[aecsocket]

The cheapest possible Hetzner VPS (2 vCPU 40GB SSD) and a Hetzner storage box (1TB) works alright for cheap (less than EUR 10/mo). I store my database on the SSD, and the `/uploads` folder on the storage box attached as a CIFS drive. Put it behind Tailscale and it's worked fine for the past few months.

[mlangenberg]

Wouldn’t you want your photos to be encrypted at rest on the Hetzner storage box?

[aecsocket]

I don't really care about that, since my threat model doesn't involve Hetzner looking through my photos and training an AI model on them. If/when I move this off to my own hardware, then I'll do full disk encryption, since my threat model may involve someone stealing my hardware.

[j45]

Docker could be run on the VPS, and the storage leg could be encrypted.

I'm presuming some VPS providers allow converting your VPS disk image to something that supports encryption.