Stash Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Stash hosting and keep your own media organizer behind a sign-in on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Stash v0.31.1 image, creates the account you chose at install with its password stored only as a bcrypt hash, mounts persistent volumes for your configuration, library and metadata and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Stash

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

What is Stash?

Stash is a self-hosted web app that organizes and serves a personal media collection. It scans your folders, lets you tag and group items, and pulls metadata from community-built scrapers and plugins.

On xCloud it runs behind managed HTTPS with sign-in required from the first request, and it is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

From Sign-Up to Your Media Library In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Stash install normally means a container, several mounted paths, a sign-in configuration, a reverse proxy with a raised upload limit, a domain and a certificate before the first scan. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Stash from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and server, then set the sign-in username and password — leave the password empty to have one generated.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Stash image, pinned by immutable digest, plus a small init container that writes the sign-in configuration before Stash starts, mount the stash_config, stash_data, stash_generated, stash_metadata, stash_blobs and stash_cache volumes, and publish it over HTTPS with a 1 GB upload limit.
Step 03
Add Media And Scan
Open your HTTPS Stash URL and sign in; the first start takes about a minute. Copy media into the library folder (/data), then open Settings, Tasks and run a Scan.

Everything Stash Does, On Your Own Server

Stash runs in full here: a sign-in-protected media organizer in the browser, with your library and database on persistent volumes.

Scan Folders Of Videos And Images
Point Stash at the library folder and scan it, then browse the collection from any browser.
Tag And Group Items
Tag items and group them so you can find them again later.
Community Scrapers And Plugins
Fetch metadata with community-built scrapers and plugins, downloaded from the community index when you install them.
Statistics
See statistics on performers, tags, studios and more across the library.
Sign-In On Every Page
Every page and the GraphQL API require sign-in, and the setup wizard is skipped because the account is created for you.
Persistent Volumes
Configuration, database, library, metadata and cover images live on persistent volumes and survive an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Media Organizer 24/7

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

Stash 0.31.1 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Sign-in required on every page and the API
Password stored only as a bcrypt hash
Six persistent volumes
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Stash

Browse a personal library from any browser
Scan folders of videos and images and open the collection from a browser, without exposing it to the public.
Tag and group a large collection
Tag items and group them so a big library stays findable.
Fill in metadata automatically
Install community scrapers and plugins to fetch metadata instead of typing it by hand.
Keep a library private on your own server
Require sign-in for every page and the API on a server you control.

Stash vs Alternatives

Jellyfin: Jellyfin is a general media server for streaming a library; Stash focuses on organizing a personal collection with tags, groups and scraped metadata.
Plex: Plex is a hosted-account media server; Stash runs entirely on your own server with its own sign-in and no account elsewhere.
Browsing folders by hand: A file manager shows files but not tags, groups or scraped metadata; Stash indexes the folders and adds them.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Stash sits alongside other media apps and big scans.

$59.99per month

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

Get started

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. Stash itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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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.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Media Organizer?

Stash 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?

With the username and password you set at install; they are in the protected installation credentials.

How do I add my media?

Copy files into the library folder (/data) on the server, then run a Scan from Settings, Tasks.

What runs alongside Stash?

A small init container that seeds the sign-in account once and publishes no ports. Nothing else.

Is it open to the public?

No. Sign-in is required for every page and the API, and there is no sign-up.

How do I change the password?

Change it in Settings, Security. The password is hashed once at first start, so editing it in the environment afterwards changes nothing.

What should I back up?

stash_config together with stash_blobs and stash_metadata, ideally with the app stopped, plus stash_data for the media itself.

Backups in xCloud

How large can uploads be?

The proxy accepts uploads up to 1 GB; Cloudflare in front of the site limits requests to about 100 MB.

Does Stash support DLNA?

No. DLNA is not available on this platform.

Does Stash contact the internet?

Stash contacts api.github.com to check for releases and downloads scrapers and plugins from the community index when you install them.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Stash?

No. The template pins Stash v0.31.1 by immutable digest; existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable 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 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 21 MiB, and scanning and preview generation need more while running. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Stash?

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