SOGo Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy SOGo hosting and give your team shared calendars and address books on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned SOGo 5.12.11 image with a private PostgreSQL 16.15 database, signs the administrator in with the email you enter and a generated 24-character password, mounts persistent volumes and publishes SOGo over HTTPS in minutes — calendars and contacts work straight after install, and CalDAV/CardDAV clients can sync with the same login.

Deploy your SOGo

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What is SOGo?

SOGo is a free, open-source groupware server from Alinto. Upstream describes it as offering shared calendars, address books and email through a web browser or a native client, built on standard protocols — CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV, iMIP and iTIP — and reusing existing IMAP, SMTP and database servers.

In this deployment SOGo keeps users, calendars and contacts in a private PostgreSQL database. SOGo is not a mail server itself: webmail appears when you connect an IMAP server, plus SMTP for sending, that you already run or rent. SOGo is licensed under GPL-2.0 (server) and LGPL-2.0 (libraries).

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

A SOGo stack normally means a web container, a PostgreSQL database, a generated configuration, persistent volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first calendar event. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick SOGo from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and server, then enter the Administrator email — it becomes the administrator login, and its domain becomes the default mail domain.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the community SOGo image pinned by immutable digest, with a private PostgreSQL 16.15 database that has no published port, mount the sogo_db and sogo_data volumes, generate the administrator and database passwords, and publish SOGo over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Create Your First Event
Open https://your-domain/SOGo/ (the first boot can take about a minute) and sign in with the administrator email and the generated password. Create a calendar event and a contact, connect a CalDAV/CardDAV client, then change the password under Preferences.

Everything SOGo Does, On Your Own Server

SOGo runs in full here: shared calendars and address books in the browser, with standard sync protocols and a database you own.

Calendars In The Browser
Create calendars and events from the web interface at /SOGo/, ready to use right after install. No mail server is needed for calendars.
Address Books
Keep contacts in personal address books in the browser, also working straight after install without a mail server.
CalDAV And CardDAV Sync
Desktop and mobile clients sync with the SOGo login. Clients that support discovery only need the site address, and /.well-known/caldav and /.well-known/carddav redirect to the DAV endpoint over HTTPS.
Separate Accounts For Every User
Every user signs in to their own account and cannot see another user's data. Unauthenticated DAV requests are refused with a 401.
Optional Webmail
Set IMAP_SERVER and SMTP_SERVER in the environment editor to add webmail on top of a mail server you already run or rent. Setting SMTP also turns on invitation emails.
Private PostgreSQL Included
PostgreSQL 16.15 has no published ports and is reachable only by SOGo. Users, calendars, contacts and logins survive a restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Groupware 24/7

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

SOGo 5.12.11 deployed instantly
Community image pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Private PostgreSQL, never exposed publicly
Free SSL certificate
Persistent volumes for data and configuration
Server backups and snapshots
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With SOGo

Shared calendars for a small team
Give every person their own account with a calendar and address book, on a server you control instead of a hosted suite.
Sync phones and desktop apps
Point CalDAV and CardDAV clients at your domain and keep events and contacts in step with the browser, using the SOGo login.
Webmail in front of an existing mailbox server
Connect your own IMAP and SMTP server so people read mail in the same interface as their calendar and contacts.
Keep calendar and contact data in your own database
Users, calendars, contacts and sessions live in a private PostgreSQL database on your own server, with both volumes available for backup.

SOGo Screenshots

The SOGo event editor open over the week calendar view

A contact listed in the SOGo Personal Address Book

SOGo vs Alternatives

Google Workspace: A hosted suite where Google runs the service. SOGo is self-hosted, so calendars and contacts live in a PostgreSQL database on your own server.
Microsoft Exchange: A commercial server product for mail, calendars and contacts. SOGo supports Microsoft ActiveSync upstream, but the image used here does not include that module, so devices sync over CalDAV and CardDAV instead.
Nextcloud: A broader file sync, sharing and collaboration platform. SOGo is narrower: calendars, address books and an optional webmail front end.
Radicale: A lightweight CalDAV and CardDAV server. SOGo adds a browser interface for calendars and contacts and optional webmail on top of the same sync protocols.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for many simultaneous users or 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. SOGo itself is licensed by its maintainers under GPL-2.0 and LGPL-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Groupware Server?

SOGo 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.

Is SOGo a mail server?

No. SOGo gives you calendars, contacts and a webmail front end. Calendars and contacts work on their own. For webmail you connect an IMAP server, plus SMTP for sending, that you already run or rent.

Does it support Exchange ActiveSync?

Not in this deployment. The image does not include SOGo's ActiveSync module. Phones and desktop apps sync through CalDAV and CardDAV.

How do I sign in the first time?

Open https://your-domain/SOGo/ and sign in with the Administrator email you entered on the install form and the generated 24-character password from the protected installation credentials. The first boot can take about a minute.

How do I add users?

SOGo has no sign-up page. The administrator adds users, and resets their passwords, with the bundled SQL helper sogo_add_user in the database container: SELECT sogo_add_user('<email>', '<name>', '<password>'); Each user then signs in to an account kept separate from everyone else's, and can change their own password under Preferences.

How do I connect a calendar or contacts app?

Use your SOGo login and password. Clients that support discovery only need https://your-domain/. Otherwise use https://your-domain/SOGo/dav/<login>/. The CalDAV/CardDAV URL is also listed in the installation credentials.

How do I turn on webmail?

Set IMAP_SERVER and SMTP_SERVER in the environment editor, then Redeploy. SOGo signs in to IMAP and SMTP with each user's SOGo login and password, so every SOGo user must match a mailbox with the same credentials. Setting SMTP also turns on invitation emails; email reminders are not enabled by default.

What happens after I delete a user?

SOGo keeps their login cached for a few minutes. Restart the sogo container to cut them off immediately.

What should I back up?

Back up the sogo_db volume (all user data, preferably via pg_dump from the database container) and the sogo_data volume (the generated configuration). Keep an off-server copy and test a restore.

Backups in xCloud

Can I edit sogo.conf by hand?

SOGo's configuration is rebuilt from the environment on every Redeploy. To hand-edit sogo.conf, for example for LDAP users, set SOGO_MANAGED_CONFIG=no. The generated admin and database passwords are read only on the first launch, so editing them later rotates nothing.

What survives a restart?

Users, calendars, contacts and logins survive a restart: QA checked this with a container restart, and an event, a contact and a second user's sign-in were all still there afterwards.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update SOGo?

No. The template pins SOGo 5.12.11 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites stay pinned until updated. Back up both volumes first and read the upstream release notes, then change the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. SOGo updates its database tables itself when it starts. 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 5 GB of disk; QA measured about 98 MiB idle and 164 MiB peak across both containers. Upstream recommends 2 GB for production use, so add memory for many simultaneous users. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with SOGo?

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