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What's the best alternative? Flickr? I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I don't want to use Apple or Google or MS Clouds for various r

What's the best alternative? Flickr? I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I don't want to use Apple or Google or MS Clouds for various reasons. I do want to support a pure-play, independent-ish, profitable, consumer friendly platform. To upload hires shots and have them easy to tag/share/access among those to whom they may be of interest. I expect to pay, but not through the nose. Reliability matters. I would want the company to be around in 20 years and still reasonably priced/useful. Suggestions?

doublepg23 4mo ago
> I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I dunno https://immich.app https://immich.app is pretty painless IME.
- fg137 4mo ago
  You still need a host that provides a large storage and monthly bandwidth, which is becoming expensive. It doesn't take care of backups either.
  - lutr 4mo ago
    I self-host Immich on a personal home server. I do pay for backups, though. For 65GB of images (not a lot) I pay ~$1/mo to Backblaze. The backed-up data is 30% bigger in size right now (= 82GB), as it's incremental.
    - fg137 4mo ago
      Which means it's not "painless". The immich part may be, but compared to automatically synchronizing to iCloud or Google Photos, the experience is significantly worse for an average user.
Ender-events 4mo ago
Perhaps try https://ente.com/ https://ente.com/, as they offer a paid plan.
drnick1 4mo ago
The Nextcloud app on my phone automatically backs up my pictures to my Nextcloud instance. This is painless to run in a Docker container at home, but Nextcloud also has a subscription service if you don't want to self-host, and your money funds free software.
sib 4mo ago
You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years
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- realityfactchex 3mo ago
  Following up, after comparing all the options, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
ewy1 4mo ago
so you want a service that does everything, is around forever, extremely reliable, affordable, and easy to use, and not affiliated with big tech? and you don't want to do anything yourself?

doublepg23 4mo ago

> I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I dunno https://immich.app https://immich.app is pretty painless IME.

fg137 4mo ago
You still need a host that provides a large storage and monthly bandwidth, which is becoming expensive. It doesn't take care of backups either.
- lutr 4mo ago
  I self-host Immich on a personal home server. I do pay for backups, though. For 65GB of images (not a lot) I pay ~$1/mo to Backblaze. The backed-up data is 30% bigger in size right now (= 82GB), as it's incremental.
  - fg137 4mo ago
    Which means it's not "painless". The immich part may be, but compared to automatically synchronizing to iCloud or Google Photos, the experience is significantly worse for an average user.

Ender-events 4mo ago

Perhaps try https://ente.com/ https://ente.com/, as they offer a paid plan.

drnick1 4mo ago

The Nextcloud app on my phone automatically backs up my pictures to my Nextcloud instance. This is painless to run in a Docker container at home, but Nextcloud also has a subscription service if you don't want to self-host, and your money funds free software.

sib 4mo ago

You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years

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realityfactchex 3mo ago
Following up, after comparing all the options, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

ewy1 4mo ago

so you want a service that does everything, is around forever, extremely reliable, affordable, and easy to use, and not affiliated with big tech? and you don't want to do anything yourself?