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I've been moving more of my data onto my own servers lately.I've already set up file storage, password management, and a few other services, but photos are a little different.Photos are probably some of the most important things sitting on our phones. Years of vacations, family pictures, screenshots, videos, and random memories can easily add up to hundreds of gigabytes.I didn't really want to keep paying for more cloud storage every time I ran out of space.That's when I started looking at Immich.Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management platform that feels surprisingly similar to…

I've used plenty of cloud storage services over the years.They're convenient, but eventually I started wondering why I was paying for storage when I already had a server sitting around with plenty of disk space.That's when I started looking at Seafile.If you've never used it before, Seafile is a self-hosted file-sync and collaboration platform. Think of something somewhere between Google Drive and Dropbox, except you run the server yourself.And honestly, getting it running was easier than I expected.What we're buildingThe end result is going to look something like this:You can then use…