I'll share my Immich setup in case it helps someone.
I looked a while for a server that had a lot of storage space. I ended up finding: https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/, $5.5 for 400GB.
To take care of all setup and maintenance complexity I installed cloudron.io
and then installed the Immich app.
Only issue is sometimes running out of ram.
I love remaining in the past.