Plausible Analytics Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Plausible Analytics on xCloud and get Plausible Analytics hosting for cookie-free web analytics, without handing visitor data to a third party. xCloud runs the pinned Community Edition image beside private PostgreSQL and ClickHouse services, generates the internal secrets, mounts four persistent volumes and publishes the dashboard over HTTPS on your domain in minutes, ready for you to register the owner account.

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What is Plausible Analytics?

Plausible Analytics Community Edition is a self-hosted, privacy-friendly and cookie-free web analytics platform with a simple dashboard, goals and custom events, released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A self-hosted Plausible Analytics keeps every event in your own ClickHouse database instead of a vendor's, as an alternative to a hosted tool such as Google Analytics. It is the self-hosted edition, separate from the hosted plausible.io service, and leaves out premium features such as marketing funnels.

On xCloud the install runs Community Edition 3.2.1 with PostgreSQL 16 for accounts, sites and goals and ClickHouse 24.12 for events, all pinned by digest, behind HTTPS on your domain, with only the dashboard and event API published. Four volumes hold the state: plausible_postgres_data, plausible_clickhouse_data, plausible_clickhouse_logs and plausible_app_data. There is no default account: you register the first owner yourself.

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

Self-hosting privacy-friendly analytics normally means a container, two databases, a domain and a certificate before a single pageview is tracked. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Plausible Analytics from the OneClick catalog. Enter a site title and domain — the template generates the required internal secrets automatically.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Plausible Community Edition 3.2.1 image alongside private PostgreSQL and ClickHouse services, all pinned by immutable digest, mount all four persistent volumes and publish Plausible over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register The Owner And Add A Site
Open your HTTPS URL and register the first account — Plausible always allows this first registration through, making you the owner. Add the website you want to measure, install its tracking snippet, and confirm a pageview appears in the dashboard.

Everything Plausible Does, On Your Own Server

Plausible Analytics runs in full here — privacy-friendly, cookie-free web analytics, on infrastructure you control.

Simple Traffic Dashboard
See visitors, sources and top pages on one focused screen, with the important insights on a single page.
Cookie-Free By Design
Track traffic without cookies or other persistent identifiers; upstream says no personal data or IP addresses are stored.
Goals And Custom Events
Define goals and custom events to see which visits convert. Marketing funnels are a premium feature not included in Community Edition.
First-Party Data Ownership
Every event lands in your own ClickHouse database instead of a vendor's shared infrastructure.
Raw Data In ClickHouse
Upstream notes that self-hosting gives you access to the raw event data, which you can read directly from the ClickHouse database.
Four Volumes, Fully Persistent
Accounts and configuration in PostgreSQL, event history in ClickHouse, and application data on plausible_app_data all survive a restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Web Analytics 24/7

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

Plausible Community Edition 3.2.1 deployed instantly
Official pinned image digests
Internal secrets generated for you
PostgreSQL and ClickHouse kept private
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Plausible Analytics

Measure traffic without cookies
Track visitors, sources and top pages without cookies or persistent identifiers, so you can see how a site performs without profiling individual visitors.
Watch goals and custom events
Define goals and custom events such as outbound link clicks or form completions, and follow conversions on a dashboard that fits on one screen.
Keep visitor data on your own server
Store every event in a ClickHouse database on a server you control rather than in a vendor's shared infrastructure.
Query your own raw events
Read raw event data straight from the ClickHouse database on your server when the aggregated dashboard is not enough.

Plausible Analytics vs Alternatives

Google Analytics: Upstream positions Plausible Analytics as a Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted, it records events in your own ClickHouse database and tracks without cookies.
Umami: In a Plausible Analytics vs Umami comparison, Umami has its own OneClick page. Its catalogue entry describes privacy-first, cookie-free web analytics you host yourself.
Matomo: Matomo has its own OneClick page. Its catalogue entry describes a full web analytics platform and Google Analytics alternative with no sampling and optional cookieless tracking.
GoatCounter: GoatCounter has its own OneClick page. Its catalogue entry describes privacy-friendly analytics in a compact SQLite deployment, where Plausible Analytics runs PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Above the 4 GB manifest floor, for lighter traffic.

$24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Higher traffic volume and longer event retention.

$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. Plausible Analytics itself is free under the AGPL-3.0 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 Analytics Data?

Plausible Analytics 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 Plausible Analytics with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Plausible Analytics Docker hosting without the setup. Upstream's guide is a Docker Compose clone; here xCloud runs the pinned Community Edition image with private PostgreSQL and ClickHouse containers, four named volumes, generated secrets and HTTPS.

How much RAM does Plausible Analytics need?

Minimum requirements are 4096 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk, and ClickHouse benefits from more as event volume grows. That is why this page sells the 16 GB plan as the entry rung.

How do I sign in to Plausible Analytics for the first time?

There is no default account or generated password, and the template does not create one for you. Open your HTTPS URL after installation and register the first account yourself: Plausible always lets this first registration through and makes you the owner. Then add the website you want to measure and install the tracking snippet it shows you on that site.

Can other people register on my Plausible Analytics server?

Not by default. The template ships with DISABLE_REGISTRATION set to invite_only, so after the owner registers, further public sign-ups are blocked unless you send an invite. Set it to true if you want to disable registration entirely.

Is self-hosted Plausible Analytics the same as plausible.io?

No. This deploys the self-hosted Community Edition, a long-term release that upstream publishes twice a year and you run yourself, not the hosted plausible.io service. Your events and accounts live in your own PostgreSQL and ClickHouse databases on your own server, and the hosted service does not see them.

Does self-hosted Plausible Analytics send verification emails?

Not initially. Email verification is disabled in this template because SMTP is deployment-specific, so password recovery is unavailable until you configure the supported mail environment values yourself in the Environment editor, then redeploy so Plausible reads them.

What should I back up on a Plausible Analytics server?

Back up all four volumes together from one coordinated window: plausible_postgres_data for accounts and site configuration, plausible_clickhouse_data and plausible_clickhouse_logs for event history, and plausible_app_data. Test a restore before relying on it, and keep at least one copy off the server.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Plausible Analytics?

Community Edition 3.2.1, PostgreSQL 16 and ClickHouse 24.12 stay pinned until you move to a newer template version. Take a coordinated backup of all four volumes and read the release notes. Running sites never upgrade on their own.

Is Plausible Analytics free?

Yes. Community Edition is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3, so the analytics code costs nothing to run. You pay for the dedicated Cloud VPS that runs it and its ClickHouse database, which grows with your traffic.

How do I rotate the Plausible Analytics database password?

Change the database role's password inside PostgreSQL first, then update POSTGRES_PASSWORD in the Environment editor and redeploy. Doing it the other way round leaves Plausible unable to connect, so keep a backup of plausible_postgres_data before you start.

Is there a Plausible Analytics cloud service?

The hosted plausible.io is a separate service. On xCloud your own Community Edition instead runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, storing events in a database you own, with no visitor data passing through a vendor.

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.