How to order Lychee?

Deploy Lychee as a fully managed service starting at €9/month. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, monitoring, and human support, all included.

DANIAN runs Lychee as a fully managed service: installation, updates, backups, monitoring and security are handled for you.

See the lychee hosting page for plans, pricing and a free trial.

1. Login at: https://portal.danian.co

2. Manage Apps - Add an App

3. Select: Lychee

4. Select service Region

This is the datacenter location where your App will be located.

5. Select the App Address (URL) - Select 1 of the 2 options:

A. Use a free URL provided by DANIAN

B. Use my own Domain/Subdomain. Then enter the URL. Later an automated email will be send to you with additional info.

6. Click: Send

7. You will be notified via email as soon as your App is activated.

8. To access the App credentials:

https://portal.danian.co - Manage Apps - My Apps - Click on the App
There you will find:
A. Account related info: Email, Username
B. App related info: Order Date
C. App info: App name, Plan, Disk, Region, Public IP Address, Charge
D. App Login: URL, Username and/or Email, Password & Useful info
E. Status: Delivered or Pending
F. Total Cost per month

About Lychee

Lychee is an MIT-licensed photo-gallery app maintained by the LycheeOrg community organisation since 2018. It turns a server into a self-hosted gallery — albums, sharing links, EXIF metadata, S3 storage — and intentionally leaves face recognition and AI tagging to other projects.

The project began as electerious/Lychee in 2011 and was handed over to the LycheeOrg organisation on 1 April 2018. Version 7 — released 31 December 2025 — replaced the nginx and PHP-FPM container with FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane, dropping per-request boot time from 40–60 ms to 4–6 ms per the LycheeOrg release blog.

Lychee runs on PHP, Laravel, Vue, and MariaDB or MySQL — with PostgreSQL and SQLite as alternates. It reads JPEG, HEIC, RAW (NEF, CR2, ARW, DNG), and MP4. Originals can stay on local disk or live in S3-compatible storage; the symlink-import mode keeps them at a path you choose. The repository sits at 4,156 stars and 366 forks. Translations run on Weblate across roughly 30 languages.