Online photo storage what is the best way where you're not tied into a monthly fee.

[Hairymcclarytoes]

I'm currently moving all my photos to the cloud as my laptop is going to crash any day now. Its more than the free storage google gives so I was going to pay yearly for a decent amount.
My brain is now thinking of over drive to the future though, I would like to think that my children would like the photos when I'm not around anymore and I'm just wondering if something happens to me and they freeze my account or stop the payments then my family won't be able to access the photos. I will be using a family account that we all have the password for.

I just wondered if there was an easier way to store 1000s of photos that I know children and grandchildren will be able to easily access and me not to have to worry about my children having to take over the yearly storage payments.

I did get a large hard drive to store them on but yhey aren't too reliable at times and can corrupt.

Offline hard drive. There are some that back up to an external drive you can store in another house if you're worried about losing them to theft/fire

Is there any way you can get them printed instead? Make them into actual albums that you can store on a bookshelf? I'm only asking because I think people are more likely to keep and look through them if there physical copies rather than digital, though I appreciate this isn't ideal for everyone.

I have them on a hard drive but so many USB sticks and sd cards have crashed in the past so I'm paranoid the hard drive will crash.
I did start to print them off, I have 20 years worth printed but they take up so much space I thought I'd try the digital route.
I need online storage, like Google, that I pay a one off fee then its mine for always and not relying on someone taking over the monthly free from me.
Fingers crossed there is something out there.

I can recommend pCloud. You pay one fee and it lasts forever. I have had it for many years now.