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It took a lot of work, but I pulled everything I could find down from cloud storage providers and started hosting my stuff locally.
It’s nowhere near as convenient or intuitive, but goddamn if these stories don’t keep popping up everywhere. If you don’t physically have your data in hand, consider it lost. It could be gone at any moment for any reason. If you’re hosting your stuff in the cloud, do yourself a favor and at least back your stuff up locally on top of that, but my honest recommendation is to ditch these companies completely and invest in learning how to host your stuff locally.
The "cloud" is just someone elses computer a d another word for "server cluster". ALWAYS better to own your own storage.
This is why I have over 6k photos and videos still on my phone, even though they’re also on iCloud. But you’ve got the right idea. Once I buy me a NAS, I’m doing the same damn thing!