My path to EU hosted Immich instance on Hetzner servers (Germany + Finland)

In the post you can find:

  • Why Immich
  • Why Hetzner
  • Repository with examples
  • Backup strategy
  • Cost comparison

Hope you will enjoy this post

  • Blaze@quokk.au
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    3 days ago

    Thank you for sharing this!

    Quick question: did you set up any encryption to prevent Hetzner from seeing your photos? That’s usually the topic that keeps coming up when people say they prefer to self-host Immich on their own hardware

    • MikeGrey@lemmy.mlOP
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      11 hours ago

      Unfortunately Immich doesn’t encrypt photos on its own and Hetzner also doesn’t offer out-of-the-box encryption at rest.

      Per Immich thread on github you should encrypt the whole volume by yourself via LUKS or similar