Flame Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Flame hosting and give yourself a private, always-on startpage for your apps and bookmarks on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Flame 2.4.0 image as a single container with an embedded SQLite database, generates the editor password, mounts a persistent volume and publishes the page over HTTPS in minutes — no file editing required.

Deploy your Flame

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

What is Flame?

Flame is a lightweight, self-hosted startpage. It shows your applications and bookmarks as cards on one home page, and you manage them from a built-in editor in the browser instead of editing configuration files. It is licensed under MIT.

This template runs Flame as a single container with its embedded SQLite database, so there is no separate database server to run.

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

A Flame setup normally means a container, a data volume, a password in the environment, a domain and a certificate before the first card. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Flame from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Flame image pinned by immutable digest as a single container with embedded SQLite, mount the flame_data volume, generate the editor password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Your First Card
Save the editor password from the installation credentials, open your HTTPS Flame URL, then go to /settings and sign in. Add your first application or bookmark from the built-in editor.

Everything Flame Does, On Your Own Server

Flame runs in full here: a startpage with built-in editors for applications and bookmarks, on your own domain, with data on a persistent volume.

Application And Bookmark Cards
Create, edit and delete applications and bookmarks from a built-in GUI, and pin favourites to the home screen for quick access.
Integrated Search Bar
Search the web from the home page with several built-in providers, or add a custom search provider of your own.
Themes And Custom CSS
Choose from 15 built-in colour themes, build your own theme, or add custom CSS to restyle the page.
Weather Widget
A weather widget sits on the home page alongside your cards.
A Single Editor Password
Editing needs the generated editor password (Flame has no usernames); items you mark private appear only after you sign in.
Data That Survives A Restart
Applications, categories, uploaded icons and the login session secret live on the flame_data volume and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Startpage 24/7

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

Flame 2.4.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Editor password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Flame

A home page for your self-hosted apps
Keep one page with a card for each service you run, so every dashboard and tool is a click away on your own domain.
A private-feeling bookmark hub
Group bookmarks into categories and pin the ones you use daily to the home screen; mark items private so they only appear after you sign in.
A start page you edit without touching files
Add, edit and delete applications and bookmarks from the built-in GUI rather than a configuration file.
A search-first browser homepage
Use the integrated search bar with several web search providers or your own custom one, with the weather widget alongside.

Flame Screenshots

The Flame settings page after signing in with the editor password, showing the Authentication section and Flame version 2.4.0

The Flame All Applications editor in the dark theme, listing two applications that were added

Flame vs Alternatives

Homer: A static start page built from a single YAML configuration file; Flame is edited through a built-in GUI instead.
Dashy: A personal dashboard with widgets, status checks and a visual configuration editor; Flame is a lighter startpage focused on application and bookmark cards.
Homarr: A customisable dashboard with live integrations that show status and stats; Flame keeps to cards, search, weather and themes.
Browser bookmarks and new-tab pages: Per-browser bookmarks are tied to one profile; a Flame page lives at your own HTTPS address and opens the same on every device.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Flame sits alongside the other apps it links to.

$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. Flame itself is licensed by Flame's maintainers under MIT.

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Startpage?

Flame 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.

How do I sign in?

Open /settings on your domain and enter the generated editor password, which is shown in the protected installation credentials. Flame has no usernames.

Is my start page public?

The home page is readable by anyone who knows the URL. Settings and editing require the editor password, and items you mark private are shown only after you sign in.

What runs alongside Flame?

Nothing. It is a single container with an embedded SQLite database, so there is no separate database server.

How do I change the editor password?

The password is read from the environment on every start. Change PASSWORD in the Environment editor and Save & Redeploy.

Edit environment variables

Why does a fresh install look plain and white?

A new install shows a plain light default theme until you pick a theme in Settings.

What should I back up?

The whole flame_data volume — it holds the database, uploaded icons and the generated token-signing secret — together with the stable environment values.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Applications, categories, uploaded icons and the login session secret live on the flame_data volume, which is a persistent named volume, and they survive an xCloud Restart.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Flame?

No. The template pins Flame 2.4.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and 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, 128 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; measured use in QA was about 47 MiB idle and 62 MiB after use. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves plenty of room for other apps on the same server.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Flame?

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