Habitica Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Habitica hosting gives you a self-hosted habit tracker that treats your life like a role-playing game, on a server you own rather than on habitica.com. Deploy Habitica and xCloud starts the pinned community image with a private MongoDB beside it, registers the owner administrator account as soon as the server answers, keeps every task and stat on persistent volumes, and publishes it over HTTPS.

Deploy your Habitica

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No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Habitica?

Self-hosted Habitica is a gamified habit tracker: an open-source habit-building program that treats your life like a role-playing game. Habits, dailies and to-dos earn experience and gold, and optional parties and quests add a social layer. The source code is GPL-3.0, while its artwork is licensed separately under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Running your own copy means a private instance separate from the hosted habitica.com.

On xCloud the template runs the community awinterstein/habitica-server image at 5.50.6, pinned by digest, which is not an image published by Habitica itself. It runs API and web client in one process next to a private MongoDB 7 replica set, with two named volumes. xCloud generates the session secrets and the owner password. Outbound email stays off until you configure SMTP.

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

A Habitica server means a Node app, a MongoDB replica set, session secrets, a domain and a certificate before the first habit. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Habitica from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain and target server — the install form has no fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start awinterstein/habitica-server 5.50.6, pinned by digest, beside a private mongo:7.0 replica-set member, mount habitica_mongo_data and habitica_mongo_config, generate the session secrets and publish port 3000 over HTTPS.
Step 03
Log In As Owner
Allow a few minutes for the first boot, then open your domain and log in as owner with the generated password. Add a habit, a daily and a to-do, then tick one off to earn your first experience and gold.

Everything Habitica Does, On Your Own Server

The Habitica server and web client run together in one process, with your accounts and tasks in a database you control.

Habits, Dailies And To-Dos
Completing habits, dailies and to-dos earns experience and gold in a role-playing game, which is the loop Habitica is built around.
Level Up, Lose HP
Upstream describes levelling up as you succeed, losing HP as you fail, and spending Gold on weapons and armor.
Parties And Quests
Optional parties and quests let a group play together on an instance whose members and data sit on your own server.
Open Or Invite-Only Signup
Signup is open to regular accounts by default. Set INVITE_ONLY=true in the Environment editor and redeploy to allow only party or group invitations.
Private MongoDB 7
Accounts, tasks and game state live in a MongoDB 7 replica-set member with no published port, reachable only inside the install's network.
An Owner Account From Boot
Habitica makes the first registered account an administrator, so the container registers owner as soon as the server answers, before a visitor is likely to arrive.

Everything You Need To Run Your Habits 24/7

Hosting for Habitica, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Habitica 5.50.6 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Generated owner password
Private MongoDB, never exposed
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Habitica

A gamified habit tracker for a small team
A team lead creates a party on a private instance so colleagues can track daily routines and share quests, with every account and task kept on a server the team controls.
Turn a chore list into a game for the family
A household sets recurring dailies and to-dos, with gold and experience as the reward, on an instance restricted by INVITE_ONLY so only invited members can join.
Keep habit and task history on your own server
Someone who dislikes keeping personal routines in a hosted service stores tasks, stats and game state in MongoDB on a VPS they rent, with both volumes backed up together.
Run a private Habitica for a school or club
An organiser tests the game with a closed group, restricts signup to party invitations and decides when to move to a newer pinned release.

Habitica vs Alternatives

Todoist: Habitica's focus, per its README, is the role-playing loop: you level up as you succeed, lose HP as you fail and earn Gold for weapons and armor.
habitica.com: The upstream project's own site, a hosted habit tracker run by Habitica. A self-hosted instance is separate: your own MongoDB, your own users and your own pinned release.
Vikunja: Habitica is a game built around habits, dailies and to-dos rather than a project board. Vikunja also has an xCloud page if you need to compare a task and project manager.
Donetick: Habitica attaches experience, gold, parties and quests to recurring dailies and to-dos. Donetick also has an xCloud page, so you can compare both for shared routines.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom as the database and the player count grow.

$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. Habitica's source code is GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Habit Tracker?

Habitica hosting on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your tasks, game state and signup rules stay in your hands.

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.

Can you self-host Habitica?

Yes. The template runs a community Habitica server image, awinterstein/habitica-server 5.50.6, pinned by digest, with a private MongoDB 7 sidecar. It is not an image published by Habitica, and xCloud has no official arrangement with the project. Allow a few minutes for the first boot.

How do I run Habitica with Docker?

Habitica Docker hosting on xCloud starts two containers for you: the community server image and mongo:7.0 with a replica set. The port is bound to localhost behind xCloud's HTTPS proxy. Habitica cloud hosting here means your own VPS, so there is no compose file to write.

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What does Habitica need to run?

The manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk; the template README measured about 265 MiB idle. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves room for Node and the MongoDB member. Raise RAM and disk as the database grows.

Why does Habitica need MongoDB?

Habitica keeps accounts, tasks and game state in MongoDB, so the template ships it. It runs mongo:7.0 as a replica-set member, initialised on first boot, with no published port. It uses two volumes, habitica_mongo_data and habitica_mongo_config, and the web app is the only thing exposed.

How do I back up a self-hosted Habitica?

Back up both named volumes together: habitica_mongo_data and habitica_mongo_config. They hold every account, task and game state. Take a MongoDB-consistent snapshot, by stopping the stack or using a database dump, keep an off-server copy, and test the restore before trusting any backup.

Backups in xCloud

How do I update a self-hosted Habitica?

Manually, because the image is pinned and a catalog re-sync only affects new installs. Back up both volumes, read the upstream notes for Habitica and MongoDB 7, keep the same volume names, and change the image. Never run docker compose down -v, which would delete the volumes.

Is Habitica free?

The software is. The source code is GPL-3.0, and upstream's artwork and assets carry a separate CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence, so check that before using them commercially. You pay xCloud for the Cloud VPS and the deployment, not for Habitica.

Is the self-hosted Habitica the same as habitica.com?

It is the same open-source program in a separate instance. The template runs a community image with the API and web client in one process, and your accounts and tasks sit in your own MongoDB. They are not shared with habitica.com, and mobile apps are not part of this template.

Who owns my data on a self-hosted Habitica?

You do. Accounts, tasks and game state live in MongoDB on the two volumes of your server, and xCloud runs only the server and the deployment. You also manage party and guild administration and decide when to back up or upgrade.

Is signup open, and how do I log in?

Log in as owner with the generated password in the credentials panel. Signup stays open to regular, non-admin accounts by default; set INVITE_ONLY=true in the Environment editor and redeploy to allow only party or group invitations. Changing the session secrets signs everyone out.

Does Habitica send email out of the box?

No. Outbound email needs the full set of SMTP values, with EMAIL_SERVER_URL, before it works, and incomplete mail settings are ignored. Leave them unset until your mail provider details are ready, because the template configures no mail provider for you.

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.