https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/photofield/ Recent content in Photofield on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-11-09-pigallery2-vs-photofield-vs-homegallery-lightweight-photo-galleries-2026/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-11-09-pigallery2-vs-photofield-vs-homegallery-lightweight-photo-galleries-2026/ <p>You have 60,000 photos on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi doing nothing, and a growing suspicion that paying a cloud provider to index your own memories is a bad deal. So you look at the self-hosted gallery options, and every guide points you at the same heavyweight platforms: Immich, PhotoPrism, LibrePhotos. They are excellent — and they are also PostgreSQL clusters, background job queues, and multi-gigabyte machine-learning containers that will happily eat 8 GB of RAM before showing you a single thumbnail.</p>