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.
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.
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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.
Nextcloud? there’s a bunch of private hosts you can sign up for, and some even do free plans which might be good for getting started. The first one I found (alfacloud) did 100gb for €5/month.
Ente photos
Ente is great! Using it since a month and really loving it
Immich is my personal favorite
You can self host immich on a device as small as a raspberry pi. Waveshare sells a CM4 board + enclosure + power supply for $36. You can get a 1tb 2242 nvme ssd for $99. And you can get a 4gb CM4 + 32gb emmc from adafruit for $65 (currently out of stock there, but you can keep an eye on rpilocator. some capable boards are available in Germany, but they’re over $100). Not the cheapest setup, but if you’re worried about power draw, spinning hard drives, and portability, this would be a way to do it. You could also just host NextCloud on it, but it might be a bit slow.
Waveshare board + enclosure: https://www.waveshare.com/cm4-io-base-c.htm?sku=23743
Ente.io is recommended by many, but never used it myself, since I don’t need.
Nextcloud?
It’s more like google.srive but with the gazillion plugins available I imagine you can make it do google photos too
This is also on my long term plan. Technical debt is a bitch.
I just put all my photos on photoprism. I’m quite happy with that. self hosted at home.
I moved everything from Google photos to ente about a year ago. They have an importer that made things pretty easy. I set up my android phone to auto import too.
Nextcloud.
