Openinary Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Openinary on xCloud and get Openinary hosting for a self-hosted media processing service on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned official image as a single container, creates the administrator from your install email and a generated password, mounts persistent volumes for the database, uploads and transform cache, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes, with no separate database to manage.

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What is Openinary?

Openinary is a self-hosted media processing platform, a self-hosted Openinary being an open-source alternative to a hosted service such as Cloudinary. You upload images and videos, then request resized, cropped or converted versions through URL parameters; Openinary transforms them on the fly and caches the result. Upstream lists a REST API with URL-based transformations, S3-compatible storage support, WebP and AVIF output and an admin dashboard, and notes it is under active development.

On xCloud the install runs Openinary v0.5.0 from the official image, pinned by immutable digest, as one container with SQLite built in. It keeps the database, uploaded originals and transform cache on three named volumes, generates the administrator password and signing secrets, and serves everything over HTTPS on your domain. This template uses local volumes rather than S3 storage, and delivery URLs are public.

From Sign-Up to Your First Transformed Image In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted media service normally means a container, a database, a signing secret, persistent storage, a domain and a certificate before the first resize. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Openinary from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the administrator email — that is the only field.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Openinary image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with SQLite built in, mount the openinary_data, openinary_public and openinary_cache volumes, generate the administrator password and signing secrets, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Upload And Transform
Open your HTTPS Openinary URL and sign in with the administrator email and the password from the protected installation credentials. Upload your first image, then request a resized or converted version from its /t/ URL.

Everything Openinary Does, On Your Own Server

Openinary runs in full here: URL-based image and video transformations, an authenticated upload API and a dashboard, on storage you own.

Image Transformations Via URL
Resize, crop and convert images by adding parameters to the URL, such as width, height and output format, for example w_800,h_600 or f_avif.
Video Transformations
Resize and compress videos, extract a thumbnail frame or cut a clip with start and end offsets, using the same URL style as images.
Modern Formats And Caching
Upstream lists WebP, AVIF and modern codecs, with automatic caching of results; the cache lives on its own volume and rebuilds on demand.
Admin Dashboard And REST API
Manage assets from the dashboard, create API keys for your applications and upload through the authenticated API.
Single Container, SQLite Inside
One container serves the dashboard, API and delivery; the database is SQLite, so there is no separate database service to run.
Administrator Created At First Start
The one administrator is created from your install email and a generated password, and sign-up is closed once that account exists.

Everything You Need To Run Your Media Service 24/7

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

Openinary v0.5.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password and secrets 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 Openinary

Serve right-sized images to your site or app
Request each image at the width, height and format a page needs from one uploaded original, instead of exporting and storing every variant by hand.
Convert to modern formats
Deliver WebP or AVIF versions of existing JPEG and PNG uploads by changing a URL parameter, without re-processing a library.
Generate video thumbnails and previews
Pull a thumbnail frame, a lower-quality preview or a short clip from an uploaded video with URL parameters.
Keep media processing on your own server
Run transformations and storage on a server you control, with an administrator-only dashboard and API for uploads and API keys.

Openinary vs Alternatives

Cloudinary: Cloudinary is a hosted media SaaS. As a Cloudinary alternative, Openinary offers URL-based image and video transformations but runs on your own server and storage.
imgproxy: In an Openinary vs imgproxy comparison, imgproxy is a self-hosted service for on-demand image resizing and conversion with signed URLs; Openinary also transforms video and adds a dashboard and upload API.
Thumbor: An on-demand image processing service that accepts signed transformation URLs; Openinary adds video transformations and an admin dashboard.
Imagor: An image processing server built on libvips that adopts the Thumbor URL syntax; Openinary adds video transformations and an admin dashboard with API keys.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for heavier video work or other apps 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. Openinary itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Media Transformation Service?

Openinary 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 Openinary with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Openinary Docker hosting without the setup: one official container pinned by digest, SQLite inside it, three named volumes, a generated administrator password and signing secrets, and HTTPS on your own domain, all provisioned from the OneClick catalog.

How much RAM does Openinary need?

The template asks for 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 150 MiB. Upstream recommends 2 GB or more for video work, so the 6 GB plan is the entry rung here, with headroom for ffmpeg transcodes.

How do I request a resized image from Openinary?

Upload a file, then request it from a /t/ URL with parameters such as width, height and output format, for example /t/w_800,h_600/image.jpg. Adding f_avif converts the same original to AVIF, and the result is cached on the openinary_cache volume.

Does Openinary transform videos as well as images?

Yes. Upstream documents the same /t/ URL style for video: resize or compress a file, pull a thumbnail frame with a start offset, or cut a clip with start and end offsets. Video work is heavier than image work, so choose the larger plan for busy sites.

Is Openinary a Cloudinary alternative?

Upstream positions it as an open-source, self-hosted media processing platform with URL-based transformations, which covers part of what Cloudinary offers. The difference here is that the server, uploads and cache sit on your own Cloud VPS volumes rather than in a hosted account.

Are Openinary media files private?

No. Delivery URLs are public to anyone who knows or guesses the path of an uploaded file, and transformations of it can be requested without signing in. Only the dashboard and management API need the single administrator login, so do not upload files that must stay private.

What should I back up on an Openinary server?

Back up openinary_data, which holds the SQLite database, and openinary_public, which holds uploaded originals, plus the stable values in the site's .env file. The openinary_cache volume rebuilds on demand and can be left out of copies. Test a restore before you rely on it.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Openinary?

The install stays on its pinned v0.5.0 image until you adopt a newer template version. Back up openinary_data and openinary_public first and read the upstream release notes, since upstream warns of possible breaking changes before v1.0.0. Never change BETTER_AUTH_SECRET, or Openinary will not boot.

Is Openinary free?

Yes. Openinary is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Running it costs only the dedicated Cloud VPS under it. If you modify it and let other people use that version over a network, AGPL terms apply, so keep your changes available to those users.

Is xCloud the same as Openinary Cloud?

No. Upstream sells its own hosted Openinary Cloud. This page is different: xCloud provisions a Cloud VPS and deploys the open-source Openinary container on it, so the files, database and administrator account live on a server you own and control.

Is there an upload size limit?

Yes. Uploads are limited to 90 MB per file by the template. If the site is proxied through Cloudflare, its own request limit of about 100 MB also applies, so very large videos should be shortened or compressed before they are uploaded.

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.