Meme Search Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Meme Search hosting and run a self-hosted meme search engine where you upload images, let a vision model describe them and find them again by meaning, text on the image or tags. xCloud starts the pinned web app, worker, local description model and PostgreSQL with pgvector, and serves it over HTTPS on your domain. It has no login of its own, so keep the address private or add access control.

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What is Meme Search?

Meme Search is a meme search engine built to self-host, released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Upstream describes using AI to index memes by their content and text, with processing from image-to-text extraction to vector embedding and search performed locally by default, an optional OpenAI-compatible vision API for descriptions, and a documented read-only Search API. A self-hosted Meme Search lets you find the right meme in a large collection without a hosted service.

On xCloud the template runs the upstream web app, a background worker, a local image-to-text generator using the Florence-2-base model on CPU and PostgreSQL with pgvector, all pinned by digest, with four volumes. It has no accounts or passwords, so anyone who can open the site can view, upload, edit and delete memes and change settings. Upstream treats direct public exposure as unsupported.

From Sign-Up to a Live Meme Search Install In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting an AI-searchable meme library normally means a vector database, a local vision model and a domain before a single meme is indexed. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Meme Search from the OneClick catalog, and choose a domain. There are no extra fields — xCloud generates the database password and session secret.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Meme Search v2.3.2 web app, worker, local image-to-text generator and PostgreSQL with pgvector, and publish the site over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Upload Memes And Generate Descriptions
Wait about 2 to 3 minutes for first start, open the HTTPS Meme Search URL, upload your first memes, then run description generation — the first run downloads model weights from Hugging Face, so it needs outbound internet access and runs slowly.

Everything Meme Search Does, On Your Own Server

Meme Search runs in full here — the same AI-assisted meme library as any hosted service, on infrastructure you control.

Search By Meaning, Text Or Tags
Find a meme by describing it, by the text written on it, or by tags, instead of scrolling a camera roll.
Local AI Model, No GPU Required
Image descriptions are generated by a local model (Florence-2-base by default) running on your server's CPU.
Optional OpenAI-Compatible API
Use an OpenAI-compatible vision API for descriptions instead, while embeddings and search stay local.
Read-Only Search API With Tokens
A read-only, token-authenticated Search API lets scripts and other tools query your library.
Bulk Upload Your Collection
Upload up to 50 files per batch (10 MB per file; jpg, jpeg, png, webp, gif) to index a collection quickly.
Everything Survives A Restart
Uploaded memes, descriptions, tags and downloaded model weights survive an xCloud Restart of all four containers.

Everything You Need To Run Your Meme Search 24/7

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

Meme Search 2.3.2 deployed instantly
Local AI vision model, no GPU or AI account required
PostgreSQL with pgvector included
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Meme Search

Find a meme from a half-remembered idea
Search by what the image means or says, not by filename.
Search text on screenshots
Find memes by the words shown in the picture as well as by tags.
Keep your collection local
Run description, embedding and search on your own server without sending images elsewhere by default.
Search from scripts
Use the read-only Search API with a token to look memes up from other tools.

Meme Search vs Alternatives

Karakeep: Karakeep has its own xCloud page for saving bookmarks and notes. Meme Search is built for image collections searched by meaning and on-image text.
PhotoPrism: PhotoPrism has its own xCloud page for photo libraries. Meme Search is the narrower tool, tuned for memes with AI descriptions you can search.
Home Gallery: Home Gallery has its own xCloud page for browsing photos and videos from disk. Meme Search adds generated descriptions and semantic search.
Folders of images: A folder of images is only searchable by filename. Meme Search describes each image and indexes it for search by meaning.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Below the template's own manifest floor.

$24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Room for a larger vision model in Settings.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

Get started

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. Meme Search itself is free, open-source software under its own Apache License 2.0.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Meme Search on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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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 Own Your Meme Library?

Meme Search 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 Meme Search with Docker?

Yes. For Meme Search Docker hosting the template runs four services: the web app, a background worker, a local image-to-text generator and PostgreSQL with pgvector, all pinned by digest. The web app listens on port 3000 behind xCloud's HTTPS proxy and the generator and database stay internal.

Is Meme Search free and open source?

Meme Search is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, so the engine has no licence fee. xCloud bills for the dedicated Cloud VPS and the deployment. If you choose the optional OpenAI-compatible description provider, that service bills you separately and receives the selected images.

How much RAM does Meme Search need?

The manifest asks for 4096 MB of RAM, two CPU cores and 20 GB of disk. Measured idle use was about 1.5 GB, peaking near 1.6 GB while describing images, and larger models chosen in Settings need more. That is why this page sells the 16 GB plan.

Does Meme Search have a login?

No. Meme Search has no accounts or passwords. Anyone who can open the site can view, upload, edit and delete memes, change Settings and create API tokens. Share the address only with people you trust, or add HTTP Basic Auth in front of it, which the template does not enable.

Does Meme Search need a GPU or AI account?

No. The default Florence-2-base model runs on CPU on your own server, and an OpenAI-compatible API is optional. The first description run downloads model weights from Hugging Face, so the server needs outbound internet access and that run is slow. Choosing the OpenAI provider sends selected images to that service.

How do I back up Meme Search?

Back up meme_search_db (memes, descriptions, tags and tokens), meme_search_memes (uploaded images) and meme_search_generator_db (job queue). The meme_search_models volume holds cached model weights that can be downloaded again. Keep copies off-server, since the memes volume is your whole collection, and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Meme Search?

Version v2.3.2 and its image digests are pinned together, so a catalog update reaches new installs only. Back up the volumes, read the upstream release notes, then adopt a newer template version when you decide. A harmless onnxruntime segfault may appear in the worker log while containers stop.

What are the Meme Search upload limits?

Each file is limited to 10 MB in jpg, jpeg, png, webp or gif, and the interface accepts 50 files per batch. The proxy accepts requests up to 512 MB, but a Cloudflare proxy caps a single request near 100 MB, so upload large collections in batches of about ten files.

Can I run Meme Search in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. Meme Search cloud use gives the app, worker, model and database a dedicated Cloud VPS with your domain and certificate. The first start applies migrations and loads the embedding model, so the site can take two to three minutes to answer. A server rented elsewhere can be enrolled as self-managed.

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.