[bensonn]

I tried NextCloud + Memories but multiple hosts said the facial recognition app wouldn't work. Face recognition is important. I tried Librehost for Nextcloud, seemed great until face recognition didn't work and support said it wouldn't.

I can't self-host hardware, my home internet is shat.

I really want to run a managed-host instance of Immich (or NextCloud) but am struggling. This is for family photos shared by 3 siblings. 100GB+ of storage is ideal, cpu and connections isn't as important since at max it will be 3 users.

All these programs looks great and have easy Docker setups, but I can't figure out Docker storage. Docker seems to be more about running the app, not storage. If I install Immich on a Docker instance, do I have to connect it to external storage? If so who and how?

[brian-bk]

I'm more familiar with kubernetes for running production-grade apps and that's what I went with. I run ubuntu's microk8s, and the volume management is in kubernetes-land which I understand well. Finally helmfiles deploys my Postgres and immich helm charts. Perhaps "overkill" to some, but it's tooling I'm very familiar with, and feel comfortable running in "production" for my personal server.

Worth noting that immich itself recommends not using immich for the single source of your images and videos from how active development it is, so I also run nextcloud + crunchydata's postgres also inside microk8s/kubernetes.

[bensonn]

Appreciate the response. Wow, not going to happen. I am a (self deprecating) script kiddy. This is overkill for me. Everything you said was over my head. On a positive note, I don't feel bad for failing to figure it out.

Business Idea- I would pay 10-15 dollars per month for a managed hosted Immich (or similar) instance. (I "own", you manage) Minimal processing, minimal sharing (no social), but big storage.