Every screenshot, GIF, short video, audio clip, and block of text you share can live at a clean link on your own server, with the URL itself acting as the editing tool. Upload an image once and ask for any size, crop, or filter by changing the address, with WebP conversion handled automatically for browsers that support it and GIFs convertible to MP4 for quieter sharing. Photos arrive stripped of EXIF data, so phone pictures stop broadcasting GPS coordinates and camera models to everyone you share with. Uploading the same file twice costs no extra space, and delete codes at individual or global level keep takedown control with you rather than a platform. Several uploads combine into an immutable album with a single gallery link, a "My Uploads" tab in the browser tracks what you sent for later copying, deleting, or bundling, and playful extras generate identicons and placeholder images straight from URL patterns. Text bins, Markdown rendering, a URL shortener, and an upload API for scripts round out a tool that replaces the screenshot-upload step of a dozen workflows. External storage, optionally encrypted, takes over when the local disk outgrows the habit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

XBackBone is a self-hosted file and media sharing platform that turns your own server into a tidy home for screenshots, clips, and PDFs, giving each file a clean short link with rich embeds for chat and social apps instead of expiring file-transfer links. Capture tools plug straight in: generate a ready-made uploader config for ShareX, ScreenCloud, ishare, Spectacle, Xerahs, the macOS Share sheet, or a CLI script, and new screenshots land on your instance with the link copied. The dashboard previews images, video, audio waveforms, PDFs, and syntax-highlighted code in the browser, and pastes plus link shortening cover text and URLs. Make any upload public or private, add a password, or set an expiration date, and identical files are stored once thanks to content fingerprinting. Storage stays flexible across local disk, Amazon S3 and compatible services, FTP, and SFTP. Admins manage users with roles, disk quotas, and usage statistics, review a searchable activity timeline, and toggle registrations or themes without redeploying. Accounts support email verification, password resets, two-factor codes, and passkeys. A guided web installer handles first setup, and admins can apply updates from the browser. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

ShareX and file uploads, next generation: Zipline is a Node.js/React/PostgreSQL server that turns screenshot sharing and file hosting into something you run yourself instead of renting from Imgur or a paid image host. The core workflow is built around ShareX: generate an .sxcu config from your account settings, import it, and every screenshot or clipboard capture uploads to your domain with a short link copied automatically. Uploads accept any file type, organized with folders and tags, with token-protected uploading, optional password protection, view-limited auto-deletion, image compression, metadata stripping, automatic video thumbnails, and chunked/partial uploads for large files. File URLs come in configurable formats - UUIDs, dates, random alphanumerics, original names, even zero-width spaces. A built-in URL shortener adds vanity slugs, passwords, view caps, and custom domains. Discord embeds are first-class: customize OG metadata titles, descriptions, and colors so links unfurl exactly how you want, and fire fully customizable Discord or HTTP webhooks on each upload. Authentication is serious: OAuth2 (Discord, GitHub, Google, OIDC), TOTP two-factor, and passkeys, with invite-based registration and per-user quotas for shared instances. Storage targets local disk or any S3-compatible backend, a full REST API automates everything, and custom themes plus a PWA round out the experience.

Turn any server into a high-speed media vault and file-sharing hub with Chibisafe, a self-hosted upload platform built for chunked large-file transfers, organized albums, and instant desktop screenshot workflows. Users drag and drop photos, videos, archives, or documents into the browser uploader, where multi-gigabyte files are automatically split into chunks to prevent network drops from ruining an active transfer. Uploaded media renders inside a responsive masonry or list gallery with in-browser video and audio previews, custom file tags, search filtering, and one-click shareable links. Organizers group related uploads into folders and public albums, mark sensitive collections with content warnings before loading, and publish syntax-highlighted text snippets or code gists alongside shortened URLs. Desktop and mobile power users connect ShareX, iOS Shortcuts, macOS quick actions, fswatch folder monitors, or the companion browser extension using personal API keys that route captures straight into designated albums. Instance administrators toggle between public, open-registration, and invite-only modes, enforce per-user storage quotas, offload storage to AWS S3, Backblaze B2, MinIO, or Wasabi via signed URLs, and customize rate limits or allowed extensions directly from the web settings panel. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Build your own image and video sharing site, with public galleries, private albums, and embeddable links, on a server you control. Uploads arrive by drag and drop, clipboard paste, image URL, camera, ShareX, or API, in AVIF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, MOV, MP4, and WebM, and chunked transfers handle large files. Lossless JPEG handling fixes orientation and can strip EXIF data. Duplicate detection catches repeat uploads. Tags are created on the fly with autocomplete, camera models become tags automatically, and albums nest into sub-albums with covers, privacy levels, and passwords. Categories, search, and explore views help visitors find things; a bulk importer brings in folders of existing media. Each file gets viewer, direct, thumbnail, and medium links plus HTML, Markdown, and BBCode snippets with one-click copy, and oEmbed lets other sites preview a link. Roles split admin, manager, and user duties, profiles can be private, and two-factor authentication protects accounts. Files sit on local disk or S3-compatible storage, optionally served through a CDN URL. A dashboard tracks usage, color palettes and custom CSS and JavaScript restyle the site, and a single-profile mode suits a personal portfolio. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Flyimg generates every image size a website needs at request time, turning one original into resized, cropped, and compressed variants through a simple URL. Append options like width, height, crop, and quality to a request, and the service fetches the source image, transforms it, and serves the result, storing it in cache so the next request is answered instantly. Output defaults to AVIF for browsers that support it, with WebP and MozJPEG compression available for lean JPEG delivery, plus PNG and GIF when the source calls for them. Signed URLs keep strangers from using your server as a free image proxy, and domain restrictions limit which sources the service will fetch from. One Docker container gives a website or application a complete image pipeline: originals stay in whatever storage already holds them, and every thumbnail, banner, and product shot is produced at request time in exactly the dimensions the layout needs. Cache headers and repeat serving keep bandwidth costs predictable as traffic grows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

