Fully Managed Lychee
as a Service
Deploy Lychee as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.
Lychee is the open-source photo-gallery and album-sharing app — fast, dark-themed, EXIF-aware, S3-capable, deliberately AI-free. Photographers and households use it to present and share images on their own domain, without the per-seat billing and machine-learning ambiguity of cloud photo services.
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Lychee
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE
What is Lychee
FEATURES
What Lychee does
WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED
Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.
Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.
WHY MANAGED
Why teams pick managed Lychee
REVIEWS
Hear from customers like you

No more maintenance headaches!
Finaly, I can relax and not bother with maintenance. Each of the softwares that we run on DANIAN is automated and running stable for couple months already. They even assist us with modifying the DNS records. Once we needed to modify the config of Nextcloud so that we are able to upload higher than 5GB files and they assisted us fast. I also love their documentation!

Kevin Blackwell

Best managed service
I previously ran Peertube, Mastodon, Mattermost and Mirotalk on other providers before switching to DANIAN. I was tired of handling the updates and backups myself. Not only that the performance is "out of this world" fast, but their tech support is amazing. Since then I added 5-10 more Apps on my account. I also love how they add more softwares on their list constantly!

William Northfield

Love the personalized service!

George Adams

n8n runs excellent

David Hartmann

Smooth experience
I needed a way to manage the projects and files for my company. This was the first time I learn about opensource. I asked their support and livechat and they assisted me immediately. I started with Openproject. Later I added Nextcloud. My team were able to get used to the apps fast.

Levi Nilsson

Bye GA

Wyatt Mitchell

Love the freedom
I wanted to use a crm for my startup. I signed up for the free trial. Tried out espocrm and dolibar and picked one. Their dashboard is very easy for a beginner. I recommend them and feel confident in choosing them.
Elias Koch

Wow just wow
After discovering DANIAN, I wished I'd found them sooner — their solution is excellent and deserves wider recognition. Very good solution!

Tyler Hollander

Professional tech support!

Bastian Engel

Their support team is the best!
I had a problem with my card and the subscription could not be renewed in time. I notified their support and surprisingly, they showed much understanding. They basically left my apps run until I solved the card issue. Other providers would have deleted my data in a heartbeat. This is the way to build client-vendor trust!

George Adams

Fair price and fast
4 months ago I activated n8n, Uptime kuma, Vaultwarden and Paperlessngx. So far everything is perfect. The performance of all apps is excellent. I contacted their support team couple times for using custom subdomains for the apps and they were fast and kind. I'm constantly recommending them to my network!

Atanas

Vaultwarden 10/10
I wanted to selfhost a passwords manager for my company but I didn't trust the mainstream providers. I tried out Vaultwarden for the free trial. I loved how their support team communicated with me professionally but still kind. I know that I can contact them whenever with whatever question I have. Recommended!

James Smith

Multiple locations options

Edward Nelson

Everything just works!
My focus is on my business, not running servers. I love that I can lauch any app without having to think about the tech behind it. Everything just works!
Tony Roy

Awesome support team!

Filip

Very proactive!
Today couple of the videos on my Peertube got viral. Before I even noticed, their support have notified me via email that they proactively upgraded my app with more cpu & ram so that it continues to work without any downtime. They left the upgraded app with the added resources for couple days until the traffic stabilizes. After that I had the possiblity to stay on the same plan or keep the upgraded plan. Out of gratitude I stayed on the upgraded one.

Luke Hall

Win-win!
I run a web design biz. After I perform the work for my clients, they constantly ask me for more software solutions. So I partnered with DANIAN. Not only I provide the requested softwares for my clients and get the increased revenue boost by delegating all to DANIAN, but also for those clients that wish to order directly from DANIAN, I send them an affiliate link. Win-win on all sides!

Luke Walker


Jeffrey Johnson

Awesome customer service
I needed to add analytics on my website but I didn't know anything about DNS. Their team guided me at all phases and they performed the changes for me. Additionally they were transparent and notified me of every change applied and steps performed.

Gabriele Marino

Good admin dashboard
Not only that I got Chatwoot, I also have access to the management dashboard. I love that I can view my hourly/daily usage and perform manual backups and restorations if needed. I don't need the level of control but it feels good to know that I have it if I need it.

Matthew Turner


Andreas Schmitt

Great service!
I configure custom Matomo tracking for my clients as a monthly service. Many of my clients were asking if they can selfhost Matomo instead of using the Cloud service. My employee recommended DANIAN. Basically, I can activate as much Matomo's in any of 20+ countries the same day. Additionally the affiliate revenue is a nice bonus.

