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Managed step-ca hosting

Protect internal services and systems using certificates from your own PKI. We configure step-ca with an agreed trust chain and certificate issuance policies.

From €60.00 net per month

  • Your own trust chain
  • Automate certificates
  • Control issuance

Four plans for your application

Choose a plan and order in the NUXOA Manager. We agree provisioning and required access with you.

250.00 € net one-time setup

Managed services included in every package

  • 250.00 € net one-time setup
  • Monitoring and updates
  • DDoS protection
  • 7 daily on-site backups
  • 2 weekly off-site backups
  • 24/7 support through our ticket system

We retain seven daily backups on-site and two additional weekly backups at a separate location.

All managed packages have a 12-month contract term and a 3-month cancellation notice period.
Save with advance payment: 3 months: 1% · 6 months: 3% · 12 months: 5% off the package price. The contract term applies independently of the payment interval.

Standard package

step-ca S

Compact environment to get started
250.00 € net one-time setup

€60.00 net per month
CPU
2 vCPU
RAM
2 GB
NVMe storage
25 GB
Included traffic
20 TB
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Standard package

step-ca L

Growing data and more concurrent activity
250.00 € net one-time setup

€140.00 net per month
CPU
4 vCPU
RAM
8 GB
NVMe storage
100 GB
Included traffic
20 TB
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Standard package

step-ca XL

High resource demand and larger datasets
250.00 € net one-time setup

€220.00 net per month
CPU
6 vCPU
RAM
16 GB
NVMe storage
200 GB
Included traffic
20 TB
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All prices per month excluding VAT. Specifications cover the entire instance, including the operating system, application and required services. Usable capacity and performance depend on data volume and concurrent usage.

Optional upgrades

Add processing power, RAM or NVMe storage to your package. We will discuss the upgrade with you to match your server's requirements.

Additional resourcePrice / month
1 virtual CPU (vCPU)€8.00
1 GB RAM€6.00
100 GB NVMe storage€10.00
500 GB NVMe storage€35.00
1,000 GB NVMe storage€60.00

All upgrade prices are monthly, in addition to the package price, and exclude VAT.

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The technology behind your managed server

  • Computing power

    AMD EPYC processors and ECC memory power our hosts. Your package defines the vCPU and RAM resources for your application.

  • NVMe storage

    Samsung NVMe SSDs provide storage for your virtual servers, holding the operating system, your applications and their data.

  • Three data copies

    Ceph stores three copies of your data on separate hosts. This replication complements the backups used to restore earlier versions of your data.

Redundant connectivity

The hosts have redundant connectivity of at least 2 × 25 Gbit/s. Bandwidth is shared. Each host connects to the Ceph storage network at a minimum of 2 × 100 Gbit/s.

Traffic & billing

20 TB traffic per month included. Additional traffic: €1.50 per TB, excluding VAT. Alternatively, we can arrange a Gbit/s flat rate or 95th-percentile billing.

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Managed operations

The service includes a private CA instance, basic PKI configuration and handover. Setup costs €250 net once. The root key remains offline or with the customer; the intermediate CA performs online issuance. HSM/KMS and high availability are planned separately.

Your own trust chain

An offline root and issuing intermediate CA follow an agreed key management plan.

Automate certificates

Configure ACME and other provisioners for your internal services.

Control issuance

Permissions, names and certificate lifetimes are agreed before launch.

What we clarify before you start

  • Internal services and required certificates
  • Distributing the trust anchor to endpoints
  • Key ownership and recovery procedures
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Edition and scope

The service uses the open-source step-ca project to issue private certificates. Publicly trusted TLS certificates are available through our separate certificate offering.

Migration and setup

Existing trust chains, keys and certificate lifetimes are reviewed first. Key handover and recovery require an agreed secure process. Updates do not reinitialise an existing CA.

Experiences with NUXOA

Selected customer reviews from Trustpilot.

  • Trustpilot 5 out of 5 stars

    „… very friendly, knowledgeable and helpful.“

    Benny Schneider
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  • Trustpilot 5 out of 5 stars

    „Good communication and great service.“

    Ingo Lücker
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  • Trustpilot 5 out of 5 stars

    „… everything runs reliably and without problems.“

    Tobias
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Selection checked in October 2026

Questions about the service

Do browsers automatically trust these certificates?

No. Your private PKI's public root trust anchor must be distributed to the intended devices. Planning and integration with endpoint management are agreed separately.

What does the managed plan include?

Your own instance, standard installation, technical updates, monitoring and the listed backups. Resources cover the operating system, application and required services together. Migration, custom integrations and high availability are agreed separately.

Need a different configuration?

We plan a suitable configuration and your migration with you. Migration and custom workflows are quoted separately.

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All managed servers