Hobby | Website price

[Uncle_Frank 0]

I was wanting to start a website for posters, backdrops, logos etc for personal use maybe public depending on price. What I really would like is a way to grab image data for Emby from a website and reason started me wanting this is I like my data showing as thumb just like Hulu. How much would it cost to build a website just for images per month even a guess on price is what I'm looking for please. TY

[Luke 42949]

@vdatanetmay have some tips.

[vdatanet 1660]

If I'm reading this right, the end goal is the Hulu-style landscape tiles rather than the website itself — so it might be worth separating the two.

For the look: Emby already supports that. Set the library display to "Thumb" and it will use landscape art. The gaps you're seeing are just items missing a Thumb image. Two things usually fix most of it:

- Enable Fanart.tv and move it to the top of the Image Fetchers order for that library. It serves moviethumb/tvthumb, which is exactly the image type you want.
- For anything still missing, drop a thumb.jpg (or landscape.jpg) in the item's folder. Local images take priority over anything fetched remotely, they survive reinstalls, and they cost nothing.

If you want a consistent style across the whole library — same framing, logo overlaid, same treatment — no provider will give you that, since Fanart is user-submitted and all over the place. But that's a job for a script that generates the images and writes them into your folders, not for a website.

On the website question: hosting images is genuinely cheap. Static object storage (Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Bunny) runs roughly $1-5/month for a personal-sized set, and R2 has no egress charges plus a 10 GB free tier. Add a domain at ~$12/year. So call it under $5/month if that's all it is.

The expensive part isn't the hosting. Emby won't pull from an arbitrary URL on its own — you'd need a C# plugin implementing a remote image provider, and then keep it working across Emby releases. That's real ongoing work for something local files already solve.

Two questions that would change my answer: where are the images coming from (making them yourself, or collecting from existing providers?), and is this just for your own server or for other people to use?