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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 on their desktop computer or phone.
I’ve been self hosting images with https://github.com/immich-app/immich and I‘m really happy. Even has decent face recognition and H/W accelerated video transcoding.
Good backups are a must obviously, I have a backup server on a separate VLAN that syncs ZFS snapshots daily, and daily incremental encrypted backups to Google Drive w/ Duplicati. I‘ll have to reconsider Gdrive now obviously.