The One File Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy The One File hosting and give your team a shared network diagram space on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned TOFV-2.0 image as a single container with a built-in SQLite database, creates the first administrator from the email you enter, mounts a persistent volume and publishes the editor, collaboration WebSocket and admin panel over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is The One File?

The One File is an open-source network diagram and topology editor. Its tagline is that there can only be one file: you map networks, smart homes, mind maps or infrastructure — anything with nodes and connections — and the work can be saved into itself.

This page covers TheOneFile_Verse, the Docker-based edition that adds a real-time collaboration server. Admins can run as many rooms as needed, and each person can still save their own portable copy of a diagram and import it back to keep collaborating.

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

A self-hosted diagram server normally means a container, a data volume, an admin bootstrap, a domain and a certificate before the first node is drawn. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick The One File from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the Administrator email — it is the only field.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official The One File image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with its embedded SQLite database — nothing else runs beside it. The the_one_file_data volume is mounted, the Administrator Password and Encryption Key are generated, and the site is published over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Open A Room
Open your HTTPS site, then sign in at the Admin Panel address with the Administrator email and the generated password from the credentials card. Change that password inside the app, then create your first room and share its link.

Everything The One File Does, On Your Own Server

The One File runs in full here: a network topology editor with live rooms on your own domain, backed by a database you own.

Live Collaboration Rooms
Several people edit the same diagram in a room at once, with real-time sync over WebSocket, room chat and per-room passwords available in the editor.
Network Topology Editing
Draw nodes for servers, routers, switches, firewalls and clouds, add boxes, text labels and free-drawn lines, and toggle physical, logical, security and application layers.
Racks With U Positions
Create rack nodes, open a vertical rack view with U markings and assign devices to positions with heights such as 1U, 2U or 4U.
Share And Export
Share a diagram by room link, or let each person save a portable copy of it as a file they can import back later.
An Admin Panel At /admin
Sign in as administrator to require an instance password, limit room creation and manage the instance settings.
One Container, Built-In SQLite
Rooms, the database and backups live in one persistent volume, with no external database to run. Redis is optional upstream and not used here.

Everything You Need To Run Your Network Diagrams 24/7

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

The One File TOFV-2.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
First administrator created for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With The One File

Document a homelab or office network
Lay out servers, routers, switches and firewalls as nodes, add notes and tags, and keep the diagram on a server you control.
Plan racks
Build rack views with U positions and device heights so the physical layout sits next to the logical topology.
Whiteboard a design together
Open a room, send the link and edit the same topology live with a teammate instead of passing exported files back and forth.
Map anything with nodes and connections
Upstream also lists smart homes, sports plays and mind maps as things the editor can map.

The One File Screenshots

The One File admin dashboard after signing in

A room in The One File with a saved node

The same room and node still present after a container restart

The One File vs Alternatives

Excalidraw: A virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams with live collaboration; The One File is built around network nodes, racks and layers instead of freehand sketching.
draw.io: A general-purpose diagramming tool; The One File is specialised for network topologies and runs collaboration rooms on your own server.
Rackula: A drag-and-drop rack layout designer for homelab and data-centre racks; The One File draws racks inside a wider topology editor.
NetBox: A network source of truth for IP address management and data-centre infrastructure modelling; The One File is a diagram editor rather than an inventory database.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if The One File sits alongside other infrastructure tools.

$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. The One File itself is released by its maintainers under the Unlicense.

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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.

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Ready To Run Your Own Diagram Server?

The One File 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.

What makes The One File different from a generic diagram tool?

It is built for network topology and runs rooms that several people can edit live, on your own server.

How do I sign in?

Use the Administrator email you entered and the generated Administrator Password on the credentials card, at the Admin Panel address (/admin on your domain). The administrator is created on first start and the setup endpoint is closed afterwards, so nobody else can claim it.

What runs alongside The One File?

Nothing. It is a single container with an embedded SQLite database. Redis is optional upstream and is not used.

Is it private by default?

No. The instance is open by default: anyone who can reach the URL can create and join rooms, and anyone with a room link can view and edit that room. After signing in as administrator you can require an instance password or limit room creation, or put the site behind your own access layer such as HTTP Basic Auth.

What is the Encryption Key and can I change it?

It protects stored two-factor, single sign-on and mail secrets. Keep a copy and never change it after install, or those secrets become unreadable.

Can I change the administrator password by editing the environment?

No. The Administrator email and password seed apply on first start only; change the password inside the app instead.

Why are some of my edits not shared with the room?

Edits made before joining a collaboration session (the name prompt) stay local to the browser and are not synced. This is upstream behaviour.

What should I back up?

The the_one_file_data volume (database, rooms and backups) together with the Encryption Key.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Data on the the_one_file_data volume. In QA a room and a node were still there after the container was restarted, because it is a persistent named volume.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update The One File?

No. The template pins TOFV-2.0 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 1 CPU core, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 34 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with The One File?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the maintainers of The One File 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.