I am using Soverin and they are neat, private, no ads, no tracking and hosted in Europe.

Wrote a blog post about it: EU made email, feel free to check it out

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

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