Ente: has E2EE embedded, the face recognition happens on the clients. Can be self-hostable, so that gives more trust that other providers can launch their own European instances in the future.
My close family would rely on the hosted service for their photos.
I would prefer avoid having the responsibility of keeping the service availability and integrity.
I'm not the best at managing data (I lost a few years of pictures due to a hard drive failure and insufficient backup testing) and I don't have a lot of time to allocate to that stuff, so I don't trust myself with it
Self hosting is great but if you want to make sure you can't lose your data, your backup should be in a different location than your main photo storage. Otherwise, in case of a fire or similar, you'll lose everything.
may i ask why self hosting isn't an option?
i run immich on an old pc i literally found in a dumpster
My close family would rely on the hosted service for their photos.
I would prefer avoid having the responsibility of keeping the service availability and integrity.
I'm not the best at managing data (I lost a few years of pictures due to a hard drive failure and insufficient backup testing) and I don't have a lot of time to allocate to that stuff, so I don't trust myself with it
Self hosting is great but if you want to make sure you can't lose your data, your backup should be in a different location than your main photo storage. Otherwise, in case of a fire or similar, you'll lose everything.