# Managed Nextcloud, storage, and encryption

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Shared personal accounts and isolated Nextcloud environments, managed by Barestead. Store files, share photos, and work together with Nextcloud Office included in every plan.

Compare shared personal plans, an isolated Private Cloud, or separate business plans. Choose a plan to check current availability.

## Your files. Your people. Your own space.

The family photos, important documents, and everyday projects deserve a place you can make your own.

Barestead brings Nextcloud, storage, and Nextcloud Office together in managed plans. Choose an account on a shared service or an isolated environment for your group. We take care of hosting.

## More of everyday life, in one place.

### Shared or isolated hosting

Personal plans use a shared Nextcloud installation. Private Cloud and all business plans put Nextcloud, its database, and storage in an isolated environment reserved for your account or group.

### Files and photos, together

Keep files in sync, upload photos, and share what you choose through Nextcloud’s web, desktop, and mobile apps.

### Nextcloud Office included

Create and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in your browser. Included in every plan.

### Room for your people

Personal plans serve one user. Private Cloud pools 1 TB across up to six people. Tailored business hosting generally supports up to 70 users, with flexibility by agreement and no per-seat pricing.

## Your cloud, with hosting handled.

### Choose your space

Compare Personal, Personal Plus, and Private Cloud by hosting type, storage, and user limit. Business plans have their own page.

### Leave the setup to us

Barestead manages the hosting for your shared account or isolated environment, with Nextcloud Office included.

### Bring your files

Use Nextcloud on the web, desktop, or mobile to store, sync, and share the things that matter.

### Make room for your people

On a multi-user plan, give your people their own accounts and choose what to share together.

## How storage and encryption work

### Where your files live

We run Nextcloud on Barestead’s hardware in California. Personal and Personal Plus use Backblaze B2 for their primary file storage. Private Cloud and business plans keep their primary storage on our hardware.

### Encryption before hosted storage

HTTPS protects your connection to Nextcloud. On shared Personal plans, Nextcloud encrypts supported file contents on our servers before sending them to B2. Backblaze receives those encrypted contents without the Nextcloud decryption keys, so it cannot read them.

### Keys and service access

Barestead manages the encryption keys on your Nextcloud service. Nextcloud and authorized Barestead operators can decrypt file contents to provide the service. This is server-side encryption. It is not end-to-end or zero-knowledge encryption.

### What this layer covers

The file-encryption layer protects supported file contents. Filenames, folder structures, database metadata, previews, some historical trash and versions, and non-file app data are not covered by this layer.

[About Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com): Nextcloud is the open-source software at the heart of your Barestead instance.

## More from Barestead

- [Barestead: plans, pricing, and questions](https://barestead.com/index.md)

- [Business hosting and plans](https://barestead.com/business/index.md)