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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 3 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
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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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ptk ◴[06 Dec 25 03:50 UTC] No.46170508[source]▶
How does sharing an album with others work on Immich?
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jasonjayr ◴[06 Dec 25 04:04 UTC] No.46170576[source]▶
You get a link and you can set read or write permissions on it.

Whoever gets that link can browse it in a web browser.

I've used this to share albums of photos with gatherings of folks; it works very well. It does assume you have your Immich installation publicly available, however. (Not open to the public, but on a publicly accessible web server)

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1. navane ◴[06 Dec 25 08:39 UTC] No.46171693[source]▶
How safe is that to set up for novice it people? I have a pi with pi-hole on it and am thinking about putting immich on it but the fact that it exposes itself outside my LAN frightens me.
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2. kristjank ◴[06 Dec 25 10:33 UTC] No.46172214[source]▶
I have it set up in a container that I keep updated. Then it's reverse proxied by another container which runs nginx proxy manager, which keeps the HTTPS encryption online. So far, the maintenance has only been checking whether a new version has been released and docker pulling the images, then restarting the containers.
3. Duralias ◴[06 Dec 25 21:10 UTC] No.46176618[source]▶
If you are worried about that then I can highly recommend https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy

I keep that running on a VPS, but with with proper firewalling you could probably run it on the same machine.