Most small businesses are one ransomware hit, sync mistake, or dead NAS away from chaos. ServerCrate gives you encrypted offsite backup for shared folders, office files, exports, NAS data, and critical business systems with private vaults, Restic over SFTP, and no egress fees when it is time to restore.
A dead NAS, a wiped laptop, a broken sync job, a ransomware hit, a bad update, or somebody deleting the wrong folder can do real damage fast. The problem is usually not storage. It is the lack of a clean offsite copy that is private, recent, and actually restorable.
ServerCrate is for getting business-critical data off your office, off your main NAS, and out of the same failure domain without turning backups into a full-time ops project.
Here's what a 10-person company typically spends on backup, and where ServerCrate fits in. The number most businesses don't plan for: egress charges during a real recovery event.
| Typical small-business backup need | ServerCrate plan | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Sole proprietor / freelancer with laptop and NAS | Starter (200 GB) | $5/mo |
| 5-person team with shared drive + developer workstations | Standard (1 TB) | $15/mo |
| 10-20 person company with office server, NAS, dev VMs | Pro (2 TB) | $29/mo |
| Multi-location business or agency with 2 TB+ data | Contact us for custom | Negotiated |
Most object-storage backends - S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi - charge egress fees when you restore. During a real ransomware event or disk failure, you pull hundreds of gigabytes back at once. At $0.01-0.05 per GB egress, that's $50-500 unexpected on top of your normal bill, arriving at the worst possible moment. (Some per-GB hosts like rsync.net do not charge egress - always check.)
ServerCrate charges zero for restore traffic. The plan you pay is the plan you pay, period. That's not just a pricing gimmick - it's an alignment-of-interest question. We want you to restore frequently (to test your backups) without thinking about the bill.
Most small businesses have clusters of data across the same few categories. Here's a checklist for what a typical company should cover:
The shared drive everyone saves to. Contracts, project files, designs, client deliverables, historical archives. Often sits on a Synology, QNAP, or Windows file server. Back up nightly so the "my laptop died and my documents are gone" problem becomes "give me a minute" not "we're doomed."
QuickBooks databases, local CRM installations, custom line-of-business apps, MySQL/PostgreSQL dumps from internal tools. These are typically the highest-value targets - losing three years of invoices is an existential event for a small business. Back up with full database dumps nightly.
Even if you use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, you should hold independent copies of email and document exports. Google's retention is not a backup - it won't help if an employee maliciously or accidentally mass-deletes. Tools like rclone pull from Google Drive to a local directory, which Restic then pushes to ServerCrate.
Source code should be in Git (GitHub/GitLab), but local branches, credentials, SSH keys, and long-running dev environments aren't in version control. Back up the home directories of developer laptops weekly. Source code repos themselves usually don't need ServerCrate - they're replicated by the hosting provider - but local work in progress definitely does.
Router configs, firewall rules, DNS records exports, server /etc directories, Docker compose files, Kubernetes manifests. If your office IT setup took six months to build, you want the configs offsite so you can rebuild on new hardware in a day, not a month.
This is not consumer sync dressed up as backup. It is private offsite storage for the systems and files your business depends on.
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