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

submitted 2 weeks ago by MikeGrey@lemmy.ml to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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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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[-] SrMono@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I didn’t read your article, yet.

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

[-] kaosterra@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

He mentions that he uses Hetzner's volumes for storage and storage box for backups. Hetzner's docs don't mention anything about at-rest encryption and Immich does not encrypt data either, so anyone with access to the VPS or Hetzner account would be able to see them.

If you want end-to-end encryption I'd suggest self-hosting something like Ente