noobgallery is an open source tool at https://github.com/brendannee/noobgallery which I started using after looking at other options that were either too complicated, or just did not create the kind of photo-first experience I desired.
I've used noobgallery to completely rebuild my WordPress based site that was heavy, slow, hard to back up, and also becoming expensive.
noobgallery is a Node.js based project to generate a static photo gallery powered by lightgallery.js. The generated site is automatically deployed to Amazon S3, which allows for a huge amount of cheap storage (around $0.02/GB per month).Features include:
- simple photo gallery creation: just create a folder for each gallery, and copy your photos. noobgallery takes care of the rest.
- responsive layout, supports mobile and desktop
- slideshow and zoom in/out
- gallery summary & tags (via optional gallery.json for each gallery)
- bread crumbs to navigate multple gallery levels
- about page
- error page
- does not upload original images
- add optional copyright watermark
- add optional fotomoto store links
- Adding CloudFront is quite trivial, and with Route 53 you get a free HTTPS certificate.
The CloudFront CDN (Content Delivery Network) and the elegant HTML and JavaScript output of noobgallery produce a photo site that is cross-device and is ridiculously fast to load, world wide.
So if you are looking for a cheap and simple way to host your own photo site, do consider noobgallery.
As a shameless plug, here is my own photo website, automatically generated via noobgallery:
https://everydayphotos.net/
disclosure: I did not create noobgallery, but I did contribute a couple of features.
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