Trek Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Trek hosting gives your group a self-hosted collaborative travel planner on your own domain, with day plans, maps, budgets and documents in one place. Deploy Trek 4.3.3 as one pinned container with embedded SQLite, a seeded administrator and two persistent volumes, over HTTPS in minutes. Public registration starts open, so close it in Admin if the trip is private, and sign in first.

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What is Trek?

Trek is a self-hosted, real-time collaborative travel planner with maps, budgets, packing lists, a journal and AI built in, according to upstream. It organises day plans, places and documents, and an admin switches addons on or off. A self-hosted Trek is an alternative to a hosted trip-planning service such as Wanderlog, licensed AGPL-3.0, so operators who offer it over a network must make the source available.

On xCloud it is Trek 4.3.3 from the upstream image, pinned by digest, in one container with SQLite in trek_data and files, covers and photos in trek_uploads. xCloud seeds the administrator, generates the encryption key and serves it over HTTPS. Public registration is open until an admin closes it, and place search calls an external service unless you disable it.

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

A Trek install needs the app, a database, an administrator, an encryption key, two volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first itinerary. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Trek from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain, then enter the administrator email, a password or leave it blank to generate one, and a timezone.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start mauriceboe/trek:4.3.3, pinned by digest, with embedded SQLite, mount trek_data and trek_uploads, generate the encryption key and seed the administrator. First boot takes about a minute.
Step 03
Sign In And Close Registration
Sign in with the email and password on the credentials card and change the password when Trek asks. Then open Admin and turn off public registration if the instance should be invite-only.

Itinerary Planner With Maps And Budgets: Trek On Your Own Server

Trek runs here as the planner, with trips and uploads on volumes you control.

Day Plans
Drag places between days and reorder inside a day, with undo, and drop notes and bookings in the same way.
Maps
Upstream supports Leaflet, Mapbox GL or MapLibre GL maps with clustering, photo markers and route lines.
Budgets And Packing Lists
Keep trip costs and packing lists with the plan. Lists and Costs ship on, while other addons are switched on by an admin.
Documents And Photos
Store travel documents, covers and photos in the uploads volume next to the trip they belong to.
Real-Time Collaboration
Upstream describes a real-time collaborative planner, so people planning a trip together see changes as they happen.
Addons An Admin Controls
Journey, Collections, MCP, AI Parsing and AirTrail ship off, and an admin chooses which addons to enable.

Everything You Need To Run Your Travel Planner 24/7

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

Trek 4.3.3 deployed instantly
Image pinned by digest
Administrator seeded for you
Encryption key generated
Free SSL certificate
Trips and uploads on persistent volumes
Server backups and snapshots
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Trek

Plan a group trip together
Share an itinerary with friends so everyone sees places, days and bookings in one plan.
Keep travel documents with the trip
Attach tickets and confirmations to the day or booking they belong to instead of searching email.
Track a trip budget
Record costs against the trip and keep a packing list in the same place.
Keep trip data on your own server
Hold itineraries and uploads on a server you control, aware that place search uses an external service.

Trek vs Alternatives

Wanderlog: As a self-hosted alternative to Wanderlog, Trek keeps itineraries, documents and photos on your own server, licensed AGPL-3.0, though place search calls an external service by default.
Wanderer: Wanderer has its own OneClick page. In a Trek vs Wanderer comparison, both are self-hosted travel tools, so compare trip planning, trail features and the maps each one uses.
Reitti: Reitti has its own OneClick page. It is a location history tool, which complements rather than replaces a trip planner.
Trip: Trip has its own OneClick page. It is another self-hosted travel app, so compare how each handles itineraries and sharing.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for photos, videos and many trips.

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. Trek is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Plan Trips On Your Own Server?

Trek on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your trips, your documents, your domain.

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.

Can anyone register on my Trek server?

Yes, at first. Public self-registration is open from first boot until an admin turns it off in Admin, and Trek has no environment variable for it. If the instance should stay invite-only, close registration right after you sign in.

Does Trek send my place searches to an external service?

Yes by default. Place search talks to places.liketrek.com unless TREK_PLACES_ENABLED is set to false in the Environment editor. Trek is therefore not fully offline or fully private; disable place search if that matters to you.

Who is the Trek administrator?

The account seeded from the email and password you entered at install. ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD apply only while no users exist, so editing them later changes nothing. Change the password inside Trek, which prompts you at first sign-in.

Can you self-host Trek with Docker?

Yes. Upstream provides Docker install notes, and this template is Trek Docker hosting with the parts joined for you: the 4.3.3 image pinned by digest, two volumes, an encryption key and HTTPS on your domain.

How much RAM does Trek need?

The manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk. Photos, videos and backups need much more disk, and gallery videos and backup restore can be up to 500 MB each.

What can I plan in Trek?

Upstream lists day plans, places, maps, budgets, packing lists, travel documents and a journal. Lists, Costs, Documents, Collab, Vacay and Atlas ship on; Journey, Collections, MCP, AI Parsing and AirTrail ship off until an admin enables them.

Is Trek open source?

Yes, under AGPL-3.0, so using it costs nothing in licence fees, and a Trek cloud of your own is just the Cloud VPS. Operators who offer Trek over a network must make the corresponding source available to its users. You pay only for the Cloud VPS that serves it.

What happens if I change the Trek encryption key?

Never change ENCRYPTION_KEY after first boot. It encrypts stored data, so a new key makes existing records unreadable. Keep it with your backups, and remember that restoring data without the same key is not a complete recovery.

How do I back up Trek?

Back up trek_data and trek_uploads together while the application is stopped, and keep ENCRYPTION_KEY with the backup. Restoring only one volume, or data without the same key, is incomplete. Nothing backs these up automatically, so copy them off the server and test a restore.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Trek?

The install stays on its pinned 4.3.3 image until you adopt a newer template version. Skim what upstream changed and take a consistent two-volume backup plus the encryption key first. Do not delete named volumes.

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.