Cal.rs Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Cal.rs hosting and let people book time with you from your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Cal.rs 1.19.0 image as a single container with an embedded SQLite database, creates the administrator from the email you enter, generates the password, mounts a persistent volume and publishes your booking pages over HTTPS in minutes — with the data on your own server.

Deploy your Cal.rs

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

What is Cal.rs?

Cal.rs (calrs upstream) is an open-source scheduling platform written in Rust, described by its maintainers as fast, self-hostable scheduling, like Cal.com but written in Rust. You connect a CalDAV calendar, define bookable meeting types and share a link.

It needs no Node.js and no PostgreSQL: it ships as a single binary and keeps its data in a single-file SQLite database. This template runs it as one container on your own xCloud server.

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

Self-hosting a scheduler normally means a container, an administrator account, closing open registration, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first booking. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Cal.rs from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the administrator email — that is the only field.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the community Cal.rs image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with an embedded SQLite database, create the administrator, switch off open registration, mount the calrs_data volume, generate the password and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Create Your First Event Type
Save the generated administrator password from the installation credentials, open your HTTPS Cal.rs URL and sign in at /auth/login. Create your first event type and share its public booking link.

Everything Cal.rs Does, On Your Own Server

Cal.rs runs in full here: event types, public booking pages and team booking on your own domain, with the database in the same container.

Public Booking Pages
Visitors pick a slot from the availability you publish, with a guest timezone picker and month, week and list views of the slot picker.
Event Types And Availability
Each event type carries a duration, buffer times, minimum notice and an availability schedule, with optional host approval before a booking is confirmed.
Team Booking
Teams can book in round-robin mode, where any free member is assigned, or collective mode, where all members must be free.
CalDAV Calendar Sync
Connect a CalDAV calendar such as Nextcloud, Fastmail or iCloud so existing events block your availability. Google Calendar is not supported by upstream.
Email Notifications
Optional SMTP settings send booking, cancellation and approval emails with .ics calendar invites.
Closed Registration
Open registration is switched off after install, so only the administrator you created can sign in until you change it in the admin settings.

Everything You Need To Run Your Booking Pages 24/7

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

Cal.rs 1.19.0 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Cal.rs

Let clients book a call without the email back-and-forth
Share one public booking link; visitors pick from the availability you publish and submit a booking.
Keep your calendar data on your own server
Event types, bookings and sessions live in the SQLite database on your server's calrs_data volume rather than in a hosted scheduling service.
Book across a small team
Create a team and let Cal.rs assign a free member round-robin, or require every member to be free for a collective meeting.
Keep an existing calendar as the source of truth
Sync a CalDAV calendar so meetings already on it block the slots you offer, and confirmed bookings are written back to it.

Cal.rs Screenshots

Cal.rs dashboard after signing in as the administrator

Cal.rs event type created in the dashboard

Cal.rs public booking page showing the published availability

Cal.rs vs Alternatives

Cal.com: Cal.rs describes itself as Cal.com written in Rust. Per its README it needs no Node.js and no PostgreSQL, using an embedded SQLite database in a single binary.
Calendly: Calendly is a hosted scheduling service. Cal.rs is self-hosted, so the booking data sits on a server you control rather than with a provider.
Easy!Appointments: Another self-hosted booking tool on xCloud, aimed at services, providers and customers such as clinics and salons.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Cal.rs sits alongside other apps on the same server.

$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. Cal.rs itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Booking Pages?

Cal.rs 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.

How do I sign in?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password on the credentials card, at /auth/login on your domain.

Can visitors create accounts?

No. Open registration is switched off after install. You can allow sign-ups or restrict them to your email domain in the admin settings.

Are booking pages public?

Yes, by design: anyone with a booking link can see the availability you publish and submit a booking. Only signed-in users manage event types and calendars.

What runs alongside Cal.rs?

Nothing. It is one container with an embedded SQLite database, so there is no separate database service to run.

Does it work with Google Calendar?

Not directly. Upstream does not currently support Google Calendar; it suggests bridging through a CalDAV server that can subscribe to a Google calendar, such as Nextcloud's calendar app.

Do email notifications and calendar sync work out of the box?

Both are optional and need your own accounts. CalDAV calendar sources and SMTP delivery were not exercised in xCloud's verification because they need external accounts, so configure and test them after install.

How do I change the administrator password?

Change it inside Cal.rs after your first sign-in. The install values are only read on first start, so editing them later has no effect.

What should I back up?

The calrs_data volume, which holds the SQLite database and the generated encryption key. Stored calendar and SMTP passwords are encrypted with that key, so losing the volume loses those saved passwords.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Data on the calrs_data volume — in QA, an event type created before an xCloud Restart was still listed after it, because the volume is persistent.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Cal.rs?

No. The template pins Cal.rs 1.19.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and 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, 128 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 15 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with ample headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Cal.rs?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Cal.rs project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Cal.rs project, which is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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.