BudgE Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy BudgE hosting and run envelope budgeting with monthly rollover on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned BudgE 0.0.9 container, generates the JWT signing secret instead of an upstream default, keeps the SQLite database on a persistent volume and publishes the app over HTTPS, so your accounts, budgets and transactions stay with you.

Deploy your BudgE

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

What is BudgE?

BudgE (pronounced "budgie", like the bird) is an open-source "budgeting with envelopes" personal finance app. You give every unit of money a job by assigning it to an envelope, and unspent amounts roll over month to month. It manages bank accounts, credit cards and tracking accounts, imports transactions from CSV and supports several users, each with their own budgets.

On xCloud it runs as one container on your own server, published over HTTPS, with its SQLite database on a persistent volume. Upstream describes BudgE as alpha software that is still under active development, so back up the volume before you rely on it.

From Sign-Up to Your First Budget In Just 3 Easy Steps

A BudgE setup normally means a container, a signing secret, a data volume, a domain and a certificate before you can assign your first envelope. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick BudgE from the OneClick catalog and choose your domain and target server. There are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the LinuxServer.io BudgE container, pinned by immutable digest, as a single service with nothing else to run beside it, generate a 64-character JWT signing secret, mount the budge_config volume that holds the SQLite database and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Close Sign-Up
Open your HTTPS BudgE URL and register your own account right away; there is no default admin. Then set REGISTRATION_DISABLED=true in the Environment editor and Save & Redeploy to close public sign-up, and start assigning money to envelopes.

Everything BudgE Does, On Your Own Server

BudgE 0.0.9 runs in full here: an envelope-budgeting app you own, with its database on a volume you control.

Envelope Budgeting
Assign money to envelopes with monthly rollover, in the style of Aspire Budgeting, budgetzero and Buckets.
Bank, Credit Card And Tracking Accounts
Keep standard bank accounts, credit cards with payment handling and tracking accounts in one place.
CSV Import And Export
Import transactions from a CSV file and export an account's transactions when you need them elsewhere.
Multi-User, Separate Budgets
Each registered user gets their own private set of budgets, so a household can share one instance.
Generated Signing Secret
Sessions are signed with a generated 64-character JWT secret rather than an upstream default.
SQLite On A Persistent Volume
Accounts, budgets, payees, transactions and balances live in budge.db on the budge_config volume and survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Budgeting App 24/7

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

BudgE 0.0.9 deployed instantly
LinuxServer.io image pinned by digest
Generated JWT signing secret
Data on a persistent volume
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With BudgE

Budget with envelopes
Assign every unit of income to an envelope and let unspent money roll over into the next month.
Keep finance data off third-party services
Hold your accounts and transactions in a database on your own server rather than with a hosted budgeting service.
Share one instance across a household
Register an account per person; each user's budgets stay separate and private.
Bring in existing transactions
Import transactions from a CSV file and export an account's transactions whenever you need a copy.

BudgE Screenshots

BudgE account view showing a transaction in a bank account

BudgE showing the same data after an xCloud Restart

BudgE vs Alternatives

Actual Budget: Another self-hosted envelope-budgeting app; BudgE is alpha-stage software with a built-in SQLite database and multi-user registration you close yourself.
Firefly III: A self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking income, expenses and accounts; BudgE is organised around envelopes with monthly rollover instead.
Aspire Budgeting: An envelope-budgeting tool that upstream names as an inspiration for BudgE.
Buckets: Another envelope-budgeting tool that upstream names as an inspiration; BudgE is a web app you host on your own server.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if BudgE sits alongside other finance and productivity apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 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. BudgE itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Budgeting App?

BudgE on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. 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 BudgE different from a spreadsheet or a hosted budgeting app?

BudgE is built around envelope budgeting with monthly rollover. It manages bank, credit-card and tracking accounts and imports transactions from CSV. It is open source (GPL-3.0), and on xCloud your data stays in a database on your own server.

How do I sign in the first time?

BudgE has no default admin. Open your HTTPS URL and register an account on the registration page. After everyone who needs an account has registered, set REGISTRATION_DISABLED=true in the Environment editor and Save & Redeploy.

Is registration open to anyone?

Yes, by default. Until you close it, anyone who can reach the site can sign up. Register your own account straight after install, then set REGISTRATION_DISABLED=true and Save & Redeploy.

Can more than one person use it?

Yes. BudgE supports multiple users and each user's budgets are separate and private. There is no shared-owner or admin role.

What runs alongside BudgE?

Nothing. It is a single LinuxServer.io container with a built-in SQLite database, published through xCloud's HTTPS.

What is the JWT secret and should I share it?

It is the generated 64-character value BudgE uses to sign sessions, shown in your protected installation credentials. Keep it private. Changing it logs everyone out.

What should I back up?

The budge_config volume, which holds the budge.db database and the logs. Stop BudgE, or use an application-consistent snapshot, before copying the SQLite file, keep a copy off the server and test a restore with the same image version.

Backups in xCloud

Is BudgE ready for serious use?

Upstream describes BudgE as alpha software that is still under active development. In QA, unauthenticated API calls returned 500 rather than 401 (no data was returned), the API docs page at /api/docs was publicly reachable, and very large CSV imports may exceed the backend's default request body limit. Back up regularly.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update BudgE?

No. The template pins BudgE 0.0.9 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then change the readable tag and the digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; idle use measured in QA was about 86 MiB with a peak near 376 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves generous headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Accounts, budgets, payees, transactions and balances on the budge_config volume, and signed-in sessions stayed valid after an xCloud Restart in QA.

Is xCloud officially partnered with BudgE?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the BudgE project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source BudgE app.

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.