I stopped using Google Drive and OneDrive so I could host my own files — and I love it
The author decided to stop using Google Drive and OneDrive in favor of self-hosting their files. They found that services like Nextcloud and Immich provided better privacy and control over their data. The decision was also influenced by the high costs associated with cloud storage services.
- ▪The author was paying $7 per month for OneDrive and nearing the 40GB limit on their free account.
- ▪Self-hosting solutions like Nextcloud and Immich were chosen for better data privacy and sharing capabilities.
- ▪The author and their spouse were using different cloud services, which led to unnecessary costs.
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| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/i-stopped-using-google-drive-and-onedrive-so-i-could-host-my-own-files-and-i-love-it/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 14:45:22 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T14:47:49.970Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T14:47:49.970Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qyw35KQERB2O |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at XDA Developers.
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