Liwan Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Liwan hosting and run a self-hosted web analytics tool that is lightweight, privacy-friendly and sets no cookies for your visitors and needs no external database. xCloud starts the pinned official image as one self-contained process with embedded databases, creates the admin account with a generated password and serves the dashboard over HTTPS on your domain. Add a project, copy its tracking snippet into your site, and watch page views arrive.

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What is Liwan?

Liwan is a lightweight, privacy-friendly web analytics tool, released under the Apache-2.0 licence. It runs as one self-contained process with embedded databases, sets no cookies for visitors and needs no external database. A self-hosted Liwan is an alternative to a hosted analytics service such as Google Analytics for site owners who want visitor counts on their own server, with upstream-listed single sign-on available if you configure it.

On xCloud the template runs the official ghcr.io/explodingcamera/liwan 1.7.0 image, pinned by digest, with one volume, liwan_data, holding a SQLite file for users, projects and settings and a DuckDB file for page views. A tiny busybox container beside it probes health and holds no data. The tracker script and event endpoint are public by design; the dashboard needs a login.

From Sign-Up to Live Analytics In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting analytics normally means a container, a volume, a generated login, a domain and a certificate before the first page view is counted. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Liwan 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 official Liwan image, pinned by immutable digest, with a small health-check sidecar that holds no data, mount the liwan_data volume, generate the admin password, and publish the dashboard over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Add Your First Project
Open your HTTPS Liwan URL and sign in as admin with the generated password from the installation credentials. Add a project, then copy its tracking snippet into the website you want to measure.

Everything Liwan Does, On Your Own Server

Liwan runs in full here: privacy-friendly analytics for your own websites, with the data stored on a volume you own.

No Tracking Cookies
Liwan sets no tracking cookies and does no cross-site tracking, so your analytics data stays on your server.
Traffic At A Glance
See your most-visited pages, where visitors come from and how traffic changes over time, with bot filtering on by default.
One Self-Contained Process
The dashboard and databases are built in, so there is no separate database service to run or patch.
Lightweight Tracking Script
Add a small script to your site with a single line of HTML. It works with any framework or CMS.
Collect Only What You Need
Choose what data to collect and how long to keep it. Location detail is adjustable, and campaign attribution and session metrics can be disabled independently.
Login-Protected Dashboard
Reports sit behind a login with no open registration. Only the tracker script and event endpoint are public, so visitors' browsers can report page views.

Everything You Need To Run Your Analytics 24/7

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

Liwan 1.7.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password 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 Liwan

Count visits without cookies
Measure page views on your sites without setting cookies for your visitors.
Run analytics without a database server
Keep everything in embedded databases on one volume, with nothing extra to patch.
Track several sites in one place
Create a project per website and paste each tracking snippet into its pages.
Keep traffic data on your server
Store events in a file you back up yourself instead of a third-party analytics provider.

Liwan Screenshots

Liwan analytics dashboard in the light theme, from the upstream project

Liwan analytics dashboard in the dark theme, from the upstream project

Liwan vs Alternatives

Google Analytics: If you use a hosted analytics service such as Google Analytics, Liwan is the self-hosted alternative, with visitor data on your own server and no cookies set for visitors.
Umami: Umami has its own xCloud page and is another privacy-focused analytics tool. Liwan runs as a single process with embedded databases.
Plausible Analytics: Plausible has its own xCloud page. Liwan needs no external database, so its users, projects and page views sit on one volume.
GoatCounter: GoatCounter has its own xCloud page. Liwan offers a project per website, a login-protected dashboard and optional GeoIP.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Liwan sits alongside other apps on the same 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. Liwan itself is licensed by its maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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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.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Web Analytics?

Liwan 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.

Can you self-host Liwan with Docker?

Yes. For Liwan Docker hosting the template runs the official ghcr.io/explodingcamera/liwan 1.7.0 image, pinned by digest, as one process with embedded databases. A small busybox container probes health, since the upstream image has no shell, and xCloud's nginx publishes the dashboard and tracker over HTTPS.

Is Liwan free and open source?

Liwan is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, so the analytics tool has no licence fee. xCloud bills the Cloud VPS and the deployment separately from any extras. Optional GeoIP downloads need a MaxMind account, which is billed or licensed by MaxMind rather than by Liwan or xCloud.

How much RAM does Liwan need?

The manifest asks for 128 MB of RAM. The analytics engine's memory is capped at 512 MB by default through LIWAN_DUCKDB_MEMORY_LIMIT, which you can raise on a larger server. The 6 GB plan sold here is far more than needed and leaves room for big report queries.

How do I sign in to Liwan?

Open your HTTPS address and sign in as admin with the password on your credentials card, created once at install. Liwan has no default account and no open registration; an admin adds other users in the dashboard settings. Change the password inside Liwan, because editing ADMIN_PASSWORD later does nothing.

Does Liwan use cookies?

Liwan sets no cookies for visitors, according to its description, and runs without an external database. The dashboard session cookie is separate and for admins only. Outbound requests it can make include DuckDuckGo favicon lookups and a clock check against pool.ntp.org, which you can disable.

How do I back up Liwan?

Back up the liwan_data volume, which holds liwan-app.sqlite (users, projects, settings) and liwan-events.duckdb (page views) plus WAL files. Stop the container before copying so the files are consistent, keep copies off-server, and test a restore on a disposable install.

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How do I upgrade Liwan?

Version 1.7.0 is fixed by digest, so a catalog update reaches new installs only. Back up liwan_data, review the upstream changelog, then adopt a newer template version. Afterwards test sign-in, that events still arrive, and that data survives a restart.

What happens if I change my Liwan domain?

Tracking snippets contain the dashboard address, so after a domain change you must update the snippet on every website you track. LIWAN_BASE_URL follows the site address automatically and should not be edited. The tracker script and event endpoint must stay reachable without Basic Auth.

Can I run Liwan in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. Liwan cloud use gives the analytics dashboard a dedicated Cloud VPS with your domain and certificate, ready in under a minute. A server rented elsewhere can be enrolled as self-managed instead and run the same template.

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.