OwnTracks Frontend Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy OwnTracks Frontend hosting and keep a private web map of your own phone's location history on your own domain. xCloud runs OwnTracks Frontend 2.15.3 together with OwnTracks Recorder 1.0.4, which stores the data, behind a login, generates the gateway password, mounts a persistent volume and publishes everything over HTTPS in minutes — no MQTT broker needed.

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What is OwnTracks Frontend?

OwnTracks Frontend is a web interface for OwnTracks, built by the OwnTracks project as a Vue.js single page application. Upstream describes it as a more advanced interface than the basic pages the Recorder ships with, with live positions, location history, a heatmap and date, user and device filters in one place.

The map reads from an OwnTracks Recorder, a lightweight program that stores the location data posted by the OwnTracks iOS and Android apps in plain files and serves it through a REST API, without an external database. This template deploys both together.

From Sign-Up to Your First Location On the Map In 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted location map normally means a web UI, a Recorder, a gateway that adds a login, a volume, a domain and a certificate before the first point appears. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick OwnTracks Frontend from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in, because xCloud generates the credentials.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the map UI and the OwnTracks Recorder, both official images pinned by immutable digest, behind an nginx Basic Auth gateway, mount the owntracks_store volume that holds the Recorder's data, generate a 32-character gateway password and publish only the gateway over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Point Your Phone At It
Save the gateway username and password from the installation credentials and open your HTTPS map URL. In the OwnTracks phone app set Mode to HTTP, URL to https://your-domain/pub, turn Authentication on with the same login, and set a User ID and Device ID. Send a location and it appears on the map.

Everything OwnTracks Frontend Does, On Your Own Server

The OwnTracks map runs in full here, together with the Recorder that stores your locations, on one HTTPS domain you control.

Live And Last Known Locations
The map shows each device's last known position, with an accuracy circle and details such as time, battery and speed when the phone reports them.
Location History And Heatmap
View stored points as data points, a line or both, switch to a heatmap, and limit the view to a date and time range, a user or a single device.
Distance Travelled
Upstream calculates the distance travelled for the locations shown on the map.
Phones Post Over HTTP
The OwnTracks apps send locations over HTTP to /pub on your own domain, so there is no MQTT broker to run or maintain.
One Login For The Whole Site
An nginx Basic Auth gateway protects the map, the Recorder API and /pub with a username and a password generated at install. Requests without or with a wrong password get 401 on every route except the health check.
Persistent Location Store
The Recorder's location files, last-known-location files and geo-cache live in the owntracks_store volume, and history survived a container restart in verification.

Everything You Need To Run Your Location Map 24/7

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

OwnTracks Frontend 2.15.3 deployed instantly
Recorder 1.0.4 included for storage
Images pinned by immutable digest
Gateway password generated for you
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With OwnTracks Frontend

See where your phones have been
Open one HTTPS page to see recent positions and past routes for the devices you track, with live updates over a websocket.
Keep your location history on your own server
Locations go from the phone app to your own domain and into a volume you control, instead of to a third-party tracking service.
Share a map with family under one login
The gateway login protects the whole site, and each phone uses its own User ID and Device ID so its data is stored under its own name.
Run a light HTTP-only setup
Three small containers and no MQTT broker; idle use was about 12 MiB on QA.

OwnTracks Frontend Screenshots

OwnTracks Frontend map showing a location posted from a phone

OwnTracks Frontend vs Alternatives

OwnTracks Recorder: The Recorder on its own stores the data and serves basic web pages. This template adds the full Frontend map on top of a bundled Recorder.
Dawarich: A private location-history manager that imports GPS tracks and Google Takeout exports, then maps the trips and places behind them.
Traccar: A GPS tracking server with a generated administrator and an allocated OsmAnd device endpoint for tracker devices.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if the map shares a server with other apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
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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. OwnTracks Frontend is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

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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 gateway username (owntracks) and the generated password shown in the installation credentials. The map and the Recorder have no accounts of their own.

How do my phones send locations?

In the OwnTracks app set Mode to HTTP, set the URL to https://your-domain/pub, turn Authentication on with the same gateway login, and set a User ID and Device ID. Send a location and it appears on the map.

What runs alongside the map?

An OwnTracks Recorder that stores the data and an nginx gateway that enforces the login. Neither needs an MQTT broker, and only the gateway is published; the map UI and Recorder are internal-only.

Why is the map empty after install?

The map shows nothing until the first location arrives. Post one from the OwnTracks app and it appears for that user and device.

Is MQTT supported?

No. This install runs HTTP-only and has no MQTT broker. The OTR_PORT=0 and OTR_HTTPHOST=0.0.0.0 values must stay as they are, otherwise the Recorder exits on start or the map cannot reach it.

What happens if I change the gateway password?

The password is rebuilt from the Environment on each start, so a change takes effect after Save & Redeploy. Update the phone app to the new password too, and keep it stable otherwise because it protects the whole site and the app.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

What should I back up?

The owntracks_store volume, which holds all location history, plus the stable .env values. The map UI is stateless.

Back up and restore Docker apps

What survives a restart?

Data on the owntracks_store volume. Location history was still present after a container restart in verification, because it is a persistent named volume.

Are there any known quirks?

Verification noted two harmless items: /config/config.js and /locales/en.json return 500 from the upstream image, and the map falls back to defaults. The platform also does not set the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update OwnTracks Frontend?

No. The template pins OwnTracks Frontend 2.15.3 and OwnTracks Recorder 1.0.4 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned releases, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tags and digests 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, 128 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 12 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, which is the smallest Cloud VPS in the OneClick plan family.

Is OwnTracks Frontend open source?

OwnTracks Frontend is MIT licensed. The OwnTracks Recorder repository's license file is not an SPDX-recognised licence; see its LICENSE for the terms.

OwnTracks Frontend license

Is xCloud officially partnered with OwnTracks?

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

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.