Tube Archivist Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Tube Archivist hosting and keep a private, searchable archive of the video collections you are authorized to retain. xCloud runs the pinned Tube Archivist 0.5.12 official image with a private Redis and Elasticsearch 8.19.0 beside it, generates the administrator password, mounts four persistent volumes and publishes the web interface over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Tube Archivist?

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted media server that indexes, searches, archives and plays video collections you are authorized to keep. You manage channels, playlists and a download queue from a web interface, and the library is searchable through Elasticsearch.

It is made of three services: the Tube Archivist app, Redis for task queues and Elasticsearch for the library index. This template runs all three, with the last two kept private to the install.

From Sign-Up to a Running Archive In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Tube Archivist stack normally means the app, Redis, Elasticsearch with its own password, four volumes, a domain and a certificate before you can add the first channel. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Tube Archivist from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then set the administrator username (default admin) and your timezone — the password is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Tube Archivist image with a private Redis and a private Elasticsearch 8.19.0, each pinned by immutable digest and kept off the public internet, mount the media, cache, Redis and Elasticsearch volumes, and publish the web interface over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Set Up
Save the administrator password from the protected installation credentials, open your HTTPS Tube Archivist URL and sign in. Change the password in user settings, then review the download-format settings before adding channels or playlists you are authorized to archive.

Everything Tube Archivist Does, On Your Own Server

Tube Archivist runs in full here: a web interface for building and searching a video archive, backed by a search index you own.

Indexing And Search
Browse and search a private video library, with the library index held in Elasticsearch.
Channels, Playlists And Downloads
Manage channels, playlists and a download queue from one web interface.
Custom Playlists
Create your own playlists from videos you have archived, as shown in the screenshots below.
Private Redis And Elasticsearch
Redis and Elasticsearch run alongside the app on the install's private network, with no published host ports.
Generated Administrator Login
The administrator account is created at install from your username and a generated password. A wrong password was rejected and unauthenticated API calls returned 403 in testing.
Persistent Archive
Media, thumbnails, task-queue state and the library index live on named volumes; settings and playlists survived an xCloud Restart in testing.

Everything You Need To Run Your Video Archive 24/7

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

Tube Archivist 0.5.12 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated 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 Tube Archivist

Keep a private, searchable video library
Index the videos you are authorized to retain and find them again with Elasticsearch-backed search instead of scrolling through folders.
Organise by channel and playlist
Follow channels and playlists and run the download queue from one place, rather than managing files by hand.
Curate your own playlists
Build custom playlists from archived videos, then come back to them later from your own domain.
Run a shared archive for a team
Give a small group a single HTTPS address and a protected sign-in for a collection you all have the right to keep.

Tube Archivist Screenshots

Tube Archivist Recent Videos page with home, channels, playlists and downloads navigation after signing in on a self-hosted install

Tube Archivist Playlists page showing a custom playlist created from the web interface

Tube Archivist vs Alternatives

A hosted video platform: A hosted platform keeps your viewing and library on its servers. Tube Archivist keeps an indexed copy of authorized collections on a server you control.
MeTube: A lighter web front end for downloading videos. Tube Archivist adds a searchable Elasticsearch index with channels, playlists and a download queue.
Jellyfin: A general media server for your own movies, shows and music. Tube Archivist is built around indexing and searching an archived video collection.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Just above the template's 4096 MB baseline — little headroom.

$24.99per month

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4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Tube Archivist on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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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 Video Archive?

Tube Archivist 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 does Tube Archivist run alongside?

Redis for task queues and Elasticsearch for the library index, both private to the install with no host ports.

How do I sign in?

Use the administrator username you chose at install and the generated password shown in the protected installation credentials. Change the password in user settings after your first sign-in.

Is it public by default?

The web interface is published over HTTPS, but it requires sign-in: a wrong password was rejected and unauthenticated API calls returned 403 in QA. Redis and Elasticsearch are not exposed.

What should I back up?

The four volumes together — media, cache, Redis data and Elasticsearch data — while the stack is stopped, and keep an off-host copy. Keep the Elasticsearch password stable, because it initialises the search service and must not change.

Backups in xCloud

Does it need much disk?

Archived video can use far more than the 30 GB baseline in the template, so monitor free space and size the server's storage for the library you plan to keep.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 16 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 4 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 30 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 2.2 GB across the three containers. This page sells the 16 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Data on the four named volumes. Settings and a custom playlist were still present after an xCloud container restart in QA.

Did QA download and play real videos?

No. QA covered install, sign-in, authentication checks, creating a playlist and persistence across a restart. Downloading and playback of real videos was not exercised.

What can I archive?

Only content you are authorized to retain. You are responsible for the collections you add; xCloud only runs the server.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Tube Archivist?

No. The template pins Tube Archivist 0.5.12, Elasticsearch and Redis by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. To update, change the version tag and digest together after reading every intervening upstream release note, because upstream supports only short release jumps. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Tube Archivist?

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