Monica Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Monica hosting gives you a private place to remember the people in your life. Deploy Monica 4.1.2, a self-hosted personal CRM: xCloud runs the pinned image with a private MariaDB 11.4.7 database, generates the application key and database credentials, mounts persistent storage and publishes it over HTTPS. You register your own first account, so your contacts, notes and reminders sit on a server you control.

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What is Monica?

Self-hosted Monica is a personal CRM: an open-source web application to organise and record your interactions with the people you care about. Its README calls it a PRM, a personal relationship manager, listing contacts, relationships, reminders, birthdays, notes, activities, gifts, a basic journal, documents and photos, tags, an API and multiple users. It stands in for scattered contact lists such as Google Contacts when you want your own notes kept private.

On xCloud the template runs the monica:4.1.2 image beside a private MariaDB 11.4.7 database, both pinned by immutable digest, with monica_storage for uploads and monica_db for the database. Only the web interface is published, over HTTPS on your domain. There is no generated admin login, so you register your own account, and no mail server is configured, which matters for reminder email.

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

Self-hosting a personal CRM normally means a container, a database, an application key, a domain and a certificate before a single contact exists. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Monica from the OneClick catalog. Enter a site title and domain — there are no other fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the vendor-maintained Monica 4.1.2 image and MariaDB 11.4.7 pinned by immutable digest, generate the application key and database credentials, mount the storage and database volumes, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Add Your First Contact
Open your HTTPS URL and register the first account yourself through Monica's own sign-up screen. Add your first contact, then set up reminders, relationships and notes.

Everything Monica Does, On Your Own Server

Monica runs in full here — a proper personal CRM for contacts, relationships and reminders, on infrastructure you control.

Contacts And Relationships
Map out the people in your life and how they relate to each other, in one structured place.
Birthday And Stay-In-Touch Reminders
Set reminders for birthdays, calls and follow-ups so nothing important slips through.
Activities And Notes
Log conversations, activities and notes against each contact, building a real history over time.
Your Data, Your Server
Every contact, note and reminder lives on a server you control, which Monica's README sums up as your data, your server.
Register Your Own Account
No shared or generated login — you create your own account through Monica's own sign-up flow the first time you open it.
Two Volumes, Fully Persistent
Uploaded files persist on monica_storage and the MariaDB database on monica_db, both surviving a restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Personal CRM 24/7

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

Monica 4.1.2 deployed instantly
Vendor-maintained pinned image digest
Application key generated for you
Private MariaDB, no public port
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Monica

Remember details about friends and family
Record how you met someone, their partner's and children's names, gifts and what you talked about on the last call, so the next conversation starts with the right questions rather than a blank memory.
Get reminded to stay in touch
Set birthday reminders and stay-in-touch intervals for people you rarely see, so a friend abroad gets a call before the months slip by. Reminder email needs a mail server you configure.
Keep a private journal of your relationships
Log activities, notes and a basic journal entry about how your day went, with everything stored on your own Cloud VPS instead of a third-party contact service.
Share a contact book with a partner
Monica supports multiple users, so a couple or small household can maintain one set of contacts, tags and notes on a server that they, not a vendor, control.

Monica vs Alternatives

Google Contacts: A hosted address book. Monica adds relationships, reminders, activities and notes per person, and, as deployed here, keeps all of it in a MariaDB database on a server you control.
Clay: Clay is a hosted personal relationship tool people compare with Monica. Monica's README says self-hosted Monica has no limitations and is completely free, with the data on your own server.
Dex: Dex is another personal CRM peer. Choose on the features you need; Monica's README lists reminders, journal entries, gifts, tasks, an API and multi-user support, all of which run on your own install.
Monica's hosted version: Monica's README offers a hosted version as the simplest way to use it. This template is the self-hosted route instead: you pay for a Cloud VPS and own the database, the volumes and the account.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

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More contacts and history, alongside other services on the same box.

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Monica alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 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. Monica itself is free under the GNU AGPL v3.

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Ready To Run Your Own Personal Relationship Manager?

Monica 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 Monica need?

The template manifest asks for 2048 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10 GB of disk as a floor. Upstream's README recommends at least 1.5 GB for building and updating. This page sells the 6 GB tier, which leaves comfortable room for MariaDB running beside the application.

Is Monica free and open source?

Yes. Monica is open source under the AGPL-3.0, per the LICENSE.md at the v4.1.2 tag, and its README says self-hosted Monica has no limitations. xCloud charges for the dedicated Cloud VPS, not the software, and the data is yours.

Can I self-host Monica with Docker?

Yes, and this is Monica Docker hosting prepared for you: the template runs the monica:4.1.2 image beside mariadb:11.4.7, both pinned by immutable digest, with monica_storage and monica_db volumes and HTTPS on your domain. You never assemble the compose file or the database by hand.

Can I import contacts into Monica from vCard or CSV?

Monica's README lists export and import of data as a feature, and vCard export for contacts. Which import formats your version accepts is decided inside Monica, so try a small test file first. The template adds no import tooling of its own.

Can I export my data from Monica?

Yes. Per its README, Monica supports exporting your data and exporting contacts as vCards, so your records are not locked in. They also sit in a MariaDB database on your own server, which you can copy with a volume backup of monica_db.

Does Monica send reminders?

Monica has reminders, including automatic birthday reminders, and its README says it emails you about things you asked to be reminded of. This template configures no mail server, so reminder, invitation and password-reset email do not go out until you set up authenticated delivery.

Can anyone register on my Monica instance?

There is no generated admin login: you open your HTTPS URL and register the first account yourself through Monica's sign-up screen. The template does not preconfigure a lock on registration, so create your account first and check Monica's registration settings before sharing the address.

What should I back up on a Monica server?

A backup is the monica_storage and monica_db volumes together, as one recovery boundary. Keep the generated application key with it: the key protects encrypted application data, and losing it while keeping the rest can leave that data unreadable.

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How do I upgrade Monica?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the template pins Monica 4.1.2 by immutable digest. Test a restore, read the upstream release notes and update guide, then raise the pinned image or adopt a newer template version. The template targets the stable 4.x line.

Is Monica a sales CRM?

No. Its README describes a personal relationship manager, a CRM for your friends and family rather than a sales team, and says it is not a social network. It is built for one person's contacts, so do not expect pipeline or team-selling features.

Is this Monica cloud hosting?

It is your own Monica on a dedicated Cloud VPS that xCloud provisions, not Monica's hosted version at monicahq.com. The MariaDB database, the storage volume and your account belong to your install, and only the web interface is published over HTTPS.

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.