Piwigo hosting
Install Piwigo from your dashboard with its database set up for it, on a managed Linux platform with free SSL, daily backups and a global CDN on every site.
Piwigo is an open-source photo gallery. It organises photographs into albums, reads their EXIF and IPTC data, tags and searches them, generates the sizes it needs, and gives visitors a gallery while giving you a library underneath it.
A database is created for it automatically.
Photographers, clubs, museums and archives use Piwigo because a photo library is not a page of images. It keeps the metadata that came with the file, it copes with tens of thousands of photographs without becoming unusable, and the originals stay on hosting you control rather than in a service that may change its terms.
Piwigo runs on our Linux hosting. One plan, everything included.
| Option | Best for | Installation | What you control | From, per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed application plan | Getting a real site live today, with the least to set up | Already installed when your account opens | Your site and its content — we run the server, the updates and the backups | $14.99 |
| Linux platform plan | The cheapest entry, and for running more than one kind of thing | One click from your dashboard, whenever you want it | Your sites, your PHP settings and your databases — we run the server | $2.99 |
Piwigo is installed and running when your account opens, on our shared platform. We look after the server, the updates and the backups; you look after the site. Every plan here includes the whole feature set below.
The same shared platform, without the application pre-installed. You install it in one click from the dashboard, and everything in the feature set below is included on every tier. This is the cheapest way to run it with us, and you can move up to a managed plan or across to a server of your own at any time.
$2.99/month
or $29.90 a year
$7.99/month
or $79.90 a year
$14.99/month
or $149.90 a year
Cheap hosting is usually cheap once. The industry sells a low first term paid years in advance and then renews at several times the price you signed up at. We do not do that, and here is the arithmetic beside three hosts that do.
| Host | What you pay up front for the advertised price | What the price does on renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Zinn Digital® | Nothing — pay monthly, or pay for a year up front and save. Every plan shows both prices before you buy. | Nothing. The price you see is the price you renew at |
| SiteGround | 12 months, in advance | Multiplies by 5.3 |
| Hostinger | 48 months, in advance | Multiplies by 3.6 |
| Bluehost | 36 months, in advance | Multiplies by 2.5 |
Read from each host's own pricing page on 2026-09-08. Their prices are theirs and they change; the multiple is the renewal price they publish divided by the price they advertise beside it.
Generated from the hosting platform's own capability record, so it describes what the plan grants today.
Choose the data centre your site lives in: Helsinki, Finland (European Union), Singapore, Ashburn, eastern United States, and Hillsboro, western United States.
Our servers in Finland and Germany run on renewable electricity — sourced that way, not offset after the fact. For our United States and Singapore locations we have not verified the supply, so we do not claim it.
The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.
From the applications section of your dashboard. Choose Piwigo, pick the domain, and the install runs — including the database, if it needs one.
The current release from the platform's application catalogue. You can update it yourself afterwards like any other install.
Yes. Each Linux plan's website comes with subdomains, and Linux Pro has no cap on databases or subdomains, so you can run Piwigo beside other applications from this list — or add a plan for each further website.
Yes — SSH, SFTP, phpMyAdmin and remote MySQL are all included, so you are never locked out of your own install.
That depends on the plan you choose.
Yes. Send us the details of your current host and our team runs the migration for you.
Every shared plan begins with a free trial and is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the price you sign up at is the price you renew at. If you would rather ask somebody first, the people who answer are the people who run the platform.
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