I personally have a K3S cluster I host at home and an auto-scaled cluster in Hetzner. I see different use cases and am happy to have both.

One thing to mention is that you can also run your own tunnel with something like pangolin on a VPS (CX23 is plenty). Thus, you could have a cheaper could bill if you wanted a hybrid setup.

Also, I highly recommend moving your node to a data center closer to home.

I’m running Immich on an old ThinkCentre with the default feature set. Currently looking at:

• Server: 1.4 GB
• ML: 288 MB
• Valkey: 8 MB
• Postgres: ~500 MB

There is a bit more overhead for the control plane and cloud-native PG operator/backup pods but my instance fits comfortably inside a ~4GB allocation.

God forbid they had Christmas holidays 🙄