CouchTube Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Pick a channel and watch whatever is on air now — News, Music, Science, Documentary and more — like a TV, from a line-up you control. xCloud configures the pinned CouchTube image, an authentication gateway, the persistent channel database and the HTTPS reverse proxy in minutes.

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

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

Self-hosting CouchTube normally means an authentication gateway, a persistent database, a domain and a certificate before you can watch anything. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick CouchTube from the OneClick catalog. Optionally change the Admin Username — default admin — and xCloud generates the password.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up the pinned CouchTube image behind an authentication gateway, mount the persistent channel database, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.

  3. Step 03

    Sign In And Start Watching

    Open your HTTPS CouchTube URL and sign in with the username and password from the browser's login prompt. Pick a channel from the default line-up, or import your own channel list.

Everything CouchTube Does, On Your Own Server

CouchTube runs in full here — the same lean-back, scheduled viewing as any hosted alternative, on infrastructure you control.

  • Lean-Back TV Viewing

    Pick a channel and watch whatever is on air now, with no feed and no recommendation algorithm deciding for you.

  • A Ready Default Line-Up

    News, Music, Science, Documentary and more are loaded on first start, so there's something to watch immediately.

  • Bring Your Own Channels

    Import a channel list from a JSON file URL, or enable the built-in channel editor to curate your own line-up.

  • Private By Default

    The whole app and API sit behind a username and generated password — nothing is open to the public.

  • Scheduled, Not On-Demand

    Everyone who tunes into a channel sees the same thing at the same moment, the way broadcast TV works.

  • Your Line-Up, Your Server

    Your channel list is stored in a persistent SQLite database and survives an xCloud restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Channel Playback 24/7

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

  • CouchTube deployed instantly
  • Generated admin login
  • Authentication gateway on every request
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • Server security updates included
  • 30+ server locations
  • Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Most popular

A private lean-back channel for a family or household.

$24.99per month

  • 6 GB RAM
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 100 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
Get started

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More channels and more concurrent viewers.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

CouchTube alongside a whole self-hosted media stack.

$84.99per month

  • 24 GB RAM
  • 8 vCPU cores
  • 300 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
Get started

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. CouchTube itself is free under the GPL-3.0 licence.

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

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

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Start your journey without cost.

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  • 1 server
  • 10 sites
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Starter

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Your rate with 2–5 servers connected.

$5per server / month

  • 2–5 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Professional

The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

  • 6–10 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
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Agency

The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

  • 11+ servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
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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.

Ready To Own Your Channel Line-Up?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

What is CouchTube?

CouchTube turns YouTube into a lean-back TV: it plays videos from curated channel lists and schedules them by time of day, so everyone who tunes into a channel sees the same thing at the same moment.

What makes CouchTube different from YouTube itself?

There is no feed or recommendations: you pick a channel and watch what is scheduled for the current time, like a TV, from a line-up you control.

How do I sign in?

Use the username and generated password from the installation credentials in the browser's login prompt. CouchTube has no user accounts of its own.

Can I use my own channels?

Yes. Import a channel list from a JSON file URL, or enable the channel editor with EDITOR_MODE=full. The editor is off by default; set it to readonly to view channels without editing.

What runs alongside CouchTube?

A small authentication gateway that protects the whole app; nothing else. The CouchTube server itself has no published port of its own.

What does xCloud configure automatically?

The admin username, a generated password, the authentication gateway, the persistent channel database, the domain and the HTTPS route.

Is it safe to share the login?

Share it only with people you trust. Anyone signed in can replace or delete the channel list, and importing a list makes the server fetch the URL they give.

What should I back up?

The couchtube_data volume, which contains the channel database (couchtube.db). Copy it while the app is stopped.

Does xCloud automatically update CouchTube?

No. Upstream ships only a moving main image with no version tags, so an update means pinning a newer digest after reading upstream's commit history — a catalog re-sync affects new installations only.

Does every video play?

No. Videos that are private, age-restricted or block embedding are skipped by the player, the same as any embedded YouTube player.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 128 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 2 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, comfortable headroom above that floor.

Is xCloud officially partnered with CouchTube or YouTube?

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

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It's a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there.

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.

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