Jacob Turner

Smooth experience
I was listing through youtube tuts on how to install Bookstack myself. Then randomly, I found their video playlist exactly for Bookstack. Got curious and went at their website. For the same price (or higher) that I would pay for just the VPS, with them I'm getting a fully managed Bookstack. It's a no-brainer decision!

Elias Gustafsson


Mason Hayes

Its a great service
Its a great service. I love the performance of my Mastodon community. It keeps on growing and I don't have any worries about backups, secuirity, updates, etc.

Vinícius Rocha

Very intuitive solution!
I wanted to use a nocode software for my company. A friend recommended them so I tried both Baserow and NocoDB, couple days later picked one.

Haruto Hashimoto


Henrik Otto
USE CASES
Three teams who run Lychee on DANIAN
These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.
TWO-PERSON WEDDING STUDIO
Delivering 1,200-image client galleries without Adobe billing
Two photographers, 35 weddings a year, roughly 1,200 finals per shoot. Region-pinned to the closest datacenter for fast client preview loads. Each wedding gets its own password-protected album with a watermark on the shared size. The trigger: a Photography Plan renewal letter dated December 2025 quoting €15.12 per month, up from €9.99.
12-PERSON ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE
Five-year site-photo archive a regulator can actually open
A mid-sized practice with active projects in three countries. Roughly 60,000 site photos across the archive, growing by 8,000 a year. EXIF GPS preserved for surveyor cross-reference. Tag-based albums per project code. Internal-only access. The trigger: a construction-liability review asking where project documentation was hosted and who could access it.
MULTI-GENERATIONAL FAMILY
Replacing Google Photos before the AI Pro rebundle renews
Six family members across two households. Roughly 22,000 photos and 1.8 TB of storage from twelve years of phones and cameras. Multi-user mode with one shared family album and one private album per person. No face recognition (Lychee's deliberate stance). The trigger: Google One renewal at €219.99/year after the first-year promo.
COMPARISON
Four ways to run Lychee
The four paths a buyer chooses between in 2026 are Adobe's Photography Plan, a self-managed VPS, a home NAS, and managed Lychee. Lychee doesn't compete with Adobe on AI features. It competes on price, control, and the absence of those features.
| ADOBE PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN (1TB) | SELF-MANAGED VPS | HOME NAS | DANIAN MANAGED LYCHEE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost — 1 user | $19.99/mo | ~€24/mo VPS + ops time | €600 hardware + electricity | €9/mo |
| Cost — 5 users | ~$99.95/mo | ~€24/mo + DB tuning | Same hardware, multi-user | €9/mo |
| Cost — 10 users | ~$199.90/mo | ~€24/mo + scaling work | Likely exceeds capacity | €9/mo |
| Backups | In Adobe's cloud, US jurisdiction | On you | On you (RAID is not backup) | Off-site, daily, tested |
| Updates | Auto, on Adobe's schedule | On you (CVE turnaround, breaking changes) | On you | On us, tested |
| AI on your photos | Ambiguous since the 2024 ToS update | Whatever you install | None | None |
| Setup effort | Card on file | A weekend, then ongoing | Hardware ships, then a weekend | The trial signup |
| Maintenance time | Zero | ~3 to 6 h/month | Variable | Zero |
Path 1 scales linearly with seats. At 5 photographers each on the 1 TB Photography Plan, the bill is roughly $100 per month — over ten times what managed Lychee costs to host the entire library on a single instance. Path 2 is a real option for someone who has run a Laravel app in production before, and is the right answer for some buyers — until the PHP memory_limit issue surfaces on the first big import. Path 3 makes sense if photos never leave the house. Path 4 is what's left for everyone in between: people who want their photos hosted, not stored on a NAS in a closet.
BY INDUSTRY
Lychee for specific industries
Four industries put specific demands on a photo-gallery host: image-rights paperwork, retention windows, regulated guest imagery, and archival metadata fidelity. Lychee handles all four with the same MIT-licensed codebase — and managed Lychee removes the operational tax that usually comes with running it yourself.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.
Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.
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Technical and configuration
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Migration and onboarding
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Billing, support, and platform
DEPLOY IN YOUR REGION
21 datacenter locations on six continents
Pick the region closest to your users.
United States, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Chile, South Africa and more coming soon

