Gancio Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Gancio hosting on xCloud gives your neighbourhood, collective or community group a self-hosted events calendar on its own domain. Deploy Gancio from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 1.28.2 image as one amd64 container with embedded SQLite storage, creates the administrator with a generated password, mounts a data volume and publishes the agenda over HTTPS. The agenda is public by design and event submissions wait for your approval.

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What is Gancio?

Gancio is, in its README's words, a shared agenda for local communities, built as small nodes tied to a territory or a thematic community rather than one national platform. Everyone sees the same events, there are no personal timelines, and the publisher's identity is not shown. It exports events by RSS feeds, global or individual ics files, embeddable lists and ActivityPub. Self-hosted Gancio is an events calendar you run yourself instead of listing events on a social network. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Deployed through xCloud, the template runs Gancio 1.28.2, the latest stable release, as one container pinned by digest with a SQLite database on the gancio_data volume. It is built for amd64 only. Your domain is its federation identity, so choose the final one before you federate. Mail is not configured until you add SMTP details in the admin settings.

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

A Gancio install normally means a container, a data directory, a reverse proxy, a certificate and a setup wizard that the first visitor could complete. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Gancio from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and enter the Administrator Email — that is the only field to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Gancio image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with its SQLite database on the gancio_data volume, finish setup ourselves, create the administrator with a generated 32-character password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Set Up The Agenda
Allow one to two minutes for the first start, then open your HTTPS Gancio URL and sign in at /login with your email and the generated password. Open the Admin menu to set the instance name, places, theme and mail settings.

Everything Gancio Does, On Your Own Server

Gancio runs here as a shared events agenda on your own domain, with the data in a volume you own.

A Public Events Agenda
Everyone who opens the home page sees the same list of events — a shared calendar for a place or a community rather than a personal timeline.
RSS And Calendar Feeds
The main agenda, each place, each tag and each collection has its own RSS feed, and events can be exported as ICS.
ActivityPub Federation
People on Mastodon and other fediverse platforms can follow the agenda from their own accounts and see new events in their timeline.
Embeds For Other Websites
Show a list of events, or a single event, on another site through an iframe or a web component.
Moderated Submissions
Visitors can submit events and register, but anonymous events are held until an administrator approves them and new accounts stay inactive until approved.
Places, Tags And Recurring Events
Organise events by place and tag, enter multi-day and recurring events, and attach a flyer to an event.

Everything You Need To Run Your Events Agenda 24/7

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

Gancio 1.28.2 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Administrator created at install
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Gancio

Publish a local events agenda
A collective lists its gatherings in one public calendar that anyone in the area can read without an account.
Let others suggest events
Visitors submit events, which are held for your approval, so you keep the agenda tidy without typing everything yourself.
Feed calendars and websites
People subscribe through RSS or iCal, or you embed the event list on another site with an iframe or web component.
Reach people on the fediverse
Followers on Mastodon-style servers see your events through ActivityPub, without needing to visit the site.

Gancio Screenshots

Gancio home page showing a community events agenda

Gancio vs Alternatives

Facebook Events: If you list events on Facebook Events today, Gancio is a standalone calendar on your own domain, with no personal timelines, though its README says it does not set out to mimic mainstream platforms.
Eventbrite: Looking at Gancio as an Eventbrite alternative? Gancio lists and publishes events for a community, and this page makes no claim that it sells tickets or matches Eventbrite.
Mobilizon: Comparing Gancio with Mobilizon? Gancio is built as small nodes for one territory or community, with one shared agenda and no personal timelines; check that design fits before choosing.
Mastodon: Mastodon is a separate fediverse server with its own OneClick page. Gancio publishes events that Mastodon users can follow, rather than being a social network itself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Gancio sits alongside other community tools.

$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. Gancio itself is licensed by Gancio's maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Gancio 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.
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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 Gancio free?

Yes. Gancio is open source under AGPL-3.0, and the licence file is linked from here at the pinned v1.28.2 tag on the project's framagit repository. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Gancio, and there is no per-event fee. Keep the notices if you modify it.

Can you self-host Gancio with Docker?

Yes, and this Gancio Docker hosting template does it for you: the cisti/gancio image, pinned by digest, is a single container on your own server with HTTPS in front of port 13120. It is not a Gancio cloud account, so your agenda stays on your server. The image is amd64 only.

How much RAM does Gancio need?

At its floor, Gancio wants 256 MB of RAM, one CPU core and 2 GB of disk, because it uses an embedded SQLite database. Uploaded flyers grow the volume. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which gives you a lot of spare room.

How do I sign in to Gancio?

Open /login on your domain and sign in with the administrator email and generated password from the credentials. Then use the Admin menu to set the instance name, places, theme and mail. The first visitor cannot claim the admin account, because it is created at install.

Can anyone post events on my Gancio?

Yes, by design. Anyone can submit an event, which is held for your approval, and anyone can register an account, which stays inactive until you approve it. Switch registration and anonymous submissions off in the admin settings if you want a closed agenda.

Is a Gancio agenda public?

Yes. Gancio has no site-wide login: the agenda, its API and its feeds are open to everyone, and only the administrator can change settings and approve content. For a private calendar, add Basic Authentication or IP restrictions in front of the site yourself.

Can I follow Gancio from the fediverse?

Yes. Gancio federates over ActivityPub, so people on compatible servers can follow the agenda. Fediverse accounts and event links are built from your domain, so choose the final domain before you start federating, because a domain change breaks existing follows.

Can I send email from Gancio?

Not until you configure it. Mail is not set up at install, so add SMTP details in the admin settings if you want password recovery and notifications to send email. Settings such as SMTP, theme and registration live in the admin pages, not the environment file.

Can Gancio run on an ARM server?

No. Upstream publishes the stable 1.x image for amd64 only, so the template will not start on an arm64 server. Choose an x86_64 server before you deploy, because there is no workaround in this template and the image cannot be swapped.

How do I back up Gancio?

Back up the gancio_data volume, which holds config.json, the SQLite database, uploads, logs and locale files. The site address is stored in it too. Copy it off the server while the app is quiet, and test a restore on a disposable install first.

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How do I upgrade Gancio?

1.28.2 stays pinned on a live install through catalog updates, and you choose when to adopt a newer template version. Back up the volume first and read the upstream release notes, since the 2.0 line is still pre-release and is not what this template deploys.

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.