Escape Google Photos
Let’s look at Lychee
Get simply beautiful photo hosting with a tropical, fruity aftertaste.
L
ychee
is a much simpler program than
Nextcloud.
It only enables you to upload photos into galleries and displays them, but it does so very well. A VPS with 1GB of RAM will occasionally run out of memory when doing complex things with
Nextcloud.
It happened to us over the course of this feature (it’s also quite common during the update process). Most of the time this is easy to recover from by restarting the MariaDB service, but it’s still annoying when you refresh the interface only to see an unhelpful HTTP 500 error.
Lychee by comparison is much more lightweight, so you should be able to run it on even the most spartan of VPSes. It’s also designed with photographers in mind, with support for viewing EXIF and IPTC metadata. It’s good for social types too, with easy sharing to social media platforms and clear indications when you choose to make photos public. Lychee also enables you to upload from Dropbox.
CONFIGURE ACCESS TO LYCHEE
“If you also want friends to be able to log in then it’s best to keep the admin account for administrative functions.”