Marreta Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Marreta hosting and give yourself a private paste-a-link article reader on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Marreta 3.0.4 image with a private Lightpanda headless browser and a Caddy gateway that puts the whole site behind a generated password, mounts a persistent volume and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — the app and browser containers are never exposed directly.

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What is Marreta?

Marreta is an open-source article reader. You paste a link, it fetches the page and shows the article in a clean view, using per-domain rules for sites that block simple fetches. It also offers an HTTP API at /api/{url} and an admin panel at /admin for managing rules and blocked domains.

Upstream describes it as a tool that removes access barriers and elements that get in the way of reading. It is a Laravel application and is released under the GPL-3.0 licence.

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

A Marreta stack normally means the app, a headless browser, a password gateway, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first article loads. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Marreta from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter an access username (the default is reader) and the email for the admin panel.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Marreta image and a Lightpanda 1.0.0 headless browser, both private with no host ports, put a Caddy gateway in front that enforces the password, mount the marreta_storage volume, generate the access and admin passwords, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Paste A Link
Save the access and admin passwords from the protected installation credentials, give it about a minute, then open your HTTPS Marreta URL and enter the access credentials. Paste an article link on the home page to read it, or sign in at /admin to manage rules.

Everything Marreta Does, On Your Own Server

Marreta runs in full here: the reader, its HTTP API and the admin panel, behind a password gate on your own domain.

Paste A Link, Read The Page
Paste an article link on the home page and Marreta fetches the page and shows its content in a clean view.
An HTTP API For Scripts
Call /api/{url} to fetch an article from your own scripts and integrations, using the same access credentials.
Headless Browser Included
A bundled Lightpanda browser renders pages that need JavaScript, and stays private on the install's network.
Admin Panel For Rules
Sign in at /admin to manage per-domain rules for sites that block simple fetches, and a list of blocked domains.
A Password Gate On Everything
The interface, the API and the admin panel all sit behind HTTP Basic Authentication with a generated password; requests without credentials or with wrong ones are rejected.
Page Cache And Cleaned URLs
Upstream cleans up URLs, strips tracking parameters and caches pages; the cache lives in the persistent marreta_storage volume.

Everything You Need To Run Your Article Reader 24/7

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

Marreta 3.0.4 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Access and admin passwords generated
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 Marreta

A private reader for your own links
Open the home page, paste an article link and read the page without the clutter around it, on a server only you and the people you trust can reach.
Fetching articles from scripts
Call /api/{url} from your own tools and integrations to pull an article through your own instance instead of a public one.
Reading JavaScript-rendered pages
Pages that only render with JavaScript go through the bundled Lightpanda headless browser, so they are not limited to what a plain fetch returns.
Managing rules and blocked domains
Use the admin panel to keep per-domain rules for sites that block simple fetches, and to block domains you do not want the instance to fetch.

Marreta Screenshots

Marreta home page with the field for pasting an article link

An article shown in Marreta's clean reading view

Marreta admin dashboard for managing domain rules and blocked domains

Marreta vs Alternatives

13ft Ladder: Also a lightweight self-hosted reader that fetches an article on your own server and shows it in a clean view; Marreta adds an HTTP API, an admin panel for per-domain rules and a bundled headless browser.
Wallabag: A self-hosted read-it-later service that saves web pages for reading, tagging and search; Marreta instead fetches and shows a page on demand from a pasted link.
Readeck: A self-hosted read-it-later and article archiving app with a focused library and browser extensions; Marreta is a paste-a-link reader with an API and an admin panel for rules.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Marreta sits alongside other reading and archiving 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. Marreta itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-3.0.

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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.

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Ready To Run Your Own Article Reader?

Marreta 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?

Your browser prompts for the access username and generated password before the site opens. The admin panel at /admin has its own sign-in with the admin email you entered at install and a generated password. Both passwords are shown in the protected installation credentials.

Is Marreta public by default?

No. The whole site — interface, API and admin panel — sits behind HTTP Basic Authentication, and requests with no credentials or wrong ones are rejected. Marreta fetches any page it is given, so share the access credentials only with people you trust: submitted URLs are fetched by the server, including addresses reachable only from it.

What runs alongside Marreta?

A Lightpanda 1.0.0 headless browser for JavaScript-rendered pages and a Caddy gateway that enforces the password. The gateway is the only published service; the app and browser are private, with no host ports.

How do I change the access username or password?

Edit ACCESS_USERNAME and ACCESS_PASSWORD in the environment settings and Save & Redeploy; they apply on every start. The admin email and password apply on first start only, so change the admin password inside the admin panel.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

How long does the first start take?

Allow about a minute after install. On first start the app creates its SQLite database, runs migrations and creates the admin account.

What should I back up?

The marreta_storage volume — it holds the SQLite database (rules, blocked domains, admin account, sessions), the generated application key and the page cache — and your stable .env values.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Rules, the admin account, the application key and the page cache are kept on the marreta_storage volume and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

Can I install Marreta as a PWA?

It may not work. The web app manifest is requested without credentials, so installing it as a PWA may fail behind the Basic Authentication prompt.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Marreta?

No. The template pins Marreta 3.0.4 and its images 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 image 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, 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 80 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Marreta?

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