Home Gallery Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Home Gallery hosting on xCloud gives you a private photo and video gallery on your own domain. xCloud deploys the official Home Gallery 1.21.0 image pinned by digest, generates a 32-character password, mounts a persistent data volume and publishes the gallery over HTTPS in minutes — sign-in is required from the first start, and your media stays on your server.

Deploy your Home Gallery

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Home Gallery?

Home Gallery is a self-hosted, open-source web gallery for browsing personal photos and videos. It reads media from folders on your own server, builds an index and previews, and serves a mobile-friendly interface with tagging and an expressive query language.

Upstream describes it as a one-user gallery: all indexed files are served to whoever signs in, so it suits a private family or personal library rather than a shared multi-account photo service.

From Sign-Up to a Private Gallery In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted gallery normally means a container, a data folder, a login layer, a domain and a certificate before the first photo appears. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Home Gallery from the OneClick catalog, choose a domain and set the gallery username (it defaults to admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the single Home Gallery container, pinned by immutable digest, mount the home_gallery_data volume for the config, media index, previews and your Pictures folder, generate the password and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Add Your Photos
Save the generated password from the installation credentials and sign in. Then copy photos and videos into the Pictures folder of the data volume and start the import with upstream's gallery.js run import — there is no browser upload.

Everything Home Gallery Does, On Your Own Server

Home Gallery runs in full here: a mobile-friendly gallery for your own library, behind a login and HTTPS on your domain.

Endless Photo Stream
Virtual scrolling lets you move through a large archive of photos and videos without paging through folders.
Tagging And Selection
Tag media, and select one or many items at a time to organise a library kept on your own server.
Expressive Query Language
Combine and, or and not operands to narrow the library to exactly the media you want to see.
Mobile-Friendly Interface
The gallery is built for fast browsing on phones and supports installing as a progressive web app.
Sign-In From First Start
HTTP Basic login with a generated 32-character password, and private, no-store caching on authenticated previews so a CDN does not serve them to signed-out visitors.
Cloud AI Detection Off
Similar, object and face detection are disabled in this template, so preview images are not sent to the public upstream API.

Everything You Need To Run Your Photo Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Home Gallery, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Home Gallery 1.21.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Generated 32-character password
Persistent volume for your library
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Home Gallery

A private library off the cloud
Keep years of photos and videos on a server you control instead of handing them to a cloud photo service.
Browse from your phone
Scroll the whole archive in a mobile browser and rediscover old memories without syncing anything to a device.
Tag and find
Tag pictures, select several at once and narrow the library with and, or and not queries.
One gallery over many folders
Index camera files, phone exports and archive folders as separate sources and view them as a single stream.

Home Gallery Screenshots

Home Gallery's photo stream after importing a library

Home Gallery vs Alternatives

Immich: A photo and video library built around automatic phone backup, albums and sharing, where Home Gallery serves folders you copy onto the server.
PhotoPrism: An AI-powered photo and video library backed by its own MariaDB database, where Home Gallery is a single container.
Google Photos: A hosted service that keeps your library on Google's servers rather than your own.
PiGallery2: Another self-hosted media gallery with built-in authentication, for folders of photos on your own server.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Home Gallery hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for a very large library or other apps on the same server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Home Gallery itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT License.

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Ready To Run Your Own Photo Gallery?

Home Gallery on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Who is Home Gallery for?

People who want one private gallery for their own photos and videos, served from their own server. Upstream describes it as a one-user gallery.

How do I sign in?

With HTTP Basic: the username you chose at install (admin by default) and the 32-character password xCloud generated, shown in the protected installation credentials.

How do I add photos?

Copy them into the Pictures folder of the data volume, then run the import with upstream's gallery.js run import. There is no upload form in the browser, and the import is started manually.

Does it send my photos anywhere?

Similar, object and face detection are disabled so preview images stay on your server. Reverse geocoding of GPS coordinates still queries OpenStreetMap Nominatim while indexing, unless you point extractor.geoReverse.url at a private instance.

How do I change the username or password?

Edit the username and password in the environment editor and redeploy. Changes made only inside the app do not persist.

Edit environment variables

What should I back up?

The home_gallery_data volume, which holds the gallery config, the media index and database, generated previews and the Pictures source folder. Back it up while the app is stopped.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Gallery config, the media index, generated previews and imported photos all stayed in place after an xCloud Restart in QA, because they live on the persistent home_gallery_data volume.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Home Gallery?

No. The template pins Home Gallery 1.21.0 by immutable digest; existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Read the upstream release notes, test on a restored copy, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 52 MiB. Libraries over roughly 50,000 images need more RAM and a larger Node heap, so this page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Home Gallery?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Home Gallery project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Home Gallery project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.