Stack Auth Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Stack Auth hosting and run your own authentication backend and dashboard for your apps. xCloud runs the pinned Stack Auth server image next to private PostgreSQL 16 and ClickHouse 25.10 databases and a scheduler, generates the administrator password and secrets, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the API and the dashboard over HTTPS on your own domains.

Deploy your Stack Auth

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What is Stack Auth?

Stack Auth, now Hexclave, is an open-source authentication and user-management platform. Your applications use its SDKs and project API for sign-up and sign-in, and a dashboard lets you create projects, issue project keys and manage end users. Upstream also ships teams, permissions, API keys and email flows.

This template deploys the Stack Auth server (API backend and dashboard) on your own server, next to PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and a scheduler container.

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

A self-hosted Stack Auth stack normally means a server container, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, a scheduler, generated secrets, two domains and certificates before the first project. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Stack Auth from the OneClick catalog. Map the API and Dashboard domains under the same parent domain and enter the email for the dashboard administrator.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Stack Auth server image, pinned by immutable digest, with private PostgreSQL 16, ClickHouse 25.10 and a scheduler container that have no host ports, mount the stack_auth_postgres_data, stack_auth_clickhouse_data and stack_auth_server_state volumes, generate the administrator password and secrets, and publish the API and Dashboard over HTTPS.
Step 03
Create Your First Project
Save the generated administrator password from the protected credentials, open the HTTPS Dashboard URL and sign in (first start can take a few minutes for migrations). Then create a project, create its project keys and point your application's SDK at the API domain.

Everything Stack Auth Does, On Your Own Server

Stack Auth runs here with its API, dashboard and databases on your own server, so user data stays in volumes you control.

Sign-Up And Sign-In For Your Apps
Email and password sign-up and sign-in for your own applications through a project API, with SDKs for your frontend and backend.
A Dashboard For Projects And Users
Create projects, issue project keys and manage end users from the Stack Auth dashboard.
Teams And Permissions
Upstream includes teams with email invites and roles, and permissions you define in the dashboard and check from your code.
API Keys
API keys that work for users and teams, with the full secret shown only once at creation.
Closed Dashboard Sign-Up
The only dashboard account is the administrator created at first start; your own end users sign up through your project's API.
Email Flows With Your SMTP
Verification, magic-link and password-reset emails work once you add SMTP settings in the environment editor.

Everything You Need To Run Your Authentication 24/7

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

Stack Auth server 1a1add8 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password and secrets generated
Private PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Stack Auth

Authentication for your own apps
Give your product email and password sign-up and sign-in through a project API, with SDKs for the frontend and backend.
A user-management dashboard you control
Create projects, issue project keys and manage end users from a dashboard running on your own domain.
Teams and permissions in a B2B product
Use upstream's teams, roles and permissions so access in your app follows the workspace a user belongs to.
Keeping user records on your own server
Projects, keys and end users live in your own PostgreSQL volume and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.

Stack Auth Screenshots

The Stack Auth dashboard after signing in as the administrator

Project keys created in the Stack Auth dashboard

Stack Auth vs Alternatives

Auth0: A hosted authentication service. Stack Auth is open source and this template runs its API and dashboard on your own server.
Clerk: A hosted authentication and user-management service. Stack Auth server components are AGPL-3.0 and run on infrastructure you choose.
Keycloak: Another open-source identity and access management server, with single sign-on, social login and standards support for OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML. xCloud runs it too.
Logto: An open-source OIDC and OAuth 2.1 identity provider with enterprise SSO, MFA, RBAC and organizations. xCloud runs it too.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 16 GB

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

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Auth Server?

Stack Auth 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 do I sign in?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password from the credentials page.

Can other people register on the dashboard?

No. Dashboard sign-up is closed; your own end users sign up through your project's API.

What runs alongside Stack Auth?

PostgreSQL 16, ClickHouse 25.10 and a scheduler container for the maintenance endpoints, none exposed on the host.

Why are there two domains?

The API (primary) and the Dashboard are two web endpoints, each on its own domain, mapped under the same parent domain. Your apps and SDKs talk to the API domain; you manage projects in the Dashboard.

Why does the first start take a while?

The first start runs database migrations and can take a few minutes before the dashboard answers.

Does email work out of the box?

No. Add SMTP settings in the environment editor to send verification, magic-link and password-reset emails.

Do webhooks and file storage work?

Webhooks need an external Svix server and file storage needs S3-compatible storage. Neither was tested in QA.

Why should the API domain stay stable?

The API domain is part of every issued token and of OAuth callbacks. Keep the server secret stable too, since it signs tokens and derives internal keys.

What should I back up?

The stack_auth_postgres_data and stack_auth_clickhouse_data volumes, together with the generated secrets.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Projects, keys and end users survived an xCloud Restart in QA, verified by restarting all containers twice.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Stack Auth?

No. The template pins the server image by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the image tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 16 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 10 GB of disk. Measured use in QA was about 1.2 GB idle after a restart and up to about 2.7 GB under use. A 4 GB minimum leaves little headroom on a 6 GB server, so this page sells the 16 GB tier as the entry rung.

What is the licence?

Per upstream, server components are AGPL-3.0 and client code and examples are MIT.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Stack Auth?

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