Immich

Immich is a cutting-edge self-hosted photo and video management platform designed for photographers, families, and anyone who values privacy and control over their digital memories. Built with modern web technologies and powered by advanced machine learning algorithms, Immich provides intelligent features like facial recognition, object detection, and smart search while keeping all your data under your control. The platform supports automatic mobile backup, RAW photo formats, 4K video playback, and offers an intuitive interface that makes organizing thousands of photos and videos effortless.

Common Use Cases

Immich is perfect for families who want to automatically back up photos from all family members' phones to a central, private location with facial recognition to quickly find photos of loved ones. Professional photographers use Immich to organize their RAW photo libraries with smart search and metadata preservation. Privacy-conscious users choose Immich as a complete replacement for Google Photos or iCloud Photos, maintaining full control over their memories without third-party access. Home lab enthusiasts appreciate Immich's Docker-based architecture for easy integration into existing self-hosted infrastructure with mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Key Features

• Machine learning-powered face recognition and smart search
• Automatic mobile backup from iOS and Android apps
• Support for RAW photos, 4K videos, and live photos
• Timeline view with map integration for location-based browsing
• Album creation and sharing with granular permissions
• Duplicate detection and automatic photo organization
• Partner sharing for collaborative photo collections
• Hardware acceleration support for video transcoding
• Multi-user support with individual libraries
• Dark mode and mobile-optimized interface

Why deploy Immich on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Immich on a Hostinger VPS provides the performance and storage capacity needed for a professional photo management system. With dedicated resources, Immich can handle machine learning tasks like face recognition and object detection efficiently, while also transcoding videos smoothly for web and mobile playback. Hostinger VPS offers scalable storage for growing photo libraries, with the ability to add more disk space as your collection expands. With full root access, you can optimize PostgreSQL and Redis for maximum performance. This makes Hostinger VPS ideal for running Immich as your personal, private alternative to commercial cloud photo services.