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I used to store some, not all, photos on a photo storage site called "Imageshack" which used to have free storage. That has now gone into a paid service so I have scratched that off my computer.

Just goes to show you should never ever rely on photo storage sites alone because they can all do the same if they want to and you have lost all your pictures.

Needless to say I store my photos on a backup seperate hard drive and again on DVD disks. Those "special" I do a hard copy of anyway with my printer
 
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Flickr stil offers a free account but you, and anyone viewing your photos, will see adverts in the photostream. It depends on how much space you need, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox and others all offer a limited amount from 2-15gb without ads or restrictions but if you need more space you will probably have to accept one or both of these paid for models. As with Imageshack any free offering will almost certainly change to a fee paying one eventually as this was probably the business plan all along
 
Think would be save to say try hubic: https://hubic.com/en/offers/ 10TB for 50 euros per year

They are part of OVH group and they are one of the biggest hosting companies in the world... from top of my head 2nd or 3rd largest company
 
If photos are that important to backup, why would you look at what was free, wouldn't you look at something that was 'best'?
 
Amazon Prime
 
https://www.backblaze.com/ £30 year unlimited backups, been using it for about 6 months. did a test download of an old file(very large) and download was perfect. they backup my imac 1tb plus my external hd 3tb Highly recommended. cheers Mike
 
All forms of backup can fail which is why I backup using several different methods - 2 HDDs, Several MS One Drive accounts, DVDs and Blu-Ray.

My photos are too precious to me to risk losing them - oh and some on Flickr Pro.

But remember DVDs are only good for a few years if kept in a proper folder and in the dark - and use branded DVDs (Phillips etc), NOT the ones in Poundland etc.

And DON'T use dye based Blu-Rays as they suffer from the same problems that DVDs do.
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Google photos takes some beating, free unlimited storage requires you to allow them to compress your photos but they have an excellent algorithm and I see little deterioration.

You can have it monitor folders and auto backup so it is really a fit and forget solution.
 
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