Scratch Map Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Track every country and region you have visited on your own private scratch map — the world plus the regions of 13 countries, each one recording the year you visited and a link to your photo album. xCloud configures the pinned Scratch Map 1.2.3 image, mounts the persistent data volume and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Scratch Map

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

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

Self-hosting Scratch Map normally means a container, persistent storage, a domain and a certificate before a single place is scratched. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Scratch Map from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain — there are no credentials to generate.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official ad3m3r5/scratch-map image pinned by immutable digest, mount the persistent data volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Start Scratching
Open your HTTPS Scratch Map URL — there is no sign-in step. Pick a map, click a place to scratch it, and add the year and an optional photo-album link.

Everything Scratch Map Does, On Your Own Server

Scratch Map runs in full here — the same scratch-off world and regional maps as any hosted version, on infrastructure you control.

World And Regional Maps
Scratch off countries on a world map, plus the regions of 13 countries: the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Year And Photo-Album Links
Attach the year you visited and a link to your photo album for each scratched place.
Optional Read-Only Share
Turn on ENABLE_SHARE for a read-only share page so friends and family can see your map without editing it.
Lightweight By Design
A single small container with no database to manage — just one JSON file holding your travel history.
Your Travel History, Your Server
Scratched places, years and album links stay on a server you control instead of a third-party travel-tracking account.
Survives A Restart
Your scratched places live on a persistent volume, verified to survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Travel Map 24/7

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

Scratch Map 1.2.3 deployed instantly
World map plus 13 country regions
Pinned, vendor-maintained image
Optional read-only share page
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

A shared map for a travelling group or blog.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Scratch Map alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$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. Scratch Map itself is free under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

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

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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 Own Your Travel Map?

Scratch Map on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own your data. 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 is Scratch Map?

Scratch Map is a self-hosted, interactive scratch-off travel map: click a country or region to scratch it, and record the year you visited and a link to the trip's photo album. This template deploys version 1.2.3.

Which maps are included?

A world map plus region-level maps of 13 countries: the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Is Scratch Map free?

Yes — it is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. What you pay xCloud for is the dedicated server it runs on and the management around it, not the application itself.

Can I self-host Scratch Map?

Yes — that is exactly what this template deploys. It brings up the official ad3m3r5/scratch-map image pinned by immutable digest, mounts its persistent data volume, and publishes it over HTTPS on your domain, usually ready within a minute.

How do I sign in?

You don't. Scratch Map has no login by upstream design, so anyone with the URL can view and edit the map. Protect the site with xCloud Basic Authentication or IP Management if it should be private.

Can I share my map without letting people edit it?

Set ENABLE_SHARE=true in the environment and redeploy to get a read-only /view/<map> page. This is not an access control on its own — the editable pages stay reachable, so add Basic Authentication as well if they should be private too.

What does xCloud configure automatically?

The Scratch Map URL, the persistent data volume, the domain and the HTTPS route. The container port is bound to the server's loopback interface and reaches the internet solely through xCloud-managed HTTPS.

What should I back up?

The data volume, which holds a single db.json file with every scratched place, year and album link. Keep off-server copies and test restoration.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Scratch Map?

No. The template pins version 1.2.3 — a release from December 2024 — by immutable digest; a catalog re-sync affects new installations only.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk as a floor. Measured use in QA was about 38 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier, far above that floor.

What survives a restart?

Your scratched places, years and album links, all on the persistent data volume — QA confirmed the data after a container restart.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Scratch Map?

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

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It is a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there.

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.