> Everything combined costs me $55 per month.
For many (most?) people this is too much; enough for them to give away some control to a third party - and get a similar product for free.
For many (most?) people this is too much; enough for them to give away some control to a third party - and get a similar product for free.
Even if you have to trust a 3rd party with your data, (1) you can minimize the privacy risk with encryption and (2) usually VPS/cloud providers have different privacy guaranties than free Google drive...