Cloud VPS 16 GB
Most popularA personal or family photo library with room to index and grow.
$59.99per month
- 16 GB RAM
- 6 vCPU cores
- 200 GB NVMe SSD
- 30 TB
- Unlimited
Run a private, AI-assisted photo and video library on infrastructure you control, instead of trusting your photo archive to someone else's cloud. xCloud configures the pinned PhotoPrism 260728-bbde8f452 Community Edition image, a private MariaDB database and the HTTPS reverse proxy in minutes, so your admin account and originals folder are ready right after the domain resolves.
Self-hosting an AI-powered photo library normally means an application server, a relational database, a reverse proxy and a domain and certificate before a single photo is indexed. This is the same result without assembling any of it.
Step 01
Create your xCloud account and pick PhotoPrism from the OneClick catalog. Choose a site title, your domain, the target server, and confirm the timezone.
Step 02
One click. We bring up the official PhotoPrism 260728-ce Community Edition image alongside a private MariaDB 12.3, both pinned by immutable digest, mount the photoprism_originals, photoprism_storage and photoprism_database volumes, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Open the generated HTTPS URL and sign in as admin with the generated password, then change it from Account Settings. Upload a photo or video and confirm it appears in the PhotoPrism file browser after indexing.
PhotoPrism's Community Edition runs in full here — AI-assisted indexing, search and browsing for your private photo and video library, on infrastructure you control.
PhotoPrism indexes your originals with AI-assisted tagging and metadata extraction, making a growing library searchable instead of just stored.
Browse, filter and search your library from a private, password-protected interface — nothing is exposed publicly by default.
Review and edit metadata, albums and labels so your library stays organized as it grows.
Library metadata and index state live in a private MariaDB database, never exposed on a public port — only PhotoPrism itself is.
Your original media, PhotoPrism's index/cache/config state, and the database all persist on their own volumes, surviving a restart or lifecycle action.
The Community Edition image runs pinned by digest, on both amd64 and arm64 hosts.
Managed hosting for PhotoPrism, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.
Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for PhotoPrism and its private MariaDB service. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.
A personal or family photo library with room to index and grow.
$59.99per month
Larger libraries, more concurrent indexing and face recognition.
$84.99per month
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. The 6 GB rung sold elsewhere on this site is deliberately absent: PhotoPrism's own template minimum is 4 GB across the app and MariaDB, which does not fit comfortably under it. The Community Edition PhotoPrism runs on is free under the GNU AGPL licence.
Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy PhotoPrism on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental. Size it above PhotoPrism's own 4 GB minimum.
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PhotoPrism is a self-hosted, AI-powered photo and video library for privately organizing, indexing, searching and browsing your media. This template deploys the 260728-bbde8f452 release of the Community Edition.
The Community Edition image this template deploys is free and open source under the GNU Affero General Public License. PhotoPrism's separate Plus-licensed standard image and any paid Plus capabilities are not included — what you pay xCloud for is the dedicated server and the management around it.
Yes — that is exactly what this template deploys. It brings up the official PhotoPrism Community Edition image alongside a private MariaDB database, both pinned by immutable digest, mounts three persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS on your domain in minutes instead of assembled by hand.
xCloud creates an admin account for you. After installation, the credentials panel shows your PhotoPrism URL, the username admin, and a generated password — sign in with those and change the password from Account Settings after first login.
A private MariaDB database with generated credentials, the admin account and password, all three persistent volumes, the domain, and the HTTPS route. Only PhotoPrism is published — MariaDB stays private on the internal network.
Yes. xCloud's OneClick nginx proxy caps every request against your public HTTPS domain at 100 MB, and this applies to PhotoPrism's own WebDAV endpoint too, since both share the same proxied port. A single file larger than 100 MB — a RAW original or a 4K/8K video — cannot be transferred through the public site; it needs to be copied into the originals volume through server or root access instead.
photoprism_originals, photoprism_storage and photoprism_database together, from the same point in time. photoprism_originals is your primary media archive; photoprism_storage holds PhotoPrism's index, cache, configuration and sidecar state — it is not a substitute for the originals; photoprism_database holds MariaDB's data.
No. The template pins PhotoPrism and MariaDB by immutable digest; a catalog re-sync affects new installations only. Before changing either image, back up all three volumes and review the upstream release notes and database compatibility guidance, then verify sign-in, indexing, previews and library access afterward.
Carefully — this manifest has a specific footgun. MariaDB only reads DB_PASSWORD and DB_ROOT_PASSWORD on its very first boot, while PhotoPrism reads its own database password on every boot. Editing the password in xCloud's environment editor after install updates PhotoPrism's config but not the actual MariaDB user password, breaking the connection. Rotate it inside MariaDB itself first (an ALTER USER statement), then update the matching xCloud environment value to the same new password.
The template manifest asks for 4 GB of RAM, two CPU cores and 20 GB of disk as an initial floor for PhotoPrism alongside MariaDB. Photo and video indexing, face recognition, transcoding and large libraries can need substantially more, so this page sells the 16 GB tier as the entry rung with real room to grow.
Everything on photoprism_originals, photoprism_storage and photoprism_database, because all three are persistent named volumes. Restarting the containers or running an xCloud lifecycle action does not touch your library, index or database.
No. Public mode is disabled and password authentication is required, so your library is private by default — only someone signed in can browse it.
No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and PhotoPrism has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source PhotoPrism Community Edition.
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.
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