imagor is a self-hosted image server that turns one master photo into every size, crop, and format your site needs, generated on demand from a single URL. You describe the transformation in the address itself: a width and height, a smart crop, then a chain of filters for fill color, format, quality, and watermark. Requests stream through a pipeline built for parallel throughput, so a thumbnail costs milliseconds even when traffic peaks, and the same syntax your team may already know from thumbor works unchanged. Smart cropping keeps the important part of the frame, focal points pin the exact region that must survive, and detection plugins can blur faces automatically for privacy-sensitive publishing. Forty-plus filters cover the daily work of a media pipeline: text overlays with real fonts, image compositing with blend modes, rounded corners, redaction, sharpening, and per-channel color control. Output lands in modern formats including WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL, with automatic format negotiation and a byte budget that squeezes quality until a file fits your limit. Processed results cache to filesystem, S3, or Google Cloud storage, signed URLs keep strangers from minting their own transformations, and a metadata endpoint returns BlurHash placeholders and average colors for lazy-loading galleries. A companion service adds video thumbnails, and an MCP template layer composes OG cards and product grids. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Born at Brazilian media giant Globo.com, Thumbor answers imaging CDNs like Imgix and Cloudinary with an HTTP service where every image variant is just a URL. Ask for /300x200/smart/your-image.jpg and Thumbor fetches the original, crops and resizes on demand, and caches the result - one source file, unlimited renditions, no batch pre-generation pipeline. The "smart" in the URL is the signature feature: OpenCV-based face detection finds people in the frame and crops around them (no more thumbnails with severed heads), and when no faces exist, feature detection finds visually important corners and computes a weighted center of mass as the focal point. Beyond cropping, a chainable filter pipeline handles brightness, contrast, grayscale, blur, red-eye removal, rounded corners, rotation, watermarks, and format conversion with quality control - applied in order via URL segments. All common image formats work out of the box, and every layer is pluggable: loaders (HTTP, local, S3), storages and result storages (local, S3, Ceph, and community backends), engines, optimizers, filters, and even custom detectors, with the awesome-thumbor list cataloging the ecosystem. URL signing prevents abuse of your processing capacity. Integrations exist for Django, Rails, Node, WordPress, and most frameworks. MIT-licensed, battle- tested for over a decade.

Your product photos, tutorial clips, and user uploads can live on your own server with Openinary, a media platform that resizes, crops, converts, and delivers images and videos through simple URL parameters. Request a variant by editing the address: set width and height, fill-crop around a detected face, convert to AVIF or WebP, trim a video between two timestamps, or pull a thumbnail from the fifth second. Uploads land in S3-compatible storage you control, from AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 to MinIO, and repeat requests are served from automatic caching instead of reprocessing the original. The admin dashboard keeps assets organized for browsing, searching, and reviewing what your applications actually serve. API keys gate programmatic uploads, so a web app, mobile backend, or build script can publish media without sharing storage credentials. Setup runs through a scaffolding command that writes the Compose file and environment, then walks you through creating the first admin account. Teams escaping per-transformation pricing keep the same URL workflow their code already uses and move the bill to a fixed server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your photo library belongs on infrastructure you control, encrypted so thoroughly that the server itself cannot peek, and that is exactly how Ente stores every picture and video you back up to it. Phone, desktop, and web clients encrypt each file on the device before upload, so backups, live photos, and videos arrive as ciphertext that only your keys can open. The browser app gives you the full library from anywhere: timelines, albums, favorites, a map of geotagged shots, and memories resurfacing old trips. Shared albums let family members add photos, comment, and like each other's shots, all still encrypted end to end. Collect links flip the flow around, giving wedding guests or clients a single link where they can drop their own photos into your album without creating an account. Face grouping and semantic search run on your devices, so you can find "beach sunset 2023" or every photo of a person without a server ever seeing the images. Duplicate detection and cleanup suggestions reclaim storage, exports download your entire library in open formats whenever you want it, and multiple accounts on one instance let a household share the same server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

