Sharkord Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Sharkord hosting and run a Discord-style chat server on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Sharkord v0.0.27 image as a single container with its embedded SQLite database, mounts a persistent volume and publishes the web app and its WebSocket over HTTPS in minutes — with text channels, voice, video and screen sharing on infrastructure you control.

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What is Sharkord?

Sharkord is a lightweight, self-hosted chat platform in the style of Discord. It offers text channels, voice channels, video and screen sharing, file uploads, roles and direct messages, and runs as a single container with an embedded SQLite database.

Voice, video and screen sharing are built on a mediasoup SFU. Sharkord is open source under the MIT licence, and upstream describes it as alpha software, so releases may include breaking changes.

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

A self-hosted chat server normally means a container, a volume, a domain, a certificate and a WebSocket-aware proxy before the first message. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Sharkord 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 bring up the official Sharkord image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with no separate database service, mount the sharkord_data volume, and publish the web app and WebSocket over HTTPS on your domain. One public UDP port for voice, video and screen share is shown on the credentials card.
Step 03
Claim Ownership
Open your HTTPS Sharkord URL and create your account. Then copy the one-time owner token from the container log, run useToken() with it in your browser's developer console, and your account becomes the owner. Open the credentials card's UDP port in your firewall for voice.

Everything Sharkord Does, On Your Own Server

Sharkord runs in full here: a Discord-style chat server on your own domain, in one container, with data you own.

Text Channels And Direct Messages
Organise conversation into text channels and message people directly, on a server you run.
Voice, Video And Screen Sharing
Voice channels with video and screen sharing, built on a mediasoup SFU. They use one public UDP port, which you open in your own firewall.
File Uploads Up To 2 GB
Members can upload files of up to 2 GB each by default, and the owner can adjust the limit in the server settings.
Roles For Your Community
Use roles to run a small community or team chat, with the owner managing the server from within the app.
One Container, No Extra Services
Sharkord keeps its data in an embedded SQLite database, so there is no separate database or other service to run.
Persistent Storage
The sharkord_data volume holds the database, configuration, uploads, logs, backups and plugins. In QA a channel and message were still present after a restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Chat Server 24/7

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

Sharkord v0.0.27 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Web app and WebSocket over HTTPS
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 Sharkord

A private community chat
Run a Discord-style server for friends, a club or a community on your own domain, with roles to organise who can do what.
Team chat you control
Give a small team text channels, direct messages and file sharing on a server whose data stays on your own infrastructure.
Voice and screen sharing sessions
Hop into a voice channel to talk, turn on video or share a screen, once the voice UDP port is open in your firewall.
A lightweight self-hosted option
Run chat as one container with an embedded SQLite database and no external services — measured idle use in QA was about 79 MiB of RAM.

Sharkord Screenshots

Sharkord server with text and voice channels in the sidebar and a message posted in a text channel

Sharkord showing the confirmation "You are now an owner of this server" after claiming ownership

Sharkord vs Alternatives

Discord: Discord is a hosted chat service. Sharkord offers a similar mix of text, voice, video and screen sharing, but you run it yourself on your own server and domain.
Rocket.Chat: An open-source team communications platform with channels, direct messages, voice calls, federation and an apps framework; Sharkord is a single lightweight container.
Zulip: Open-source team chat organised by topic, built for focused asynchronous conversation rather than a Discord-style channel layout.
Matrix Synapse: A federated Matrix homeserver for private rooms, messaging, media and encryption, with your own domain as the permanent server identity.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Sharkord sits alongside other apps 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. Sharkord itself is licensed by the Sharkord Team under MIT.

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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 Run Your Own Chat Server?

Sharkord 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 Sharkord different from other chat servers?

It is a lightweight Discord-like platform with voice, video and screen sharing built on a mediasoup SFU, running as a single container with an embedded SQLite database.

How do I sign in the first time?

Sharkord has no built-in default login. Create an account on your site, then claim ownership with the one-time token printed in the container log on first start, by running useToken() in your browser's developer console.

Does voice work out of the box?

Voice, video and screen share need the public UDP port shown on the credentials card to be open in your own firewall; xCloud does not open it for you. Text chat works regardless.

What runs alongside Sharkord?

Nothing. It is one container with an embedded SQLite database, so there is no private database service.

Is the server open to everyone by default?

Yes, until you restrict it. Anyone who can open the site can register, and new registrations stay open until the owner turns them off or sets a server password in the server settings.

How should I treat the owner token?

Like a root password. It is printed once, cannot be recovered or rotated, and is not single use, so anyone who holds it can take over the server.

How large can uploads be?

Up to 2 GB per file by default; the owner can adjust the limit in the server settings.

What should I back up?

The sharkord_data volume, which holds the database, configuration, uploads, logs, backups and plugins.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Sharkord?

No. The template pins Sharkord v0.0.27 by immutable digest, so existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable image tag and digest together on your own schedule. Sharkord is alpha software and releases may include breaking changes. 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, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 79 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Data on the sharkord_data volume — in QA a channel and message were still present after a container restart, because it is a persistent named volume.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Sharkord?

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