diff --git a/photoprism/.gitignore b/photoprism/.gitignore
index 1120be9..db41056 100644
--- a/photoprism/.gitignore
+++ b/photoprism/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-docker-compose.yml
+docker-compose-public.yml
+docker-compose-private.yml
diff --git a/photoprism/README.md b/photoprism/README.md
index 2096958..cb8957d 100644
--- a/photoprism/README.md
+++ b/photoprism/README.md
@@ -10,3 +10,11 @@ Change the default admin credentials/site/etc.
 Note that PHOTOPRISM_SITE_URL has the https prefix while the traefik label does not.
 
 Start with `docker-compose up -d`.
+
+### Public and Private Instances
+
+So you have to pay if you want user management, so a workaround is to host a public and private version of photoprism. Unfortunately that doesn't work too well with Traefik, so the workaround is to have 2 configs that use the same uri but we run one or the other based on what we want/when we need to upload.
+
+So copy the blanked yml to docker-compose-public.yml and docker-compose-private.yml. 
+
+Run them with `docker-compose -f docker-compose-public.yml up -d`