For photographers, illustrators, and filmmakers, the portfolio is the business: Zenphoto is a self-hosted gallery CMS that turns folders of images, video, and audio into a polished media website you fully control. Upload through the admin panel or drop files and folders in by FTP, and albums appear from the file system itself, complete with automatically sized derivatives, watermarks, and EXIF and IPTC metadata read straight from your camera files. Visitors search the whole archive with boolean expressions, browse slideshows, leave comments, and rate work, and dynamic albums rebuild themselves from saved searches so a "best of this year" collection never needs manual upkeep. The integrated Zenpage plugin adds a blog with nested categories and custom pages with their own menus, so the gallery, the news, and the about pages live in one site instead of three tools. Multiple photographers or clients get separate accounts with per-user rights, and individual albums or pages can sit behind passwords for client proofs. Sites can run in several languages at once, each on its own subdomain, with the admin backend translated as well. Fifty-plus themes change the look without touching the media library, and the plugin system adds anything from statistics to new media handling. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Scroll, do not file: Pixtale turns a folder of photos into a flowing masonry river you can browse for hours, pulling images from local disk, S3, and even Telegram into one gallery. Uploads get automatic thumbnails and high-resolution previews tuned for slow connections, so grandparents on hotel Wi-Fi see pictures fast instead of watching loading spinners. Every photo keeps its EXIF story, camera, lens, exposure, and capture time, and the timeline arranges the library chronologically without you renaming a single file. The Pixtale Sync companion ships photos from phones and PCs to the gallery automatically, ending the cable-and-import ritual after every trip. Favorites, albums, and a trash bin keep curation tidy, while multiple user accounts let each family member sign in to the same library with their own credentials. An admin overview watches photo counts, storage consumption, CPU, and memory, and storage settings let you add or repoint backends as the collection outgrows its first disk. Because the whole gallery runs from one Docker container with a small SQLite database, backups are a folder copy and the library stays portable between machines. Your photos live on your hardware, under your accounts, with no per-seat pricing as the archive grows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

With over 3,800 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2002 spanning 24 years of active maintenance through version 16.4.0 released in May 2026, Piwigo has proven itself as one of the most battle-tested self-hosted photo gallery platforms available, trusted by professional photographers managing 150,000+ high-resolution images alongside small teams sharing event photos. The PHP backend with MySQL or MariaDB storage serves a responsive web interface that organizes photos into hierarchical albums with nested sub-albums, tag-based categorization, and smart albums generated dynamically from search criteria. Batch management tools handle bulk uploads, metadata editing, tag assignment, and album moves across thousands of images simultaneously. User permission controls define access at the album level with configurable public, private, and group-restricted visibility, while guest access allows public galleries without authentication. Image processing via ImageMagick or PHP GD generates multiple thumbnail sizes, watermarks, and responsive derivatives automatically. The plugin ecosystem with over 200 community-built extensions adds functionality from EXIF metadata display and GPS mapping to social sharing, download controls, and Lightroom synchronization for desktop workflow integration. The REST Web API with personal API key authentication enables programmatic album creation, photo uploads, and metadata queries from external applications. Mobile apps for iOS and Android provide on-the-go upload and browsing capability. Docker deployment via the official container or traditional LAMP installation on any hosting provider. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Afilmory turns a storage bucket full of originals into a polished photography portfolio, complete with EXIF panels, a GPS map, and a GPU-accelerated viewer that makes full-resolution images feel instant. Point the builder at Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2, a GitHub repository, an Eagle library, or a plain local folder, and it syncs your photos, converts HEIC and TIFF files for the web, generates multi-size thumbnails with ThumbHash placeholders, and extracts complete metadata into a manifest the gallery reads at runtime. Visitors browse a responsive masonry grid that loads progressively, open any shot in a WebGPU viewer (WebGL fallback included) with smooth zoom and pan, and inspect camera body, lens, focal length, aperture, ISO, and GPS coordinates for every frame. Geotagged work appears on an interactive MapLibre map, iPhone Live Photos play back as motion, HDR gain-map images render properly on HDR displays, and Fujifilm shooters get their film simulation recipes displayed alongside the shot. Photographers can organize by the folders they already keep, since directory structure becomes tags automatically, and backend-powered galleries add visitor comments and reactions. Deploy it as a static site on any CDN or as a server-rendered Node.js application with per-photo Open Graph previews for sharing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.