We honestly asked ourselves: when is VluxNet the wrong choice? Here's the list — some points with a wink, some dead serious.
If the following matters to you…
You happily upload family photos, personal videos and chats to cloud servers — in exchange for providers analysing them, using them for AI training and reserving usage rights in their terms. They're safer there than at home.
You happily pay year after year for cloud storage that eventually costs more than your own hard drive. It feels like grown-up digital life.
Recommendations you recognise before you know what you want yourself. Ads that know you're moving before you've told your family. That's what modern convenience looks like.
You appreciate that your message to the next desk gets routed halfway around the world and back. Sure, it burns energy and falls under the laws of every country it crosses, but the app is so convenient.
You firmly believe privacy promises are kept, that acquisitions don't change the data situation, that bankruptcies leave archives untouched. Trust is a beautiful thing.
The moment your data leaves the country, the local law applies. You think it's right that authorities of other states — whatever their political colour — can look into your data without a German court order.
You have no interest in ever switching from one cloud provider to another. The three weekends such a move costs are time well spent.
You're fine with an algorithmic error or a changed policy making your entire digital life inaccessible within seconds, with no German support hotline.
In a dead spot, on holiday, during a power cut — if you then can't reach your own documents, that's understandable. It's called cloud, and cloud means connection.
You understand the logic: you are the product, your attention is the currency, your data is the raw material. That's a fair deal.
Real reasons — no wink
VluxNet is a network — its value grows with every additional device that joins. If you only own one phone and know nobody who'd also get on board, you'll see little of the network at first. But the moment a second device joins or a person you know takes part, that changes.
VluxNet delivers its value mainly internally: between your own devices and within your own team. What your business partners use doesn't stop you from running VluxNet internally — the two have nothing to do with each other. Only if you genuinely have no internal data traffic and exchange exclusively with cloud-using partners on the outside does the internal layer do little for you. That's rare, though — the moment two of your own devices share data, it pays off. And if a partner joins in, the outward exchange runs directly between your servers too.
Some people prefer to outsource the "what if my house burns down" question to a corporation. That's a legitimate choice. VluxNet hands that responsibility back to you — if you don't want it, a large cloud provider suits you better.
In heavily regulated corporate environments, installing non-certified software is often forbidden. VluxNet stays out — until your IT department puts us on the whitelist.
There's content you deliberately want to share publicly — social media is made for that. For everything else, it's about your private life, your business data, your family. If none of the points above apply to you, you're in the right place with us.
Sounds like you? Get in touch →
