Ownphotos by hooram

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

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Verdict 54/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 3/5 setup difficulty 585k docker pulls Last release 7.2 years ago

Self-host Ownphotos on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
54 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
3 /5
External DB / setup
GitHub stars
2.8k
224 forks

About Ownphotos

From the project's README at github.com/hooram/ownphotos. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

What is it? Self hosted wannabe Google Photos clone, with a slight focus on cool graphs Django backend & React frontend. In development.

Currently the project is in very early stages, so run it only for the sake of checking it out. Features Currently implemented: Label some faces manually, and train a face classifier to label the rest. View photos by people in them. Automatically generate "event" albums with nice titles, like "Thursday in Berlin" See photos on the map Backend caching View photos grouped by date "Optimized" frontend (react virtualized... I tried my best.) Detect objects in photos, and make them searchable by objects Search photos by the location Authentication (using JWT) Create custom albums Docker ready Upcoming Short term: Share photos/albums Longer term, i.e. haven't thought much about them Basic photo editing, like rotation Tag undetected face Add cool graphs What does it use? Face detection: facerecognition Face classification/clusterization: scikit-learn Object detection: densecap, places365 Reverse geocoding:** Mapbox: You need to have an API key. First

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
64
maturity
64
community
49
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
30

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 2.8k github.com/hooram/ownphotos
GitHub forks 224 github.com/hooram/ownphotos
Docker Hub pulls 585k hub.docker.com / hooram

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age8.8 yearssince Jul 2017
Last commit3.4 years agoDec 8, 2022
Releases shipped2last: 7.2 years ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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