Self-host Nextcloud on a Pulsar67 VPS - files, photos, calendars, contacts, notes - all running on infrastructure you own, not rented from a company whose terms can change tomorrow.
Drive, iCloud, OneDrive - they work great until pricing tiers shift, a feature you depended on changes, a scan flags a photo, or a policy update locks you out without warning. Your data is mortgaged to someone else's road-map.
Nextcloud is a fully-featured self-hosted alternative: file sync (with desktop / iOS / Android clients), shared calendars, contacts, notes, a kanban board, even videocalls. On a Pulsar67 VPS, you own all of it.
Desktop, mobile, web. WebDAV for everything else. Selective sync per device.
Auto-upload from phone. Albums, timeline, EXIF preserved.
CalDAV / CardDAV. iOS Calendar / Apple Contacts sync natively.
Optional E2EE for sensitive folders. Server-side encryption otherwise.
Need more storage? Pair Nextcloud's "External Storage" app with cheap object storage (Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2) for unlimited capacity at object-storage prices.
Daily backups on Pro. Snapshot before risky upgrades. Roll back if things go sideways.
Photo thumbnails and file sync feel instant. No SATA-SSD lag.
Public-facing services get scanned. We absorb it at the edge.
If something's broken at the host level, engineers fix it. We don't blame your stack.
Move off Google Drive and onto your own Nextcloud. Same conveniences, your data.