Any good alternative for Google Photos?
Any good alternative for Google Photos?
I'm looking for a solution that satisfies:
- Open source, or partially open source.
- Have good privacy practice. Even better if I can get away from 5 Eyes or 9 Eyes.
- Have an application for Android that supports auto-sync.
Self-hosting is also an option, but I would prefer a lightweight setup. I checked Immich requirements, but it requires 2 CPU cores and 4 GB memory, which costs way too much if I want to host it on my AWS.
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Synology Photo. Then you even have your own "cloud" storage at home.
Definitely this. I run a home lab, six servers, and I use Synology Photos because it’s so much better than the self hosted alternatives.
Does Synology Photos support shared albums where any user can contribute photos?
Yes. But I have mixed experience with this. How well it works might depend heavily on your internet speed (up/down) and on the performance of the synology. Overall user experience is a lot slower than any other commercial service.
Thanks for the cool option. But I just checked, and it seems like there's no way I can set up a QuickConnect ID without a real Synology hardware. I'm a nomad so buying a physical Disk Station is not my preference.
https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/61634-dsm-7x-loaders-and-platforms/
There really is nothing close to Google Photos outside of Synology. And it's not 100% in terms of search but it's getting there.
You can run the Synology software via a loader on commodity hardware or on a hosting platform provided the platform supports VMWare ESXi or the like.
You can use your own domain instead of a quickconnect id.
Does it have something like a "cloud" storage? The closest thing I found is C2.
I'm a nomad, so having a physical storage at home is not feasible, at least for the next 5 years.