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kwickramasekara / photo-grid

Self host-able photography portfolio.
https://photo-grid-demo.netlify.app
MIT License
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Don't use Netlify / sanity to host photo-grid #76

Closed nicosomb closed 7 months ago

nicosomb commented 7 months ago

Thank you for photo-grid, which looks nice.

Is that possible to not use sanity and netlify to host it?

I tried to use it locally, but I need a Sanity account, even on localhost...

kwickramasekara commented 7 months ago

Hi @nicosomb thank you for the interest in Photo Grid. There is no hard requirement of Netlify or any hosting solution for the front-end site. However, there is a hard requirement on Sanity which is the headless-CMS that handles photo assets. This is required to enable a lot of the features Photo Grid offers such as the backend dashboard, image resizing, CDN, metadata extraction among many other things.

Sanity has a generous free tier which offers 100GB of asset hosting. The front-end site can also be hosted totally for free at places like Netlify and Vercel with their free tiers. In theory, you can host a Photo Grid site completely for free if it's a hobby project with normal traffic.

I hope that answers your questions and we currently don't have any plans to move away from Sanity due to feature dependencies listed above.

For future, please use our discussions page for questions or general discussions as we want to keep the Issues section focused on features and bugs.