clouds like shoebox or Canon Irista (recently defunct) but I find them all very lacklustres.

Dropbox was the best alternative I found but it was bit expensive for my taste and I wasn't fully happy with it. For example you can put data on the SD Card.

Here is what I ended up with and I am the happiest I have ever been: Note: I don't actually have that many photos, but I use this solution for all my cloud storage.

I have VPS on Scaleway (~3 €/month) where I run a Resilio Sync instance. This means I have all the data on all 3 of the devices (I use an SD Card on my phone, resilio is one of the services that will allow you to put data on it)

I run a second instance on my phone and a third on my laptop. This way, if one of them dies/lost I have 2 backups.

And to top it all, I backup everything to Backblaze B2 storage bucket with CloudBerry. Which costs me something like 1€/year.

All in all, I am very happy, it's a solid setup, all the files are safe and always with me.

Here is the blog post I followed to set it up.

https://www.danielandrade.net/2017/07/22/roll-your-own-secur...

I got fed up with abandoned photo apps, failed photo startups, software that wouldn't scale to hold my library, and companies using my metadata for ad targeting, so I quit my office job and started building what my family needed. You host it on your own hardware. https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

Personal internet-accessible server.

I thought Dropbox would be the way to go initially but I had too many problems with it while travelling in foreign countries. I ended up 'rolling my own'.

I've got a Synology DiskStation at home and use the "Moments"-App for my photos. Works like a charm.