LinguaCafe Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy LinguaCafe hosting and read your way into a language from your own texts, on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned LinguaCafe 0.14.1 images with a private MySQL 8.4 database, Redis and the spaCy tokenizer service, creates your administrator account from the email you enter with a generated password, mounts persistent volumes for your library and vocabulary, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is LinguaCafe?

LinguaCafe is a free, self-hosted tool that helps language learners acquire vocabulary by reading. It provides a set of tools to read, look up unknown words and review them later as effortlessly as possible.

You bring the material — texts, e-books, subtitles or web pages — and read it in the built-in reader. Upstream lists 27 supported languages, with a different level of support for each. This template deploys version 0.14.1.

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

A LinguaCafe stack normally means a web app with a queue worker and websocket server, a tokenizer service, MySQL, Redis, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first page is imported. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick LinguaCafe from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the administrator email — that is the only field.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official LinguaCafe web and tokenizer images, pinned by immutable digest, with private MySQL and Redis services kept off the public internet, mount the linguacafe_storage, linguacafe_database and linguacafe_redis volumes, generate the administrator password and database credentials, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Add A Language
Open your HTTPS LinguaCafe URL — the first start runs database setup and can take a few minutes — and sign in with your administrator email and the generated password. In Admin settings, install the spaCy model for each language you want to study and add the dictionaries you want, then import your first text.

Everything LinguaCafe Does, On Your Own Server

LinguaCafe runs in full here: a reader, vocabulary list and review tool on your own domain, with your library kept in volumes you control.

A Personal Library Of Your Own Texts
Import plain text, text files, e-books, YouTube transcripts, subtitle files and web pages into one library.
Click Any Word In The Reader
Click a word while reading to see its lemma, add your own translation and set a familiarity level.
Vocabulary Search And Review
Search the words you have saved and review them with the built-in spaced-repetition review.
Dictionaries You Choose
No dictionary content is preinstalled; an administrator adds dictionaries under Admin settings, and saving words with your own translations works without one.
Live Import Progress Over HTTPS
The websocket for live import progress is served on the same domain, so progress updates work over HTTPS with nothing extra to open.
Private Database And Queue
MySQL, Redis and the tokenizer service have no published ports and are reachable only inside the install's private network.

Everything You Need To Run Your Language Reader 24/7

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

LinguaCafe 0.14.1 deployed instantly
Official images pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Private MySQL, Redis and tokenizer
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With LinguaCafe

Read real material in the language you are learning
Import an article, an e-book chapter, a YouTube transcript, a subtitle file or a web page and read it with word lookup built into the page.
Build a vocabulary from what you actually read
Save words as you meet them, add your own translation and mark how familiar each one is, then search the list whenever you need it.
Review saved words on a schedule
Use the built-in spaced-repetition review to come back to the words you have saved, instead of exporting them to another tool first.
Keep a private library on your own server
Your texts, vocabulary and database live in volumes on a server you control, behind a login, with no open sign-up page.

LinguaCafe Screenshots

The LinguaCafe reader showing a text with a word saved to the vocabulary list.

The LinguaCafe vocabulary list showing saved words.

LinguaCafe vs Alternatives

Anki: Anki is a flashcard application. LinguaCafe is built around reading: you look up and save words from your own texts in the reader, then review them.
LingQ: LingQ is a language-reading service. LinguaCafe is free software you run on your own server, so your library and vocabulary stay in volumes you control.
Readlang: Readlang is a language-reading service. LinguaCafe is free software you run yourself, with imports for text files, e-books, YouTube transcripts, subtitles and web pages.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if you install many languages or run other apps alongside.

$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. LinguaCafe itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Language Reader?

LinguaCafe 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 do I sign in?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password from the installation credentials. The first start runs database setup and can take a few minutes, so reload until the login screen appears.

Can anyone register?

No. There is no open sign-up page. Only a signed-in user can add more users, and any signed-in user can do so, so share logins only with people you trust. Upstream also states that only one user per server is supported at this time.

What runs alongside LinguaCafe?

A MySQL 8.4 database, Redis and a Python (spaCy) tokenizer service, all private to the site with no published ports.

Do I need to set up languages and dictionaries myself?

Yes. In Admin settings, install the spaCy model for each language you want to study and add the dictionaries you want to use. No dictionary content is preinstalled, so lookups stay empty until you add one. Models and dictionaries are downloaded from the internet, so the server needs outbound access and free disk space.

Which content can I import?

Plain text, text files, e-books, YouTube transcripts, subtitle files and web pages.

Does it run on ARM servers?

No. The tokenizer image is published for amd64 only, so install LinguaCafe on an amd64 server.

What should I back up?

The three named volumes — linguacafe_storage (uploads, models, app files), linguacafe_database (MySQL data) and linguacafe_redis (cache and queues) — together with the stable values in the environment file. LinguaCafe also offers an in-app SQL backup under Admin settings. Keep the generated administrator password and application key private.

Backups in xCloud

Can I change the application key after install?

No. The application key is generated at install and must not change afterwards, or every user is signed out.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update LinguaCafe?

No. The template pins LinguaCafe 0.14.1 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, 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, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 0.65 GiB across the stack. Upstream notes that memory use can pass 2 GB once many languages are installed. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Your library, vocabulary and database, which live on the persistent named volumes and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

Is xCloud officially partnered with LinguaCafe?

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