Small comment. If instead of a storage box you use storage share, it's 1 extra Euro a month but gives you a Dropbox instance for that Tb, so you can have backups + personal files.
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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
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
Thank you, that's what I thought.
What is your stance on this? Are you ok with storing photos unencrypted on Hetzner?
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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