Your family’s life is in five companies’ accounts
Twenty years of photographs. Your children’s documents. The passwords everyone shares badly. All of it sits in accounts you do not own and cannot inspect.
Nothing changes on your phone
Photos still upload by themselves. Mail still arrives in the app you already use. Calendars still sync. It works the way it works now — the difference is where it lives and who can read it.
Your family is not locked out if something happens to you
This is the part people do not think about until it matters. Your household holds its own keys, and there is a written arrangement for getting in without me and without you — set out here.
One person who answers
Not a support queue, and not a nephew who is good with computers. When a phone will not sync the day before a holiday, you write to the person who built it.
It sits on a machine in Italy that I own and maintain, and who can reach your data is written down rather than assumed.
What changes for the household
Nobody is reading it
No adverts, no scanning of your photos or your mail to build a profile, and no account closed by an algorithm with nobody to appeal to. The one person with access is named, and what that person can technically read is written down.
No price per person
Your partner, your children and your parents each get their own account. Nothing here is licensed per head, so adding one costs nothing.
You can leave with everything
Standard formats, documented setup, and your data shipped to you on drives you keep. No lock-in worth the name.
Questions
What if something breaks?
Message me. Monitoring usually tells me before you notice, and what I owe you when it happens is written down rather than left to me.
What if you are ill or away?
Monitoring and backups keep running either way. What pauses is change, not the service — the response targets are written down, and what happens if I stop for good is too.
Do you move our photos and mail out of iCloud and Google?
I move them. Everyone gets a working account on the other side, and a guide for anything you want to bring over yourselves later.
Will everyone in the house manage?
Nothing changes on their phones: photos still upload by themselves and mail still arrives in the same app. There is a guide for every service, and if something does not make sense, one of you asks me.
How much storage do we get?
1 TB to start, expanded on request at no extra charge.
We do not have a domain. Is that a problem?
No. I register one in your name and hand you the account, so it is yours from the first day.
What happens if we leave?
I ship you the SSDs. Your photos and files, as they are, on drives you own.
Why trust you over Google?
Do not trust — verify. You get documentation for what runs, where your data sits and how it is configured. With Google you get none of that, and your family is the product.