I’m thinking of getting a web space and fill it with pictures, both keep an online backup of stuff, and to be able to show family and friends photos by having them log in to a web album.
As of now, I have only ~8 GB of photos, but we all now that will increase rather fast as time goes.
My requirements:
- Free, as in no cost, and free as in open source. As an absolute last resort, I’ll consider settling for paid software, provided terms are OK.
- Needs to handle date and time well, otherwise defeating the whole point of having an album
- Easy setup and maintenance for me, preferably a web UI for administration purposes. Being able to upload zips (or similar) would be great
- Ease of use for visitors, a sane UI, thumbnailing. Them being able to download zips of photos is a huge plus.
- Visitors need to log in to see the albums, and I should be able to set permissions per album. Securing my content is important to me. I want to have complete control of my data.
- Needs to support common server setups (like Apache, PHP, MySQL), so I can more freely pick a service provider
- Needs to run both locally on my computer, and online (so I can synchronize the local computer with the online stuff, and personally browse albums locally, saving time and bandwidth)
- Some eye candy, ajaxy stuff would of course be great, but is not an absolute requirement.
- Since I don’t know much about this, this list should likely be longer
Does anyone know of anything that works good?
Does anyone know if jalbum will fill my most of my requirements?
Comment by Ketil — May 24, 2009 @ 13:06