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Rivet hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Rivet, an open-source engine for stateful serverless actors with durable state, realtime WebSockets and scheduling, on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned engine image as a single container, generates the admin token, keeps its data on a persistent volume and publishes the API, dashboard and actor connections over HTTPS. Your own RivetKit app defines the actors.

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What is Rivet?

Rivet is an open-source orchestrator for stateful and agentic workloads whose core unit is the Actor: a long-lived process with durable state, addressed by key. Actors keep a SQLite database or filesystem, hibernate when idle and wake on demand, and are reachable over HTTP and WebSocket, with scheduled wake-ups and automatic rescheduling if a worker fails. A self-hosted Rivet is a stateful actor engine on your own server. It is Apache-2.0 licensed.

On xCloud it is Rivet 2.3.27, the official engine image pinned by digest, as a single container with an embedded filesystem database in the rivet_data volume. It installs the engine only: a fresh install is an empty dashboard until your RivetKit application connects with the generated admin token and a namespace. There is no user registration.

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

A Rivet engine normally means a container, an admin token, a data volume, a reverse proxy that passes WebSocket upgrades, a domain and a certificate before the first actor connects. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Rivet from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start the official Rivet engine image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with its embedded database, mount the rivet_data volume, generate the admin token and publish port 6420 over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Connect
Save the Admin Token from the installation credentials, open your HTTPS address at /ui/ and paste the token when asked. Create a namespace, then point your RivetKit application at the engine URL with the admin token.

Everything Rivet Does, On Your Own Server

The Rivet engine runs in full here: durable actor state, realtime routing and a dashboard, behind your own domain and one admin token.

Durable Actor State
The engine keeps each actor's state in its embedded database on the rivet_data volume, so namespaces and actor data survive an xCloud Restart.
Realtime HTTP And WebSockets
HTTP and WebSocket traffic to your actors goes through the same HTTPS address and port as the dashboard.
Scheduling
Upstream describes the engine as scheduling work for your actors alongside holding their state and routing their traffic.
Dashboard For Namespaces, Runners And Actors
Open /ui/ to manage namespaces, runners and actors from the browser after entering the admin token.
Admin Token On Every API Call
A generated 40-character token authorises every request; calls without it or with a wrong token are rejected with 401, and there is no open registration.
Your Own RivetKit Apps
Actors are defined by your own RivetKit application, which connects to the engine URL with a namespace and the admin token.

Everything You Need To Run Your Actor Engine 24/7

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

Rivet 2.3.27 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin token generated for you
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 Rivet

Give every user or room its own stateful actor
Address a long-lived actor by key, so a chat room, a game session or a document keeps its state in one place and answers over HTTP or WebSocket.
Push realtime updates over WebSockets
Let browsers hold WebSocket connections to actors through the same HTTPS address, so updates reach connected clients without you running a separate realtime server.
Run scheduled work inside an actor
Use scheduled wake-ups so an actor does its own recurring job and sleeps in between, instead of keeping a worker process busy all day.
Keep backend state on your own server
Store actor state in your own volume rather than a vendor's edge network, so an application's session and agent state stays on infrastructure you control.

Rivet Screenshots

The Rivet dashboard after signing in with the admin token, showing a namespace with no providers connected

Rivet vs Alternatives

Cloudflare Durable Objects: Upstream describes Rivet as an open-source alternative to Durable Objects that is easy to self-host: actors run on plain Node.js or Bun, with durable scheduling and cron built in. Self-hosting puts the engine and its state on your own server.
Temporal: Temporal has its own OneClick page. In a Rivet vs Temporal comparison, Rivet's unit is a stateful Actor addressed by key and reachable over WebSocket, with a built-in dashboard.
Kubernetes: Upstream compares Rivet with running workloads on Kubernetes. Its control plane ships as a single Rust binary with no Kubernetes operator required, and here it runs as one container.
Rivet Cloud: Upstream also offers Rivet Cloud, managed hosting for the same engine. Self-hosting runs it on your own Cloud VPS, where you hold the admin token and take care of updates and backups.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Rivet sits alongside your application and other backend tools.

$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. Rivet itself is licensed by Rivet's maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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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.

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Ready To Run Your Own Actor Engine?

Rivet 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 Rivet need?

The template floor is 128 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 2 GB of disk, because the engine is one container with an embedded database. The 6 GB plan is far above that and leaves room for your own application beside it.

Can you self-host Rivet with Docker?

Yes, and this template is rivet docker hosting without the setup: the official rivetdev/engine image pinned by digest, the rivet_data volume, a generated admin token and HTTPS on your own domain. Only port 6420 is published.

How does my application connect to Rivet?

Point your RivetKit application at your HTTPS address with the admin token and a namespace. WebSocket upgrades use the same address as the dashboard. The engine holds no application code, so actors appear only once your app connects.

Is the Rivet dashboard private?

Partly. The dashboard page at /ui/ loads without a login, but every data request needs the admin token, and there is no user registration. Add Basic Auth yourself for an extra gate, allowing your apps to reach the API.

Is Rivet free?

Yes. Rivet is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, so the engine has no licence fee. You pay only for the Cloud VPS, which makes this a Rivet cloud install of your own, separate from the hosted Rivet Cloud.

Is Rivet an alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Upstream positions it as an open-source alternative that is easy to self-host, with actors running on plain Node.js or Bun and durable scheduling built in. You host the engine yourself, so the capacity, updates and backups are yours to run.

How do I back up Rivet?

Back up the rivet_data volume, which holds the engine's database and your actors' state, and keep the admin token with it. Changing the token signs the dashboard out and every connected app needs the new one.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Rivet?

Rivet stays on its pinned 2.3.27 image until a newer template version is adopted. Copy rivet_data beforehand and check the release notes. Upgrades never run automatically, and redeploying keeps the volume.

What happens if I change the Rivet admin token?

The dashboard signs you out and every connected application needs the new token, since the same token authorises the whole API. Actor data in the rivet_data volume is not affected by editing it in the Environment editor.

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.