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I run it off a Proxmox VM with a caddy container as a reverse proxy and it just works so well. The hardest part is figuring out how to safely expose it so you can share albums with others, but Immich Public Proxy[0] is great for that. 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You either need to expose your whole instance to make share links publicly accessible (and there's no way to secure user accounts with 2FA), or create user accounts for the people you want to share with and/or invite them and set up your VPN for them to access the shares. 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I run it off a Proxmox VM with a caddy container as a reverse proxy and it just works so well. The hardest part is figuring out how to safely expose it so you can share albums with others, but Immich Public Proxy[0] is great for that. 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