Pluton Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Pluton hosting and run encrypted, scheduled backups to your own storage destinations from a web UI. xCloud runs the pinned Pluton 0.20.0 container, generates the admin password and Encryption Key, mounts persistent volumes for its database and keys and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — no restic or rclone commands to assemble.

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What is Pluton?

Pluton is an open-source, self-hosted backup manager built on restic and rclone. It runs scheduled, encrypted, incremental backups of files inside its own container and sends them to any of 70+ storage destinations, with snapshot restore and download from a web UI.

Backup plans support retention, retries and per-plan notifications, and the same snapshots can be replicated to several destinations. It is licensed under Apache-2.0.

From Sign-Up to a Running Backup Manager In Just 3 Easy Steps

A backup manager normally means a container, a secret key, persistent volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first snapshot. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Pluton from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, and set the Admin Username (it defaults to admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Pluton image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no separate database, mount the pluton_data and pluton_tmp volumes, generate the admin password and the Encryption Key, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain. The first start takes about a minute.
Step 03
Add Storage And Run A Plan
Save the password and Encryption Key from the protected credentials panel, sign in with your username and password, add a storage destination, then create a backup plan and run it. There is no sign-up page.

Everything Pluton Does, On Your Own Server

Pluton runs in full here: a web UI for backup plans, storages and snapshots on your own domain, with its data on persistent volumes.

Encrypted, Incremental Snapshots
Every backup repository is protected by the Encryption Key generated at install, and backups are incremental through restic.
Scheduled Backup Plans
Plans carry retention, retries and per-plan notifications to Slack, Discord, email or NTFY.
70+ Storage Destinations
Send backups to any of 70+ destinations through rclone, from a storage view in the web UI.
Replicate For 3-2-1
Replicate backups to several storage destinations to follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Restore And Download
Browse snapshots and restore or download files from the web UI, including after a container restart.
Persistent By Design
Snapshots, storages and plans live on the pluton_data volume and persist through a container restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Backup Manager 24/7

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

Pluton 0.20.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password and Encryption Key generated
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 Pluton

Protect files you keep in Pluton's data volume
Place the files you care about in the container's data volume and have them backed up on a schedule, with encrypted snapshots you can browse and restore.
Follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy
Replicate the same backups to several storage destinations so a single provider outage or deletion does not take every copy with it.
Get told when a backup runs or fails
Attach Slack, Discord, email or NTFY notifications to each plan instead of checking logs by hand.
Restore to remote storage
Restore or download snapshot files from the web UI, including after a container restart, without writing restic commands.

Pluton vs Alternatives

restic: The command-line backup tool Pluton is built on; Pluton adds a web UI with scheduled plans, retention, retries, notifications and a snapshot browser on top.
rclone: The command-line tool Pluton uses to reach 70+ storage destinations; Pluton wraps it so storages are added and tested from a web UI rather than configured by hand.
Hand-written backup scripts: Cron jobs around backup commands work until retention, retries and alerts are needed; Pluton ships plans with those built in, so you do not write the commands yourself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Pluton sits alongside other tools 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. Pluton itself is licensed by Pluton's maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Backup Manager?

Pluton 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.

What makes Pluton different from a generic backup script?

It wraps restic and rclone in a web UI with scheduled plans, retention, retries, notifications and a snapshot browser, so you do not write the backup commands yourself.

How do I sign in?

Use the admin username from the install form and the password shown in the protected credentials panel. There is no sign-up page. A wrong password is rejected and sign-in is rate-limited.

Does it back up my other apps on the server?

No. Pluton can only back up files inside its own container, including its /data volume. Place the files you want protected there, and use xCloud server backups for the rest of the server.

What is the Encryption Key and what happens if I lose it?

xCloud generates it at install and shows it with the credentials. It is the password of every backup repository Pluton creates, so it cannot be recovered if lost and existing snapshots cannot be restored without it. Never edit ENCRYPTION_KEY after the first start.

What runs alongside Pluton?

Nothing. It is a single container with no separate database; its database, configuration, logs and keys live on the pluton_data volume.

What should I back up?

Both volumes, <site-name>_pluton_data and <site-name>_pluton_tmp, together, and keep the Encryption Key with the backup set. pluton_tmp only holds temporary working files for downloads and restores and is safe to lose.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Snapshots, storages and plans on the persistent volumes. In QA the first sign-in and backup history stayed intact after a container restart.

Are there any security caveats?

Yes. The file browser lets any signed-in user browse the container's file system; it can be disabled by setting ALLOW_FILE_BROWSER to an empty value, because the word false still counts as enabled. Avoid the in-app restic and rclone binary update, which downloads and runs a script as root inside the container. The verification run found no HSTS header.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Pluton?

No. The template pins Pluton 0.20.0 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 10 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 95 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Pluton?

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