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)

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

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

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

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

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