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Why not something like Nextcloud, a self-hosted almost google-suite that has docs editing, photos backup, etc? Setup a simple domain name, point a dynamic dns to it, host it on your computer at home, with a family member that maybe hosts a backup for you, and voila. Control of your data.
If you don't want to host it yourself, I think there are providers out there too.
I ran Nextcloud for image hosting and loading images, even from the same network, performance is atrocious. It takes several minutes to play back an HD shot video clip. I've hosted it via snap, a docker image, and directly on the OS with similar results. Even worse, the server can easily go down if a plugin acts up or a Nextcloud update can take down the database. This was my experience at least which spurred me to look for alternatives like OP.
Agreed, NextCloud performance is atrocious. You need decently powerful hardware to run it, so at that price point just buy a nice NAS.
Nextcloud webapp is kinda slow, but when I play a video from nextcloud app on my phone it works just fine. I still dont recommend it as gphotos alternative tho, stock photos module is meh... For gallery you need plugin called memories which is awesome, but doesnt have any desktop or mobile app. I didnt try immich yet, but that seems like better option