Bracket Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Run swiss, single-elimination and round-robin tournaments with court scheduling and public dashboards, on a server you own. Bracket is free and open source; we handle the server, the HTTPS and the first admin account.

Deploy your Bracket

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

From Sign-Up to a Live Bracket In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Bracket normally means wiring up PostgreSQL, the backend, the frontend and a reverse proxy by hand before you can schedule a single match. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Bracket from the OneClick catalog. Enter the administrator email for the first Bracket account — xCloud generates the password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Bracket v2.2.5 backend and frontend images alongside PostgreSQL 17 and an nginx proxy, create the database and your account, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Start Using It
Sign in with the administrator email and the generated password shown in your credentials panel. Create a club, then a tournament, add teams and stages, and share the public dashboard link.

Everything Bracket Does, On Your Own Server

Bracket runs in full here — a self-hosted tournament system, on infrastructure you control.

Swiss, Elimination And Round-Robin
Supports single-elimination, round-robin and swiss formats, with multiple stages and groups per tournament.
Drag-And-Drop Court Scheduling
Drag matches onto courts or move them to a different start time; swiss rounds can be scheduled automatically.
Public Spectator Dashboards
Customisable public dashboard pages with your own logo, viewable by anyone with the link — no account required to watch.
Multiple Clubs, Multiple Tournaments
Run multiple clubs, each with its own tournaments, teams and players, from one instance.
Generated Administrator Login
The first account is created from the administrator email you enter and a generated password, on first start only.
Backed By Two Persistent Volumes
bracket_db holds users, clubs, tournaments, teams and matches; bracket_static holds uploaded logos — both survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Tournament Management 24/7

Managed hosting for Bracket, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Bracket 2.2.5 deployed instantly
PostgreSQL 17 database included
Generated administrator password
Public dashboards, no login needed
Free SSL certificate
Automatic backups
Security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Bracket. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More clubs, bigger brackets and busier dashboards.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Bracket alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Bracket on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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$4per server / month

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The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Tournament?

Bracket on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the schedule. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What makes Bracket different from a spreadsheet?

It builds the schedule for you across formats and stages, lets you drag matches between courts and times, and publishes live dashboards for spectators.

How do I sign in?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password in the credentials panel.

What runs alongside Bracket?

A PostgreSQL database, the backend API, the web frontend and a small nginx proxy, all managed for you.

Can spectators see results without an account?

Yes. Anyone with a tournament's public dashboard link can view it; everything else requires login.

What should I back up?

The database volume (bracket_db) and the uploaded-logos volume (bracket_static), together — use a PostgreSQL dump or briefly stop the app before a volume snapshot.

Can anyone sign up for an account?

No, not by default — public sign-up is off. You can turn registration on in the Environment editor, but anyone who can then reach the site can create clubs, tournaments and upload logos.

Does Bracket send password-reset emails?

No. Bracket sends no email, so there is no password-reset mail; manage the administrator password directly inside Bracket instead.

Is Bracket free to self-host?

Yes. Bracket is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. What you pay xCloud for is the server it runs on and the management around it.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which is comfortably above that. Measured idle use on the reviewed build was about 276 MiB across all four containers.

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It is a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.