Every month you pay to keep your photos, files, and shows on someone else's computer — and you pay twice. Once on your card, and once with your data: it gets scanned, profiled, and sometimes leaked. The price quietly creeps up, the terms change, and the day you stop paying, you can get locked out of your own memories.
An Island flips that. One box, in your home, that you own. Your stuff lives on hardware on your shelf — not a server farm in another state.
We spec and assemble the right machine for your home — on a refurbished or purpose-built server, sized to your storage and streaming needs and built to a real standard.
We set up your private apps, move your stuff over (your photo library imports cleanly, dates intact), and make it reachable from your phone anywhere — without opening your home to the internet.
For your first 3 months, we're on call to help you settle in — ironing out access, answering questions, and making sure everything runs the way you expect. Ongoing monitoring and care beyond that is available through Lighthouse.
Lighthouse is our quiet watch-keeper. It keeps an eye on your devices and your Island around the clock, heads off trouble early, and keeps everything updated and backed up — all looked after by a real person who picks up the phone.
Tell us what you'd love to stop renting, and we'll map out an Island that fits your home. No pressure, no jargon — just a straight answer.