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EU photo solution | Immich on Hetzner (blog.sivak.eu)
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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

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[โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thank you, that's what I thought.

    What is your stance on this? Are you ok with storing photos unencrypted on Hetzner?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was thinking about it and yeah, I don't see a scenario in which Hetzner will check my photos/disk since that would cause immediate push-back and many people would leave Hetzner platform.

    In the future I would like to move to my own NAS so for the time being it seemed as a best solution (I would still probably use Hetzner Storage Box for backups though)

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