Immich vs PhotoPrism vs Nextcloud: Which Self-Hosted Photos?
Phone backup, a real archive, or one cloud for everything.
Every one of these is a decision you actually have to make when you build a homelab — which media server, which hypervisor, which reverse proxy. These aren't spec-sheet round-ups scraped off a vendor page: each is grounded in running the tools on real hardware, with a clear who-should-pick-what at the end.
Phone backup, a real archive, or one cloud for everything.
Encrypted DNS out of the box, or the biggest blocklist community?
Hypervisor, NAS, or all-in-one — pick by what your lab is for.
GUI, labels, or one file — pick your reverse proxy.
The fast protocol, the effortless mesh, or the old reliable.
Pay for polish or own the stack — the honest comparison.
Why the privileged-LXC shortcut bites, and the VM that doesn't.
Kernel-sharing containers or full VMs — pick with confidence.
More head-to-heads in progress: Proxmox vs TrueNAS vs Unraid, Immich vs PhotoPrism vs Nextcloud, Traefik vs Nginx Proxy Manager vs Caddy, Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home, and WireGuard vs Tailscale vs OpenVPN. Want one prioritised?Let me know.