Nightlio Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Set up Nightlio hosting and keep a private mood tracker and journal on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Nightlio 0.1.7 web and API images, adds a browser sign-in prompt with a generated password, mounts a persistent volume for the SQLite journal database and publishes the web app over HTTPS in minutes — the API stays private inside the stack.

Deploy your Nightlio

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Nightlio?

Nightlio is an open-source, privacy-first mood tracker and daily journal designed for self-hosting. You log your mood on a 5-point scale, write Markdown notes, tag entries, and review a calendar, averages, a journaling streak, goals and achievements. It is a web app that works on desktop and mobile.

Entries live in a SQLite database file on your own server rather than with a third party, and upstream says it has no ads, subscriptions or third-party trackers. This template deploys version 0.1.7.

From Sign-Up to Your First Journal Entry In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Nightlio stack normally means an API container, a web container, secrets, a volume, something to keep strangers out, a domain and a certificate before the first entry. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Nightlio from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then set a username and password for the sign-in prompt, or leave the password empty to have a strong one generated.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Nightlio API and web images, pinned by immutable digest, keep the API off the public internet, mount the nightlio_data volume for your journal database, generate the session secrets, and publish the web app over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Log Your First Entry
Open your HTTPS Nightlio URL and enter the username and password from the credentials card at the browser prompt. Nightlio then opens signed in: pick a mood, write a journal entry and save it.

Everything Nightlio Does, On Your Own Server

Nightlio runs in full here: a mood tracker and journal on your own domain, with entries stored in a database you own.

Mood Logging
Log your daily mood on a simple 5-point scale and add customizable tags such as Sleep or Productivity to see what influences how you feel.
Markdown Journal Entries
Write detailed notes for every entry using Markdown for formatting, lists and links.
Statistics And History
Review your mood history on a calendar, see your average mood over time and track your journaling streak.
Goals And Achievements
Set goals and unlock built-in achievements as you build a journaling habit.
A Sign-In Prompt Included
Nightlio has no login of its own, so the page and the session-token endpoints sit behind a browser prompt with credentials generated at install; unauthenticated requests get a 401.
Private API
The Nightlio API (Flask with SQLite) has no host port and is reachable only inside the install's private network.

Everything You Need To Run Your Mood Journal 24/7

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

Nightlio 0.1.7 deployed instantly
Official images pinned by digest
Sign-in credentials 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 Nightlio

Keep a daily mood log
Pick a mood each day and tag what shaped it, so a pattern such as poor sleep is visible later instead of half-remembered.
Write a private diary
Use Markdown entries for longer reflections on a server you control, behind a sign-in prompt, instead of an app that holds your writing for you.
Review how you have been doing
Open the calendar, statistics and journaling streak to look back over weeks of entries in one place.
Build a journaling habit
Set goals and unlock achievements as you keep writing, so the habit has something to measure it by.

Nightlio Screenshots

Nightlio home screen with five mood buttons, a goals panel and an empty history

Nightlio home screen after saving a journal entry, showing a history card tagged with a mood and a one-day streak

Nightlio vs Alternatives

Daylio: A mood-tracking app that, according to Nightlio's README, inspired it. Nightlio is its self-hosted, web-based, open-source counterpart, so your entries sit in your own database.
Day One: A commercial journaling app. Nightlio is open-source (AGPL-3.0) and you run it on your own server rather than using a vendor's service.
Paper notebook: Private and offline, but with no mood history, statistics or streaks. Nightlio adds those and is reachable from any browser behind your sign-in.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Nightlio sits alongside other personal apps.

$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. Nightlio itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Mood Journal?

Nightlio 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?

Enter the username and password from the credentials card at the browser prompt; Nightlio then opens signed in.

Is my journal public?

No. The page and the session-token endpoints require the sign-in prompt, and unauthenticated requests to them return 401 in QA. Keep the credentials private.

Why a browser prompt instead of a Nightlio password?

Nightlio has no password of its own in single-user mode, so the template adds a browser sign-in in front of the page and the session endpoints. The prompt is rebuilt from the username and password at every start, so changing them and restarting rotates the password.

What runs alongside the web app?

A private Nightlio API container (Flask with SQLite). It has no host port and is not exposed publicly.

Can I turn on Google sign-in?

Optionally, through the template's environment settings; it is off by default. The prompt stays in front of it, and any Google account that passes the prompt gets its own separate journal.

What should I back up?

The nightlio_data volume, which holds the SQLite journal database, and the stable .env values. Stop the site first. The template does not back the volume up for you.

Backups in xCloud

What happens if I change the generated secrets?

The JWT and Flask secrets are generated at install and sign the session tokens. Changing them signs every browser out.

What survives a restart?

Your entries. In QA an entry was saved, both containers were restarted and the entry was still there, because the database lives on the persistent nightlio_data volume.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Nightlio?

No. The template pins Nightlio 0.1.7 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 readable 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 use in QA was about 170 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which leaves plenty of headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Nightlio?

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