Immich — the fastest-growing self-hosted Google Photos alternative. Mobile apps for iOS/Android with auto-upload, AI face recognition (CPU-based), search by content, share albums with anyone. Built for Photographers, privacy-conscious families, anyone leaving Google Photos.
Every photo gallery (immich) plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, daily snapshots, and 24/7 human support.
Order, wait 30 seconds for deploy, log in — your stack is running.
Auto-upload photos and videos from your phone over Wi-Fi or cellular. Background sync.
CPU-based ML — recognises people, objects, locations in your library. All on your hardware, no third party.
Type 'dog at beach 2023' — works. Type 'sunset' — works. The ML model is bundled, runs offline.
Share specific albums via link, expiring after a date you choose. Visitors don't need accounts.
Each family member gets their own account, library, and quota. Optional shared 'Family' albums.
Stores original RAW, JPEG, HEIC, video — no compression. Optional auto-conversion to web-friendly previews.
Immich — the fastest-growing self-hosted Google Photos alternative. Mobile apps for iOS/Android with auto-upload, AI face recognition (CPU-based), search by content, share albums with anyone.
You could install Immich on a generic $5 VPS. Most people who try spend an evening on the install, another on hardening, another on backups, and then it falls over the first time the kernel updates. We've done that work — every photo gallery (immich) plan is tuned, monitored, and updateable in one click.
No black boxes — here's the exact software shipped on every Photo Gallery VPS (Immich) plan.
The Photo Gallery VPS (Immich) image ships with: Immich + PostgreSQL + Redis + ML server. We don't fork or patch — we use the official upstream releases, with sensible defaults for our hardware. Update on your schedule, not ours.
Everything runs in containers via Docker, so updates are atomic. If a release breaks something, roll back to the previous image in 30 seconds. No 'I broke prod by running apt upgrade' moments.
The same KVM hypervisor and enterprise NVMe drives we use across every OliveVPS region.
Pick from 20+ datacenter regions worldwide. Photo Gallery VPS (Immich) VPS pricing stays the same in every region — the hardware specs, the bandwidth allowance, the SSD speed. The only thing that changes is your latency to end users.
iPhone photos average ~3 MB each, videos ~5 MB/sec. 10,000 photos + 50 videos × 30s = ~35 GB. A 5-year iPhone library typically sits around 200 GB. The 4 TB plan handles full-family multi-decade libraries.
Yes — the ML server runs CLIP and face-detection models on CPU. Initial library scan is slow (~1000 photos/hour) but happens once. Daily incremental uploads are real-time.
Yes — mobile apps default to Wi-Fi only, but you can enable cellular backup with a per-file size cap. Most users set 10 MB to grab photos but skip large videos until on Wi-Fi.
Yes — use Google Takeout to export, then Immich's bulk-import tool ingests the export. Metadata, dates, and album structure are preserved. Plan ~1 hour per 50 GB of source.
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