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I have ~1TB of photos and I liked the idea of hosting this on Digital Ocean, but it looks like a volume of that size would run me over $100/mo. I'll have to sti
by bb123 4y ago
I have ~1TB of photos and I liked the idea of hosting this on Digital Ocean, but it looks like a volume of that size would run me over $100/mo. I'll have to stick with iCloud Photos for now.
- ukuina 4y agoPikaPods has much better storage pricing for PhotoPrism.
- hijinks 4y agoi don't see any pricing for storage on their site n/m signed up and you use sliders to get what you need.. looks like its about $15 a month for 1Tb of storage which isn't enough for me.. too bad.
- ukuina 4y agoI dropped them an email and they increased the cap to 6TB. I enabled 2TB on my pod and it estimates $20/month.
- afranchuk 4y agoStorage volumes can be much cheaper. For instance, Backblaze B2 will run you around $6/TB/mo, IIRC. And some providers (usually the smaller ones) have discounts for bulk purchases (e.g. a year). Many self hosted apps support cloud storage.
- stef25 4y agoIs it possible to use B2 or DO Spaces as storage for Photoprism?
- hutattedonmyarm 4y agoSort of. It's not natively supported, but you can use something like s3fs-fuse to mount a S3 compatible storage (like B2) locally and use that. I personally went a different route: Set up Nextcloud, point its primary storage to B2, and then mount a Nextcloud folder (using WebDAV) to my filesystem which I configured as primary storage for Photoprism. That setup was pretty slow, but I also had Nextcloud and Photoprism running on the same VPS which additionally was underpowered for even Photoprism alone. I am now using a separate server for Photoprism and performance is much better
- pheeney 4y agoI built a lower end linux machine out of consumer grade parts in order to self-host this. I think it ended up being $600-800 with 8TB of storage but could be done a lot cheaper. Hard to beat $10/mo though unless your needs extend beyond storage. I ended up using it for a lot more in the end (mealie, wordpress, etc). Something to consider if you the budget and time.
- fbdab103 4y agoThat sounds very expensive for 8TB of storage. I should think you could build a modest NAS for half that. Alternatively, buy two Western Digital My Books to get more space + redundancy.
- pheeney 4y agoI didn't want a NAS. I wanted a linux machine to experiment with docker and setup photoprism. I am self-hosting ~20 containers so far. It has 32GB RAM and pretty good CPU to experiment and run different workflows in the containers. I noted it could be done cheaper but that is not my goal. Can always add external storage.
- artificialLimbs 4y agoI self host on an old i5 machine w/ 8 GB DDR3 and it works a treat. I back up (300GB) to Backblaze (and another machine on prem) for about $3/mo or so.
- seszett 4y agoMy Hetzner server that I rent for 40€/mo has two 4 TB drives. I don't think they have cheaper servers at the moment, but Digital Ocean seems awfully expensive.