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Again I ask, where should I take ~30GB of photos that I have on Flickr? Yes, I have other backups but I need offsite storage. Guess I'll have to budget for it now. Backblaze B2 isn't quite ready yet.

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Take a look at Google Photos. It's very good and getting better.

I'd like it to have more advanced options, but it's probably the best choice and well integrated with Google Drive and Google+ (if you use it).

It depends if you want backup or sharing in the flickr vein. If the latter, Smugmug is probably the closest equivalent. It's not free but neither was a flickr pro account.

Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc. They're all very reasonably priced in my opinion (Amazon's says they give you unlimited). But if you want something more sharing oriented like flikr then that's a different beast. You can kinda do that with Google Drive and Google Plus but no one uses that.

Get Amazon Prime ($99/year?), and get unlimited photo storage: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/primephotos

And free 2-day shipping (if you're in the US).

As much as I shudder saying it, Google+ has been pretty good at keeping all of my photos. Though I have them backed up from my Android device. Not sure how well it works when actively using it for photo storage.

I am guessing 500px will roll out a "welcome" for old Flickr.com users and give them a heck of a deal to join up to 500px.

Serious answer: digitalocean gives you a 40GB VPS for 20$/m and you can spin up an Owncloud instance in minutes.

A single VPS for backing up photos? No thanks. Redundancy is going to cost you a lot going this route.

He said there are backups already, this is just an addition.

He was looking for an off site backup meaning all of his current backups are at a single location. You need redundancy in your offsite backup (or have multiple) otherwise you may have to use it one day and find the drive has died or who knows what else.

Ouch, that reminds me how much more my VPS is going to cost due to the decline in the Australian dollar. It's not a bad idea, though.

you could put them on mega.co for free up to 50GB, or a 14.00 flash drive or instagram.

I don't think cloud storage or image hosting are unsolved problems.

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