This is a long but satisfying road if you're a tinkerer. Start by prioritising. In my case, I was worried about Google locking me out so I started there, other

This is a long but satisfying road if you're a tinkerer. Start by prioritising. In my case, I was worried about Google locking me out so I started there, other things such as VPN could wait because I wasn't locked in on my VPN service. In your case that might be migrating your photos off iCloud. I found the awesome-selfhosted[1] list to be excellent for trying out different products that match the size of the VPS you've got or maybe you just want to put that onto your local Synology NAS if you don't need your whole photo roll on the go. Self hosted BitWarden is also another good starting point with the very lightweight vaultwarden[2] just make sure you always know where your vault is stored on your server and make backups. While it's a long road it doesn't need to consume your life daily but it still requires you to keep up with all the things any sysadmin needs to handle like monthly patching, monitoring the logs for sustained abuse and break in attempts. Subreddits /r/selfhosted and /r/homelab are also great places to have a browse. [1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-video-galleries https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho... [2] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden