I can pirate 1TB of movies and store them in an encrypted cloud backup (so they don’t know it’s copyrighted material) for significantly less than the cost of Netflix for a whole year.
I do this for my 500~ ebooks in addition to more important stuff because they’re so small.
It’s actually like 4 dollars a month to store my entire lifetime so far of home movies and pictures.
I’ve done this but built my own server. Not sure what the better move would have been. I suppose I could still move things to a data center, but I like having it all local.
Where do you go for your ebooks? Do you also do audio books? Been looking to get on some private trackers.
Your own server is the best choice if possible. The cost of even mechanical hard drives has gone up so much, I’m not surprised people would turn to cloud solutions.
Yeah, I got in on it before the massive increases, I have a few spares too. I managed to get them on individual auctions. It’s not going to pay for itself anytime soon, but nobody can delete my media now! Used enterprise drives are still an absolute steal for home servers.
what cloud service do you use? i would love to move all my photos and shit away from google, but i dont know what’s cheapest and what’s actually going to be around long-term without losing all my shit some day
I self host Immich to actually act as a Google Photos replacement, but I backup all my stuff with backblaze. It gets encrypted before I send it instead of using their keys. You can look into Ente for a more private Google Photos replacement that is maybe what you’re looking for.
Oh for self-hosting I strongly prefer Immich. Ente is good for someone who is willing to pay for something like Google Photos though with their cloud option. Figured not everyone has servers set up or wants to bother, especially with hardware prices right now.
digital is mine if it’s on my hard drive and a couple backup drives that won’t all get destroyed by the same tornado or nuclear bomb
I can pirate 1TB of movies and store them in an encrypted cloud backup (so they don’t know it’s copyrighted material) for significantly less than the cost of Netflix for a whole year.
I do this for my 500~ ebooks in addition to more important stuff because they’re so small.
It’s actually like 4 dollars a month to store my entire lifetime so far of home movies and pictures.
I’ve done this but built my own server. Not sure what the better move would have been. I suppose I could still move things to a data center, but I like having it all local.
Where do you go for your ebooks? Do you also do audio books? Been looking to get on some private trackers.
Your own server is the best choice if possible. The cost of even mechanical hard drives has gone up so much, I’m not surprised people would turn to cloud solutions.
Yeah, I got in on it before the massive increases, I have a few spares too. I managed to get them on individual auctions. It’s not going to pay for itself anytime soon, but nobody can delete my media now! Used enterprise drives are still an absolute steal for home servers.
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what cloud service do you use? i would love to move all my photos and shit away from google, but i dont know what’s cheapest and what’s actually going to be around long-term without losing all my shit some day
I self host Immich to actually act as a Google Photos replacement, but I backup all my stuff with backblaze. It gets encrypted before I send it instead of using their keys. You can look into Ente for a more private Google Photos replacement that is maybe what you’re looking for.
Ente is great but so much work to setup. Micro service architecture really doesn’t make self hosting any easier.
Oh for self-hosting I strongly prefer Immich. Ente is good for someone who is willing to pay for something like Google Photos though with their cloud option. Figured not everyone has servers set up or wants to bother, especially with hardware prices right now.
And it’s in a relatively accessible format.