Fenrus Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Fenrus hosting and give yourself one start page for every app, bookmark and self-hosted service you run. xCloud runs the pinned Fenrus 26.10 image behind an nginx Basic Auth gateway, creates the administrator account at install with a generated password, mounts a persistent volume for the embedded database and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Fenrus

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

What is Fenrus?

Fenrus is a personal home page and dashboard. It gives you a custom home page or new-tab page with quick access to your personal apps, and each user gets their own dashboards of app and bookmark tiles, with search, status indicators, themes and optional notes, calendar, mail and file features.

Fenrus is a .NET application that stores its configuration in a single LiteDB file, Fenrus.db, next to an encryption key that protects sensitive data inside it. xCloud runs it from the community Docker image with that data on a persistent volume.

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

A Fenrus install normally means a container, a data volume, a reverse proxy, a certificate, and closing the open first-run setup page before anyone else finds it. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Fenrus from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then set the administrator username (the default is admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the community Fenrus image, pinned by immutable digest, behind a small nginx gateway container that is the only published service, mount the fenrus_data volume, create the administrator account from your username and a generated password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Build Your First Dashboard
Open your HTTPS Fenrus URL, pass the Basic Auth prompt, then sign in on Fenrus's own page with the same credentials. Create your first group and add tiles for your apps and bookmarks.

Everything Fenrus Does, On Your Own Server

Fenrus runs in full here: a personal start page on your own domain, with its data on a volume you own.

One Start Page For Everything
Collect your apps, bookmarks and self-hosted services as tiles on a single page, with search and status indicators.
Per-User Dashboards
Each user gets their own dashboards, with themes and optional notes, calendar, mail and file features.
Administrator Created At Install
The install creates the administrator from your chosen username and a generated password, so nobody can claim the first-run setup page.
Basic Auth Gateway In Front
An nginx gateway asks for the same credentials before anything loads, keeping open registration, the guest dashboard and the built-in link proxy away from the public.
Embedded Database
Fenrus runs as one app container with an embedded database, so there is no separate database service to look after.
Optional Extras
Features that reach other systems, such as SSH and Docker terminals, mail over IMAP and calendars over CalDAV, stay off until an administrator or user configures them.

Everything You Need To Run Your Start Page 24/7

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

Fenrus 26.10 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Administrator login generated for you
Basic Auth gateway included
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Fenrus

A start page for your homelab
Put every self-hosted service you run behind one page of tiles, with status indicators showing which ones are up.
Bookmarks that follow you
Use it as a browser home or new-tab page, so your links are on your own domain instead of tied to one browser profile.
Separate dashboards per person
Give each household member or teammate their own dashboards and themes, with the administrator managing the instance.
A protected front door for private tools
Keep a launcher for internal services behind HTTPS and a Basic Auth gateway instead of exposing it openly.

Fenrus Screenshots

A Fenrus group still listed after an xCloud Restart

Fenrus vs Alternatives

Homarr: A customisable dashboard for self-hosted services with live integrations that show status and stats rather than just links; also a OneClick app on xCloud.
Dashy: A self-hostable personal dashboard with widgets, themes, status checks, bookmarks and a built-in visual configuration editor; also a OneClick app on xCloud.
Heimdall: A simple application dashboard and browser start page for organising links to your web apps; also a OneClick app on xCloud.
Glance: A single dashboard that pulls feeds, server stats, releases, markets and calendars into one page; also a OneClick app on xCloud.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Fenrus sits alongside many other self-hosted apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 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. Fenrus itself is licensed by its maintainer under MIT.

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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 Run Your Own Start Page?

Fenrus 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.

Why do I sign in twice?

The nginx gateway asks for Basic Auth first, then Fenrus shows its own sign-in. Both use the administrator credentials from the credentials card.

Why is there a Basic Auth gateway?

A fresh Fenrus is open: anyone can register, and any visitor can make the server fetch web addresses through its built-in link and image proxy. The gateway keeps that behind your credentials; without them every route returns 401.

What runs alongside Fenrus?

A small nginx gateway container and the Fenrus container. The database is embedded, so there is no separate database service.

What if I share the Basic Auth login with other people?

Turn off Allow registrations (System settings, Users) and the guest dashboard (System settings, Guest Dashboard) inside Fenrus, since anyone holding the Basic Auth login can otherwise reach them.

What happens if I change the username or password in the site environment?

Only the Basic Auth login changes after Save & Redeploy. It does not rename the Fenrus account or change its password; change that inside Fenrus. Keep the Basic Auth password to letters and digits.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

Is there an upload limit?

The optional Files feature is off by default. If you enable it, uploads through the domain are limited to about 100 MB.

What should I back up?

The fenrus_data volume, as a whole. It holds the database, the generated encryption key, session key material, logs and user files, and restoring the database without the key makes stored secrets unreadable.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Dashboards, users and settings on the fenrus_data volume. In QA a created group was still listed after an xCloud Restart.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Fenrus?

No. The template pins Fenrus 26.10 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 80 MiB, and about 296 MiB after a working round-trip. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Fenrus?

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