Postgres, not SQLite
The all-in-one image we ship uses PostgreSQL and Redis from the start. SQLite works until about five users and then makes Nextcloud feel slow in a way people blame on the server.
SHEET EVPS-WEB-001 · AS204915 · SCALE 1:1 · Operating continuously since 2014
Nextcloud on a €10 server with 200 GB of NVMe replaces most of what a cloud drive subscription does, at a tenth of the price for a team of twenty — and the storage is fast enough that the desktop client stops feeling like a compromise.
Work
6 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB NVMe
€10.40/mo
12-month term, billed once, VAT-free outside the EU
ConfigureWhy people move here
The all-in-one image we ship uses PostgreSQL and Redis from the start. SQLite works until about five users and then makes Nextcloud feel slow in a way people blame on the server.
Nextcloud's bottleneck is thousands of small file operations, not throughput. 224 000 random-read IOPS on the Work plan is why a 40 000-file initial sync finishes in minutes rather than an evening.
Additional NVMe is €2.40 per 50 GB per month and grows the volume online, without a reboot. Start at 200 GB and add more the month you need it.
If the point is to get files out of somebody else's cloud, the country matters. Zurich sits under Swiss data-protection law, Stockholm and Helsinki under the strictest EU implementations.
Full specification table
31 countries. 42 sites. One flat price.
Operating system
Nextcloud 30 AIO
All-in-one image with Collabora, backed by Postgres rather than SQLite.
Fleet
Longer term, lower monthly rate
billed €66.00 oncesave 20% vs 6-month
billed €124.80 oncesave 19% vs 6-month
billed €226.80 oncesave 21% vs 6-month
billed €430.80 oncesave 20% vs 6-month
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