Your private cloud, installed and running in Montreal

A Linux VPS with Nextcloud ready to use, hosted in Montreal, Canada: your files, your calendars and your shares on your own server. No per-user subscription, and nobody reading your documents.

Your private cloud hosted in Montreal, Canada

Your Nextcloud VPS is delivered from our Montreal datacenter: four plans, from 50 to 230 GB of NVMe, from €7.90 a month.

Your files, your calendars and your shares are written on Canadian soil, with no replication elsewhere: the answer expected by any organisation required to keep its records in Canada. Your desktops and your phones sync a few tens of milliseconds from Quebec, Ontario and the north-east of the United States.

Intel Xeon Gold 6132, DDR4 ECC and NVMe in Montreal

Your Nextcloud VPS run on Intel Xeon Gold 6132 processors, error-correcting DDR4 ECC memory and 100% NVMe storage, in our Montreal datacenter. DDoS protection included and support 7 days a week on all four plans, from €7.90 to €32.90 a month.

A Nextcloud VPS in Canada: your data stays on Canadian soil

Your files, your calendars, your contacts and your shares are written in Montreal and never leave. No replication to another country, no clause to negotiate: you answer in one sentence the client or the legal team that requires everything to stay in Canada.

And your users gain too: Montreal puts your instance a few tens of milliseconds from Quebec, Ontario and the north-east of the United States. Order in a few minutes, Nextcloud is installed and started on delivery.

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

A consumer storage service is paid for per user, every month, and its terms of use give it the right to analyse what you put there. Nextcloud on your VPS has no notion of a seat: a family, an association of fifty members or a team of ten 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 an office suite in the browser with Nextcloud Office.

Installing Nextcloud on a VPS without a command line

At NorthHost, Nextcloud is installed, configured and started while the server is being 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 walks you through it if you need it.

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 above for a team or a photo library, up to 230 GB of NVMe. Two uses push up the memory and processor requirement: Nextcloud Office, comfortable from 8 GB, and preview generation 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.

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 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 it, on your own server.

Why a cloud of your own rather than Google or Microsoft

A consumer storage service is paid for per user, every month, and its terms of use give it the right to analyse what you put there. On your VPS, the price does not depend on the number of accounts you create, and nobody reads your files.

Unlimited accounts: Family, team, clients: create as many accounts as you need, the price does not move.

GDPR compliant: You know where the data is and who has access to it: the basis of a clean record of processing activities.

An ecosystem of apps: Calendar, contacts, notes, video calls, office suite: hundreds of applications to enable in one click.

Everything you can do with Nextcloud

Far more than an online disk: a complete suite, under your control.

Synchronisation: Your folders stay identical on every device. Edit at the office, find it again at home.

Secure shares: Links with a password and an expiry date, and file drop-off by people without an account.

Calendar and contacts: CalDAV and CardDAV: your calendars and address books sync with your phone and your mail client.

Office suite in the browser: With Nextcloud Office, edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations together, straight in the browser.

Video calls: Nextcloud Talk: audio and video calls, chat and screen sharing, without going through a third-party service.

Mobile apps: Automatic photo upload from iOS and Android, offline access to the files you mark.

Versions and trash: Every change is kept. Restore a previous version or a deleted file in one click.

Full root access: Nextcloud is added to your VPS, it does not replace it. Full SSH to install whatever you want alongside.

Frequently asked questions

Where are your VPS hosted?

Our Nextcloud VPS are hosted in Montreal, Canada. Your files, your calendars and your shares are written on Canadian soil, with no replication to another country.