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Can we talk about alternatives? I am not a Google Photos user but I struggle to find a good privacy-aware or self-hosting solution. Currently I am hosting my p

Can we talk about alternatives? I am not a Google Photos user but I struggle to find a good privacy-aware or self-hosting solution. Currently I am hosting my photos on my nextcloud instance. But the support from the iOS app for photos is really bad and there seems to be no good webdav photo viewer on iOS. So what about Piwigo [1] then? They allow self-hosting (does it run well on a raspi?) and have a pretty reasonably priced commercial solution (you have to go to the "individual" tab). What else is there? [1] piwigo.org [2] https://piwigo.com/pricing https://piwigo.com/pricing

izacus 6y ago
I've bought a Synology NAS which comes with a builtin Synology Moments application. It's pretty much a self-hosted Google Photos (including web gallery, sharing and mobile app which autobackups directly to your NAS). I still use Google Photos for convenience sake, but having a safe copy owned by myself on harddrives I own by myself is still worthwhile. And setup was very easy - couple of clicks on web UI to enable the package and installing the mobile app.
- mysterydip 6y ago
  Which model did you get? I've thought about one for a while, but the prices seem more entry level business than personal.
  - izacus 6y ago
    I used a lowend ds213j for along time but now I've upgraded to 218+ (I think there's now 220 as well?) because I wanted btrfs, hardware transcoding for Plex and ability to run some of my stuff in docker.
- ruph123 6y ago
  Good idea. Just looked up the „Moments“ app in the iOS app store and consensus seems to be that it is pretty bad and slow (sub 3 star rating).
- xoa 6y ago
  Also FWIW, you can run the Synology OS itself (DSM) on general x86 hardware or VMs via the Xpenology [1] bootloader which is pretty awesome. The DSM is a fairly single-admin friendly network applicance OS anyway with a decent GUI and support. Of course, their NAS hardware offerings make the whole thing more appliance-like and with official support, but if the matrix doesn't fit your needs or desires (I wanted my data on ZFS for example) DSM on your own hardware may still be worth giving a look. I actually like Synology's software in some ways more than their hardware for many use cases, kind of wish I could just officially buy a license for that (though I guess it works for them in that familiarity means I have recommended them to some small businesses). ---- 1: https://xpenology.org/ https://xpenology.org/
ralfd 6y ago
If you are already on iOS I guess use Apples icloud?

izacus 6y ago

I've bought a Synology NAS which comes with a builtin Synology Moments application. It's pretty much a self-hosted Google Photos (including web gallery, sharing and mobile app which autobackups directly to your NAS). I still use Google Photos for convenience sake, but having a safe copy owned by myself on harddrives I own by myself is still worthwhile. And setup was very easy - couple of clicks on web UI to enable the package and installing the mobile app.

mysterydip 6y ago
Which model did you get? I've thought about one for a while, but the prices seem more entry level business than personal.
- izacus 6y ago
  I used a lowend ds213j for along time but now I've upgraded to 218+ (I think there's now 220 as well?) because I wanted btrfs, hardware transcoding for Plex and ability to run some of my stuff in docker.
ruph123 6y ago
Good idea. Just looked up the „Moments“ app in the iOS app store and consensus seems to be that it is pretty bad and slow (sub 3 star rating).
xoa 6y ago
Also FWIW, you can run the Synology OS itself (DSM) on general x86 hardware or VMs via the Xpenology [1] bootloader which is pretty awesome. The DSM is a fairly single-admin friendly network applicance OS anyway with a decent GUI and support. Of course, their NAS hardware offerings make the whole thing more appliance-like and with official support, but if the matrix doesn't fit your needs or desires (I wanted my data on ZFS for example) DSM on your own hardware may still be worth giving a look. I actually like Synology's software in some ways more than their hardware for many use cases, kind of wish I could just officially buy a license for that (though I guess it works for them in that familiarity means I have recommended them to some small businesses). ---- 1: https://xpenology.org/ https://xpenology.org/

ralfd 6y ago

If you are already on iOS I guess use Apples icloud?