You still need a host that provides a large storage and monthly bandwidth, which is becoming expensive. It doesn't take care of backups either.
replyI self-host Immich on a personal home server. I do pay for backups, though. For 65GB of images (not a lot) I pay ~$1/mo to Backblaze. The backed-up data is 30% bigger in size right now (= 82GB), as it's incremental.
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