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Security considerations about hosting Immich from home (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Maroon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So far, my self-hosting has been limited to Pi-Hole, and a static website. I now want to try out something new, an Immich server.

I have a static IP from my ISP, so I don’t need to rent out a VPS. However, given that this IS a home internet, I want to be extra sure that it is going to be secure.

In my existing website, I use Fail2Ban + BadBotBlocker + Anubis + Nginx rate limits to protect it from scrapers, bots and malicious users, and it works well. With photos (especially family photos) at stake, I just want to know more on how to protect my server.

Add: thanks for the helpful replies. I will be sharing the photos with family, many of whom live abroad.

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[–] Inventaser@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The others already have a lot of material you can go through that will help protect your immuch instance. Some things I would further recommend looking into:

Keep Immich up to date. But also wait at least a bit before upgrading. Both old and very new versions can contain vulnerabilities. With immich and it's release process I wait at least a .week before upgrading a minor version (2.X.n)
Exposing publicly makes you at least as vulnerable as the exposed app. So always try to get a feeling for how aware the devs are about security. Immich already has a good stance.
Try to build some form of monitoring. I have Caddy as reverse proxy that exports metrics about the served domain where I can track and alert myself, when there is unusual activity on my immich domain.