Your Personal Cloud & Services
Our Core Services
📧 Local Email Server
Full ownership of your data with a private email server. Complete with webmail access and spam protection.
🌐 Web Hosting
Fast and reliable hosting for your blogs or portfolios, controlled directly by you from your own hardware.
☁️ Nextcloud
Your private cloud for file syncing, sharing, calendars, and secure collaboration from any device.
🔗 Mesh VPN
Connect securely to your network from anywhere via encrypted pipelines without opening vulnerable ports.
Why self-host
Real savings. Full control.
Cloud providers charge per-user, per-GB, and per-egress byte. Self-hosted infrastructure pays once and keeps paying back — year after year.
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No egress fees
Cloud providers charge R1.50–R2.80/GB to transfer your own data out. Self-hosted: zero egress fees, ever.
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No per-seat pricing
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Dropbox Business all charge per user per month. Add family members or staff for free.
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Storage costs once
A 4 TB drive costs around R1,500. Equivalent cloud storage runs R1,500–R3,500+ every single month.
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Data sovereignty
Your data stays on South African soil. Simplifies POPIA compliance and eliminates cross-border data transfer risk.
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No vendor lock-in
Open-source stack: Nextcloud, Postfix, WireGuard. No price hikes, no sunset announcements, no forced migrations.
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No ad profiling
Free tiers from Google and Microsoft scan your data to serve ads. Self-hosted means your files and emails stay private.
🧮 Estimate your annual savings
Users / people
Storage needed
500 GB
Monthly data transfer
100 GB
Equivalent cloud cost / year
R0
Estimated annual saving
R0
Based on typical Google Workspace + cloud storage + egress pricing. Actual savings vary by usage and provider.
Beyond the monthly bill
POPIA compliant by design<br>Uptime you control<br>Offline access to your files<br>No subscription creep<br>Custom domain, your brand<br>Local LAN speeds for backups<br>One-time hardware cost<br>Works during load-shedding with UPS
Hardware Deployment Options
Not sure where to start? There's an entry point for every budget and comfort level.
Perfect starter
🫐 Raspberry Pi Starter
New to self-hosting and not ready to commit to a full server? A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 is a credit-card-sized, fanless computer that sips power (~5W) and can run email, a personal cloud, and a VPN node comfortably for a small household.
Low upfront cost — hardware from ~R1,200
Runs 24/7 for less than R30/month in electricity
Easy to expand or upgrade later
Great way to learn before scaling up
🛠️ Provide Your Own Hardware
Have an old PC, Mini PC, or Intel NUC lying around? We can turn your existing machines into a fully functioning, energy-efficient local cloud platform.
📦 Get a Pre-Built Quote
Don't have hardware yet? Let us build, configure, and stress-test a dedicated, whisper-quiet server tailored precisely to your storage and user requirements.
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