Tela Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Tela hosting and give your team a private wiki and documentation workspace on your own domain. xCloud installs the pinned Tela 0.8.0 stack of six containers, creates the first administrator from the email you enter, keeps PostgreSQL and the other back-end services off the public internet, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the site over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Tela

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

What is Tela?

Tela is an open-source, self-hostable team wiki. Pages are written in Markdown inside spaces, and upstream pairs a Go and PostgreSQL back end with a browser editor and a built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint, so people and agents work from the same knowledge base.

On xCloud it runs as a six-container stack on your own server: the pages, users and attachments live in a PostgreSQL volume you control, and only the web interface is published over HTTPS.

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

A Tela stack normally means six containers, a pgvector database, generated secrets, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first page. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Tela from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the Admin Email and an Admin Password of 12 to 64 characters, or leave it empty to have one generated.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up Tela with its pgvector PostgreSQL database, backend, frontend, Gotenberg PDF renderer and slide-deck service on a private network, keep them off the public internet, mount the tela_pgdata and tela_deckcache volumes, generate the database password and signing secrets, and publish the Caddy proxy over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Close Registration
Open your HTTPS Tela URL and sign in as admin with the generated password, allowing a few minutes on first boot for migrations. Before you share the address, open Settings, Instance and switch off self-registration, which is on by default.

Everything Tela Does, On Your Own Server

Tela runs in full here: spaces, Markdown pages and exports on your own domain, with the data in a database you own.

Spaces And Markdown Pages
Keep team documentation in spaces and write pages in Markdown. Page bodies are stored as Markdown, not in a proprietary block format.
PDF, Markdown And Slide Decks
Export pages to PDF or Markdown, and build slide decks from a page that export to PDF and PPTX.
Share Links And Public Spaces
Share a page through a share link, or publish a space for readers who have no account.
WebDAV, MCP And Access Tokens
Sync with WebDAV clients, and let agents search, read and write through the built-in MCP endpoint using personal access tokens.
Full-Text Search Built In
Full-text search works out of the box. Semantic search and ask-your-docs are optional and need an embedding endpoint and a chat endpoint.
Live Collaboration
Upstream describes real-time multi-cursor editing, comments, backlinks and revision history in the browser editor.

Everything You Need To Run Your Wiki 24/7

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

Tela 0.8.0 deployed instantly
All six images pinned by digest
Admin account created at install
Back-end services kept private
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Tela

Keep team documentation private
Hold runbooks, handbooks and project notes in spaces on a server you control instead of a hosted wiki service.
Turn pages into PDFs and decks
Export a page to PDF or Markdown, or write a slide deck in Markdown and export it to PDF or PPTX.
Share a page without an account
Send a share link for a single page, or publish a whole space for readers who should not need to register.
Connect agents and local tools
Point an MCP client at the built-in endpoint with a personal access token, or sync pages with a WebDAV client.

Tela Screenshots

The Tela home page with spaces, recent changes and quick actions

A Tela slide deck page with a Present button and a list of slides

Tela vs Alternatives

Notion: A hosted workspace; Tela stores Markdown pages in a PostgreSQL volume on your own server and is open source under AGPL-3.0.
Confluence: A hosted team wiki; Tela runs on your xCloud server with a private database and exports pages to PDF and slide decks.
BookStack: Another self-hosted wiki that organises content into shelves, books and pages; Tela uses spaces and Markdown pages with share links and decks.
Docmost: A self-hostable collaborative wiki; Tela adds slide-deck export, WebDAV sync and a built-in MCP endpoint.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for heavy PDF and deck rendering, 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. Tela itself is licensed under AGPL-3.0 by its maintainer.

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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 Team Wiki?

Tela 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 Tela a hosted service, or does it run on my own xCloud server?

It runs on your own xCloud server, as a six-container stack that xCloud installs on a private network. Only the web interface is published through HTTPS on your domain.

How do I sign in for the first time?

Sign in at your Tela URL as admin, or with the admin email, using the admin password shown in the installation credentials. The admin account is created at install, so there is no setup wizard to finish.

Can I let people sign up on their own?

Yes, but self-registration is on by default and Tela has no environment variable for it. Turn it off in Settings, Instance before you share the address. Existing accounts keep working, and you can add people yourself.

Does Tela need an AI service or a mail server?

No. Full-text search works without them. Semantic search and ask-your-docs need an embedding endpoint and a chat endpoint. No mail server is configured by default, so verification and password-reset emails go to the backend log until you add the TELA_SMTP_* keys.

What should I back up?

The tela_pgdata volume, which holds your pages, users and attachments, together with the stable .env values (TELA_PG_PASSWORD, TELA_SHARE_SECRET, TELA_API_KEY_SECRET and the TELA_ADMIN_* values). The tela_deckcache volume only holds the slide render cache and can be rebuilt.

Backups in xCloud

Can I rotate the share and API secrets?

Not casually. Rotating TELA_SHARE_SECRET signs out share-link visitors, and rotating TELA_API_KEY_SECRET revokes every personal access token.

Who should be allowed to edit slide decks?

Only people you trust. The slide-deck sidecar compiles deck Markdown as code, so give editing access accordingly.

What survives a restart?

Pages, users, decks and attachments. In QA, a restart of all six containers kept an existing doc and deck, and the deck PDF re-rendered identically, because the data sits on a persistent named volume.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Tela?

No. The template pins Tela 0.8.0 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 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 2 CPU cores, 2048 MB of RAM and 15 GB of disk. Idle use in QA was about 95 MB across the six containers, rising to about 792 MB after a PDF and PPTX round-trip, so plan for the peak rather than the idle figure. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Tela?

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