CloudBox Guardian · in development

Your CCTV, backed up off the premises

If someone walks off with the recorder, the footage goes with it. Guardian copies it off-site using the FTP upload your DVR already has — no new box, nothing to install.

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This is not available to buy yet. Guardian is being built now and this page describes what it will do, not what you can sign up for today. Nothing here is live, and the prices below are intended rather than final. If you want it when it lands, tell us and we’ll come back to you.

Our Vault backup service is live today if you need off-site backup for a NAS or a server.

The idea

Nearly every DVR and NVR made in the last decade can already upload clips to an FTP server when it detects motion — Hikvision, Dahua, Reolink and most of the rest. Guardian gives you somewhere to send them.

No hardware

You fill in four fields on a settings page your recorder already has. Competitors ship a bridge box for £85–£465; there is nothing to ship, install or replace.

Unlimited cameras

Priced per site, not per camera — because a camera on motion upload costs pennies to store. Add cameras without adding to the bill.

Watch it in the browser

A timeline per camera per day, so finding the clip that matters doesn’t mean sitting in front of the recorder.

How the encryption is meant to work

We want to be precise about this, because it is easy to overclaim.

Encrypted the moment it arrives — we hold no key that can open it. Footage is sealed to your key as it lands, and the key that could unseal it is derived from your passphrase in your browser and never reaches us. It is not end-to-end encryption: your recorder sends the clip to us over TLS, so it exists in our memory for the instant before we seal it. Anyone claiming end-to-end from a stock DVR is describing something the DVR cannot do.

Intended pricing

Per site, unlimited cameras, with storage as the thing you actually choose. Not final.

PlanStorageRoughlyPer month
Starter250 GB~18 cameras on motion clips£9.99
Business1 TB~10 cameras recording on motion£19.99
Pro3 TBcontinuous recording, several cameras£39.99

Longer retention simply means more stored, so it prices itself — no separate retention tiers to decode.

Want it when it’s ready?

Tell us what recorder you run and roughly how many cameras, and we’ll let you know when you can try it.

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