HomeButler Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy HomeButler hosting and watch your servers from one dashboard on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned HomeButler 1.2.0 image in a single container, generates the dashboard token, mounts persistent volumes for your config, snapshots and SSH keys, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — your machines are reached over outbound SSH only, with no Docker socket or host networking.

Deploy your HomeButler

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

What is HomeButler?

HomeButler is an open-source operations toolkit distributed as a single Go binary. It remembers what your server looked like last time and tells you, or an AI agent, what moved: a container gone, a port answered by a different service, a container recreated behind the same name.

It can run from a terminal, from cron, as a web dashboard or as an MCP server. This page hosts the web dashboard: it runs in a container and reaches the machines you add over SSH, showing their status, Docker containers, open ports and alerts in a browser.

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

A HomeButler install normally means a container, a bearer token, three volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first server is added. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick HomeButler 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 HomeButler image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no private services, mount the homebutler_config, homebutler_state and homebutler_ssh volumes, generate the Dashboard Token, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Paste The Token, Add A Server
Save the Dashboard Token from the protected installation credentials, open your HTTPS HomeButler URL and paste the token into the prompt. Then open Settings and add the machines you want to watch.

Everything HomeButler Does, On Your Own Server

HomeButler runs in full here: a token-protected web dashboard on your own domain that reaches your machines over SSH.

Status Of Several Machines
See CPU, memory and disk for each machine you add, in one dashboard.
Docker And Open Ports
The dashboard lists each watched machine's Docker containers and open ports, so you can see which container owns a port.
Alerts And Notifications
Set alert thresholds and notification channels (Telegram, Slack, Discord, webhook, email) from the settings screen.
Reports That Show What Changed
HomeButler keeps snapshots and compares each report with the last one, naming containers that disappeared, appeared or were recreated behind the same name.
Servers Added From The UI
Add and edit servers and Proxmox endpoints in the settings screen; the config is written to a persistent volume and redeploys never overwrite it.
Token-Protected API
A generated bearer token guards the dashboard API: without it, every API call returns 401, including with a wrong token.

Everything You Need To Run Your Server Monitoring 24/7

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

HomeButler 1.2.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Dashboard token 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 HomeButler

One view of a small homelab
Check CPU, memory and disk across several machines from one browser tab instead of logging in to each.
Work out which container owns a port
Open a watched machine's ports and Docker containers together to see what is listening and which container it belongs to.
Get told when thresholds are crossed
Set CPU, memory and disk thresholds, and send alerts to Telegram, Slack, Discord, a webhook or email.
Notice silent changes
Compare each report with the last snapshot to catch a container that was replaced under the same name, which a plain count would miss.

HomeButler Screenshots

HomeButler settings screen with the Add server form open

HomeButler settings screen after a server has been added

HomeButler settings screen with alert thresholds and notification channels

HomeButler vs Alternatives

Uptime Kuma: HomeButler's own README suggests keeping it for "is it up" checks; HomeButler answers what is different since the last report.
Beszel: Named in HomeButler's README for "the graph"; HomeButler instead compares each report with the previous snapshot.
Netdata: Also named in HomeButler's README for "the graph", alongside Beszel, as a tool to run next to HomeButler rather than replace.
Dozzle: Named in HomeButler's README for container logs, a job HomeButler's dashboard is not built around.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if HomeButler sits alongside other monitoring 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. HomeButler itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Ready To Run Your Own Server Dashboard?

HomeButler 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?

Paste the generated Dashboard Token from the protected installation credentials into the token prompt on your HTTPS HomeButler URL. There are no user accounts; the token is the only credential.

Does HomeButler monitor the server it is installed on?

No. It runs inside a container and cannot see the host it runs on. It watches only the machines you add under Servers, which it reaches over outbound SSH.

What do watched machines need?

SSH access and the homebutler binary. Once SSH works, homebutler deploy --server <name> installs the binary over SSH. Before the binary is installed, status requests for that machine fail.

How do I set up SSH to a machine?

Servers are added in the settings screen, but credentials are set up in the container: for key login, put a private key in /root/.ssh; for password login, first run homebutler trust <server-name> inside the container, because HomeButler never sends a password to a host it has not been told to trust. Both need a shell inside the container on your server (docker exec).

Is the dashboard protected?

Yes. The dashboard page itself loads, but every API call needs the bearer token and returns 401 without it, including with a wrong token. Treat the token like a password: anyone holding it can read the status of every added machine and change the settings, including stored SSH credentials.

Why does the dashboard warn about plain HTTP?

Upstream shows a banner that it is bound to 0.0.0.0 over plain HTTP. On xCloud the container's host port is loopback-only and HTTPS ends at the web server, so the banner does not describe your public connection.

How do I rotate the token?

Change HOMEBUTLER_TOKEN in the environment editor, Save & Redeploy, then paste the new value into the dashboard's token prompt.

Edit environment variables

What should I back up?

The three persistent volumes: homebutler_config (config.yaml with servers and alerts), homebutler_state (snapshots and watch incidents) and homebutler_ssh (SSH keys and known_hosts). The config and SSH keys are sensitive.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Your server list, SSH keys and snapshots. They live on persistent named volumes, and the server list and alert settings were still present after a restart in QA.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update HomeButler?

No. The template pins HomeButler 1.2.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then 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, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 3.4 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with plenty of headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with HomeButler?

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