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

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[โ€“] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

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 4 months ago (2 children)

    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 4 months 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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