Revel Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Revel hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Revel, an open-source event management, ticketing and membership platform for communities, clubs and independent venues, on your own domains. xCloud runs the pinned API, worker, scheduler and website with PostGIS and Redis, creates the first administrator and organization, keeps three volumes for your data and publishes both domains over HTTPS, so attendees and organizers use a site that belongs to you.

Deploy your Revel

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Revel?

Revel is an open-source event management, ticketing and membership platform for communities, clubs, independent venues and artists. It offers RSVP-only and recurring events, ticket tiers sold through Stripe Connect, QR tickets with Apple and Google Wallet passes, check-in by scanning, questionnaires that gate purchase, memberships and series passes. A self-hosted Revel is an event ticketing platform of your own, an alternative to hosted services such as Eventbrite. It is MIT licensed.

On xCloud it is Revel 2.21.0 from the official images pinned by digest: a Django API, a Celery worker and scheduler, the SvelteKit website, a Caddy gateway, PostGIS and Redis. Three volumes hold the database, queue and uploaded media. It runs on x86-64 servers only, on two domains, and sends no email until you add SMTP settings.

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

Self-hosting an event and ticketing platform normally means an API, a website, a worker, a scheduler, a database and two HTTPS domains before your first event can go live. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick Revel from the OneClick catalog, choose domains for the API and the website, and enter your administrator email and first organization name.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the Revel API, website, background worker, scheduler, media gateway, PostGIS database and Redis, run first-start migrations and the city dataset, and publish both domains over HTTPS. First start takes a few minutes.
Step 03
Sign In And Create Your First Event
Open the HTTPS Revel website, sign in with your administrator email and the generated password, change your password in account settings, then create your first event.

Everything Revel Does, On Your Own Server

Revel runs in full here — the same event, ticketing and membership tooling as any hosted event platform, on infrastructure you control.

Public And Private Events With Ticketing
Run public and private events with RSVPs and ticketing, for communities, clubs, venues and independent artists.
Organizations With Members And Staff
Organizations with members and staff, questionnaires and admission rules for events that vet who attends.
Two Domains: Website And API
The Revel website and the API, with docs and the Django admin, each run on their own HTTPS domain.
Background Worker And Scheduler Included
A background worker and scheduler handle emails, ticket PDFs, notifications, exports and periodic jobs.
Signed Links For Protected Files
Files that need a signed link — tickets, invoices, questionnaire uploads — are served only with a valid signature.
Data Survives A Restart
Events, uploaded logos and cover art, and sign-in all remained after a full restart in verification.

Everything You Need To Run Your Live Events 24/7

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

Revel 2.21.0 deployed instantly
API, worker, scheduler and website included
PostGIS database and Redis included
Generated administrator password
Free SSL certificate on both domains
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Revel

Sell tickets for a club night or workshop
Offer ticket tiers, including free, pay-what-you-can and fixed price, with Stripe Connect paying the money to your own Stripe account instead of through a platform.
Check guests in at the door
Issue QR tickets as PDF, Apple Wallet or Google Wallet passes, then let staff scan them at entry, so a small venue needs no separate check-in app.
Screen who can join a private event
Use questionnaires to gate ticket purchase or membership, keep private guest lists and blacklist unwanted attendees, so a community controls who attends.
Run a membership with members-only events
Sell monthly or yearly memberships and series passes, and restrict selected events to members, so a club or collective runs its programme in one place.

Revel vs Alternatives

Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a hosted ticketing marketplace. Revel is software you host, with Stripe Connect sending ticket money straight to the organizer's account and no Revel fee on a self-hosted install.
Hi.Events: Hi.Events has its own OneClick page. In a Revel vs Hi.Events comparison, Revel's own list includes memberships billed through Stripe, series passes, questionnaires that gate purchase and event discovery with a calendar view.
pretix: Upstream compares Revel's features and licensing with pretix. Revel is MIT licensed and built on Django, PostgreSQL with PostGIS and Celery, with a separate SvelteKit website.
Ticket Tailor: Upstream compares Revel's fees with Ticket Tailor and DICE. Self-hosting Revel means you pay xCloud for the server and Stripe for payment processing, with no ticketing fee to Revel.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Meets the 2560 MB floor, with less headroom for Revel's 7 containers.

$24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

A larger community with more concurrent events.

$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. Revel itself is licensed under the MIT license.

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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Revel on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

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Unlimited sites
All features included
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The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

11+ servers
Unlimited sites
All features included
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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 Events?

Revel 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 Revel need?

The template floor is 2560 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk, because seven containers run, including PostGIS and a Celery worker. That is just above the 6 GB plan's usual cutoff, so this page sells the 16 GB plan.

Can you self-host Revel with Docker?

Yes, and this template is revel docker hosting without the setup: the API, worker, scheduler and website images pinned by digest, PostGIS, Redis and Caddy, three volumes, generated secrets and HTTPS on two domains. The Revel and PostGIS images are amd64 only, so the server must be x86-64.

Does Revel support paid tickets?

Yes. Upstream sells ticket tiers through Stripe Connect, so money goes to your own Stripe account, and also offers free, pay-what-you-can, pay-at-the-door and offline tiers. The Stripe keys ship commented out, so add your own in the Environment editor.

Can Revel send real emails?

Not until you configure it. EMAIL_DRY_RUN is on, so verification and password-reset links are printed to the container log instead. Add SMTP settings in the Environment editor and set EMAIL_DRY_RUN to False before inviting people.

Is registration open to the public on Revel?

Yes. Anyone who reaches the website can browse public events and register, though a verified email is needed to use an account. Organization creation is staff-only unless you set FEATURE_ORGANIZATION_CREATION to True.

Is Revel an alternative to Eventbrite?

For selling and managing tickets, yes. Upstream compares its fees with Eventbrite's and positions Revel as self-hostable and MIT licensed. You run the server and the Stripe account yourself, and email deliverability is your job.

Is Revel free?

Yes. Revel is open source under the MIT licence, and upstream says self-hosted installs pay Revel nothing. You pay for the Cloud VPS and Stripe's processing, so this Revel cloud install is separate from upstream's hosted service.

How do I back up Revel?

Back up all three volumes together: revel_postgres holds the database, revel_redis holds queue data and revel_media holds uploaded files. Keep SECRET_KEY unchanged, since it signs login tokens, and keep a copy off the server.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Revel?

Revel stays on its pinned 2.21.0 images until a newer template version is adopted. Copy all three volumes beforehand and check the release notes. Migrations run at each start; no upgrade is automatic.

Can I change the Revel domains later?

Only the API domain freely. The website domain is the install's permanent identity, stored in the database and used in emailed links, so changing it also needs an edit under Site settings in the Django admin. Keep both under one parent domain.

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.