I'm trying to make my journal more visual appealing: photos and videos and pdf, etc.
Obviously, these will consume more data and I may hit some storage limit in the not so near future.
However, that's not my major concern. My major concern is that since these aren't stored locally, I am relying and trusting on the stability and longevity of the hosts of my pictures and videos. Therefore, I will make local copies of these media files that I think are more important.
Local storage will be on the external HDD usb drive(s), in the Photos/Videos folder, mostly, basically with file name based on the date of posting.
I'll have to store my images on Instagram instead of some wanna-be sites that seem attractive at first but then quickly turned to pay services.
Instagram is most popular and free and has no limit on storage. I just need to make sure my Insta account won't get hacked like last time.
Right now, it seems that Youtube is the best way to host these videos. And keeping a backup of videos I uploaded is crucial, since one can never trust Youtube.