SkyVault

Self-hosted storage forces an uncomfortable trade-off. You get ownership and privacy, but you lose everything that makes hosted cloud storage usable: you can only find a file if you remember where you put it, scanned documents are invisible to search, duplicates accumulate silently across years of uploads, and access control is usually a single shared password. Meanwhile a NAS exposed to the internet is a standing target, and most home and small-office deployments have no way to notice they are being probed.

SkyVault layers intelligence and security on top of ordinary file storage. Uploaded documents and images pass through an OCR and embedding pipeline, so their contents — not just their filenames — become searchable in natural language. Perceptual and semantic comparison surfaces near-duplicate files that byte-level hashing misses. Access is governed by role-based permissions rather than a shared credential, and an anomaly-detection layer monitors access patterns and authentication attempts, flagging behaviour that departs from the established baseline. Networking is closed by default, with encrypted remote access rather than open port forwarding.