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Can you share how you are hosting it, photo library file types or size, and what the performance is like? I'm always skeptical of stated requirements and what other people are prepared to put up with.

I've got an older Synology NAS that currently stores my 250GB photo library with a lot of RAWs. While it can run docker I'm not going to attempt to run it there. I'm wondering if a VM on my 10700k is going to be sufficient for great performance, or if handing over the complete machine is going to be necessary. I'm happy adding more NVMe 3.0 drives for storage.

I'm also curious how version upgrades have been for you. I want to get out of the ops business but I feel like I'm going to be dragged in.



I run it on an Intel nuc, i5 8xxx runs great, along side a bunch of other self hosted stuff, nothing very taxing.

Biggest thing was to put all the photos on SSD, at least the thumbnail cache if not all.

I also run it, on my backup server, pi 4, with all ai disabled, it's slower, but probably because it's all on HDD still usable.


My photo library is incredibly simple compared to yours. Maybe 15 GB of a mixture of tiff, raw, and some PNG.

I would say my requirements are nowhere near yours and that you would really need to test it yourself for your usecase. Some people on the photoprism forums claim it can handle large libraries like yours but I would always recommend testing yourself.

I host it via docker on a pretty tiny VPS with 3 vCPU and 4 GB RAM and it's fine.


I run it on a nuc with a cheap 1tb nvme drive and it is fast enough. I have zero RAW photos though.




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