Huginn Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Huginn hosting and run a self-hosted automation agent system that watches the web, reacts to events and takes actions on your behalf. xCloud deploys the upstream Huginn v2026.10.04 image alongside a private MySQL 8.4 database, generates the administrator account and the sign-up invitation code, mounts a persistent volume for the database and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes, so your automations run on infrastructure you control.

Deploy your Huginn

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No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Huginn?

Self-hosted Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. Its README says agents read the web, watch for events and take actions on your behalf, creating and consuming events along a directed graph, and calls it a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. It lists website scraping, digest emails, webhooks, many service connections and custom JavaScript, under the MIT licence.

On xCloud the template runs the ghcr.io/huginn/huginn v2026.10.04 image with a private MySQL 8.4 database, both pinned by immutable digest, with a mysql_data volume. HTTPS is published on your domain. An administrator account and a sign-up invitation code are generated, outgoing mail needs SMTP settings you add, and agent requests are filtered away from private addresses by default.

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

Self-hosting Huginn normally means a MySQL database, a domain, a certificate and an administrator account before a single agent can run. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Huginn from the OneClick catalog, choose a domain, and enter the administrator email.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the upstream Huginn image with a private MySQL 8.4 database, and publish Huginn over HTTPS on your domain — first boot takes about one to two minutes.
Step 03
Sign In And Build Your First Agent
Save the administrator password and sign-up invitation code from your protected installation credentials, sign in as admin, change your password, then create your first agent or edit the seeded default agents.

Everything Huginn Does, On Your Own Server

Huginn runs in full here — the same web-watching automation tooling as any hosted agent system, on infrastructure you control.

Monitor Websites And Feeds
Monitor websites and feeds, then filter and transform what changes before acting on it.
Email Digests And Webhook Alerts
Send email digests and alerts, or call webhooks when events occur.
Chain Agents Together
Receive webhooks and chain agents so one agent's events trigger the next.
Egress Filtering By Default
Outbound agent requests are filtered to refuse private, loopback and link-local addresses by default.
Invitation-Gated Sign-Up
Sign-up is gated by a generated invitation code, and everything but the front page requires sign-in.
Restart-Safe Agents And Events
Agents, events and users are kept in a persistent MySQL volume and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Web Automation 24/7

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

Huginn v2026.10.04 deployed instantly
Private MySQL 8.4 database included
Generated admin account and invitation code
Outbound request filtering by default
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Huginn

Watch websites for changes
Scrape a page or follow a feed and have an agent email you when something you care about changes.
Send digests and alerts
Collect events through the day and send a digest at set times, or fire an alert the moment a count spikes.
Connect services with webhooks
Receive webhooks and call others, wiring agents to Slack, RSS, IMAP and the other services the README lists.
Run your own IFTTT-style rules
Chain agents into an event graph and keep the rules, credentials and history on your own server.

Huginn vs Alternatives

Zapier: As a huginn alternative to zapier, Huginn is MIT licensed, its README calls it a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server, and its agents, credentials and event history live on your own Cloud VPS.
IFTTT: As a huginn alternative to ifttt, Huginn lets you build agents that watch the web, create and consume events and take actions, on a server you control.
Node-RED: Node-RED has its own xCloud template. In a huginn vs node-red choice, Huginn is a system of agents that create and consume events along a directed graph, with custom JavaScript where you need it.
Automatisch: Automatisch has its own xCloud template. Huginn connects to services such as Slack, RSS and IMAP, sends and receives webhooks, and runs custom JavaScript functions.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More agents, more chained automations.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Huginn alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 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.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Huginn on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Own Your Automations?

Huginn 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 Huginn need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 1536 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk as a floor. The 6 GB Cloud VPS sold on this page leaves comfortable headroom for the web server, the job worker and the MySQL database.

Is Huginn free and open source?

Yes. Huginn is MIT licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v2026.10.04 tag, so there is no software charge, just the dedicated Cloud VPS billed by xCloud, and your agents and event history stay in your own database.

Can you run Huginn with Docker?

Yes. Huginn Docker hosting is assembled for you: the template runs the upstream ghcr.io/huginn/huginn v2026.10.04 image beside MySQL 8.4, both pinned by immutable digest, with HTTPS on your domain, so it works as Huginn cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between Huginn and Node-RED?

Huginn is a system of agents that create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph, with webhooks and custom JavaScript functions. Node-RED has its own xCloud page, so compare the two against how you like to build automations.

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How do I sign in to Huginn?

Use the username admin, or the administrator email you entered, and the generated password from the installation credentials card. The password is set on first boot, so change it later from Account settings inside Huginn; the first boot takes one to two minutes.

Who should I let sign up to Huginn?

Share the sign-up invitation code only with people you trust, since every account can create agents that make web requests using your server's bandwidth and IP address. Set a new INVITATION_CODE value and redeploy to stop further sign-ups.

Can Huginn agents reach my private network?

Not by default. An egress filter refuses private, loopback and link-local addresses, so agents cannot reach other services on the server. You can relax it by setting ENABLE_SMOKESCREEN to false, but then agents can poll those addresses.

Does outgoing mail work out of the box in Huginn?

No. Password resets and email agents need SMTP settings added in the Environment editor, and the default weather agent needs its own provider API key. Until they are set, Huginn cannot send mail, so test one email agent after saving.

What happens if I change my Huginn domain?

Webhook URLs change with it, so update every external service that calls an agent's webhook address after a domain change. Change the domain on the Domain page, not in the environment file, because the value is rewritten automatically.

What should I back up on a Huginn server?

The mysql_data volume, or a mysqldump taken as the application user, plus the APP_SECRET_TOKEN value, which you should keep stable rather than rotating, because a new value signs every user out. Copy it off the server and test a restore.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Huginn?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the install stays on pinned release v2026.10.04 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up mysql_data first, read the upstream release notes, since migrations run on start, then check sign-in and one agent.

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.