Noodle Gallery Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Noodle Gallery hosting on xCloud gives you a private photo and video library on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Noodle Gallery v5.8.0 images with private PostgreSQL, Valkey and machine-learning services, creates your administrator account from the email you enter and a generated password, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the app over HTTPS — so your photos stay on a server you control.

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What is Noodle Gallery?

Noodle Gallery is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video management platform. It is a community fork of Immich with extra features on top, and it offers automatic mobile backup, a timeline, albums, sharing, facial recognition and semantic search.

This template runs the web UI and API alongside a machine-learning service, PostgreSQL and Valkey on a single server, so photos, accounts and metadata stay on infrastructure you control.

From Sign-Up to Your First Backup In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted photo library normally means a server, a vector-enabled database, a job queue, a machine-learning service, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first upload. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Noodle Gallery from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the email address for the administrator account.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the Noodle Gallery server and machine-learning images pinned by immutable digest, with private PostgreSQL and Valkey kept off the public internet, mount the library_data, postgres_data and model_cache volumes, generate the administrator password and database credentials, and publish the web UI and API over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Upload
Save the generated password from the credentials card and open your HTTPS URL — the first start runs database migrations, so allow a few minutes. Sign in as the administrator, upload a test photo, then point the mobile app at the same URL.

Everything Noodle Gallery Does, On Your Own Server

Noodle Gallery runs in full here: a photo and video library on your own domain, backed by a database and storage you own.

Timeline And Albums
Back up and browse photos and videos from your own server, organised in a timeline and in albums.
Sharing By Link
Share albums and items with a link. Anyone holding a share link can view what it shares without signing in, so share deliberately.
Facial Recognition And Search
The bundled machine-learning service powers facial recognition and semantic search. It runs on the CPU; no hardware acceleration is enabled.
Mobile App Backup
Install the mobile app and use your HTTPS URL as the server endpoint. Upstream's apps support background camera backup.
Shared Spaces
Upstream adds collaborative Spaces with Owner, Editor and Viewer roles, where photos are linked by reference so a Space costs no extra storage.
Google Photos Import
Upstream includes a guided in-browser wizard for Google Takeout archives that keeps dates, GPS, descriptions and album structure.

Everything You Need To Run Your Photo Library 24/7

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

Noodle Gallery v5.8.0 deployed instantly
Official images pinned by digest
Administrator account created for you
Private database, queue and ML services
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Noodle Gallery

Replace a cloud photo subscription
Keep your family's photos and videos on a server you control instead of a third-party photo service, with a timeline and albums to browse them.
Back up phones automatically
Connect the mobile app to your HTTPS URL so new photos and videos from your phone are copied to your own library.
Share albums with family and friends
Create albums and share them by link, or invite other users and give each the permissions you choose.
Find people and things without tagging
Use facial recognition and semantic search to locate a person or a scene across a large library.

Noodle Gallery Screenshots

The Noodle Gallery Photos page with the filter panel open and a photo in the timeline

The Noodle Gallery photo timeline with Shared Spaces in the sidebar and generated trip memories across the top

Noodle Gallery vs Alternatives

Immich: The upstream project Noodle Gallery is forked from. Noodle Gallery adds features such as Shared Spaces and Google Photos import on top.
PhotoPrism: A separate self-hosted photo library with its own AI-powered indexing and search, backed by MariaDB.
Google Photos: A hosted photo service run by Google. Noodle Gallery keeps the library on your own server, and can import a Google Takeout archive.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 16 GB

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Ready To Run Your Own Photo Library?

Noodle 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.

How do I sign in?

With the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password shown on the credentials card. The administrator is created automatically on first start, so nobody else can claim the instance first, and a second admin sign-up attempt is rejected.

What runs alongside Noodle Gallery?

A machine-learning service for facial recognition and semantic search, a vector-enabled PostgreSQL database and Valkey. They are private to the install and publish no ports; only the web UI and API are published, over HTTPS.

Can I use the mobile app?

Yes. Install the Noodle Gallery mobile app and enter your HTTPS URL as the server endpoint. Basic Auth in front of the site is not enabled by this template, and it can interfere with the mobile app.

Why is the page blank right after install?

The first start runs database migrations and can take a few minutes. Reload the page if it does not answer straight away. The short-lived admin-setup container that creates the administrator is expected to show as exited once it is done.

Who can see my photos?

Photos and videos are private to each user until shared. Share links are public to anyone holding the link, so treat them like passwords.

How large can an upload be?

The template's nginx accepts uploads up to 10 GB per request; the application itself sets no per-file cap. Very large uploads over slow links may still time out.

Is machine learning accelerated?

No. It runs on the CPU, and the template configures no hardware acceleration, so facial recognition, semantic search and transcoding can be slow on a large first import.

What should I back up?

The library_data volume (originals, uploads, thumbnails and database dumps) and the postgres_data volume (users, metadata and albums), kept off the server. model_cache only holds downloaded machine-learning models. Keep the generated credentials private.

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Can I change the database credentials in the environment editor?

Not on their own. The database password, username and name initialise PostgreSQL only on the first boot but are read on every boot, so editing one in the environment editor alone breaks connectivity. Never change the username or database name after install; to rotate the password, change it inside PostgreSQL first, then set the same value in the environment editor and redeploy.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Noodle Gallery?

No. The template pins Noodle Gallery v5.8.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, 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 16 GB?

The template requires at least 2 CPU cores, 6144 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk, and upstream recommends 8 GB and 4 cores. Measured use in QA was about 1.4 GiB idle and about 1.6 GiB after an upload. A 6144 MB floor leaves little headroom once the OS is up, so this page sells the 16 GB tier. The disk figure is only an installation floor: size the server for your whole library plus thumbnails and transcoded video.

What survives a restart?

Uploaded photos, user accounts and metadata survive an xCloud Restart, because they live on the persistent library_data and postgres_data volumes.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Noodle Gallery?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Noodle Gallery project, or with Immich, has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Noodle Gallery project, which is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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.