HomeHub Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy HomeHub hosting and give your household one private dashboard on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned HomeHub v0.2.4 image as a single container, generates a 24-character site password, mounts persistent volumes for the database, uploads, media and PDFs, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — the container refuses to start without a site password, and visitors who are not signed in are redirected to the login page.

Deploy your HomeHub

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No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is HomeHub?

HomeHub is an open-source, self-hosted household dashboard. It puts a shopping list, shared notes, a chore tracker, a calendar and reminders, a recipe book, an expiry tracker and an expense tracker in one site, along with a Shared Cloud for file uploads and small utilities such as a PDF compressor, a QR code generator and a URL shortener.

It runs as a single container with SQLite storage, and a single site password protects the whole site. This template deploys version v0.2.4 of the official image.

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 official 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
Official image pinned by digest
Site password generated for you
Four persistent named volumes
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With HomeHub

Run the household from one page
Keep the shopping list, the week's chores and upcoming reminders where everyone in the house already looks, instead of spread across chat threads.
Share notes and files with the family
Keep shared notes and upload documents or PDFs to the Shared Cloud, with a 512M upload limit at the proxy for larger files.
Plan meals and track what is in the kitchen
Collect recipes in the recipe book and watch the expiry tracker so food gets used before it goes off.
Keep household data on your own server
Notes, uploads and the SQLite database sit on named volumes on a server you control, behind a site password.

HomeHub vs Alternatives

Grocy: Grocy is a self-hosted groceries and household management app; HomeHub bundles a wider set of family tools, including notes, chores, reminders and file sharing, in one lightweight container.
Tandoor Recipes: Tandoor Recipes is a dedicated recipe manager; HomeHub has a recipe book as one part of a shared household dashboard.
Homebox: Homebox is a self-hosted home inventory app; HomeHub focuses on day-to-day family coordination such as lists, chores and reminders.
Shared-list apps like Google Keep: Hosted shared-list apps keep your household's lists on someone else's servers; HomeHub keeps them on a server you control.

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.
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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?

Use the generated 24-character site password from the installation credentials. There are no individual accounts and no registration; after signing in you choose your user in a first-visit prompt and select Continue.

What is the privileged display name?

An alias used for notices and deletes. It is not a login.

What runs alongside HomeHub?

Nothing else: it is a single container with SQLite storage, with no separate database service.

Is HomeHub safe to expose to the public internet?

Upstream states HomeHub is not designed or hardened to be exposed safely to the public internet, and CSRF protection is disabled upstream. The site password gates every page, but if the household does not need public access, restrict it further with xCloud Basic Authentication or IP management.

How do I change the site password or site name?

The site password, site name, display name, media-downloader flag and session key are written to config.yml from the environment on every start. Change them in the environment editor and redeploy; edits made inside the app do not persist. Rotating the session key signs everyone out.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

Is the media downloader enabled?

No. It is off until you set the flag in the environment editor and redeploy.

Can I upload large files and PDFs?

Yes. The template raises the upload limit to 512M at the xCloud reverse proxy, which suits large shared files and PDFs.

Why does the first load take a while?

The first boot creates the database and can take about a minute before the site responds.

What should I back up?

The four named volumes: homehub_data (the SQLite database), homehub_uploads (Shared Cloud files), homehub_media (media downloader output) and homehub_pdfs (PDF compressor output), taken together while the app is stopped. Keep a copy of the environment values too, especially the site password and session key.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Data on the named volumes. In QA a shared note was saved, the container was restarted, and the note was still there.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update HomeHub?

No. The template pins HomeHub v0.2.4 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, test a restore, 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, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 69 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with HomeHub?

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