Self-Hosted Nextcloud on Anubiz Host Romania
Nextcloud is the most credible self-hosted replacement for Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft 365 file sync as long as you set realistic expectations: it is not zero-knowledge by default, the server can read your files unless you turn on the End to End Encryption app and accept its UX trade-offs, and the PHP plus MariaDB plus Redis baseline wants at least 2 GB RAM and two vCPUs. Romania gives you a GDPR jurisdiction outside Fourteen Eyes with low EU latency and our VPS line ships NVMe storage which is what Nextcloud actually needs for the metadata-heavy database workload. This page covers picking the right Anubiz tier, deploying with AIO or the manual compose, S3 primary storage offload, and what is encrypted vs not.
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Why Romania for Nextcloud
GDPR via Law 190/2018, supervisory authority ANSPDCP. Outside Fourteen Eyes. No key escrow. EU latency under 60 ms to most of the continent and the Middle East. Storage cost per GB on our Romania Storage VPS line is roughly a third of cloud Drive at the household tier and a quarter at the business tier.
Plan Sizing
Nextcloud 28+ wants 2 GB RAM minimum, 2 vCPU, and database IOPS. For a household with 100-500 GB of files our Anubiz Romania Storage VPS 200 tier (4 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD) is the sweet spot. Above 1 TB or 10 simultaneous users move to the Storage VPS 1000 tier or attach S3 primary storage to a smaller compute VPS.
Deployment with AIO
Nextcloud All in One is a single Docker container that brings up the rest (database, Redis, Talk HPB, fulltextsearch, Collabora). Pull nextcloud/all-in-one:latest. Bind ./ncdata:/mnt/ncdata. Set NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR if you mount a separate storage volume. Open ports 80, 443, 3478 (Talk STUN/TURN). After install the AIO admin panel walks the rest.
Encryption Truth
Nextcloud encrypts data at rest only if you enable server side encryption (which still gives the server the key). End to End Encryption is a separate app that encrypts file contents client side but breaks server-side preview, search and Talk file sharing. Notes are not E2EE by default. Calendar and contacts are not E2EE. Treat Nextcloud as a control-the-server tool, not a zero-knowledge tool, unless you explicitly enable E2EE per folder and accept the limitations.
S3 Primary Storage
For >1 TB or distributed access, point primary storage at an S3 endpoint. We do not run an S3 service; bring your own (Wasabi, Backblaze B2, MinIO on a second Anubiz VPS). Nextcloud chunks files and stores them as objects under a single bucket. Metadata stays in MariaDB on the compute VPS.
Backups
The AIO ships a borg-based backup container. Point it at a second Anubiz VPS (Iceland or Finland) via SSH and let it dedup. Daily snapshots, 14/8/12 retention. Test restore monthly.
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