Storage Share is Hetzner Online GmbH's managed Nextcloud offering, sold alongside the company's dedicated servers, cloud VMs, Storage Boxes, and web hosting from the same Gunzenhausen-headquartered, family-controlled entity that operates the rest of the directory's reference EU hyperscaler listing. The product is, in Hetzner's own words, "a standard community version of the third-party software application Nextcloud" with only minor Hetzner-side compatibility and security patches (documented publicly: a patch to the bundled Monitoring app, and blocking the public user-profile URL route by default). Three fixed plans are sold: NX11 (1 TB, 3 subdomains, 50 simultaneous connections), NX21 (5 TB, 7 subdomains, 100 connections), and NX31 (10 TB, 10 subdomains, 200 connections), each with unlimited user accounts and unlimited traffic, billed strictly monthly with no minimum contract period and no cancellation period (no free tier). As a full Nextcloud Community instance, it ships with Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks pre-installed, is extensible via the Nextcloud Appstore (an admin can add Talk, Mail, Collabora/OnlyOffice integration, and more), supports WebDAV, and syncs through the official Nextcloud desktop clients (Windows, macOS, Linux) and mobile apps (iOS, Android).
For an EU-sovereignty audit, Storage Share inherits Hetzner's strongest-in-directory compliance posture but with one product-specific difference worth flagging. It runs in a single data centre, Falkenstein, Germany, with Hetzner stating no other Storage Share location is currently offered (an internal FAQ update on additional locations is pending). The your-storageshare.de product domain resolves directly to Hetzner's own IP space with no Cloudflare or other third-party CDN in front of it, so there is no plain-HTTP US exposure the way there is for SaaS fronted by Cloudflare US. Hetzner's ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate (SOCOTEC-audited, valid 27.09.2025-26.09.2028) states its scope covers "all hosting services and the data centers" at Nuremberg, Falkenstein, and Helsinki; separately, Hetzner's BSI C5:2020 Type 2 attestation (WP Koehler GmbH, audit report dated 17 Nov 2025) explicitly lists "Storage (Share, Box, Object Storage)" among the certified product lines, alongside dedicated server, managed server, web hosting, and cloud server. The generic Art. 28 GDPR Data Processing Agreement is a publicly downloadable PDF (no account or login required), and Hetzner's privacy policy names its sub-processors; the only US-touching entries on that list (Kapa.ai and Google Analytics) sit on the hetzner.com marketing site, not on the storageshare.de product domain, and Storage Share itself introduces no additional sub-processor beyond Hetzner (Nextcloud GmbH is not involved; Hetzner runs the open-source Community Edition itself).
The one caveat that differentiates Storage Share from the directory's zero-knowledge-by-default storage picks: data is not encrypted at rest by default. Hetzner's own documentation offers an optional server-side encryption module but actively recommends against enabling it, since the encryption keys and the encrypted files sit on the same device, and states that this mode cannot run in parallel with Nextcloud's separate end-to-end encryption option. Buyers who need default-on client-side encryption should look at Proton Drive, Tresorit, or Internxt instead; buyers who mainly want a cheap, certified, single-country-hosted Nextcloud instance with no vendor lock-in beyond the standard Nextcloud export path get Hetzner's compliance profile at €4.29-27.39/month. Best fit: EU teams and privacy-conscious individuals who already trust Hetzner for hosting and want the identical legal entity, data centre, and certification scope for file sync and sharing, and who are comfortable that encryption is opt-in rather than default.