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I've found Microsoft Office to be the best deal for online storage. $70/year gets you a bunch of useful apps and 1TB of storage, or $100 year provides 1TB for up to 6 accounts. Nothing else seems to come close.

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How do you store photos there? Do they make an Android client that syncs your phone's photos to the cloud?

Yup, on Android photo upload works the same as Dropbox/Google. It doesn't have the AI smarts of Google Photos though. Just tried searching for 'cat' and the results were useless. But the storage works.

The android app exists but it's wonky as in sometimes the thumbnails of your photos simply won't load They are there, you just have to click on a blank thumbnail to watch the photo.

I can get a 1TB storage server from Time4vps for about $60 (they charge in euros). That gives me the ability to store stuff with sftp, rsync, or more full featured backup solutions like borgbackup.

Have you tried using that full 1TB? Many small time hosts oversubscribe and will look for a reason to boot you if you go beyond a reasonable usage %.

Yes, I have. I ran it full for a couple months, on accident.

I had a symlinked directory getting backup up twice...

I never heard a word from them, but I eventually noticed and fixed it. I generally run around 600GB.

Sure but do you get to use office apps as well? I assume majority of the cost in the Office deal is the cost of the full Office suite

Sounds like a bad deal, comparatively. Microsoft skips the low-level interfaces but gives you redundancy and usable UIs and services (on top of an API)

I can run other services on top of backups, for example, I run a calibre server.

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