Comparison

MassiveGRID Nextcloud Hub vs Hetzner Storage Share

Hetzner Storage Share is a Nextcloud instance priced by disk, hosted in Germany, with unlimited users and a cap on simultaneous connections. MassiveGRID's Nextcloud Hub is a per-user managed suite on Nextcloud Enterprise with office, chat, video and email included, in the U.S., E.U., U.K. or Asia. Both are good products for different buyers; this page says which buyer is which.

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€4.29

Storage Share NX11 / month

$5.90

Hub Starter / user / month

Storage Share region

Hub regions

The short verdict

MassiveGRID Nextcloud Hub against Hetzner Storage Share

Verdict: a small group that needs a large private drive and nothing else should buy Hetzner Storage Share; 1 TB for about €4.29 a month excluding VAT is the best price per gigabyte in managed Nextcloud. A company replacing Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, or one whose data cannot live only in a German datacenter, should buy a Nextcloud Hub plan: the office suite, Talk, mailboxes, support and the choice of region are in the $5.90 seat, and the things Storage Share leaves out are the things such a company would otherwise have to buy twice.

Side by side

What each one is, what it includes, where it runs

	Hetzner Storage Share	MassiveGRID Nextcloud Hub
Pricing unit	Per instance, by storage	Per user per month
Entry price	NX11 about €4.29 per month ex VAT (1 TB); NX21 about €14.19 (5 TB); NX31 about €27.39 (10 TB), as listed in early 2026	Starter $5.90; Business $12.90; Enterprise $19.90, before taxes, up to 40% off on longer terms
Users	Unlimited accounts; 50, 100 or 200 simultaneous connections by plan	1 to 50 per online order; dedicated instances beyond
Storage	1, 5 or 10 TB shared by everyone on the instance	100 GB per user (Starter), 1 TB per user (Business, Enterprise)
Nextcloud branch	Not stated on the product page	Nextcloud Enterprise Ultimate
Office suite	Not listed; App Store install if supported	✓ Nextcloud Office on every plan
Chat and video	Not listed; Talk installable, no high-performance backend	✓ Talk on every plan
Email	—	Standard Email; Enterprise Email on Enterprise
Groupware	Contacts, Calendar, Tasks pre-installed	Calendar, Contacts on every plan; Notes, Tables, Deck, Tasks from Business
Region	Falkenstein, Germany only	U.S. (New York), E.U. (Frankfurt), U.K. (London) or Asia (Singapore)
Domain	Hetzner subdomains (3 to 10)	MassiveGRID domain; own domain on dedicated instances
Backups	Several times a day, restorable from konsoleH	Daily, AES-256 encrypted, 30-day retention, separate datacenter
Uptime SLA	Not stated	100%
Support	Hetzner support	Ticket, priority or 24x7 by plan
Contract	No minimum term	Monthly, or 3 to 36 months at 5% to 40% off

Where each one wins

An honest split

Choose Hetzner Storage Share if

Storage is the whole requirement: an archive, a family's backup, a team's project files
"Hosted in Germany" is the requirement and nothing else will do
You already pay for office and mail elsewhere and only want to move files
You want no minimum term and the option to leave next week

Choose a Nextcloud Hub plan if

You are replacing Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and need documents, calls and mailboxes in the same bill
The data must be in the U.K., the U.S. or Asia, or you need to choose
Someone will ask about the SLA, the backups and the support hours
You expect to pass 50 simultaneous connections, or want the Nextcloud Enterprise branch

Why teams look for a Storage Share alternative

What people tell us when they leave

Storage Share users who come to us are not unhappy with Hetzner. They have hit one of five walls. The office suite: the product page lists Contacts, Calendar and Tasks pre-installed and leaves documents to the App Store, and a team that wants to edit spreadsheets together needs a document server set up and sized. Mail: there are no mailboxes, so the company still pays Google or Microsoft for email and ends up with two suites. The connection cap: 50 simultaneous connections on the NX11 is generous for five people and tight for twenty-five with desktop clients, phones and Talk open at once. Geography: Falkenstein is the only location, which is a feature for a German company and a blocker for a British, American or Singaporean one. Assurance: no stated uptime SLA and no choice of support level, which stops mattering at home and starts mattering when a client asks.

None of these is a criticism of Storage Share for the buyer it was built for; the verdict above says plainly when it is the better buy. The rest of this section is for the team that has outgrown it.

