Every asked yourself any of these questions?
Pixaver is made for just these situations. It’s a third-party backup of your photos library. Just link your Google Photos account to it, and it’ll automatically sync your images.
Odds are you’ll never need Pixaver—but, if the unthinkable happens, it’s there for you. :-)
Based on our record, Piwigo.org seems to be a lot more popular than Pixaver. While we know about 26 links to Piwigo.org, we've tracked only 1 mention of Pixaver. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
My friend and I built https://pixaver.com. It doesn’t address all of the points you note here, but it does offer some piece of mind if we get locked out of Google Photos. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
This is not for everyone, but I host my family photos myself, most recently with this: https://piwigo.org/. I have been doing this since 2007 (started on a different software, called "gallery". Was able to migrate from gallery2 to gallery3 and now piwigo), and so far no major issues. Advantage: I can easily share photos with family, no need for iCloud, Facebook, or indeed any service- they just need a web browser... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
There is also Piwigo which is open-source and can be self hosted. https://piwigo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
A couple additiona maybe?: - Piwigo great for photo management. Could be used as an alternative to Google Photos - Nexcloud for file sharing. Replacement for Google Drive. Source: 11 months ago
I use https://piwigo.org/ on a old PC that I installed Linux on. Source: 12 months ago
I have on my list to evaluate self-hosted image clouds Piwigo and Photoprism but they don't bridge the photogrammetry gap either. It might even be more time consuming if I have to download the assets I'm working on first. Source: 12 months ago
PicBackMan - PicBackMan is an effortless photo & video uploader for Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, Facebook, Dropbox, Box, Skydrive & Google Drive.
PhotoPrism.app - PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
55Photos - 55Photos is a web application that lets you view, edit, manage, organize, transfer, download, upload, backup all your online photos and albums from one place.
Google Photos - All your photos are backed up safely, organized and labeled automatically, so you can find them fast, and share them how you like.
Downloadair - Download photos, videos and albums from your gallery and your friends. Easily.
Lychee by Electerious - Lychee is an open-source, free software program for self-hosted photo management. It can be installed on the user's own server or website. The software permits the uploading and management of photos and also makes sharing photos very easy.