Novu Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Novu hosting on xCloud puts notification workflows and an in-app inbox on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned Novu 3.19.0 images with the API, dashboard and websocket service on their own HTTPS domains, a private worker, MongoDB 8.0 and Redis 7, generated secrets and persistent volumes — so subscribers, workflows and notification history stay on a server you control.

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What is Novu?

Novu is open-source notification infrastructure. It gives your product one API for sending notifications through in-app inbox, email, SMS, push and chat, plus a dashboard for building workflows and templates and managing subscribers, topics and activity.

On xCloud the community edition runs on your own server: the API, dashboard and websocket service each get an HTTPS domain, while the worker, MongoDB and Redis stay private. Accounts, workflows, subscribers and notification history are kept on persistent volumes.

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

A Novu stack normally means an API, a dashboard, a websocket service, a worker, MongoDB, Redis, secrets and three domains with certificates before the first workflow. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Novu from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the Novu API, dashboard, websocket service and worker from the official images pinned by immutable digest, with MongoDB 8.0 and Redis 7 kept off the public internet, mount the mongodb_data and redis_data volumes, generate the secrets, and publish the API, Dashboard and WebSocket over HTTPS on their own domains.
Step 03
Create Your Account And First Workflow
Save the protected credentials, including the provider credentials encryption key, then open the Dashboard address and create your account — the first account starts your organization. Add an email, SMS, push or chat provider under Integrations and build a workflow.

Everything Novu Does, On Your Own Server

Novu runs in full here: the API your apps call, a dashboard for workflows and subscribers, and a real-time inbox service, backed by databases you own.

One API For Every Channel
Trigger notifications across in-app inbox, email, SMS, push and chat through a single API instead of wiring up each provider separately.
Workflows And Templates
Build notification workflows in the dashboard, with per-channel conditions, digests to batch several notifications into one, and a no-code email editor.
Real-Time In-App Inbox
A dedicated websocket service powers the embeddable inbox component, so new notifications appear in your product as they are sent.
Subscribers And Preferences
Manage subscribers and topics from the dashboard, and let users control their own notifications with the embeddable preferences component.
Background Delivery Worker
A worker processes and delivers notification jobs, with queued and delayed jobs kept on the redis_data volume.
Private MongoDB And Redis
The database and queue are reachable only inside the install's private network, with no published ports.

Everything You Need To Run Your Notifications 24/7

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

Novu 3.19.0 deployed instantly
Official images pinned by digest
Secrets and keys 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 Novu

Add an in-app notification inbox
Give your product a real-time inbox backed by the websocket service, without building the delivery plumbing yourself.
Send email, SMS, push and chat from one place
Trigger every channel through a single API and connect the providers you already use under Integrations.
Batch noisy events into digests
Collect several events into one message with workflow digests instead of sending a notification per event.
Keep notification data on your own server
Subscribers, workflows and notification history live in MongoDB on a server you control.

Novu Screenshots

Novu dashboard after the first account is created on a fresh install

Novu dashboard subscribers list showing a subscriber that persisted after a restart

Novu vs Alternatives

Courier: A hosted notification service; with Novu on xCloud the API, dashboard and data run on a server you control.
Knock: A hosted notification service; Novu's community edition is MIT-licensed and can run on your own server.
OneSignal: A hosted messaging service for push, email, SMS and in-app; Novu on xCloud keeps its subscribers and notification history in MongoDB on your own VPS.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Novu sits alongside other services on the same server.

$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. Novu's community edition is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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Ready To Run Your Own Notification Platform?

Novu 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?

Open the Dashboard address shown in the credentials and create the first account; it starts your organization.

What runs alongside Novu?

A worker, MongoDB 8.0 and Redis 7, all private to the server with no published ports. The API, Dashboard and WebSocket each have their own xCloud-managed HTTPS domain.

Can anyone sign up?

Sign-up is open until you set DISABLE_USER_REGISTRATION=true in the Environment editor and redeploy; each account gets its own separate organization. Invite your teammates first, because the setting may also stop invited teammates from registering.

How do I add email, SMS, push or chat providers?

Add them under Integrations in the Dashboard after you sign in. Novu has no mail settings in its environment.

What should I back up?

The mongodb_data and redis_data volumes, plus the stable .env values JWT_SECRET, STORE_ENCRYPTION_KEY and NOVU_SECRET_KEY. Changing STORE_ENCRYPTION_KEY makes saved provider credentials unreadable.

Backups in xCloud

Can I change the domains later?

Keep the API domain fixed: webhook and provider callback URLs are built from it. The Dashboard and WebSocket domains can change freely.

Can I upload images in the email editor?

Not until you configure object storage separately; everything else works without it.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Novu?

No. The template pins Novu 3.19.0 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 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk. Measured idle use in QA was about 1.4 GB, with a short peak near 3 GB while the API starts. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Accounts, workflows, subscribers and notification history survive an xCloud Restart, because the database and queue sit on the persistent mongodb_data and redis_data volumes.

What licence is Novu under?

The template deploys the community edition built from the upstream 3.19.0 release, under the MIT licence. Enterprise-only features of Novu Cloud, such as managed SSO, analytics storage and hosted AI features, are not part of the community images.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Novu?

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