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SFTP backup storage UK

Storage Box: UK backup storage for SFTP, rsync, borg and restic

A private slice of a UK disk array that any backup tool can talk to over SSH. Seven nightly snapshots you can browse yourself, a quota you choose, and a flat price from £2.49 a month.

Pick a size, then configure it

Choose a capacity to open the configurator: switch quota, toggle monthly or annual and see the live price. Upgrade in place at any time — your files, keys and snapshots stay exactly where they are.

Backup
Backup space£2.49/mo

100 GB

Laptop and phone backups.

  • 100 GB
  • 7 daily snapshots
  • SFTP · rsync · borg
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Backup
Backup space£6.99/mo

500 GB

A household's photos and documents.

  • 500 GB
  • 7 daily snapshots
  • SFTP · rsync · borg
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Backup
Backup space£11.99/mo

1 TB

Off-site copies of a small business's files.

  • 1 TB
  • 7 daily snapshots
  • SFTP · rsync · borg
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Backup
Backup space£19.99/mo

2 TB

Server backups, media libraries, archives.

  • 2 TB
  • 7 daily snapshots
  • SFTP · rsync · borg
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Backup100 GB
Choose capacity
Billing term
£2.49/mo

or £24.90 a year — two months free

  • 100 GB ZFS space
  • 7 daily snapshots
  • SFTP · rsync · borg
Order 100 GB

Every box is its own login on storage.t-host.co.uk, with its own SSH port and a hard quota. Use it from Windows, macOS, Linux, a NAS or a server. No traffic limits.

How people use it

Laptop and desktop backups

Point Duplicati, Vorta, Arq or plain rsync at your box and forget about it. Restore a single file or the whole lot from anywhere.

Server and NAS off-site copies

Nightly borg create or restic backup from your servers, deduplicated and encrypted before it leaves your network. Synology and QNAP units can push to SFTP natively.

Ransomware insurance

Our nightly snapshots are read-only and kept for seven days. Even if malware wipes or encrypts what you uploaded, yesterday's copy is still there.

Connecting to your box

Each box has its own username and its own SSH port, both shown in your account together with ready-made commands. The simplest way to use it from a Linux, macOS or WSL machine is a short entry in ~/.ssh/config, after which every tool below works without repeating the port:

Host thost-box
    HostName storage.t-host.co.uk
    User bx1a2b3
    Port 21234

A few examples with a box called bx1a2b3:

sftp thost-box
rsync -avz ./Documents/ thost-box:documents/
borg init --encryption=repokey ssh://thost-box/./repo
restic -r sftp:thost-box:restic init

What is a Storage Box?

A Storage Box is a fixed amount of disk space on a UK storage server that you reach over SSH. There is no app to install on our side and no proprietary format: it behaves like a remote folder that speaks SFTP, so anything that can back up to an SFTP or SSH destination can back up to it. You pick the size (100 GB to 2 TB), we give you a login, a port and a quota, and the space is yours until you cancel. Data sits on a ZFS pool with checksums, and every night we take a read-only snapshot and keep the last seven, so a mistaken delete or a ransomware run on your side is one copy away from undone.

Which backup tools work with a Storage Box

rsync backup server

rsync over SSH is the classic way to mirror a folder to a remote machine and only send what changed. Point rsync -avz --delete at your box from a cron job or a systemd timer and you have a nightly off-site mirror; add --link-dest for cheap dated copies. Works from Linux, macOS, WSL and most NAS units.

BorgBackup hosting

BorgBackup deduplicates, compresses and encrypts before anything leaves your machine, so a year of nightly backups of a server usually takes little more space than one full copy. A Storage Box is a plain SSH target for borg: initialise a repository with borg init, then borg create on a schedule and borg prune to keep the retention you want. Vorta gives borg a desktop interface on Linux and macOS.

restic over SFTP

restic uses the SFTP backend to talk to your box and encrypts every snapshot with a key you hold. It runs on Windows as well as Linux and macOS, one binary, no dependencies. restic -r sftp:thost-box:restic init creates the repository; restic backup and restic forget --prune do the rest.

SFTP clients, Duplicati, Arq and NAS units

For a point-and-click backup, Duplicati (Windows, macOS, Linux) and Arq (Windows, macOS) both back up to SFTP with encryption and scheduling. FileZilla, WinSCP and Cyberduck browse the box directly, which is handy for dropping in an archive or fetching a single file. Synology Hyper Backup and QNAP Hybrid Backup Sync can push to an SFTP or rsync destination, so a NAS can keep an off-site copy of itself at a flat monthly price.

Not sure your tool fits? If it can write to an SFTP or SSH destination it almost certainly does. Ask us before you order and we will say.

Storage Box questions

Which tools can I use?
SFTP and SCP with any client (FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck), rsync, BorgBackup and restic over SSH. Anything that speaks SFTP works, including most NAS units, Duplicati and Vorta.
Is it encrypted?
Everything travels over SSH. Data at rest sits on a ZFS pool with checksums. If you want end-to-end encryption, borg and restic encrypt on your side before upload, and we never hold the key.
What are the snapshots?
Every night we take a read-only snapshot of your box and keep the last seven. You can browse them yourself under the .zfs/snapshot folder, so a deleted or ransomware-encrypted file is one copy away.
Can I use a password or must I use keys?
Both. Set a password in your account and add as many SSH public keys as you like. Failed logins are rate-limited automatically.
Why does my box have its own port?
Each Storage Box listens on its own SSH port rather than port 22, which keeps automated password-guessing bots away from your login and lets us isolate boxes from each other. The port is shown in your account next to your username; put it in ~/.ssh/config once and every tool picks it up.
Can I upgrade later?
Yes. Move to a bigger plan from your account and the quota grows in place. Nothing is copied or lost.
Where is my data stored?
On an enterprise disk array in the UK, on the same infrastructure as our web hosting, in a separate storage server.

Off-site backups that just need a login.

From £2.49 a month for 100 GB. Cancel any time.

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