The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/V12daimler on 2024-12-30 13:36:13.

First I’m no IT person but as an industrial engineer I’m not completely stupid so please bear with me.

I currently have GSuite for my family domain (six users) which everyone uses and loves for years now. I have the low tier one which is 30GB per user. Total £360 per year.

Additionally, I myself have a 2TB Dropbox account for many years now, which is about half full. Total £360 per year.

Additionally still, five out of the six users have iPhones so I’m paying for a family account for that for password/Whatsapp backups and so on. Total £40 per year.

I really like Dropbox but I’m paying for too many different things. I first thought just to increase the Google storage to 2TB and get rid of my Dropbox account but doing that would double the GSuite cost.

Then I thought about migrating to Office 365 at 1TB per user for £80 per year in total BUT the main issue with that is that in Gmail I have thirty years of meticulously labelled emails and that would be ruined or duplicated.

My friend has suggested to get a VPS and run OwnCloud but frankly I have too much to do in my life without also learning to become a sysadmin.

So I am looking for any and all advice - what would you do?