[slaye]

An incredible piece of software, on par with Google Photos. I've been using it behind Tailscale for months with no problems ever since I first got into homelabbing.

Actually, moving from Google Photos to Immich after I hit my 100GB storage limit was the whole reason I got into self-hosting, and what a fun ride that has been!

I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others for the same reason.

Congrats to the team on the release and thank you for helping me catalogue my personal memories

[Valodim]

Please buy a license if you are happy with the project :) it's free, but you can still buy a license for a small amount of what you saved

[slaye]

Done! <3

[fnands]

Good point. Will do so as well. I've been using it for about a year now on my NAS. I basically set it and forget it, and it has just worked.

[rrvsh]

I would say at this point it's better than Google Photos!! The team is absolutely amazing, and I agree that it's astounding to see IMO the best (general purpose) photo app out there being open source

[owaislone]

I've been considering it as well. I'm using 1.5TB in google one storage. mostly from photos/videos from the last decade from 4 family members.

Have you thought about backups and redundancy? I was thinking of hosting it on my homelab with backups on some cheap cloud storage but almost any cloud storage ends up costing somewhat similar to Google One so I've been a bit reluctant.

A good backup story is probably the only thing keeping me from switching.

[slaye]

Immich promotes a 3-2-1 backup strategy in their docs you can read about: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

Admittedly I have not set up backups yet because my homelab setup is not very mature.

I'm running everything off a single mini PC connected to a fresh 1TB SSD. My next "homelab goal" is setting up a NAS/DAS once I can snag something affordable off eBay/FB Marketplace/Kleinanzeigen/etc.

I think there are some super cheap cloud storage solutions where you pay a lot less in costs to not have on-demand access. That is the route I was going to go personally.

[Gareth321]

I would like to replace iCloud but it doesn't seem to sync changes/deletions with iPhone yet. I don't want to have to make changes/deletions in two places every time. v3 seems to have improved background uploads which is great as that has been a frequent complaint.