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 you can call
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.
Ask what this would look like