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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 8 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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WD-42 ◴[06 Dec 25 03:02 UTC] No.46170203[source]▶
Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.
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1. petesergeant ◴[06 Dec 25 06:05 UTC] No.46171096[source]▶
Other than redundant hosting, what will I get as an Apple user by setting this up? It would be very easy to set up, just not sure what I’m gaining from it
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2. big-and-small ◴[06 Dec 25 06:16 UTC] No.46171138[source]▶
For once iCloud have a terrible sync speed. Even 500GB of photos / videos take forever to sync like a week and I can't imagine what it will take for someone with multi-TB archives.
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3. volemo ◴[06 Dec 25 06:22 UTC] No.46171172[source]▶
Yes, but it's a one times occurrence, isn't it?
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4. ahf8Aithaex7Nai ◴[06 Dec 25 06:42 UTC] No.46171244[source]▶
I don't think it would add any value for you. For me, it adds value because I only have to turn my head to the left to see the computer that contains all my photos since I started taking pictures with a smartphone.
5. big-and-small ◴[06 Dec 25 07:02 UTC] No.46171321{3}[source]▶
I'd imagine if you're person who make a lot of photos / videos slow sync can be pretty annoying. Unfortunately I'm not one of them to tell, but just had to wait like a week for the first sync of my wife's iPhone to finish.
6. yreg ◴[06 Dec 25 09:50 UTC] No.46172017[source]▶
I plan to set up Immich so that I can have a central photo storage.

Apple Photos play poorly when you want to put the library on an external drive (and even more poorly when you want to put it on a networked drive).

7. palata ◴[06 Dec 25 11:08 UTC] No.46172386[source]▶
Supporting someone who is not TooBigTech is a valid concern, IMO.

The selling point for me is that it is NOT TooBigTech. It doesn't have to be as good as TooBigTech, but it has to be reliable enough. In my case it means that it should be able to sync from iOS/Android, in the background, even if the user never opens the app, and it should never get out of sync and require setting up everything again. Nextcloud fails at that.

8. hamdingers ◴[06 Dec 25 19:29 UTC] No.46175954[source]▶
Recall the 3-2-1 backup rule. iCloud is an offsite cloud copy, your phone is (arguably) a local copy, so you're missing one additional local copy.