I'd heard of Immich before, a Google Photos or iCloud self-hosted solution for photos. It was already growing in popularity and has been covered on all the self-hosted podcasts and Linux outlets... FUTO has announced that they are investing in the project so the 3 main developers can work on it full-time.
https://www.futo.org/what-is-futo
I fully support FUTO - many of you might watch Luis Rossman, the right to repair ringmaster; he has been working with FUTO for the past two years and Luis caught wind of Immich because of his issues with Nextcloud. [If you use Nextcloud for photos it uses TONS of CPU...] Here's the announcement of Immich/Futo joining up:
https://www.youtube.com/live/cwz2iZwYpgg?si=o4SjLmIkRy7RocfL
So at any rate, I gave Immich an install. Its an easy affair; I chose to spin up a Debian 12 LXC container and just had to add docker repos [So you get the newest versions of] and install docker, docker compose and docker.io... in less than 5 minutes you'll have Immich rocking on port :2283. I downloaded the iOS app; make sure you point the app to '
http://x.x.x.x:2283' else it won't accept it. You can also point your server to a domain, but I haven't needed that yet.
I gave it 4 CPUs at first, but depending on your machine that was too much. I found that 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM and 1GB swap is more than enough... well; when you uploading a huge archive of photos, the LXC will ping at 100% CPU b/c of ffmpeg but after its MORE than enough...
Point of this post is - Immich freaking R0CKS. It's [already] an iCloud replacement contender, and I think with the new investment and full-time development that we're going to see even more features and codebase coming SOON. Like... its really good.
Any of you running an Immich? Using it as yer main photo backup??? I really might jump all in - its that impressive. If you'd like to replace Google Photo's, or your cell phones photo backup you have to give this project a l00k!!!!
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