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Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

justusthane wrote: post #56
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

Hetzner Storage Box is quite reasonable: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/#matrix

That looks great but I'm in Asia and it's not available in this region.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

moduspol wrote: post #109
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

I'm kind of surprised that using object storage wasn't a first-class concern. Though I guess if running it at home was the biggest thing, that's not the top priority, but still. Using fast, cheap object stores (often with CDNs in front) has been commonplace for images, videos, and similar content for decades now. For virtually anything that uses some dynamic amount of storage based on user actions, my expectation is…

Yeah this was pretty much my reaction, and seeing that it's not supported (either by Immich or Photoprism) really made me think these projects are not for me.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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amai wrote: post #178
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

Have a look at https://ente.io/ .

That looks interesting, and it does support s3 from the look of it. However, I have to say I'm getting strong "performative open source" vibes from it. Have you tried self hosting? How was it?

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

sepher0 wrote: post #80
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

The team just announced a 1-click option on digital ocean, if you want it cloud hosted set up: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/immich

Hosting it isn't the problem. Paying for 1-2tb of storage is.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

dddw wrote: post #48
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

I actually got it working with cloud storage on hetzner. Wasn't supersnappy, but it worked. I borked the build though and am planning to run it on my home-server

I'm currently using Nextcloud Memories connected to a Wasabi bucket for photos and being "not supersnappy" is a real dealbreaker. When I scroll through hundreds or thousands of photos and have to wait five or ten seconds for each new page of thumbnails to load, then the same when I open a photos, I quickly go back to Google photos.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by bo0tzz »

gh02t wrote: post #45
andreldm wrote: post #17

Any opinion on why Immich instead of Photoprism? I’m considering to pick one of them for my media library and Immich not being labeled as stable scares me a bit.

IIRC, Immich started as a project after Photoprism changed their licensing to restrict several features, and then picked up a ton of momentum very fast. They've pledged they won't ever pay-gate features, which isn't always a positive as those features help sustain a project long term, but they have so much community support and love that I'm not worried about that in this case. Feature wise I think they are pretty co…

> Immich started as a project after Photoprism changed their licensing to restrict several features

It didn't, that's just a timing coincidence. Immich was started because none of the existing projects offered the google photos-like experience.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

freetonik wrote: post #59
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

One very easy and painless way is Pikapods ( https://www.pikapods.com/ ).

A pikapod with 2vcpus, 8gb of ram, and 1tb of storage is $200 a year. That's not too bad, but it's the maximum amount of storage so if you need to go over that you would have to attach separate storage (if that's possible).

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esperent »

anttiharju wrote: post #53
esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

I wish it'd be easy to plug it to a s3 backend and thumbnails etc. ephemeral things could just be on disk.

Yes, that would be the obvious solution. Database and thumbnails on disk, everything else on s3.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by tracker1 »

dingnuts wrote: post #168
tracker1 wrote: post #160

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Yeah... I'm not sure that I've ever seen a complex app with multiple, separate service/database requirements (redis, pg, etc) packaged in a Linux distro repository... but I could be wrong.

controversial but docker compose is for development and demos. for prod give me a binary, a config file / systemd unit file, and tell me how to configure external dependencies and let me decide how to manage them. and if you're serious, k8s config. otherwise don't waste my time.

You can get all that information from a compose file.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by dd_xplore »

codethief wrote: post #50

I recently looked into both Immich and Ente.io for syncing and also sharing photos since 1) Syncthing has been rather unreliable for me in the last year, 2) my photo library has become too big to just sync it across devices, 3) I was never really happy with NextCloud for sharing photos. Immich looked really nice but in the end I went with Ente because of its E2E encryption. So far I'm really happy!

I think it's better to use immich with tailscale
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