Openinary Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Openinary hosting and run your own image and video transformation service on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Openinary v0.5.0 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.

Deploy your Openinary

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What is Openinary?

Openinary is an open-source, self-hosted media processing platform. You upload images and videos, then request resized, cropped or converted versions through URL parameters, and Openinary transforms them on the fly and caches the result.

It includes a REST API with URL-based transformations, built-in S3-compatible storage support with automatic caching, and an admin dashboard for asset management. This template deploys version 0.5.0 with local storage on persistent volumes.

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: A hosted SaaS media platform; Openinary offers URL-based transformations in a similar parameter style, but runs on your own server and storage.
imgproxy: 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.

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.

How do I sign in?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password shown in the protected installation credentials.

Can anyone register?

No. Openinary supports one account, and sign-up is closed once it exists. The administrator is created from your install email and generated password on first start, so nobody else can claim setup.

Are my media files private?

No. Delivery URLs are public to anyone who knows or guesses the path of an uploaded file, and any transformation of it can be requested without signing in. The dashboard and the management API require sign-in. Do not upload files that must stay private.

What runs alongside Openinary?

Nothing. It is a single container, and the app database is SQLite, so there is no separate database service.

How do I request a transformed image?

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.

What should I back up?

The openinary_data volume (the SQLite database) and the openinary_public volume (uploaded originals), plus the stable values in the site's .env file. The openinary_cache volume rebuilds on demand.

Backups in xCloud

Can I change BETTER_AUTH_SECRET later?

No. It is checked against the database on every start, so changing it after first start stops Openinary from booting with a secret-mismatch error. Keep the generated administrator password and signing secret private.

Does changing the environment password change my account?

No. The administrator email and password values only create the account when no user exists. After that, change the password inside Openinary.

What survives a restart?

Data on the openinary_data, openinary_public and openinary_cache named volumes survives an xCloud Restart, which includes the database, uploaded originals and the transform cache.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Openinary?

No. The template pins Openinary v0.5.0 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 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 150 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is there an upload size limit?

Yes. Uploads are limited to 90 MB per file, and Cloudflare's own request limit of about 100 MB also applies when the site is proxied through it.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Openinary?

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