CiviCRM Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy CiviCRM hosting for your nonprofit or membership organisation: a self-hosted nonprofit CRM on your own domain, with no WordPress or Drupal to install first. xCloud runs the pinned CiviCRM 6.19.0 Standalone image with a private MariaDB database and a scheduler container for recurring jobs, generates the admin and database passwords, mounts persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is CiviCRM?

Self-hosted CiviCRM is an open-source nonprofit CRM for associations and membership organisations, written in PHP. Its feature set, as the template documents it, groups into contacts, donations and contribution pages, memberships, events and registration, bulk mailings, campaigns and case management. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and is a self-hosted alternative to hosted nonprofit CRMs such as Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud and Bloomerang.

This template runs the Standalone edition, which does not need WordPress or Drupal. On xCloud it deploys CiviCRM 6.19.0 from the official image, pinned by digest, beside a private MariaDB 10.11 database and a civicrm-cron container that runs scheduled jobs every five minutes. Four named volumes hold the settings file, uploads, extensions and database, and the admin and database passwords are generated for you.

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

A CiviCRM stack normally means an app container, a database, a scheduler for background jobs, an install run, generated credentials, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first contact. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick CiviCRM from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in, because xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official CiviCRM image, pinned by immutable digest, with a private MariaDB 10.11 database kept off the public internet and a civicrm-cron container that runs scheduled jobs every five minutes. The first start installs CiviCRM before the web installer is ever reachable, mounts the civicrm_private, civicrm_public, civicrm_ext and civicrm_db volumes, and publishes the site over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Set Up Mail
Save the admin password from the credentials card, wait a few minutes for the first-start install, then open the HTTPS sign-in page and sign in as admin. Set a real email on the admin contact and configure outbound mail under Administer, System Settings, Outbound Email.

Everything CiviCRM Does, On Your Own Server

CiviCRM runs in full here: the Standalone edition on your own domain, backed by a database you own and a scheduler that keeps recurring jobs running.

Contacts And Donations
Keep your contacts in one CRM and take donations through contribution pages. Payment processors need your own provider and were not exercised in QA.
Memberships
Run memberships for an association or membership organisation, including renewals handled by CiviCRM's scheduled jobs.
Events And Registration
Publish event registration pages that anyone can reach by design, while everything else stays behind a login.
Bulk Mailings And Campaigns
Send bulk mailings and run campaigns. Outbound mail is configured inside CiviCRM with your own provider.
A Bundled Scheduler
CiviCRM has no scheduler of its own, so a bundled civicrm-cron container runs its scheduled jobs every five minutes.
Standalone, No CMS
The Standalone edition does not need WordPress or Drupal, so there is no separate CMS to install or maintain.

Everything You Need To Run Your Nonprofit CRM 24/7

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

CiviCRM 6.19.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin and database passwords generated
Private MariaDB, no published port
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With CiviCRM

Run fundraising from one CRM
A small charity manages contacts, donations and contribution pages together, so supporters are not spread across separate tools, and the team reads gift history from the same records it mails.
Manage an association's members
A membership organisation runs memberships and event registration for its members, with renewals and reminders driven by the bundled scheduler instead of someone remembering to trigger them.
Run CiviCRM Standalone without a CMS
An organisation without a WordPress or Drupal site deploys the Standalone edition on its own, so there is no separate content management system to install, patch or keep in step.
Keep supporter data on your own server
A nonprofit holds personal data about its contacts on a server it controls, with the database private, the admin password generated at install and staff given their own accounts.

CiviCRM Screenshots

CiviCRM dashboard after signing in as the admin user

CiviCRM vs Alternatives

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: Choose CiviCRM as a Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud alternative when you want the CRM, its contact records and uploaded files on a server you own, with an AGPL-3.0 licence rather than a hosted subscription.
Bloomerang: CiviCRM works as a Bloomerang alternative for organisations that want to self-host: the Standalone edition runs on your own domain with a private MariaDB database and a scheduler for mailings and renewals.
EspoCRM: Another open-source CRM you can deploy as a OneClick app, aimed at tracking leads, contacts, accounts, opportunities and cases. CiviCRM is aimed at donations, memberships and events.
Dolibarr: Dolibarr is a self-hosted peer with its own OneClick page. CiviCRM focuses on nonprofit work such as contribution pages, event registration and case management.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if CiviCRM sits alongside other tools 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. CiviCRM itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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CiviCRM 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.
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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.

Do I need WordPress or Drupal to run CiviCRM?

No. This template runs the CiviCRM Standalone edition, which does not need WordPress or Drupal, so there is no CMS to install. You sign in at the CiviCRM login page as admin with the generated password, after the first start finishes installing the database tables.

Can I self-host CiviCRM with Docker?

Yes, and this template is that setup prebuilt: the official civicrm/civicrm 6.19.0 image pinned by digest, a private MariaDB 10.11 container, a civicrm-cron scheduler and four named volumes, behind HTTPS on your domain. It gives you CiviCRM Docker hosting without writing the compose file.

Docker hosting on xCloud

Can CiviCRM take online donations?

Yes, through contribution pages, which anyone can reach by design. Taking card payments needs a payment processor from your own provider, and that was not exercised in QA, so test a processor end to end with a small real transaction before you publish a donation page.

Does CiviCRM send bulk email?

It can send mailings and campaigns, but only once you configure outbound mail under Administer, System Settings, Outbound Email with your own provider; there are no SMTP environment variables. The civicrm-cron container then runs the scheduled mailing jobs every five minutes, since the image has no cron of its own.

How do I upgrade CiviCRM?

Nothing upgrades CiviCRM by itself: the container is pinned to CiviCRM 6.19.0 by digest, so existing sites stay on that version until you adopt a newer template version. Back up the civicrm_private, civicrm_public, civicrm_ext and civicrm_db volumes first, read the upstream release notes, then move on your own schedule.

How do I back up CiviCRM?

Take one backup of all four volumes together: civicrm_private, civicrm_public, civicrm_ext and civicrm_db, because the MariaDB data and the settings file belong to the same install. Losing civicrm_private makes encrypted stored values unreadable. Test a restore before you rely on it.

Backups in xCloud

Is CiviCRM free?

Yes. CiviCRM is open source under AGPL-3.0, so there is no licence to buy for the CRM itself. Your cost is the dedicated Cloud VPS that hosts it. Outbound mail and any payment processor are separate services you bring yourself, each with its own provider terms and fees.

How long does the first start take?

A few minutes. The app container installs CiviCRM into the database before Apache starts, so the public web installer is never reachable, and the site answers once that finishes. If the install fails, the container exits and restarts rather than serving the installer.

What are the server requirements for CiviCRM cloud hosting?

The template asks for 768 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk; the stack idled at about 240 MiB in QA. This page sells the 6 GB Cloud VPS, which leaves headroom above that floor for MariaDB and the scheduler beside the app.

Who can reach the site without logging in?

The sign-in page and the public pages you build, such as contribution pages, event registration and profile forms, are open to anyone by design. Everything else needs a login, so keep the admin password private and create separate staff accounts under Administer, Users and Permissions.

Are the passwords visible anywhere after install?

The upstream installer writes the generated database and admin passwords to the app container's Docker logs on the first start. Reading them needs server or Docker access, so clear or rotate those logs if you share that access, and change the admin password inside CiviCRM.

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.