Oryx Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Oryx hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Oryx, an open-source live streaming and video-on-demand platform built on the SRS media server, on a server you own. xCloud runs the pinned container, publishes the web console over HTTPS, generates the console password and keeps recordings and settings on a persistent volume. You open the RTMP, SRT and WebRTC ports in your own firewall.

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What is Oryx?

Oryx, formerly SRS Stack, is an open-source, all-in-one video platform for live streaming and WebRTC services, built with Go, React, SRS and FFmpeg. It takes streams in over RTMP, WebRTC or SRT and delivers them over HLS, HTTP-FLV or WebRTC, with recording, live transcoding, multi-platform restreaming and virtual live streaming driven from a web console. A self-hosted Oryx is a live streaming server of your own. It is MIT licensed.

On xCloud it is Oryx v7.15.26, upstream's ossrs/oryx image pinned by digest, as a single container that bundles the streaming server, an embedded Redis and the console. The oryx_data volume holds the console password, stream secrets, recordings and uploads. The console runs over HTTPS, while RTMP, SRT and WebRTC media use raw ports on the server IP that you open in your firewall.

From Sign-Up to a Live Oryx Install In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a live streaming server normally means a container, a certificate, a generated password and open firewall ports before a single stream can go live. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Oryx from the OneClick catalog and select a domain — no extra fields, xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Oryx v7.15.26 image, generate the Console Password, and publish the console and HTTP API over HTTPS on your domain, shown in the protected installation credentials.
Step 03
Sign In And Start Streaming
Open the HTTPS Oryx URL and sign in with the password (no username). Open the Scenarios page, copy the stream name and secret, and point your encoder at the RTMP server address shown.

Everything Oryx Does, On Your Own Server

Oryx runs in full here — the upstream console, RTMP, SRT and WebRTC ingest, recording and restreaming, on infrastructure you control.

Ingest And Delivery In One Server
Ingest live video over RTMP, SRT or WebRTC and deliver over HLS, HTTP-FLV or WebRTC.
A Web Console For Every Scenario
Web console for scenarios, recording, transcoding, restreaming and virtual live.
Password-Protected Console Over HTTPS
Console served over managed HTTPS and protected by a generated password.
Verified End To End
Verified end to end: a real RTMP publish played back over the domain as HLS and HTTP-FLV (h264 + aac).
Secret-Gated Publishing
Publishing requires the stream secret; unauthenticated publishes and API calls are rejected.
Restart-Safe Credentials And Recordings
The console password, API token and publish secret survive an xCloud Restart, as do recordings and settings stored in the data volume.

Everything You Need To Run Your Live Streaming 24/7

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

Oryx v7.15.26 deployed instantly
Generated console password
HTTPS console and HTTP API
Persistent data volume for recordings and secrets
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Oryx

Publish a live stream from your encoder
Point OBS or another encoder at your RTMP address with the stream name and secret from the console, then deliver the stream to viewers over HLS or HTTP-FLV from your own server.
Restream to several platforms at once
Send one incoming stream on to other platforms from the console, so you broadcast once from your server instead of running a separate output for each destination.
Record broadcasts to disk
Record streams to local disk and transcode them with FFmpeg, so a webinar or event leaves a file you can keep, with the disk space you manage yourself.
Run a virtual live stream from a file
Upload a video and broadcast it as a virtual live stream, so a pre-recorded session goes out on schedule as though it were live.

Oryx vs Alternatives

Hosted streaming services: A hosted service runs the ingest and delivery for you. Oryx keeps them on a server you control, with RTMP, SRT and WebRTC ingest and recordings stored in your own volume.
OvenMediaEngine: OvenMediaEngine has its own OneClick page. In an Oryx vs OvenMediaEngine comparison, Oryx is built on the SRS media server and adds a web console with recording, transcoding, restreaming and virtual live.
MediaMTX: MediaMTX has its own OneClick page. Oryx adds a web console on top of SRS, with a password login, recording, FFmpeg transcoding and an HTTP Open API.
Owncast: Owncast has its own OneClick page. Oryx is a streaming platform driven from a console, taking RTMP, SRT or WebRTC in and offering HLS, HTTP-FLV or WebRTC out.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More streams, more transcoding headroom.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Oryx 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. Oryx itself is free and open source under the MIT licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Streaming Server?

Oryx 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 Oryx need?

The template floor is 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk, with the streaming server, embedded Redis and console in one container. The 6 GB plan is well above that, but recordings and uploads fill the disk, so watch free space.

Can you self-host Oryx with Docker?

Yes, and this template is oryx docker hosting without the setup: the official ossrs/oryx image pinned by digest, one oryx_data volume, a generated console password and HTTPS for the console, with RTMP, SRT and WebRTC ports allocated on the server.

Which streaming protocols does Oryx support?

Upstream lists RTMP, WebRTC and SRT for ingest and HLS, HTTP-FLV and WebRTC for delivery. Here RTMP uses a TCP port, while SRT and WebRTC media use UDP ports, each published on its own allocated host port.

Do I need to open firewall ports for Oryx?

Yes. The platform does not open them, so open the RTMP, SRT and WebRTC ports shown in the credentials in your own server firewall. Clients must use the server IP or a DNS-only record, not a proxied one.

How do I sign in to Oryx?

Open the console and enter the generated Console Password; there is no username. The password also protects the console API. Editing MGMT_PASSWORD later does not change it, because it is stored in the data volume after first start.

Is the Oryx console private?

Mostly. The virtual live upload address accepts files without a password, so anyone who can reach the console domain can write uploads to disk, and unused uploads are removed after two hours. Put Basic Auth in front of the domain to keep it private.

Is Oryx free?

Yes. Oryx is MIT licensed, so the software is free to run. The Cloud VPS is your cost, and this Oryx cloud install is sized by your server's CPU, bandwidth and disk.

How do I back up Oryx?

Back up the oryx_data volume, which holds the console password file, the database with stream secrets and settings, recordings, uploads and certificates. Stop and redeploy give Oryx time to save its database, so avoid killing the container.

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How do I upgrade Oryx?

The install stays on its pinned v7.15.26 image until you adopt a newer template version. Back up oryx_data first, then check the upstream release notes. Upgrades are never automatic, and a redeploy keeps the volume.

Is Oryx an alternative to hosted streaming services?

For running your own ingest and delivery, yes. Oryx handles RTMP, SRT and WebRTC in and HLS or HTTP-FLV out, with restreaming and recording. Upstream publishes no comparison, and you carry the bandwidth and disk costs.

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.