Dropbox accesses, stores, and scans Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to our affiliates and trusted third parties we work with.
Your own media platform, without the server work. Everything handled for you.
There is no VPS to rent, configure or babysit. We run the infrastructure your app needs.
New Chevereto releases are installed for you, so you always run the latest version and enjoy the new features immediately.
We keep the server, PHP and every dependency patched. You never chase a CVE.
Sign up, create your app and your site is online. No installer, no DNS homework to start.
Uploads go straight to your own storage provider. Switch providers anytime, and your files stay yours if you leave.
Your app database and settings are backed up daily and kept for 30 days.
A cheap server is only part of the bill. The bigger cost is the time you spend keeping it running.
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With a long history in self-hosting, we've stayed true to this principle. We don't sell storage that locks you in, we don't monetize your data, and we don't build walled gardens. We offer a philosophy of ownership, privacy, and freedom that's been our foundation from day one.
Your images, videos, and data are yours. We claim no rights, no licenses. Your creativity is never our business asset, and we will never use it.
We don't scan your content for ads or train AI models with your photos. Our business is providing great software, not selling your data.
No tracking pixels, no analytics that phone home to us, no third-party scripts monitoring your behavior. What happens on your Chevereto instance, stays on your instance.
Use Cloud service with any compatible storage server anywhere in the world. You choose the hosting provider, the country, and the jurisdiction.
Your media lives in your own S3-compatible storage, and we export your database on request, so you can move, migrate, or self-host whenever you choose. No hidden barriers, no closed ecosystems.
Bring your own storage. Connect your S3 bucket or any S3-compatible object storage to your Chevereto instance. You control exactly where your files physically live.
Get all the power of a self-hosted solution with the simplicity of a modern app. Our Cloud is fully configured and managed for you, ready in minutes.
Our entire support system is our own. When you ask for help, your information and logs stay with us, not on a third-party helpdesk platform that shares your data.
A clean, beautiful interface designed for humans. Spend less time managing your media and more time creating and sharing it on your own terms.
That "I agree" checkbox often means signing away your content rights forever. Beware of big brother platforms owning you.
Dropbox accesses, stores, and scans Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to our affiliates and trusted third parties we work with.
You request, and grant SmugMug a perpetual, nonexclusive and royalty-free right to use the User Content as is reasonably necessary (...) you consent to such automated scanning and monitoring of your content.
We collect and receive information from (...) and other third parties about a variety of your information (...) We receive this information whether or not you’re logged in or have an account on our Products.
You grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (...) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works (...)
Worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license allows Google to host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use your content (...), sublicense these rights to our contractors (...)
You grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content (...) to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute (...)
Once a right, now a commodity bartered for free services in our surveillance economy.
Photobucket, Imageshack, and similar services emerged, pioneering simple image uploading for forums, blogs, and early social platforms.
Newborn internet 2.0
Chevereto launched as a self-hosted alternative with a simple principle: Your images should remain truly yours.
Empowering self-hosting
Major platforms updated their terms to claim perpetual, irrevocable rights to all user content. Most users clicked "agree" without understanding the implications.
Not just yours anymore
Platforms began aggressively harvesting and monetizing user data. The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how personal information was weaponized for profit and manipulation.
Free wasn't really free
AI companies harvested billions of personal images to train their models, creating commercial products from user content. Without consent or compensation.
You share, they train
Chevereto Cloud combines the simplicity of managed hosting with true content ownership. No predatory licenses. No data harvesting. No compromises.
Empowering everybody
We don't track you. We don't own your data. And we never will. We believe the internet should still be a place where your content belongs to you, no exceptions.
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