HomeHub Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy HomeHub hosting and run a self-hosted family dashboard for shopping lists, notes, chores, reminders, recipes and shared files. xCloud starts the pinned image, generates the site password and session key, keeps SQLite data and uploads on persistent volumes and serves it over HTTPS on your domain. One site password gates the whole dashboard, so share it only with people you want inside.

Deploy your HomeHub

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What is HomeHub?

HomeHub is a lightweight, self-hosted household dashboard released under the MIT licence. Upstream describes a central hub for shared notes, a shopping list, a chore tracker, a calendar with reminders, an expense tracker, shared files, a recipe book, an expiry tracker, a URL shortener and more, with features you can toggle in a config file. A self-hosted HomeHub keeps family lists and files off a third-party service, as an alternative to Grocy for a household's shared tools.

On xCloud the template runs the upstream ghcr.io/surajverma/homehub v0.2.4 image, pinned by digest, as one container with SQLite and four volumes: homehub_data, homehub_uploads, homehub_media and homehub_pdfs. The generated site password is written into config.yml on every start. There are no individual accounts, and upstream says the app is not hardened for the public internet.

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

A HomeHub setup normally means a container, a secret, four volumes, a reverse proxy, a domain and a certificate before the first shopping item. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick HomeHub from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then set the site name (default "Home Hub") and the privileged display name (default "Administrator").
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the upstream HomeHub image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no separate database, mount the homehub_data, homehub_uploads, homehub_media and homehub_pdfs volumes, generate the site password, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Your First Note
Save the generated site password from the installation credentials and open your HTTPS HomeHub URL — the first boot creates the database and can take about a minute. Sign in, choose your user in the first-visit prompt, select Continue, then add your first shared note or shopping item.

Everything HomeHub Does, On Your Own Server

HomeHub runs in full here: a shared household dashboard on your own domain, with its data on volumes you own.

Shopping Lists And Shared Notes
One shared shopping list and shared notes that everyone in the household can open from the same dashboard.
Chores, Calendar And Reminders
A chore tracker, a calendar and reminders keep the week's jobs and dates in the same place as the lists.
Recipes, Expiry And Expenses
A recipe book, an expiry tracker for food in the house and an expense tracker sit alongside the lists.
Shared Cloud For Files
Upload files to a shared cloud area, with a PDF compressor, a QR code generator and a URL shortener built in. A 512M upload limit at the xCloud reverse proxy leaves room for large files and PDFs.
Locked Behind One Password
A single generated site password gates the whole site: unauthenticated visits to the dashboard redirect to the login page, and the container refuses to start without a password.
Light On Resources
A single container with SQLite storage and no separate database; measured idle use in QA was about 69 MiB.

Everything You Need To Run Your Family Dashboard 24/7

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

HomeHub v0.2.4 deployed instantly
Upstream image pinned by digest
Site password generated for you
Four persistent named volumes
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With HomeHub

Share a shopping list
Let everyone add items to one list and get suggestions based on what you bought before.
Track chores and reminders
Keep household tasks, a shared calendar and reminder categories in one place.
Follow family spending
Record expenses, including recurring bills such as subscriptions, in a built-in expense tracker.
Share files at home
Upload documents and photos to a shared space on your own server instead of a consumer cloud.

HomeHub vs Alternatives

Grocy: Grocy has its own xCloud page. HomeHub is the option here that puts notes, chores, a calendar and expenses on one lightweight page.
Donetick: Donetick has its own xCloud page. HomeHub bundles chores with lists, notes, files and expenses behind a single site password.
KitchenOwl: KitchenOwl has its own xCloud page. HomeHub puts a recipe book and an expiry tracker alongside its lists, chores, notes and expenses.
Nextcloud: Nextcloud has its own xCloud page. HomeHub is a small dashboard whose features you toggle one by one in config.yml.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if HomeHub sits alongside other household and file 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. HomeHub itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Ready To Run Your Own Family Dashboard?

HomeHub 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.

Can you self-host HomeHub with Docker?

Yes. For HomeHub Docker hosting, the template runs the upstream ghcr.io/surajverma/homehub v0.2.4 image, pinned by digest, as one container on port 5000 behind the xCloud proxy. SQLite data, uploads, media and PDFs sit on four named volumes, and the proxy accepts uploads up to 512 MB.

Is HomeHub free and open source?

HomeHub is open source under the MIT licence, so the dashboard has no licence fee. Upstream's maintainer note says one person maintains it alongside a full-time job, so replies can be slow. xCloud bills for the dedicated Cloud VPS and the deployment.

How much RAM does HomeHub need?

The manifest sets a floor of 512 MB of RAM, one core and 4 GB of disk. Disk need depends on shared files, media and PDFs you store. The 6 GB plan sold on this page is well above the memory floor, which leaves room for uploads and PDF compression.

How do I sign in to HomeHub?

Open your HTTPS address and sign in with the generated site password on your credentials panel. One password gates the whole site and is written into config.yml on every start, so change it through the environment editor and redeploy. Upstream says the app is not hardened for the public internet.

Does HomeHub have user accounts?

No. There is no registration and no individual login; anyone with the site password can use everything. The privileged display name you set at install is only an alias for actions such as notices and deletes. Family member names and reminder categories are added in config.yml.

How do I back up HomeHub?

Back up the four volumes together: homehub_data (SQLite), homehub_uploads, homehub_media and homehub_pdfs. They hold your lists, notes, shared files and media. Keep the generated site password and session key with the copy, store it off-server, and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade HomeHub?

Version v0.2.4 stays pinned by digest, so a catalog update touches new installs only. Back up all four volumes, read the upstream release notes, and adopt a newer template version when you decide. Afterwards check sign-in, a shopping list and a file upload.

Is the HomeHub media downloader on?

No. The built-in media downloader, which uses yt-dlp, is off until you set FEATURE_MEDIA_DOWNLOADER to true in the environment editor and redeploy. Weather also stays disabled until you change the generated config. Leave them off unless your family needs them.

Can I run HomeHub in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. HomeHub cloud use gives the dashboard a dedicated Cloud VPS with your domain and certificate. A server rented from another provider can be connected as self-managed, with the same template deployed onto it. Size the disk for the shared files, media and PDFs your family will keep there.

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.