What is a good way to move away from Google Photos (and Google cloud) when you have a lot of photos/videos? (lemmy.world)

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My family relies heavily on Google One to sync our Google Photos. We have 4 iOS and 5 Android devices. Originally the iOS folks would pay and sync through iCloud. But to simplify the billing process and easy sharing, we switched all to Google Photos. Lets just say there is almost 2TB of photos/videos.

We want to move away from this to a more controlled (self host) and non Google solution. We looked at Proton, their emails and vpns are great. However we dont want to move to a different cloud for photos and videos.

We are not very tech savy to set things up. Can we just buy a big hard drive and somehow hook it to our wifi? This is consider self hosted right? Does that mean medias will only get synced when we are within the house's wifi?

Appreciate any inputs

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[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We are not very tech savy to set things up

I think, in such case, you should rather look for a service hosted for you

For example
https://elest.io/open-source/nextcloud
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Can we just buy a big hard drive and somehow hook it to our wifi? This is consider self hosted right? Does that mean medias will only get synced when we are within the house’s wifi?

Yes, it's called a NAS. Correct. Correct

The thread might get locked here under "no support" rule, self-hosting comms will be a better fit
https://piefed.social/f/selfhost

Edit: and if you want to dive into self-hosting, I guess, check out yunohost and LibrePhotos. Immich is also popular one

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