Open Source Photo Server

• 12-18GB sweet spot, around $20/TB. [1]
• Use photos.opensourceecology.org/34fldfasdifu243ufonb
• Strategy for upload access and long term management - Guarded link + weak identity enforcement + hard resource ceilings.
• 2400px horizontal allows book publishing
• 8GB gets us about 30 years of monthly workshops at 5000 photos each
• if time lapse is included (1 min to 1 hour equivalence) - 8 TB gives us 16 years of storage IF photos are stiched already (major compression savings from MP4, not individual frames)
• Do time lapse at 30 fps, for easy calculation (1 hr realtime to 1 minute time lapse) - using 2 second shooting interval.
• Above hard disk cost is negligible ($5) per year, vs $80/year for storing individual frames. [2]
• Probably NextCloud + PhotoPrism is solution. Allows unified chronological view and folder organization, so you can delete folders if spam. [3]
• Basic workflow: upload, resize, view, admin.