Dkron Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Replace scattered crontabs with one scheduler that shows every job, its schedule and its last result — shell commands and HTTP calls, from a web UI or REST API. xCloud configures the pinned Dkron 4.2.0 image, a password-protected proxy and the HTTPS reverse proxy in minutes.

Deploy your Dkron

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

From Sign-Up to Your First Scheduled Job In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Dkron normally means a container, an authentication layer bolted on yourself, a domain and a certificate before a single job runs. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Dkron from the OneClick catalog. Keep or change the Dkron Username (default admin) — xCloud generates a 24-character password.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Dkron 4.2.0 image behind a Caddy HTTP Basic Auth proxy, and publish the UI and API over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Create And Run A Job
Save the username and password from the protected installation credentials, sign in at https://<your-domain>/ui/, then create a job with a name and schedule, choose the shell or http executor, and use run now to check the output.

Everything Dkron Does, On Your Own Server

Dkron runs in full here — the same scheduling and execution-history tooling as any hosted job-scheduler service, on infrastructure you control.

One Scheduler, Every Job
Replace scattered crontabs on multiple servers with one scheduler that shows every job, its schedule and its last result.
Cron Expressions And Shortcuts
Standard cron expressions plus shortcuts such as @every 1h or @daily, with an on-demand run now for any job.
Shell And HTTP Executors
Run maintenance scripts inside the container or call webhooks and APIs on a schedule, with the same job model.
Execution History With Output
Every run is recorded with its output, so you can see exactly why a job failed instead of guessing.
Manage Jobs From The UI Or The API
Create, run, list and delete jobs from the web UI or automate them through the REST API at /v1/jobs, with the same credentials.
Jobs And History Survive A Restart
The dkron_data volume holds the Raft state — jobs and execution history — and persists across an xCloud restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Job Scheduling 24/7

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

Dkron 4.2.0 deployed instantly
Generated login for UI and API
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Private Caddy auth proxy
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More jobs, more frequent runs and longer execution history.

$59.99per month

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

Dkron alongside a whole self-hosted automation stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 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. Dkron itself is free under the LGPL-3.0 licence.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Dkron 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 Retire Your Crontabs?

Dkron 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.

What is Dkron?

Dkron is an open-source, cron-style job scheduler with a web UI and an HTTP API for scheduling shell commands and HTTP calls. This template deploys version 4.2.0.

Is Dkron protected by a password?

Yes. Open-source Dkron has no built-in login, so this deployment adds HTTP Basic Auth on the UI and the whole API through a Caddy proxy. Credentials are generated at install — confirmed that requests without credentials or with a wrong password get 401.

What kinds of jobs can it run?

Shell commands inside the Dkron container and HTTP requests to any URL, on cron schedules, shortcuts such as @daily, or on demand with run now.

Can I manage jobs from scripts?

Yes. The REST API at /v1 creates, runs, lists and deletes jobs, using the same credentials as the web UI — for example curl -u admin:<password> https://<your-domain>/v1/jobs.

Is this a cluster with failover?

No. This template runs a single-node Dkron server, which suits most scheduling needs but has no failover.

Is it safe to share the login widely?

Share it only with people you trust — shell jobs run as root inside the Dkron container, so anyone with the login can run arbitrary commands on that container.

What runs alongside Dkron?

A Caddy auth proxy on a private Docker network; only the proxy is published through xCloud. Dkron's own port and its cluster ports (Serf, gRPC/Raft) are not published.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 1 CPU, 512 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, comfortable headroom above that floor. QA measured about 72 MiB in total for both containers.

How do I rotate the login credentials?

Change UI_USERNAME / UI_PASSWORD in the environment, save, redeploy, and update any API clients that use the old credentials.

What should I back up?

The complete dkron_data volume, which holds all jobs and execution history. Keep DKRON_NODE_NAME unchanged, since the stored Raft state belongs to that node name.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Dkron?

No. The template pins the image by immutable digest; a catalog re-sync affects new installations only. Read the upstream release notes, back up the volume, then change the tag and digest together when you choose to upgrade.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Dkron?

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

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.