Deploy PiGallery2 photo gallery on Hetzner VPS server

This is my first tutorial that I wrote to Hetzner Tutorials community. It is publised here. This is a personal copy. This particular blog is served from a Hetzner VPS server.

And I of course have a personal Photo Gallery running on a PiGallery2.

Introduction

In this tutorial, we'll deploy a PiGallery2 photo gallery application on a Hetzner VPS Cloud server.

PiGallery2 is a fast (like faster than your PC fast) directory-first photo gallery website, optimised for running on low resource servers, especially on raspberry pi, but it will be lightning fast even on a low end Hetzner Cloud server such as CX23.

Starting to use HUGO as a blog platform

For two decades I have been using WordPress as my goto blog platfrom. I have several personal blog sites running on WordPress, such as

• Scuba diving blog, written in Finnish language
• Ski Blog, in English
• CV site

I have also managed some club web pages that are running on WordPress.

Over the years WordPress has come a long way and has developed a lot, but for a long time already I have felt tthat it is very bloated and hard to manage. Not to mention that WP sites are the favourite target for hackers and WP is very vulnerable. The old LAMP stack way with SQL daabase and PHP backend feels somewaht outdated and stale in 2025.