Self hosted image server for websites
reddit / selfhosted

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ebayer108 · 2023-11-27 17:41

Hi All,

I host my website on a dedicated host. All images are also on the same
server. Time has come to move images to storage/file server. I'm aware
of Google and AWS solution which I don't want to use them due to cost.
I want to host it on my other dedicated server which I'll use solely
as file server for images.

I need some pointers on how to do it.

Are there any free open source solution available?

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bka-informant · 2023-11-27 17:55

Yes, there are a lot, although I think most people here rely on Immich
or PhotoPrism
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-
video-galleries

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ebayer108 · 2023-11-27 18:48

Yes, I've seen that link and those two, will check them out. Thanks.

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justgord · 2023-11-28 03:15

Same problem here ...

I wanted a static site to be generated from a directory with a whole
lot of photos...
[ just files .. no back end web server / php or database ]

I ended up writing a script to wrangle the image files, and piGallery2
to show them.
The script finds the images, makes thumbs, renames/resizes/converts
and theres a single html with javascript that reads the list, and uses
piGallery2 to show the photos.

ps. I wanted to use avif file formats, as the files are smaller than
jpg files, by a lot.

Sample here, with a few pics from pexels :
http://quato.xyz/pix/pexels_italy/

[ it is a static site, so no server code .. although the web front end
does use javascript .. I just copied the bundle of files under my
current web server directory ]