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

Nice read.

If you are the only user of your Immich instance, you can put it behind Tailscale and block outside traffic altogether.

I’ve recently set up Immich as well, but on my own infrastructure, with Tailscale for access from outside my home network

Thank you, interesting read. I came to a similar conclusion as you at the end of your article: it gets pricy real quick, so I opted for the self-hosted NAS and use hetzner storage for backup. I was surprised how easy it is to surpass the 100GB.

But besides hardware and maintenance cost, it costs roughly 5€/month for electricity.

I didn’t read your article, yet.

How is the encryption realized? Could Hetzner admins simply view your photos?

Thank you and yes, NAS is my future choice. For now (since I also host my blog on that server) price is not that bad

Thank you, once I have my NAS at home, I am going to use Tailscale (with Mullvad VPN combination)

Teach me your magic. Even when trying to mount from a Hetzner VPS my storage box always unmounts, no matter if cifs or sshfs. And then, when the VPS tries to automount again, for some reason the IP gets blocked for some time 😮‍💨

Or hosting immich on a system with an encrypted drive 🤷‍♂️

I just wanted to point out the sensitive part ☺️

Mainly because I wanted to use Storage Box as a backup, with it being the main data storage, I would need to figure out backup solution

Plus I was afraid of latency, glad to hear that it is not a problem - maybe in the future I can try to use it as you are now, thanks