Cloud VPS 6 GB
Most popularA blog or site with a 2 GB floor and plenty of headroom.
$24.99per month
- 6 GB RAM
- 4 vCPU cores
- 100 GB NVMe SSD
- 30 TB
- Unlimited
Deploy Halo hosting and publish a blog or website from a modern platform with a theme and plugin ecosystem, on a server you own. xCloud runs the pinned Halo 2.26.0 image with PostgreSQL 17.6, generates the database credentials, mounts persistent volumes for the work directory and the database and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. Complete the built-in setup immediately to claim the administrator account.
A Halo site normally means two containers, a database, two volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first post. This is the same result without assembling any of it.
Step 01
Create your xCloud account and pick Halo from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server. There is nothing else to fill in: xCloud generates the database name, user and password.
Step 02
One click. We bring up the official Halo 2.26.0 image, pinned by immutable digest with pinned PostgreSQL 17.6 on the private Compose network, mount the halo_data and halo_db volumes, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Open your domain the moment the install reports ready and complete Halo's built-in setup to create the first administrator. Then sign in at /console to install a theme and publish content.
Halo runs in full here: the console, themes, plugins, comments and the user centre, on a PostgreSQL database you own.
Install themes and plugins from Halo's ecosystem to shape the site and add features.
Write and manage posts, pages, comments and users at /console.
Multiple authors and roles for team-run sites.
A pinned PostgreSQL 17.6 database private to the Compose network.
The template sets TZ=UTC so timestamps are stored and rendered consistently; change it in the environment if you prefer.
The Halo work directory on halo_data and the database on halo_db, backed up together.
Managed hosting for Halo, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.
Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Halo hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.
A blog or site with a 2 GB floor and plenty of headroom.
$24.99per month
More headroom for many plugins, media and traffic.
$59.99per month
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$84.99per month
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. Halo itself is free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Halo on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.
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Halo on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.
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Halo is a modern open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with themes, plugins and collaborative content management, released under the GPL-3.0 licence. This template deploys version 2.26.0.
Halo 2.26.0 has no option to pre-seed the super administrator. The account is created only by the unauthenticated /system/setup form, and every request is redirected there until it is submitted, so anyone who loads the site first can take the administrator account. Complete setup as soon as the install reports ready.
PostgreSQL applies the generated credentials only when halo_db is first initialised. Change the password inside PostgreSQL, then update SPRING_R2DBC_PASSWORD to match; editing only the environment stops Halo from connecting.
Review Halo's release and migration notes, back up both volumes from the same point in time, then update the pinned image. Test restore and persistence before relying on it.
The pinned Halo image, the application url and admin console shown in the credentials panel, persistent storage on halo_data and halo_db, the domain and the HTTPS route. Halo stays on internal port 8090, reachable only through xCloud nginx.
halo_data (application assets and configuration) and halo_db (publishing and account data in PostgreSQL) together from the same point in time; restore both before restarting.
No. The template pins Halo 2.26.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then update the image on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.
The template manifest asks for 2 CPU cores, 2 GiB of RAM and 10 GiB of disk as a floor for Halo. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that floor.
Everything on halo_data and halo_db, because they are persistent named volumes. Restarting the container does not touch that data.
No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Halo project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Halo project.
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.
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