What you get instead

App by app

You use today	On Nextcloud Hub	Notes
Storage Share NX11, NX21, NX31 (1, 5 or 10 TB per instance)	Nextcloud Hub Starter, Business or Enterprise	100 GB per user on Starter, 1 TB per user on Business and Enterprise; priced per seat rather than per terabyte.
Files, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks	Files, Photos, Calendar, Contacts on every plan; Tasks, Notes, Tables, Deck from Business	Same Nextcloud apps, on the Nextcloud Enterprise Ultimate branch.
Office suite from the App Store, if supported	Nextcloud Office included and maintained	Documents, spreadsheets and presentations on every plan, sized for everyone on it.
Talk from the App Store, no high-performance backend	Talk included	Chat, audio and video, screen sharing, guests from a browser.
No mailboxes	A mailbox per user included	Standard Email on Starter and Business; Enterprise Email with delegation on Enterprise.
50, 100 or 200 simultaneous connections	Priced per seat, no connection cap of that kind	Order 1 to 50 users online; dedicated instances beyond.
Falkenstein, Germany	U.S., E.U. (Frankfurt), U.K. or Asia	The E.U. region keeps a German location for teams that want one; the others open the rest of the world.
Backups several times a day	Daily AES-256 encrypted backups, 30-day retention, separate datacenter	Both are solid; ask either provider about restore testing.
Hetzner support, no stated SLA	Ticket, priority or 24x7 support; 100% uptime SLA	The row a client's security questionnaire asks about.

Storage Share details are from Hetzner's product page and third-party price listings at the time of writing; check hetzner.com before deciding. Moving files from Storage Share to a Hub plan is a Nextcloud-to-Nextcloud transfer: the desktop client or WebDAV on the small side, Nextcloud's export and import tooling (since Hub 26 Winter) on the large side.

What a team actually pays

Monthly, before taxes, at the time of writing

Team	Hetzner Storage Share	Nextcloud Hub Starter	Nextcloud Hub Business
5 users, files only, under 1 TB	NX11, about €4.29	$29.50	$64.50
5 users, files plus Office, chat and email	NX11 plus other subscriptions for the rest	$29.50, all included	$64.50, all included
25 users, under 5 TB	NX21, about €14.19	$147.50	$322.50
25 users on annual billing	Same (no term discount)	$118	$258
25 users needing the data in the U.K.	Not available	$147.50	$322.50

Hetzner prices are third-party listings from early 2026, excluding VAT, and the official page should be checked before deciding; MassiveGRID prices are the live figures below. Euros taken at roughly parity to dollars for readability. The long-form comparison on the blog works through the same cases in more detail.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Per gigabyte, by a wide margin: 1 TB for about 4.29 euros a month against 100 GB per user on a $5.90 Starter seat. Per user with office, chat and email included, no: a Hub seat already contains the apps a Storage Share team would buy elsewhere, and a Google Workspace Business Starter seat alone lists at about $7.

Its product page lists Contacts, Calendar and Tasks as pre-installed and points to the App Store for more; it does not list an office suite or video calling, and the Talk high-performance backend is not something you can add to a shared instance. Confirm with Hetzner. Every Nextcloud Hub plan includes Nextcloud Office and Talk.

No, it is hosted in Falkenstein, Germany. Nextcloud Hub plans offer the United States, Europe (Frankfurt), the United Kingdom and Asia (Singapore) at the same price, chosen at checkout.

Unlimited accounts, but 50 (NX11), 100 (NX21) or 200 (NX31) simultaneous connections. Each desktop client, phone and open browser tab counts, so 25 people with sync clients and Talk can reach the NX11 cap. Hub plans are priced per seat and have no cap of that kind.

Yes. A common pattern is a Storage Share instance as a large cold archive and a Nextcloud Hub plan for daily collaboration, connected through Nextcloud's external storage or federated sharing.

Yes. Both are Nextcloud, so files move with the desktop client or WebDAV, calendars and contacts over CalDAV and CardDAV, and Nextcloud's export and import tooling handles a whole instance. Public share links are the one thing that changes, so inventory them first.

Yes. The E.U. region is served from MassiveGRID's Frankfurt datacenter; see the Nextcloud hosting in Germany page. The U.S., U.K. and Asia regions are there when you need them.

Office, chat, email and your choice of region, from $5.90 per user

Order a Nextcloud Hub plan and the first month is $1 with coupon code NEXTCLOUD. If Storage Share is the better fit for you, we would rather you knew that than bought the wrong thing.

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