Imagor Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Imagor hosting on xCloud gives you a self-hosted image processing server that resizes, crops and converts images on demand from your own domain. Deploy Imagor from the OneClick catalog and xCloud starts the pinned 1.9.9 container, generates the 48-character URL-signing secret and publishes the API over HTTPS. It has no admin interface and stores nothing, so your backend signs each URL and Imagor fetches and transforms the source image per request.

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What is Imagor?

Imagor is, in its README's words, a fast, secure image processing server and Go library. It uses the libvips image library, supports a wide range of image-processing use cases as an HTTP server with first-class Docker support, and adopts the thumbor URL syntax so it can act as a drop-in replacement for it. An optional companion, imagorvideo, brings video thumbnails. Self-hosted Imagor is an image processing server you run yourself instead of renting a hosted image service. It is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Here on xCloud the template starts Imagor 1.9.9, pinned by digest, as one stateless container with no volume and no database. Images are requested at a signed URL, and each request must carry a signature computed from the generated secret, so only holders of the secret can create working URLs. Imagor fetches the source, transforms it in memory and returns the result, so put a CDN in front for repeated requests.

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

An Imagor setup normally means a container, a signing secret, a loopback-bound port, a domain and a certificate before the first thumbnail is served. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Imagor 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 upstream Imagor image as a single container pinned by immutable digest, generate the 48-character URL-signing secret, bind the container port to loopback only and publish the API over HTTPS. There are no volumes because Imagor stores nothing.
Step 03
Sign Your First URL
Save the signing secret from your installation credentials and open the HTTPS URL — the root shows a small landing page and /healthcheck reports health. Then sign image URLs on your own backend and request them from your domain.

Everything Imagor Does, On Your Own Server

Imagor runs in full here: a signed, on-demand image-processing API on your own domain, with a generated secret and no data to look after.

Resize, Crop And Filter From A URL
Built on libvips, Imagor resizes, crops, filters and converts images on the fly from the request URL.
Signed URLs Only
Only holders of the secret can create working requests; unsigned and wrongly signed requests returned 403 in verification.
WebP Per Request
Add the filters:format(webp) filter to a URL to get WebP output when you want it.
Guarded Remote Fetching
Remote image fetching blocks loopback, private and link-local networks by default, and you can limit hosts with HTTP_LOADER_ALLOWED_SOURCES.
Bounded Resource Use
Size, resolution and concurrency limits keep memory use bounded; idle use on QA was about 14 MiB.
Stateless By Design
Nothing is stored on the server, so a Restart loses no data; the signing secret persists in the environment.

Everything You Need To Run Your Image Server 24/7

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

Imagor 1.9.9 deployed instantly
Upstream image pinned by digest
URL-signing secret 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 Imagor

Serve resized images on demand
Your site requests a thumbnail at the exact size it needs, and Imagor produces it from the original instead of you storing every variant.
Convert formats at the edge of your app
You ask for a WebP version with a URL filter, so browsers get a smaller file without a separate conversion pipeline.
Replace a Thumbor setup
Because Imagor adopts the thumbor URL syntax, an existing app can often point at it with little change, once URLs are signed with the new secret.
Keep image transformation on your own server
A team that does not want its images routed through a third-party transformation service keeps the work on a server it rents.

Imagor vs Alternatives

Cloudinary: Imagor transforms images fetched from other hosts and stores nothing, on a server you run, with every URL signed by your backend. This page makes no feature-parity claim with Cloudinary.
imgproxy: imgproxy is a separate self-hosted image processing server with its own OneClick page. Compare its URL format and signing with Imagor's thumbor-style syntax before choosing.
Thumbor: Thumbor has its own OneClick page. Imagor adopts the thumbor URL syntax and its README presents it as a drop-in replacement, so test your existing URLs with the new signing secret.
Pre-generated thumbnails: Generating every size in advance needs no server at request time but stores every variant. Imagor produces them on demand, at the cost of running a service and signing URLs.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Imagor sits alongside other media 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. Imagor itself is licensed by Imagor's maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Image Server?

Imagor 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.

Is Imagor free?

Yes. Imagor is open source under Apache-2.0, and you can read the licence at the pinned v1.9.9 tag linked on this page. xCloud bills for the Cloud VPS under it, not for Imagor, and there is no per-image or per-transformation fee. You pay your own bandwidth for the images you serve.

Can you self-host Imagor with Docker?

Yes, and this Imagor Docker hosting template does it for you: the upstream ghcr.io/cshum/imagor image, pinned by digest, runs as one stateless container on your own server with HTTPS in front of port 8000. It is not an Imagor cloud account, so images pass through your server.

How much RAM does Imagor need?

The template manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM as a floor. Large images, high concurrency and the maximum width, height and resolution limits all use memory, and two images are processed at once by default. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves wide headroom for bigger sources.

How do I sign an Imagor URL?

Compute the URL-safe base64 of the HMAC-SHA1 of the path that follows the signature, keyed with the generated secret from the credentials, then request https://your-domain/signature/operations/image-url. Sign on your own backend and never ship the secret to browsers.

Does Imagor have an admin interface?

No. Imagor has no user interface, accounts or admin login, and the site root only shows a small landing page. Everything is configured through environment variables in the Environment editor, which are read on every start, so edit them there and redeploy.

Can anyone use my Imagor server to fetch images?

Only holders of the secret can create working URLs, but a signed URL works for whoever receives it and can make Imagor fetch that image from any public host. Private, loopback and link-local sources are blocked. Set HTTP_LOADER_ALLOWED_SOURCES to limit allowed hosts, and sign only URLs you intend to serve.

Can Imagor output WebP?

Yes, with the format filter in the URL, such as filters:format(webp). Automatic WebP is off by default because CDNs such as Cloudflare ignore the Vary: Accept header and could serve the wrong format to browsers. Other optional settings, such as AVIF, are listed as commented lines in the environment.

What happens if I change the Imagor signing secret?

Every URL signed with the old secret stops working, so update your signing clients at the same time and then Save and Redeploy. IMAGOR_SECRET is read on every start. The unsafe mode that disables signature checks, and the upload endpoint that depends on it, are intentionally not enabled.

Does Imagor store images, and what should I back up?

Imagor stores nothing on disk: it fetches each source image, transforms it in memory and returns the result. There is no data volume and no database, so there is no image backup to take. Keep your IMAGOR_SECRET safe, and keep a CDN or cache in front for repeated requests.

How do I upgrade Imagor?

A live 1.9.9 install keeps its pinned image, and moving to a newer template version is a step you take yourself. Read the upstream release notes first, since URL options and filters can change, and test a few signed URLs after the move. There is no data to migrate.

Is Imagor an alternative to Cloudinary?

Imagor covers on-demand image transformation: it fetches images from other hosts, transforms them in memory and returns them, on your own server. This page makes no feature-parity or speed claim with Cloudinary, so test your transformations first.

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.