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Until today, CiviHosting has specialized in https://civicrm.org/ (an open source CRM) and their team has been serving the CiviCRM community for over 10 years to very positive feedback. Now, CiviHosting has expanded their services to include specialized hosting for a few other packages as well. Nextcloud is their private cloud of choice, and we’re excited to welcome them onboard.
They offer shared hosting at a very fair price. For those with higher usage needs, they provide powerful VPS hosting and a high-end enterprise-level solution as well. Bulk discounts are available for larger clients or resellers, they offer a referral program, and of course, they install Nextcloud for you.
CiviHosting features servers in the US and Europe and services clients worldwide. As they put it:
Yes, we have clients from Alaska to Australia and the whole gamut of places in between and we have servers internationally to service them.
Service and Support
Users rate CiviHosting’s service and support as top, as many reviews show. They have been involved in supporting open source (CiviCRM, Drupal, WordPress, Linux…) for over 12 years and truly believe in open source, with their servers running only open source software.
Their “open” attitude extends to running their business as well, and they provide their clients will full freedom and full control over their data.
No web software on CiviHosting’s servers is ever locked down. We provide all clients with full access to their files and data, and each can generate and download an archive of all of their files and data at any time.
Security
With security a prime concern to Nextcloud and its users, CiviHosting offers a strong security record with zero compromises since they started hosting. This spotless security record is achieved by a combination of automated and human monitoring services and having their support team online, watching their systems, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. They even take pro-active measures to protect their clients’ security and privacy.
CiviHosting also partnered up with Let’s Encrypt https://letsencrypt.org/, a free, automated, and open certificate authority, to provide free SSL security to all of their clients. Integration is built into the CiviHosting Control Panel and so, at the click of a mouse, your site is protected by a Let’s Encrypt certificate.
We built our business on a few key principles, and one of them is security. We support a secure internet and have enabled all of our clients to have HTTPS security, at no cost, just by pressing a few buttons.
Many companies have been working hard to ensure they are GPDR compliant by the end of this week. For many, Nextcloud has been a part of that, simplifying compliance by helping companies keep sensitive data in-house. Today, we release a Nextcloud Compliance Kit to help these organizations comply with the requirements of the GDPR.
GDPR requirements
The GDPR requires businesses and other organizations who handle data from private users to offer clarity about how they use this data as well as a way to access, rectify or delete it. When dealing with a public cloud vendor, data leaves the control sphere of the business and a Data Processing Agreement needs to be signed with the cloud vendor. The business then has to ensure processes are set up to deal with GDPR related requests to be compliant. Keeping data in-house by self hosting negates the need for dealing with one more external party, keeping the whole process in-house and simplifying compliance.
The Data Request application shows buttons to request an export of personal data from the administrator in the user settings
The security requirements demand organizations to take appropriate measures to secure data. A Nextcloud Subscription delivers security patches and consulting based on our expertise and Security Bug Bounty Program, helping Nextcloud customers to make sure that this requirement is met.
Compliance Kit
The kit offers Nextcloud customers tools and documentation to make compliance a checklist-affair. Specific features in two Nextcloud apps and an update, a GDPR compliance steps walk-through and a detailed account of data handling in Nextcloud with instructions on how to extract, modify and delete data as required by law, make up the package.
GDPR compliance is a major concern for many of our customers. Our GDPR Compliance Kit essentially takes these concerns away with regards to the file handling, collaboration and communication capabilities as offered by Nextcloud
— Andreas Rode, head of sales
Nextcloud now offers organizations who host a Nextcloud server apps that help their GDPR compliance, depending on their specific circumstances:
The Imprint update to the theming app enables businesses to show a link to a legal notice or privacy policy on login
Moreover, Nextcloud offers customers access to a GPDR Compliance Checklist and a nearly 20 page detailed GPDR Admin Manual indicating where data can be found on a typical Nextcloud server and how to handle requests for extracting, rectifying and deleting data.
The GDPR Compliance Kit dealt with all our concerns. The global nature of the research community with frequent collaboration with European researchers and students requires global compliance awareness and an on-premises solution backed by the expertise of Nextcloud GmbH gives us the assurances we need.
— Hans Erasmus, Junior Infrastructure Architect at the North-West University in South Africa.
The User account deletion app allows users to delete an account without administrator assistance.
The apps and GDPR checklist are released to the general public while customers have access to the full compliance kit including GDPR Admin Manual. The apps can be found on the Nextcloud app store https://apps.nextcloud.com/blogs/feed/ while the GDPR checklist can be downloaded from our website https://nextcloud.com/whitepapers. If you have questions about Nextcloud and GDPR compliance, contact us https://nextcloud.com/contact/!