Chevereto Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Chevereto hosting on xCloud lets you run your own self-hosted image hosting and video sharing site, free of third-party platform rules and closures. Deploy Chevereto 4.5.7 and xCloud brings up the pinned image with MySQL 8.4 and Redis 8 already wired up, creates your administrator account, runs the scheduler and keeps uploads and the database on persistent storage behind HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Chevereto?

Self-hosted Chevereto is a self-hosted image and video sharing platform. Upstream describes a media-sharing website you run on your own server, with images, videos, categories, tags and albums, user accounts with registration, profiles, 2FA and roles, granular privacy controls and an API. It is a self-hosted alternative to services such as Imgur and Flickr, and the free edition is released under AGPL-3.0.

On xCloud the template runs the free Chevereto 4.5.7 image, pinned by digest, with private MySQL 8.4 and Redis 8 containers and a second container that runs scheduled jobs every minute. Five named volumes hold uploads, user images, custom pages, the database and Redis. The administrator account comes from the install form, and Lite and Pro features are not included.

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

Self-hosting Chevereto normally means a database, a cache, a scheduler, a domain and a certificate before the first image ever uploads. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Chevereto from the OneClick catalog. Enter a domain and your administrator username and email.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Chevereto 4.5.7 image with MySQL and Redis, generate your administrator password, and publish the site over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Start Uploading
Sign in as the administrator, upload your first image, then configure an SMTP provider so account emails can be sent.

Everything Chevereto Does, On Your Own Server

Chevereto's free edition runs in full here — image hosting with albums, user accounts and a scheduler, on infrastructure you control.

Your Own Domain
Host and share images on your own domain, free of third-party platform rules or closures.
Albums And Accounts
Organise uploads into albums and give people their own user accounts and profiles.
Large Uploads
The web uploader sends 16 MB chunks with a 2 GB per-file limit, set end to end.
Comes Complete
MySQL 8.4, Redis 8 and a scheduler that runs every minute are all wired up for you — nothing else to provision.
Closed Install Wizard
The public /install wizard is disabled. Only the administrator you entered on the form can sign in at first.
Survives A Restart
Uploaded images, the database and signed-in sessions all survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Image Hosting 24/7

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

Chevereto 4.5.7 deployed instantly
Administrator account created for you
Free SSL certificate
Automatic server backups
Security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Chevereto

Run an image sharing platform of your own
A community or brand opens an upload site under its own domain, with its own rules, instead of depending on a third-party host that can change its terms or shut down.
Host screenshots and media for a product
A software team uploads screenshots, images and short videos to its own site and links them in docs and issue threads, keeping every file on storage it controls.
Give a group albums and user accounts
A photography club lets members register, organise pictures into albums with categories and tags, and set privacy per upload, using Chevereto's accounts, profiles and roles.
Upload large files through chunked requests
A creator uploads big media files through the web uploader, which sends 16 MB chunks with a 2 GB per-file limit end to end, so large uploads do not depend on one huge request.

Chevereto vs Alternatives

Imgur: Choose Chevereto as an Imgur alternative when you want your own image sharing site: the uploads, albums and accounts live on a Cloud VPS you control, under rules you set.
Flickr: Chevereto works as a Flickr alternative for hosting your own photo and video library. Users register, build albums and set privacy, and the files stay on volumes you can back up.
Lychee: In a Chevereto vs Lychee comparison, Lychee is a self-hosted photo-management peer with its own OneClick page. Chevereto is built as a multi-user media-sharing site with registration, roles and 2FA.
Piwigo: Piwigo is another self-hosted gallery with its own OneClick page. Chevereto is built around both images and videos, with categories, tags, albums and an API for integrations.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

A growing image library with more concurrent uploads.

$59.99per month

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

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Chevereto 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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Chevereto's free edition is open source under AGPLv3; this is the managed server it runs on. The template manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk plus image-library space; idle use measured on QA was ~532 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier. Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore.

Managed hosting

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

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

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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 Host Your Own Image Gallery?

Chevereto on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own your images. 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 install Chevereto with Docker?

You do not have to. This template runs the chevereto/chevereto 4.5.7 image pinned by digest with private MySQL 8.4 and Redis 8 containers and a scheduler container, behind HTTPS on your domain. It is Chevereto Docker hosting prebuilt, so there is no compose file or install wizard to run.

Is Chevereto free?

This template runs the free edition, which is released under AGPL-3.0, so there is no licence fee for it. Lite and Pro are separate commercial editions and are not part of this template. Your cost is the dedicated Cloud VPS, and offering the app over a network carries AGPL obligations.

Can I self-host an Imgur alternative with Chevereto?

Yes. Chevereto is a self-hosted image and video sharing platform, so you can run an upload site on your own domain with accounts, albums and privacy controls. It is a category alternative, not a copy of Imgur, so check that its features cover what you need.

Does Chevereto support video uploads?

Yes. Upstream describes Chevereto as image and video sharing software, with support for images and videos alongside categories, tags and albums. Uploads through the web uploader are sent in 16 MB chunks, and the proxy and PHP limits allow up to 2 GB per file.

Does Chevereto have an API?

Upstream lists an extensive API for integration among Chevereto's customization features. This template does not set up any integration for you. Note that if the domain sits behind Cloudflare, a single API request over about 100 MB is rejected at the edge, unlike the chunked web uploader.

Can I run several sites from one Chevereto install?

Upstream lists multi-tenant hosting, running multiple independent sites from a single installation, among its features, and compares it across editions. This template does not configure that for you, and it runs the free edition, so check the editions comparison before planning on it.

What does Chevereto need to run for cloud hosting?

The manifest asks for 2048 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk plus space for your image library, and idle use in QA was about 532 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB Cloud VPS, which suits a Chevereto cloud site with its database and Redis alongside.

How do I back up Chevereto?

Back up the image volumes and the database together: chevereto_storage, chevereto_users, chevereto_pages and chevereto_database, and keep the encryption key material and database credentials with the copy. Test a restore on a disposable install before you rely on it.

Backups in xCloud

How do I update Chevereto?

Updates are deliberate. The template pins Chevereto 4.5.7, MySQL 8.4 and Redis 8 by exact digest, and a catalogue re-sync affects new installs only. Read the upstream release notes, take an application-consistent backup, change the pins together, then check login, an upload and the scheduler.

Can I change the Chevereto encryption key?

No. ENCRYPTION_KEY_HEX is set at install and must never change, because stored secrets become unreadable if it does. Keep the displayed key material with your backups. Likewise, editing ADMIN_PASSWORD later does not rotate the account; change that password inside Chevereto.

Is the Chevereto installer open to the public?

No. The public install wizard is closed by the CLI installer, so the first account is the administrator you entered on the install form, and anonymous dashboard visits redirect to login. Outbound email stays off until you configure SMTP in the admin dashboard.

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.