Deploy Nextcloud in one click.
The self-hosted workspace for files, calendars and calls. We review it, secure it and run it in production for you. Pick a region in Switzerland, France or Germany, or bring your own machines through a secure tunnel. We keep it patched, backed up and online. Your team just works.
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What is Nextcloud?
One of the most widely deployed self-hosted collaboration platforms: files, calendars, contacts and chat under one roof.
Nextcloud is an open-source, self-hosted content collaboration platform. At its core is Files: sync and share across desktop and mobile clients, with links, permissions and versioning. Calendar, Contacts and Talk for chat and video calls build on the same accounts. Collaborative document editing plugs in through its office integrations, and an ecosystem of hundreds of apps covers most of what a team reaches for a SaaS suite to do.
Your files are your company: contracts, financials, designs, personal data about employees and customers. On a hyperscaler’s drive product, all of it sits in someone else’s bucket, under someone else’s laws. Self-hosting Nextcloud keeps the whole workspace on infrastructure you control.
The catch: self-hosting means someone has to run it. A PHP stack to tune, a database, background jobs, storage that only grows, major upgrades that must be applied one version at a time, security patches, backups of every file your team has. That someone is usually you, at the worst possible time.
Nextcloud, without the ops.
Everything below is what you’d otherwise build and babysit yourself.
Your files stay where you put them.
Deploy to ch-zh1 (Zurich), fr-pa1 (Paris) or de-fr1 (Frankfurt). Files, calendars, contacts and chat stay in the region you choose, under Swiss or EU law and in line with GDPR.
Reviewed before it ships.
Our Nextcloud package is reviewed, secured and locked to versions we have tested, and it ships with a runbook. We track CVEs upstream and patch them fast.
One roof, not five subscriptions.
Files, Calendar, Contacts and Talk in one deployment, plus hundreds of apps behind them. One place to administer, one place to back up, one bill for the lot.
TLS, upgrades, scaling: handled.
Certificates issued and renewed, rolling updates, instant rollback, health checks. Nextcloud majors upgrade one version at a time, in order. We test and roll them out for you without breaking sync.
Backups you can actually restore.
Offsite backups of your files, calendars, contacts and settings. We run restore drills, not just snapshots.
Leave whenever you want.
Nextcloud is open source and so is your exit: your files leave with you, as files. Pilae runs it for you. It never owns your data.
Self-hosting Nextcloud: DIY vs Pilae.
Both paths end with Nextcloud in production. Only one of them ends there this afternoon.
| Self-hosted DIY | On Pilae | |
|---|---|---|
| Initial setup | Docker, reverse proxy, DNS, auth. An afternoon if nothing fights back | One click, live in minutes |
| TLS certificates | Issue, wire up, remember to renew | Issued and renewed automatically |
| Upgrades | Frequent releases to track, test and apply yourself | Tested versions, rolled out with instant rollback |
| Security patching | You watch the CVE feed | Upstream tracked, CVEs prioritized |
| Backups | cron + object storage + hope | Offsite, verified with restore drills |
| Data residency | Wherever your VPS happens to be | You pick: Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt, or your own racks |
| 3 a.m. failures | Yours | Ours |
| Major version upgrades | One major at a time, in order, by hand | Tested and rolled out for you, with instant rollback |
| Storage growth | Resize disks, migrate volumes yourself | Provisioned and monitored; backed up offsite |
From catalog to production in three steps.
No servers to set up, no configuration to write. The platform work is already done.
Pick Nextcloud.
Find it in the catalog: reviewed, secured, locked to tested versions, runbook included.
Choose where it runs.
A Pilae region in Switzerland, France or Germany, or your own machine connected through a secure tunnel. Same console either way.
Deploy and sync your files.
One click to production with TLS and backups from day one. Connect the desktop and mobile clients, invite your team, done.
Your files are your company. Keep them close.
Every Nextcloud deployment is pinned to the region you choose. Encryption, dedicated VLANs, and the option to hold your own encryption keys for regulated workloads. Or skip our regions entirely and run it on-prem.
Deploying Nextcloud: the questions we get.
If yours isn’t here, reach out and we’ll answer it, usually the same day.
What’s the easiest way to self-host Nextcloud?
Deploying it through a managed platform. On Pilae you pick Nextcloud from the catalog, choose a region, and click deploy. TLS, backups, patching and upgrades are handled for you from the first minute. You get self-hosting’s control without its ops.
Can Nextcloud replace Google Drive or Dropbox?
For file sync and share, yes. Desktop and mobile clients, share links, permissions, versioning: the workflow maps over directly. The difference is that your files sit on infrastructure you control, in the country you chose, instead of a hyperscaler’s bucket.
Does Nextcloud have calendar, contacts and video calls?
Yes. Calendar and Contacts are first-party apps, and Nextcloud Talk adds chat and video calls, all in the same deployment, behind the same accounts. Collaborative document editing plugs in through its office integrations.
How hard is it to upgrade Nextcloud?
Harder than it should be if you run it yourself: major versions must be applied one at a time, in order, and skipping ahead is unsupported. On Pilae upgrades are tested and rolled out for you with instant rollback. You never think about the upgrade path.
Where do my Nextcloud files live?
In the region you choose: Zurich, Paris or Frankfurt, or on your own infrastructure through a secure tunnel. Files, calendars and contacts stay there, encrypted. For regulated workloads you can hold your own encryption keys.
Can I move my Nextcloud deployment off Pilae later?
Yes, and that’s by design. Nextcloud is open source and your data exits with you in usable form: your files are just files. No proprietary formats, no lock-in.
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Single sign-on, OIDC and SAML. The identity layer for the rest of the stack.
Bitwarden-compatible password manager, lightweight and self-hosted.
Open-source issues, projects, cycles and modules. Jira-shaped, self-hosted.
Nextcloud, without the ops.
Deploy it in minutes, keep your data in the country you choose, and leave whenever you want. Your data goes with you.