Your own private cloud.
Files, photos, calendars, and contacts.
Self-host Nextcloud on a Pulsar67 VPS from our Tampa data center. Files, photos, calendars, contacts, and notes run on infrastructure you control, not a cloud account whose terms can change tomorrow.
Google Drive is convenient until it isn't.
Drive, iCloud, and OneDrive work well until pricing tiers shift, a feature changes, a scan flags a photo, or a policy update locks you out. Nextcloud keeps the data and the application under your control.
Nextcloud is a fully-featured self-hosted alternative: file sync (with desktop / iOS / Android clients), shared calendars, contacts, notes, a kanban board, even videocalls. On a Pulsar67 VPS, you own all of it.
File sync
Desktop, mobile, web. WebDAV for everything else. Selective sync per device.
Photos
Auto-upload from phone. Albums, timeline, EXIF preserved.
Calendar + Contacts
CalDAV / CardDAV. iOS Calendar / Apple Contacts sync natively.
End-to-end encryption
Optional E2EE for sensitive folders. Server-side encryption otherwise.
Pick by how much storage you want.
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB SAS SSD
- Daily backups
Need more storage? Pair Nextcloud's "External Storage" app with cheap object storage (Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2) for unlimited capacity at object-storage prices.
Your own cloud, in an afternoon.
- A Pulsar67 VPS (Starter for solo, Pro for family)
- Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 - both have Nextcloud .deb packages or you can run the AIO (all-in-one) Docker image
- Nginx + PHP-FPM 8.2+ + MariaDB / Postgres - or just the AIO Docker image which bundles everything
- A free TLS cert from Let's Encrypt
- A domain or subdomain pointing at your VPS
- Nextcloud apps for desktop / iOS / Android (all free, all official)
Self-hosting that doesn't feel hostile.
Snapshots + backups
Daily backups on Pro. Snapshot before risky upgrades. Roll back if things go sideways.
Enterprise SAS SSD storage
Photo thumbnails and file sync feel instant. No SATA-SSD lag.
DDoS protection
Public-facing services get scanned. We absorb it at the edge.
Real support
If something's broken at the host level, engineers fix it. We don't blame your stack.
Take your data home.
Move off Google Drive and onto your own Nextcloud. Same conveniences, your data.