Cloud VPS 6 GB
Most popularAn always-on IRC client for an individual or a small team.
$24.99per month
- 6 GB RAM
- 4 vCPU cores
- 100 GB NVMe SSD
- 30 TB
- Unlimited
Deploy The Lounge hosting for an always-on, self-hosted IRC client, instead of leaving a desktop app running to stay connected. xCloud configures the pinned The Lounge 4.5.2 image, a private-mode administrator account, persistent storage for your networks and channels, and the HTTPS reverse proxy in minutes, with credentials waiting when you sign in.
Self-hosting an always-on IRC client normally means a server, a process manager, a domain and a certificate before you can join a single channel. This is the same result without assembling any of it.
Step 01
Create your xCloud account and pick The Lounge from the OneClick catalog. Choose your site title, domain and target server, and keep the default administrator username or set your own.
Step 02
One click. We bring up the official The Lounge 4.5.2 image, pinned by immutable digest, mount the the_lounge_data volume, create the initial private-mode administrator account, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Open the generated HTTPS URL and sign in with the administrator credentials shown by xCloud. Add an IRC network and join a channel to confirm it stays connected in the background.
The Lounge runs in full here — always-on connections, multi-device access and channel history, on infrastructure you control.
Stay connected to your IRC networks in the background, instead of losing channel history every time a desktop client closes.
Sign in from any modern browser — no desktop or mobile IRC client to install or keep updated.
Network configuration and joined channels stay set up on the server, ready the moment you sign back in.
Start in private mode with a generated administrator account, not an open public instance.
Logs, uploads and message history persist alongside your account and configuration on the same volume.
Pick a conversation back up from a laptop, phone or a different browser without reconfiguring anything.
Managed hosting for The Lounge, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.
Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for The Lounge. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.
An always-on IRC client for an individual or a small team.
$24.99per month
More headroom for larger channel history and more networks.
$59.99per month
The Lounge alongside a larger self-hosted stack.
$84.99per month
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. The Lounge itself is free under the MIT licence.
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The Lounge is an open-source, self-hosted web IRC client that stays connected to your networks while you are away and keeps channels and message history available across devices. This template deploys version 4.5.2.
Yes — The Lounge is free and open source under the MIT License. What you pay xCloud for is the dedicated server it runs on and the management around it, not the software itself.
Yes — that is exactly what this template deploys. It brings up the official The Lounge image, pinned by immutable digest, creates a private-mode administrator account, mounts persistent storage, and publishes it over HTTPS on your domain in minutes instead of assembled by hand.
xCloud creates the initial administrator account during installation, using the username you choose (or the default) and a 32-character generated password, shown once in your Credentials panel alongside the site URL. Open that URL and sign in with those credentials.
The pinned The Lounge image, the initial private-mode administrator account, persistent storage, the domain and the HTTPS route. The container's own port stays bound to localhost — only xCloud's nginx reverse proxy reaches it from the internet.
The generated password only initializes the account on first startup — editing the environment value afterward does not rotate the live account. Use The Lounge's own `thelounge reset <username>` command against the running container, then restart the app.
Yes. Add as many IRC networks and channels as you want from The Lounge's own interface after signing in — this template does not limit that.
The single the_lounge_data volume. It holds your users, IRC network and channel configuration, logs, uploads and message history together, so backing it up as one unit is a complete backup.
No. The template pins The Lounge by immutable digest; a catalog re-sync affects new installations only. Review The Lounge's upstream release notes, take a backup of the_lounge_data, test a restore, and verify sign-in and saved network configuration before changing the pinned image.
The template manifest asks for 1 GB of RAM, one CPU core and 10 GB of disk as a floor for The Lounge. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that floor for logged history and uploads as your channels grow.
Everything on the_lounge_data, because it is a persistent named volume. Restarting the container does not touch your account, network configuration, channels or message history — that is exactly what the xCloud Restart test in the source review confirms.
No. This template publishes only The Lounge's web interface through xCloud-managed HTTPS. IRC connections it makes to networks you configure are outbound; there is no inbound IRC listener or dependency port exposed.
No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and The Lounge has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source The Lounge project.
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.
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