ONLYOFFICEpowered by Nextcloud

Save, share and collaborate on files — on Swiss infrastructure. stepping stone runs Nextcloud with OnlyOffice: the resource-efficient office suite for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, directly in the browser and in real time.

Nextcloud with OnlyOffice combines secure file storage with collaborative document editing — whilst using significantly fewer resources than comparable solutions. stepping stone operates this combination on Swiss infrastructure as an alternative to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

OnlyOffice is an open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, accessible directly in the browser — in real time and collaboratively with others. Compatibility with Microsoft Office formats is excellent. Files are organised, automatically versioned and shared via Nextcloud — via a browser, desktop app or smartphone. Sharing permissions can be controlled in detail. The product comes with 20 GiB of storage space, which can be expanded at any time. Available with your own domain and branding on request. stepping stone operates the platform entirely on Swiss infrastructure — your data remains in Switzerland.

Note: Editing documents via the smartphone app requires a paid OnlyOffice licence.

Companies, SMEs, educational institutions and public sector organisations seeking a resource-efficient office solution with data storage in Switzerland — without reliance on US cloud providers.

Typical use cases: real-time collaborative document editing for teams and departments; secure file storage with access controls for internal and external partners; a resource-efficient alternative to Collabora Online with the same range of features; migration from the Microsoft ecosystem to an open-source solution; organisations with limited infrastructure resources.

Open source. Swiss data centres. More resource-efficient than Collabora Online.

Edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations collaboratively in real time — directly in the browser. Excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. Significantly lower resource consumption than comparable office suites. Automatic versioning — no lost changes. Access via browser, desktop app and smartphone. 20 GiB included, expandable at any time. Custom domain and branding available. Personalised advice and operation provided by stepping stone in Bern.

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Scope of services

Resource-efficient office suite

Edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations directly in the browser — in real time and collaboratively with others. OnlyOffice requires significantly fewer resources than comparable solutions and is fully compatible with Microsoft Office formats. Automatic versioning of all changes.

File storage and access control

Save, organise and share files via Nextcloud. Granular access rights for internal and external collaboration. 20 GB of storage included, expandable at any time. With your own domain and branding on request.

Supervised operation

Deployment, monitoring, maintenance and support on Swiss infrastructure with personalised advice.

stepping stone takes care of updates and daily backups, so you can focus on your work.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Not at the moment.

You will receive an e-mail when your stoney storage space is 85% full (By default the capacity is set to 85%, please contact us when you would like to adjust this). This message will be send to you daily. There are several options for what to do when your storage is full.

  • You can order more storage. For that you can contact our support and request to enlarge your storage.
  • Delete the data you do not need anymore.

The stepping stone Ltd. relies on moden open source technologies. This is especially prevalent in the case of Nextcloud with its opzimized Functions and state-of-the-art security features. These reasons convinced us to choose Nextcloud.

The quota visible on stoney storage is an user quota and does not reflect the used space or available space on the file system at all. You can define these quotas in the user administration menu. Additionally to the real data the file system used space will also contain the previous and deleted versions of files. These can take up to 50% of the free space until they are cleaned automatically. This however can happen delayed and may need to be done manually in some cases.

Yes, we offer stoney backup.

This depends on your expected amount of data. You can purchase additional storage at any time.

We recommend amenic ag. To let us administer your Domain at amenic ag, please use the following information for the technical contact:
Amenic ID: 3XKY92, stepping stone Ltd., Michael Eichenberger

The first one mentioned uses decimal (SI) and the second one binary (IEC) unit prefixes. The actual sizes are shown in the table beneath.

DecimalBinary
SI unitMeaningIEC unitMeaning
Kilobyte (KB)1 000 ByteKibibyte (KiB)1 024 Byte
Megabyte1 000 000 ByteMebibyte (MiB)1 048 576 Byte
Gigabyte (GB)1 000 000 000 ByteGibibyte (GiB)1 073 741 824 Byte
Terabyte (TB)1 000 000 000 000 ByteTebibyte (TiB)1 099 511 627 776 Byte
Petabyte (PB)1 000 000 000 000 000 BytePebibyte (PiB)1 125 899 906 842 624 Byte
Exabyte (EB)1 000 000 000 000 000 000 ByteExbibyte (EiB)1 152 921 504 606 846 976 Byte

More information can be found on Wikipedia.

The stepping stone Ltd. authoritative DNS servers are: 
ns-01.stepping-stone.ch --> 194.176.109.201 
ns-02.stepping-stone.ch --> 194.176.109.252
ns-03.stepping-stone.ch --> 185.85.124.78
ns-04.stepping-stone.ch --> 185.85.124.113

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