Yes I host on a very cheap Hetzner VPS (which I use for other self-hosted Docker images as well) so it’s always up. The storage location is not on the VPS itself, it’s S3 and B2 compatible, so you can use AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, whatever.
I assume that "self-hosted" meant precisely that they own the box. A hard drive is under $10/terabyte.
I was about to ask where you're seeing such cheap hard drives, but then I checked diskprices.com and saw that yes, there are indeed some drives for <$10/TB (current lowest price is $8.332/TB, and there are only 10 drives that are <$10/TB; I'm only looking at new drives).
I mean, I think my point is still valid for a $20/TB drive. It's a one-time cost, not monthly, and you're unlikely to exceed 1TB with Google Drive data.
Ah I assumed it was self-hosted but in the cloud somewhere
Self hosted means not in the cloud.
Google storage for a personal account is 15gb if I'm not mistaked, why would you need 1tb?