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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 1 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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renegade-otter ◴[06 Dec 25 12:03 UTC] No.46172664[source]▶
Immich is a Google Photos clone, and when they say "self-hosting", they mean SELF-HOSTING. You need to be a web dev or a sys admin to be able to wrangle that thing. Nightmare upgrades, tons of weird bugs related to syncing.

If your solution to an issue is "just reset the Redis cache", this is when I am done.

Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos - I don't want to host a Google Photos for others.

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1. Trasmatta ◴[06 Dec 25 15:05 UTC] No.46173855[source]▶
Every time I go the self hosting route, everything goes smoothly for awhile, and then decides to break 6 months down the line, and I have to waste a Saturday figuring it all out and upgrading things. Not what I want to do with my weekend, when I'm already doing software dev and maintenance for work. This happens even for super dependable, well written self hosted software.

On the other hand, maybe AI can help remove some of that pain for me now. Just have Claude figure out what's wrong. (Until it decides to hallucinate something, and makes things worse)