Introducing the Self Hosted Home Cloud

Today we’re announcing what we’ve been quietly researching and building toward for years: the Self Hosted Home Cloud — your family’s private cloud, at home.

It’s two small appliances that arrive pre-configured: a Guardian router that makes the internet safer for every device in your home, and a Home Cloud server that runs your family’s private apps — photos, files, notes and wiki, calendars and an App Store — on hardware you own, in your own home.

The headline feature for families is Curfew: bedtimes and school-night schedules enforced at the network itself, not by an app on the child’s device that begs to be uninstalled. Wind-down periods, “give 30 more minutes”, “pause the internet now” — in everyday language, with no firewall in sight.

Two principles anchor the whole product:

1. Local-first. Everything essential runs in your home and keeps working if your internet is down, your subscription has lapsed, or we’re unreachable. Nothing is exposed to the internet unless you explicitly turn it on.
2. No crippleware. The A$599 appliance is the whole product, not a starter kit. The optional Home Care plan (A$9.95/month) pays for things that genuinely need our infrastructure — encrypted off-site backups, secure remote access, domains, managed updates — and cancelling never breaks what’s yours.

We’ve spent the last stretch talking to families, friends and the wider self-hosting community about what they’d want from something like this, and their questions shaped everything — including the full product page, which answers the ones we heard most: what do I actually get for the money? Does it depend on your servers? What if you disappear?

The first production run will be small. If you’d like early access to the demo, the beta or the first batch, register your interest — it takes one field, and true to form, the little service collecting those registrations is self-hosted too. It stores your email, whatever you type, and nothing else.

We can’t wait to show you more.