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

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[-] nfms@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I think this should be talked about more. Does every selfhosted app need to be public facing?
I use Immich as a backup service, so i really don't have any need to have it public facing. It connects when I'm home. Same with contacts/calendar.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have many services that doesn't "need" to be public, as public facing for one specific reason. TLS.

A lot of the times android apps won't connect to http directions, not even local ones, and require a proper https connection with a well known CA.

For that I put the services behind a caddy reverse proxy to get a valid tls certificate.

And them I do the trick, and basically on caddy reject any connection that's not local. Thus, making the supposedly "public" site a practical "local" one.

Once there I just connect through wireguard.

[-] nfms@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Clever. I'm just starting to mess with Caddy. Been struggling with Vaultwarden lately and your solution might fit my needs.

this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026

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