Flood Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Flood hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted rTorrent web interface you can manage from any browser on your own domain. Deploy Flood 4.16.2 and xCloud runs the pinned Flood image with an rTorrent 0.9.8-r16 client beside it, ready to connect through a Unix socket, mounts one persistent volume, publishes the interface over HTTPS in minutes, and asks you to open the peer ports in your firewall.

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What is Flood?

Self-hosted Flood is a modern web interface for rTorrent, and for other clients. Upstream's README calls Flood a monitoring service for various torrent clients: a Node.js service that talks to your torrent client and serves a web UI for administration, with rTorrent, qBittorrent and Transmission listed as supported and an OpenAPI specification for integration. It is a modern alternative to ruTorrent, and it is licensed GPL-3.0.

Flood does not download anything itself. On xCloud the template therefore runs two containers: ghcr.io/jesec/flood 4.16.2 and the jesec/rtorrent 0.9.8-r16 client, both pinned by digest, sharing one flood_home volume. The first person to open the site creates the administrator account, so register immediately, and the torrent peer and DHT ports are published but not opened for you.

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

A Flood setup normally means a web container, a torrent client, a shared socket, a shared volume, peer ports, a domain and a certificate before the first torrent. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Flood 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 Flood and an rTorrent client, both community images pinned by immutable digest, mount the flood_home volume in both, keep rTorrent's control socket internal, allocate the TCP peer and UDP DHT ports, and publish Flood over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Add A Torrent
Open your HTTPS Flood URL right away and register the administrator account: choose rTorrent as the client, Unix socket as the connection type and enter the socket path shown in your installation credentials. Then add your first torrent and open the peer TCP and DHT UDP ports in your own firewall.

Everything Flood Does, On Your Own Server

Flood runs in full here: a browser-based torrent manager on your own domain, wired to an rTorrent client that is already installed.

Add Torrents From The Browser
Add torrents by uploading a .torrent file and watch their progress without leaving the page.
rTorrent Already Installed
rTorrent runs in a second container beside Flood, so there is nothing separate to install; you connect it over a Unix socket when you register.
Manage Torrents And Files
Flood is a web interface for rTorrent: add, monitor and manage torrents and their files from the browser.
Peer And DHT Ports Allocated
A public TCP peer port and a UDP DHT port are allocated for the site. You open them in your own firewall — xCloud does not open firewall ports.
Your Own Administrator Account
There is no pre-set login: the first person to open the site creates the administrator account, so register right after the install finishes.
Internal Control Socket
rTorrent's control socket is internal to the install and is never published.

Everything You Need To Run Your Torrent Manager 24/7

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

Flood 4.16.2 deployed instantly
Community images pinned by digest
rTorrent client included
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 Flood

An rTorrent web UI for your server
An owner of an rTorrent client adds, monitors and manages torrents and their files from a browser, instead of using a terminal client over SSH.
Manage downloads from anywhere
A user signs in over HTTPS from a phone or laptop to check progress, pause torrents and move finished files, with the interface and client on the same server.
Use the documented API
A developer integrates with Flood using the OpenAPI specification served at /api/openapi.json and the interactive Swagger UI at /api/docs/, rather than scraping the interface.
Keep files inside one folder
An admin relies on the allowed-path setting, which confines Flood to the rTorrent download folder so it cannot read or delete anything outside it, including its own database.

Flood vs Alternatives

ruTorrent: Choose Flood as a ruTorrent alternative if you prefer a modern interface. Both are browser interfaces for rTorrent, and this template bundles rTorrent with Flood, so check that the settings you rely on are available before you switch.
qBittorrent: qBittorrent is a torrent client with its own web interface and OneClick page. Flood is only an interface: it manages a client, and upstream lists qBittorrent as one it supports.
Deluge: Deluge is a torrent client with its own OneClick page. Upstream lists Deluge support in Flood as experimental, whereas rTorrent is the tested client this template bundles.
Transmission: Transmission is a torrent client that upstream lists as supported by Flood. This template bundles rTorrent only, so using Flood with another client means running and connecting it yourself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom as the number of torrents grows.

$59.99per month

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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. Flood is licensed GPL-3.0 by its maintainers; rTorrent and libtorrent are GPL-2.0-or-later.

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Flood on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

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Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
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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.

Is Flood free and open source?

Yes. Flood is licensed GPL-3.0, so the interface costs nothing in licences. xCloud bills for the dedicated Cloud VPS. Only download and share content you may legally use, since other peers can see the server's public IP address.

Can I run Flood with Docker?

Yes, and this template does it for you: the ghcr.io/jesec/flood 4.16.2 and jesec/rtorrent 0.9.8-r16 images, pinned by digest, sharing one home volume behind HTTPS, with peer and DHT ports published. It is Flood Docker hosting without writing the compose file.

How much RAM does a Flood cloud server need?

Flood's floor is 512 MB of RAM, and the 6 GB Cloud VPS sold here suits a Flood cloud install. Memory grows with the number of active torrents, and disk with what you download, so size storage for your library.

Does Flood download torrents itself?

No. Flood only manages a torrent client; it does not download anything itself. That is why the template runs rTorrent beside it, and both containers run as the same user and see the same paths so Flood can move, read and delete files.

Which torrent clients does Flood support?

Upstream lists rTorrent, qBittorrent version 4.1 or newer and Transmission as supported, with Deluge version 2 or newer as experimental. This template bundles rTorrent, which you connect through a Unix socket when you register; other clients are your own to connect.

How do I connect Flood to rTorrent?

Register the administrator account on first visit, choose rTorrent as the client, pick the Unix socket connection type and enter the socket path shown in your credentials card, under the home download folder. The bundled rTorrent creates that socket with its default configuration.

Do I need to open ports for Flood?

Yes, for peers. xCloud does not open firewall ports, so open the TCP peer port and the UDP DHT port shown in your credentials in your own firewall. Without them torrents still download, but incoming peers cannot reach the server.

How do I back up Flood?

Take a backup of the flood_home volume while the site is stopped, so rTorrent's resume data and the files stay consistent. It holds Flood's database and secret, plus rTorrent's session data, logs and downloads. Test a restore before you rely on the copy.

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How do I update Flood?

Version changes are manual. Both images are fixed by digest, and a new template version is needed to move to a newer Flood. Back up the volume before adopting it, since Flood migrates its database forward with no promised downgrade.

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.