HomeTube Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy HomeTube hosting and turn your own server into a self-hosted yt-dlp web interface you control. xCloud runs the pinned HomeTube 2.13.0 image behind an HTTP Basic Auth gateway with a generated password, mounts persistent volumes for finished videos, working files and config, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. Paste a video or playlist URL and the server does the downloading.

Deploy your HomeTube

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

What is HomeTube?

Self-hosted HomeTube is a simple web UI for downloading single videos and playlists from the internet at the highest quality available and placing them where a media server such as Plex or Jellyfin can find them. Its README lists best-quality strategies or manual override, playlist sync, cookies support, subtitles and chapters, clip cutting, custom yt-dlp arguments and more than 1800 supported sources. It stands in for online video downloader sites, under the AGPL-3.0-or-later licence.

On xCloud the template runs the ghcr.io/egalitarianmonkey/hometube 2.13.0 image behind an nginx Basic Auth gateway, pinned by immutable digest, with hometube_videos, hometube_tmp and hometube_config volumes. HTTPS is published on your domain. HomeTube has no accounts of its own, and the interface cannot send finished videos back to your browser.

From Sign-Up to Your First Download In Just 3 Easy Steps

A HomeTube setup normally means a container, a login in front of it, volumes for the library, a domain and a certificate before the first download. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick HomeTube from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in, because xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the upstream HomeTube image, pinned by immutable digest, behind an nginx gateway with HTTP Basic Auth and a generated password. The hometube_videos, hometube_tmp and hometube_config volumes are mounted, and the site is published over HTTPS on your domain; the HomeTube container itself stays private.
Step 03
Paste A URL And Download
Open your HTTPS HomeTube URL and sign in as hometube with the password shown in the protected installation credentials. Paste a video URL, analyze it and press Download — the file lands in the videos volume.

Everything HomeTube Does, On Your Own Server

HomeTube runs in full here: a yt-dlp web interface on your own domain, with the downloads stored on a server you own.

Videos And Playlists
Paste a video or playlist URL and the server downloads it to your own storage instead of your laptop.
Quality Profiles
Choose a quality profile and a maximum resolution for what gets downloaded.
Subtitles, Audio And Chapters
Set subtitle and audio-language preferences, with chapters and subtitles embedded in the finished files.
A Library For Your Media Server
Finished files land in one volume, so a media server such as Jellyfin can be pointed at it.
A Login In Front Of Everything
HomeTube has no accounts of its own, so the template adds an HTTP Basic Auth login with a generated password; anonymous requests, including the websocket, get a 401.
Persistent Volumes
Finished downloads, per-download working files and resume state, and an optional YouTube cookies file each live on their own named volume.

Everything You Need To Run Your Video Downloader 24/7

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

HomeTube 2.13.0 deployed instantly
Upstream image pinned by digest
Generated login password
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With HomeTube

Build a media library on your own server
Queue videos and playlists and let finished files collect in one volume that you can point a media server such as Jellyfin at.
Download at the quality you want
Pick a quality profile and a maximum resolution once, instead of choosing a format for every download.
Keep subtitles and languages with the file
Set audio-language and subtitle preferences, with chapters and subtitles embedded in the files.
Use your server's bandwidth, not your own
The server fetches and stores the video, so your laptop and home connection are not tied up by long playlists.

HomeTube Screenshots

HomeTube home screen with the field for pasting a video URL

HomeTube after analyzing a pasted video URL, ready to download

HomeTube vs Alternatives

Online video downloader sites: If you use downloader websites today, HomeTube is the self-hosted, AGPL-3.0-or-later option: here the links you paste, the downloads and their working files stay on your own Cloud VPS behind a login.
MeTube: MeTube has its own xCloud page. In a hometube vs metube choice, HomeTube offers quality profiles, playlist sync and output named and placed for a media server.
yt-dlp on the command line: HomeTube is a web interface for yt-dlp, so the same downloads can be run by hand over SSH. HomeTube adds a browser form, quality profiles and a login in front.
Jellyfin: Jellyfin has its own xCloud page. HomeTube is a downloader that fills a library, and its README names Jellyfin as a media server that can read the output in the videos volume.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if HomeTube sits alongside a media server.

$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. HomeTube itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0-or-later.

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Ready To Run Your Own Video Downloader?

HomeTube 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 much RAM does HomeTube need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk, and QA measured about 55 MB for the app plus 6 MB for the gateway after a restart. The 6 GB Cloud VPS sold on this page leaves room for large downloads, and the video volume is what grows the disk.

Is HomeTube free and open source?

Yes. HomeTube is AGPL-3.0-or-later licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v2.13.0 tag, so the software itself costs nothing; the dedicated Cloud VPS is what xCloud bills, and your downloads stay on your own volumes.

Can you run HomeTube with Docker?

Yes. HomeTube Docker hosting comes without a compose file to write: the template runs the upstream ghcr.io/egalitarianmonkey/hometube 2.13.0 image behind an nginx gateway, both pinned by immutable digest, with three volumes and HTTPS, so it works as HomeTube cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between HomeTube and MeTube?

HomeTube is a self-hosted web interface for yt-dlp, and its README stresses best-quality strategies, playlist sync and media-server-ready output. MeTube sits on its own xCloud page, so set the two side by side by how you organise your library and which media server you use.

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Does HomeTube have a login?

Not by itself. HomeTube has no accounts, so the template puts an HTTP Basic Auth login in front of it with the username hometube and a generated password. Anonymous requests get a 401. Share the login carefully, because anyone holding it can use your server's bandwidth and disk.

Where do my HomeTube videos go?

Into the hometube_videos volume on your server. The interface cannot send finished videos back to your browser, so copy them off over SSH or point a media server such as Jellyfin at the volume. Only download content you are authorised to retrieve.

Why does YouTube ask HomeTube to sign in?

YouTube often refuses downloads without cookies. Export a Netscape-format cookies.txt from your browser and add it to the config volume as described on the Environment page. Cookies expire, so repeat this when downloads start failing, and do not assume it always works.

Why do HomeTube downloads fail with extractor errors?

The yt-dlp bundled in the pinned image does not update itself, so an extractor error on a site that used to work usually means a newer HomeTube image is needed. That arrives when you adopt a newer template version.

What should I back up on a HomeTube server?

The three volumes: hometube_videos for finished downloads, hometube_tmp for working files and resume state, and hometube_config for the optional cookies file. Keep the login private, copy the volumes off the server, and test a restore.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade HomeTube?

Nothing upgrades it for you: this install stays at pinned release 2.13.0 until you adopt a newer template version. Copy the volumes first, go through the upstream release notes, then check sign-in and run one test download afterwards.

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.