Christmas Community Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Christmas Community hosting on xCloud gives your family a private, self-hosted gift wishlist app on your own domain, so everyone can see what people want and avoid double-gifting. Deploy Christmas Community 1.42.0 and xCloud runs the pinned image as one container with an embedded database, creates your administrator before the app starts, and publishes it over HTTPS on your own domain in just a few minutes.

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What is Christmas Community?

Self-hosted Christmas Community is a web app for your family's Christmas shopping. Upstream's README says its purpose is to give your whole family one simple place to find gifts that people want and avoid double-gifting, and the template README adds that each person keeps a wishlist that others can see and mark items on as bought without the owner finding out. It is a self-hosted alternative to wishlist services such as Giftster, licensed AGPL-3.0.

On xCloud the template runs wingysam/christmas-community 1.42.0, pinned by digest, as one container with an embedded database and no separate database service. A single christmas_community_data volume holds the databases, profile pictures and the session secret. The administrator is created before the app starts, and the administrator makes accounts for everyone else.

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

Running a family wishlist yourself normally means a container, a data volume, a first-run admin account, a domain and a certificate before anyone adds a gift idea. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Christmas Community from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, and optionally change the administrator username (default admin); the password is generated unless you set your own.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the upstream Christmas Community image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with an embedded database, create the administrator account before the first start, mount the christmas_community_data volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain. The first start creates its databases and usually takes about a minute.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Your First Gift Idea
Save the administrator password from the protected installation credentials, open your HTTPS Christmas Community URL and sign in. Create accounts for family members inside the app, then add the first wishlist item.

Everything Christmas Community Does, On Your Own Server

Christmas Community runs in full here: a wishlist app for your family and friends, on your own domain, with its data on a volume you control.

A Wishlist For Every Person
Each person keeps their own wishlist, and family and friends can browse it and mark items as bought without the owner finding out.
Avoid Double-Gifting
Upstream built it as a simple place to find the gifts people want and to avoid double-gifting.
Login Required By Default
Wishlists need a login unless you opt in to LISTS_PUBLIC or a shared GUEST_PASSWORD, and the administrator creates the accounts.
Profile Pictures
Users can have profile pictures, stored on the data volume, with the upload size limit set to 5 MB in this template.
Single List Mode
Set SINGLE_LIST=true so only the administrator's list is available, as upstream suggests for a wedding or birthday.
One Container, No Database To Run
An embedded database lives in the same container, so there is no separate database service to configure or keep private.

Everything You Need To Run Your Family Wishlist 24/7

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

Christmas Community 1.42.0 deployed instantly
Upstream image pinned by digest
Administrator login generated for you
No open setup page to claim
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Christmas Community

A family gift list app for the holidays
Each relative keeps a wishlist, and the others see it and mark items as bought, so gifts are not duplicated and the owner is not told what was already taken.
Run a single list for a wedding or birthday
An organiser uses single-list mode so the app shows only one list, the administrator's, for an occasion where guests simply need to know what to buy.
Share lists with guests
A host makes lists readable without an account by setting LISTS_PUBLIC, or gives guests one shared password, instead of creating an account for every relative.
Keep wishlists off retail sites
A family that would rather not keep its wishlists on a shopping site's account hosts the app itself, with lists, accounts and profile pictures on a volume it can back up.

Christmas Community Screenshots

Christmas Community signed in as the administrator on an xCloud-hosted install

A wishlist item added in Christmas Community

Christmas Community vs Alternatives

Giftster: Choose Christmas Community as a Giftster alternative when you want your family's wishlists on a server you host. It is a category comparison, and the app is built for one family or group per instance.
Amazon Wish Lists: Christmas Community is an Amazon Wish Lists alternative that is not tied to one retailer: items can come from any shop. Product details are fetched from supported retail sites, so new sites may need contributed scrapers.
Spreadsheets and shared notes: Choose Christmas Community over a shared sheet or note when you want each person to have their own list, with others marking items as bought without the owner finding out.
Group chats: Instead of collecting gift ideas in a group chat, Christmas Community keeps one list per person with items others can mark as bought, administered by the person who runs the family site.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Christmas Community sits alongside other household 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. Christmas Community itself is licensed by its maintainer under AGPL-3.0.

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Christmas Community 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.

Is Christmas Community free and open source?

Yes. The repository carries the GNU Affero General Public License v3, so the app has no licence charge. xCloud bills for the dedicated Cloud VPS, and the wishlists stay on your own volume. This template adds no paid tier.

Can I run Christmas Community with Docker?

Yes, and upstream's README gives a docker run command. This template does it for you: the wingysam/christmas-community 1.42.0 image, pinned by digest, as one container with a data volume behind HTTPS. It is Christmas Community Docker hosting without a compose file.

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How much RAM does a Christmas Community cloud server need?

Christmas Community needs 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 2 GB of disk, and the 6 GB Cloud VPS sold here is plenty for a Christmas Community cloud install. A single container with an embedded database suits one family.

Can the gift giver see what others bought?

Upstream's purpose is to find gifts that people want and avoid double-gifting, and the template README says others can mark items as bought without the owner finding out. The list owner therefore does not see which of their items were taken.

Can guests view Christmas Community wishlists?

Not by default. Wishlists require a login unless you opt in: setting LISTS_PUBLIC to true makes lists readable without logging in, and GUEST_PASSWORD lets guests read lists with one shared password. Anyone who can reach the site can still see the login page.

How do users reset a password in Christmas Community?

The app cannot send email and there are no SMTP settings, so password resets are links the administrator generates for the user. The administrator also creates accounts for everyone else inside the app, since public sign-up is not exposed.

How do I sign in to a new Christmas Community site?

Open your HTTPS URL and sign in with the administrator username and password from your credentials. The account is created automatically before the app starts, only while the user database is empty, so the public setup page is never exposed to visitors.

How do I back up Christmas Community?

Take a backup of the christmas_community_data volume, which holds the databases, profile pictures and the session secret. Everything lives there, so one copy keeps wishlists, accounts and pictures. Stop the container for a consistent copy and test a restore.

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How do I update Christmas Community?

Version 1.42.0 is pinned by digest and the container never runs npm update at runtime, so nothing upgrades on its own. When xCloud publishes a newer Christmas Community template version, back up the data volume, read upstream's notes, and adopt that template version.

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.