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Hi all
Having found this page I can only assume there are others like me that are fed up with Google and others.
I'm a bit late to the party having read many of these posts but I'm now at a stage where I want to stop paying Google and Apple for cloud storage.
I love my google photos as my iPhone syncs my photos to it but since they've taken away my unlimited storage I want to get away. My requirements are a photos app where my partner and I can share photos, a way to sync my photos from my iPhone so if I ever lose my phone, my photos are all backed up automatically. Cloud storage for my software, design files, videos etc.
I hear Nextcloud is great for storage and Immich for my Google photos alternative. Is this still the case? Is there anything else that is on offer?
I've read that people have used a Raspberry PI to power their server. Is this actually possible? I don't want to spend too much at the moment, I only want about 6-10 TB of data to store the above plus my MacBook backups etc (would I still use Time Machine for this?).
Any positive advice is really appreciated.
Thanks