With over 110,000 GitHub stars and one of the fastest-growing open-source communities in the self-hosted space, Immich delivers a Google Photos-grade experience entirely on your own hardware. The platform handles automatic background backup from Android and iOS devices, deduplication, and support for RAW formats, LivePhotos, and MotionPhotos. Its machine learning pipeline runs facial recognition and clustering locally on your server, enabling you to group photos by person without sending a single image to the cloud. CLIP-based semantic search lets you find images by describing their content in natural language, while metadata-driven search covers EXIF data, dates, and locations. The web interface built with SvelteKit provides a responsive timeline view, albums, shared albums with configurable permissions, public sharing links with optional passwords and expiry dates, partner sharing for family libraries, and a global map plotting photos by GPS coordinates. Administrative features include multi-user support with per-user storage quotas, OAuth integration, API key management, and a user-defined storage structure for organizing files on disk. The architecture uses PostgreSQL for metadata, Redis with BullMQ for background job queues handling thumbnail generation, video transcoding, and smart search indexing, and exposes over 400 REST API endpoints documented via OpenAPI with auto-generated SDKs for web, mobile, and CLI clients. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.