Photography and Video VPS - Portfolio and Asset Hosting

Lychee is an elegant self-hosted photo management system: ```bash # Docker: docker run -d --name lychee -p 80:80 -v lychee_data:/data -e DB_HOST=localhost -e DB_USERNAME=lychee -e DB_PASSWORD=STRONG_PASSWORD -e DB_DATABASE=lychee lychee/lychee:latest ``` Lychee provides: public and private albums, watermarking, EXIF display, sharing links, and a clean client-facing gallery. No commissions on sales - implement your own checkout (Stripe, crypto). For large format delivery: Nginx serves original-resolution TIFs and RAW files directly. Clients receive a secure one-time download link. All billing goes through your own payment system. Bandwidth for photography: a full-resolution JPEG at 50MB means 1TB of data transfer delivers 20,000 full-resolution files. Higher-tier VPS plans include 2-5TB monthly transfer - sufficient for active photographers.

Videographers delivering final cuts to clients need reliable, fast, large-file delivery. Hosting on Vimeo or WeTransfer has file size limits and sharing restrictions. Self-hosted video delivery: - Store final video files on VPS storage (NVMe for fast access) - Serve via Nginx with sendfile enabled for efficient large-file delivery - Password-protected shareable links using simple PHP or Python script Nginx for video streaming with range request support (allows seeking in video): ```nginx location /videos/ { internal; alias /path/to/videos/; add_header Accept-Ranges bytes; } location /share/ { # PHP/Python validates token, issues internal redirect to /videos/ fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/share.php; include fastcgi_params; } ``` This setup allows seekable streaming of large video files without requiring a video hosting service.