Nextcloud Hosting: your private cloud installed at delivery

NorthHost delivers your VPS with Nextcloud installed, configured and started. Files, calendars, contacts and shares on your own server in Marseille, as many accounts as you want, root access kept, DDoS protection included and support 7 days a week. From €7.90/month.

Nextcloud on a VPS: an alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox

A consumer storage service is paid per user, every month, and its terms of use give it the right to analyse what you put in it. Nextcloud on your VPS has no notion of a seat: a family, an association of fifty members or a team of ten people pay for the same server, and nobody reads your files.

You get what you expect from a cloud: synchronisation on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, share links with a password and an expiry date, automatic photo upload, calendars and contacts, and online office tools with Nextcloud Office.

Installing Nextcloud on a VPS without the command line

At NorthHost, Nextcloud is installed, configured and started while the server is deployed. You receive the address of your instance, you create your administrator account, you install the desktop and mobile apps. No web server or database to configure.

All that is left is to point a subdomain at your server and enable HTTPS, which the apps expect in order to connect properly. Support will guide you if you need it.

A private cloud hosted in France, GDPR compliant

For an association, a practice or a small business, the GDPR question often comes down to this: where is the data, and who has access to it? With a Nextcloud VPS at the Phocea DC in Marseille, the answer fits on one line of your processing register. End-to-end encryption is available on sensitive folders.

What configuration does Nextcloud need? Disk, RAM and Nextcloud Office

The disk is the main criterion: 50 GB for documents and a few thousand photos, 100 GB and more for a team or a photo library, up to 230 GB of NVMe. Two uses push memory and processor requirements up: Nextcloud Office, comfortable from 8 GB, and the generation of previews when you upload a lot of images at once.

NVMe is made for responsiveness, not for archiving terabytes that are rarely opened: for that, Nextcloud can mount external storage in addition to its local disk.

Intel Xeon Gold 6132, DDR4 ECC and NVMe at the Phocea DC in Marseille

Our Nextcloud VPS run on Intel Xeon Gold 6132 processors, DDR4 ECC memory and 100% NVMe storage, with DDoS protection included and support 7 days a week on all four plans, from €7.90 to €32.90 per month.

Who it is for: families, associations, practices and small businesses

Backing up the photos of a whole family automatically, sharing the documents of an association without creating a paid account for every member, keeping the files of a practice on a server whose location you know, replacing a company Drive with a space that analyses nothing: Nextcloud does all of that, on your own server.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Nextcloud VPS?

An Intel Xeon Gold 6132 Linux VPS on which Nextcloud is installed and started automatically during deployment. You receive the address of your instance and your credentials: the interface is ready, and you keep root access to the machine.

Is Nextcloud really installed, or do I have to do it myself?

It is installed, configured and started before you receive your credentials. You create your administrator account, you install the desktop and mobile apps, and you start uploading your files. No command line is needed.

Which plan should I choose?

Start from the disk: 50 GB for documents and a few thousand photos, 100 GB and more for a team or a photo library. Nextcloud Office needs 8 GB and more to be comfortable, and generating previews uses the processor when you upload a lot of images at once.

Are my files backed up?

The trash and the version history protect you against a handling mistake, not against the loss of the server itself. The VPS is not backed up automatically: plan an external copy of your important data, and we will advise you on the method if you need it.

Can I use my own domain name?

Yes. Point a subdomain at the IP address of your VPS and enable HTTPS: that is what the desktop and mobile apps expect in order to connect properly. If you have never done it, open a ticket and we will guide you.

Is NVMe suitable for storing several terabytes?

Not at the best price. NVMe is made for responsiveness: opening, searching, previewing. To archive several terabytes that are rarely opened, external storage costs less per gigabyte, and Nextcloud can mount it in addition to its local disk.

Can I migrate an existing Nextcloud?

Yes. Nextcloud can transfer a complete account from one instance to another, including files, shares and calendars. For a whole instance, open a ticket before ordering: our support team will take care of the migration.