[actuator]

Is it cheaper and better though?

You will need to setup redundancy if you use your own hardware, verify your client and server scripts, take care of encryption etc.

Also, syncing anyone from Dropbox to Onedrive can do. I like the photo tagging to be powerful when I am looking for old photos.

[part1of2]

Hosting yourself is better than Google reading and disabling your account because you used a couple words that might violate it's TOS. I can't imagine a researcher trying to write a book in Google Docs about 1960's civil rights without tripping Google's abuse engines. It is creepy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/11/01/google-rea...

[pnutjam]

You need redundancy with google too. I personally use google, but I have a home server that pulls my photos and emails via the google api. Then I backup that to a 2nd internal drive and the cloud. I use a time4vps storage server, if anyone is interested (https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=1881)

[arkanciscan]

Depends how lazy you are!