Llana Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Llana hosting gives you a self-hosted database REST API over your own PostgreSQL tables without writing endpoints. Deploy Llana v1.32.0 on xCloud: it runs the official image next to a private PostgreSQL 17 database, creates the administrator from the email you enter with a generated password, keeps the data on a persistent volume and publishes the API and its OpenAPI schema over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Llana?

Self-hosted Llana is a lightweight API wrapper that exposes a REST API for a database within minutes, so you stop building endpoints and connect your database instead. Its README calls it open source, free to use and free of vendor lock-in, and marks PostgreSQL support as beta. The xCloud template describes JWT and API-key login, role-based permissions, a generated OpenAPI schema and live websockets on top. Its package.json declares the BSD-4-Clause licence.

On xCloud the template runs the juicyllama/llana v1.32.0 image beside a private PostgreSQL 17 database, both pinned by immutable digest, with a llana_db volume. HTTPS is published on your domain. Llana is an API, not a dashboard: there is no admin interface, and you manage data through the database or the API.

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

A database API normally means an application container, a database, JWT keys, a first user, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first request. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Llana from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the email for the administrator login.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Llana image, pinned by immutable digest, beside a private PostgreSQL 17 database kept off the public internet, mount the llana_db volume, generate the administrator password, database credentials and JWT keys, and publish the API over HTTPS on your domain. Allow about 2 minutes for the first start.
Step 03
Call Your First Endpoint
Send POST /auth/login with your administrator email as "username" and the password from the installation credentials. Use the returned access token as a Bearer token to create or read records on your own tables; table requests use a trailing slash, such as /notes/.

Everything Llana Does, On Your Own Server

Llana runs in full here: a REST API over a database you own, with login and roles in front of it.

REST Over Your Tables
Add tables to the bundled PostgreSQL database and Llana serves them as REST endpoints, with no endpoint code to write.
JWT And API-Key Login
Sign in with POST /auth/login for a JWT, or send an API key from the UserApiKey table in the x-api-key header. Wrong passwords and unauthenticated requests are rejected with 401.
Role-Based Permissions
The ADMIN role can read, write and delete; the USER role can read. Add more users as rows in the User table.
Generated OpenAPI Schema
The schema for your tables is served at /openapi.json, ready to load into any OpenAPI viewer or client generator.
Live Websockets
The template describes Llana as an instant REST API and live websockets over a SQL database, so the same tables can feed real-time clients.
Private PostgreSQL 17
The bundled database has no published port and keeps its data, including your tables and users, on the llana_db volume.

Everything You Need To Run Your Database API 24/7

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

Llana v1.32.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password and JWT keys generated for you
Private PostgreSQL 17 with no public port
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Llana

Expose a table as an API
Create tables in the bundled PostgreSQL database and Llana serves them as REST endpoints, without hand-written routes.
Protect an API with roles
Sign in with JWT or an API key, with ADMIN able to read, write and delete and USER able to read.
Generate API documentation
Read the generated OpenAPI schema at /openapi.json in any viewer, to share the shape of your API with clients.
Feed a front end or automation
Call the API from a web app, n8n or your own code, and set an allowed browser origin for credentialed requests.

Llana vs Alternatives

Hosted backend platforms: A hosted platform runs your database and API on its servers. Llana's README stresses no vendor lock-in, and here the API and the PostgreSQL database run on your own Cloud VPS.
Directus: Directus wraps a SQL database with an API and an admin app for editing content, with its own xCloud template. In a llana vs directus choice, Llana is an API only, with no data-management interface.
Hasura: Hasura centres on a GraphQL API over your databases and has its own xCloud template. In a llana vs hasura comparison, Llana exposes plain REST endpoints per table.
Supabase: Supabase is a fuller backend platform around Postgres, with its own xCloud template. Llana is a single container that only puts an API in front of the database.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Llana sits alongside other backends and 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. Llana itself is licensed by its maintainers under BSD-4-Clause.

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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 Run Your Own Database API?

Llana 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 Llana need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk, and QA measured about 195 MiB idle. The 6 GB Cloud VPS here leaves real headroom for the API and its PostgreSQL database.

Is Llana free and open source?

Yes. Llana's package.json at the v1.32.0 tag declares the BSD-4-Clause licence, and the tag has no separate LICENSE file, so no licence is bought; xCloud's charge is the dedicated Cloud VPS, and your data stays on your own volume.

Can you run Llana with Docker?

Yes, and this is Llana Docker hosting prepared for you: the template runs the official juicyllama/llana v1.32.0 image beside PostgreSQL 17, both pinned by immutable digest, with HTTPS on your domain, so it works as Llana cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between Llana and Directus?

Both wrap a SQL database with an API. Llana is an API only, with JWT and API-key login and no data-management interface, while Directus also ships an admin app for editing content. Directus has its own xCloud page.

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How do I sign in to Llana?

POST to /auth/login with the administrator email as the username and the generated password, then send the returned access token as a Bearer token. The email is the one you entered at install, and the password is in the protected credentials.

Is the Llana API public by default?

No. Unauthenticated requests to your tables are rejected with 401. The page at / and /openapi.json are readable without login and list your table and column names; set SKIP_DOCS to true in the Environment editor to hide them.

Where is the Llana API documentation?

Use the OpenAPI schema at /openapi.json. The Redoc page at the site root loads its viewer from a CDN and can render blank, so open the schema in any OpenAPI viewer instead. Table requests use a trailing slash, for example /notes/.

Is Llana's PostgreSQL support production-ready?

Upstream's README marks PostgreSQL support as beta. Only the bundled PostgreSQL 17 was verified on xCloud, so test your tables, roles and load before relying on it, and do not assume other databases work with this template.

What should I back up on a Llana server?

The llana_db volume, which holds the PostgreSQL data including your tables and users, plus the stable environment values. Keep the generated password and JWT keys private, copy the volume off the server, and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Llana?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the install stays on pinned release v1.32.0 until you adopt a newer template version. Before upgrading, back up llana_db, read the upstream release notes, and then check sign-in and a table endpoint 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.