hosting.md

Hosting caption.now

You can use caption.now in various ways. Here are some that may be of interest.

Simple: https://caption.now

Just use the provided https://caption.now website.

Pros:

• Always up-to-date
• No installation or maintenance required

Cons:

• You have to trust me that https://caption.now is secure. It is, I promise.
• If you want to use it together with your own Ollama server, there may be challenges. See [./ollama.md](here for more details).

Moderate: Run locally

You can also run caption.now on your local machine.

Note

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Advanced: Run caption.now yourself via Docker

You can also deploy caption.now onto your own server, so you have a private isolated environment.

Pros:

• Be independent. Run locally or deploy to your own server
• Great for more privacy

Cons:

• Requires a server (optional)
• Maintenance and manual updates

To run caption.now in Docker

services:
  captionow:
    image: ghcr.io/kennethwussmann/caption-now:latest
    ports:
      - 8080:80

Now run docker compose up -d and access caption.now at http://localhost:8080.