Hosting

Where Curiosity hosts your data

Overview

Curiosity Workspaces offers several options for data hosting/storage, all built with data security in mind:

• Cloud workspaces - hosted by Curiosity, encrypted at rest with encrypted incremental backups

• On-premise workspaces - hosted on your infrastructure, also support encryption at rest and encrypted incremental backups

The following types of data are stored in a workspace:

• User data (email, name, hashed and salted password) for login

• Uploaded or synced files, depending on the integration

• Content extracted from files/emails/sites

• Preview images (i.e. thumbnails) and rendered files (i.e. PDF previews)

• Indexes for text-search, neural-search, filtering

Cloud Workspaces

If you choose a workspace managed by Curiosity, your data will be hosted on the cloud provider and region of your choice during the workspace setup. By default, Curiosity uses servers located in Germany from the German cloud provider Hetzner. Other cloud options (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) are also available.

Data in a cloud workspace is encrypted in transit and at rest. You can find out more about encryption here.

On-premises / Self-hosted workspaces

If you choose to deploy a Curiosity workspace on your own, the data is hosted inside your network. That can be done locally (on your device - for example during development), in a private cloud instance (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP), or on servers run by you (on-prem).

To configure encryption at rest on your self-hosted workspace, follow the instructions on the Encryption page. Encryption in transit depends on your deployment setup and is usually configured at the ingress point of your hosting environment.