Hi Shivangi, There's 2 pathways: self-hosted, and managed by a 3rd party.
For self-hosted, for the infra, there are some cheaper server hosting services available: Ssdnodes, Hetzner. I'll recco ssdnodes for most Storage+RAM for money (buy for 3 yrs, that's where it gets wayy cheaper). Hetzner comes next and has convenient monthly payment via paypal which works with Indian debit cards. (will not auto-deduct, you pay). And both of these don't have hidden costs - fixed amt each month, no usage-dependent shock bills. (Ssdnodes on 3 yr plan - no monthly paying actvity for 3 yrs!) Con: this path is self-managed, can take more in-house effort for maintenance, defense against attacks etc. And there is a fixed based cost irrespective of whether ur using it to the full extent or not. After infra, if we see the actual software that will manage the images, then nextcloud as mentioned is one option. Sharing another one: https://min.io/ -> it's made to be an open source alternative to Amazon S3 buckets / Azure blob storage etc. Offers features on par with those services, but self-hosted. I have successfully run one instance of it on my server without much effort. But have not heavily used it yet. ---- *Managed services:* Azure Blob storage, Google Cloud storage, Amazon AWS are some options. I have worked with Azure blob professionally and its quite good, integrates well with python and nodejs code. We can also make certain containers (equiv to folders - sort of) public-view, so you can have absolute URLs of all the files and publish those in all places. The links will be direct-download so can be directly embedded, not like you have to open a google driver folder in a new tab or something. But i wasn't the one paying so don't directly know what that is like. From all the expense reports it seems like a v.small cost for a lot of files. I've explored their pricing page and it looks fully pay-as-you-go, and very cheap until you reach a v.high amt of usage. Could not find a fixed base cost or other such red flag. So I'll recco this option. Don't have to spend resources on server setup and management; can start using the service from get-go. If some launch gets delayed a few months, then you won't be incurring high costs during that time. If you have a ton of images saved but in daily usage very few are actually downloaded/uploaded, then it's a lower cost due to that also. You can choose an India server location of the service, so minimal latency (I've experienced no lag with several thousand files fetched as fast as my net would allow). With Azure <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/products/storage/storage-explorer/> Storage Explorer <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/products/storage/storage-explorer/> tool I'm able to see/manage all the stored files in an online folder and directly upload there, so I don't have to rely on scripts. --- All the best. -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ https://nikhilvj.co.in On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 1:14 PM Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: > - Nextcloud photos is great. You could also use Nextcloud for other > document formats, so can work as all in one document management tool > - You can also check https://photoprism.app - It can also do some google > photos like things like maps, people tagging etc. Its self hosted and FOSS > > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2022 at 12:49, Shivangi Desai <shivangi.de...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Dilawar for the information. >> I will look into it too. >> >> Regards, >> Shivangi >> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 10:54 AM Dilawar Singh <dilawar.s.raj...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> https://github.com/nextcloud/photos may just fit the bill. >>> >>> - Self hosted (+/- depending on how you look at it). I run one on an AWS >>> $5/month instance and it is enough for our small org right now. we don't >>> use it for photos though. >>> - it may not be hard to link google form to Nextcloud (but Zapier >>> doesn't have integration, so what do i know..). >>> - Have an Android app. Possibly iOS as well. You have to tag the photos. >>> Or arrange them in different folders. >>> >>> Nextcloud is a very popular solution and a lot of plugins. You may to >>> browse through them to check if something suitable it here. Before you plan >>> to self host on a dedicated server, you can try it on a shared instance. >>> Its easy to install but hard to upgrade (used to break often). >>> My MilesWeb shared account cost me ~ Rs. 2k per year. >>> >>> best, >>> Dilawar >>> >>> >>> ---- On Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:43:16 +0530 *Shivangi Desai >>> <shivangi.de...@gmail.com <shivangi.de...@gmail.com>>* wrote --- >>> >>> Hey All, >>> >>> At Goonj (https://goonj.org/) we have lots of photos (from different >>> projects/events/ continuous field work etc). So to manage these photos we >>> are looking for photo management solutions. >>> >>> We would want one in which we can add photos from the backend (using >>> forms or from android applications etc) and which would have some fields >>> associated with it (like boundary information, project/event information >>> etc). 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