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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

  • Blaze@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    2 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

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    I’ve been self-hosting immich from my living room since 2024 (accessible from outside via a Wireguard VPN tunnel). It’s the single thing that got me into self-hosting because it’s just so good! Even if you don’t want to go down the whole server rabbit hole, it’s trivial to just set it up on your everyday desktop or laptop and have all your picture synced there.

  • Railcar8095@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • MikeGrey@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Good point, unfortunately Storage Share is only hosted in Germany and I wanted to try their Finland option so I have my backup in a different country.

      But yes, this is also a way, thanks for pointing it out