Tube Archivist Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Tube Archivist hosting gives you a self-hosted video archive on your own domain, indexed and searchable, for videos you are authorised to keep. Deploy Tube Archivist 0.5.12 with private Elasticsearch and Redis, generated credentials and four persistent volumes, over HTTPS in minutes. Archived video can use a great deal of disk, so plan storage before you subscribe to channels or start downloading.

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What is Tube Archivist?

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted application that indexes, searches, archives and plays video collections. Upstream describes subscribing to channels, downloading videos with yt-dlp, indexing them with metadata so they become searchable, playing them and tracking viewed and unviewed status, with plugins for Jellyfin and Plex. A self-hosted Tube Archivist is an alternative to keeping a collection in a platform watch-later list, licensed GPL-3.0, for videos you are authorised to retain, with a browser extension upstream.

On xCloud it is Tube Archivist 0.5.12 with Elasticsearch 8.19 and Redis 8, all pinned by digest, with media, cache, Redis and Elasticsearch data on four volumes. xCloud generates the administrator and Elasticsearch credentials and serves the app over HTTPS. QA did not exercise real downloads or playback.

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

A Tube Archivist stack needs the app, Elasticsearch, Redis, generated credentials, four volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first video is indexed. 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 a server with 4 CPU cores and 4 GB of RAM or more, an administrator username and a timezone.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start Tube Archivist 0.5.12, Elasticsearch 8.19 and Redis 8, all pinned by digest, generate the credentials, mount four volumes and publish the app over HTTPS. Redis and Elasticsearch stay private.
Step 03
Sign In And Add A Channel
Sign in with the administrator credentials and change the password in your user settings. Review the download format, then add only videos, channels or playlists you are authorised to archive.

Searchable Video Library: Tube Archivist On Your Own Server

Tube Archivist runs here with its search index and media on volumes you control, and nothing public beyond the web app.

Subscribe To Channels
Upstream lets you subscribe to channels, so new videos from collections you are authorised to keep are picked up.
Downloads With yt-dlp
Upstream downloads videos using yt-dlp. Choose the download format deliberately, because archived video takes substantial disk space.
Index And Search
Videos are indexed with metadata in Elasticsearch, which makes a growing collection searchable instead of a pile of files.
Play And Track
Play videos in the app and keep track of viewed and unviewed ones.
Jellyfin And Plex Plugins
Upstream lists plugins that add your Tube Archivist videos to Jellyfin or Plex.
Private Elasticsearch And Redis
Redis and Elasticsearch stay on the private network. Only the authenticated web app and API are published over HTTPS.

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
Images pinned by digest
Administrator credentials generated
Elasticsearch and Redis kept private
Free SSL certificate
Media, cache and index on volumes
Server backups and snapshots
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Tube Archivist

Keep a collection of videos you own the rights to
Archive material you are authorised to retain, such as your own uploads, and search it later.
Search a growing library
Find a video by title or metadata through the index instead of scrolling through folders.
Add archived videos to a media server
Use the Jellyfin or Plex plugin to expose your Tube Archivist library in the player your household uses.
Track what you have watched
Mark videos as viewed and see which ones are still unwatched.

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

Platform watch-later lists: As a Tube Archivist alternative to platform watch-later lists, you keep videos and an index on your own server, for material you are authorised to keep.
TubeSync: TubeSync has its own OneClick page. In a Tube Archivist vs TubeSync comparison, both sync channel videos to a server, so compare indexing, playback and the media server you use.
MeTube: MeTube has its own OneClick page. It is a web front end for downloading videos, while Tube Archivist centres on a searchable index and playback.
Jellyfin: Jellyfin has its own OneClick page. It is a media server, and a Tube Archivist plugin can add your archive to it.

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

Below the template's own manifest floor.

24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Room for a large library and heavier indexing.

84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 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. Tube Archivist is licensed under GPL-3.0.

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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 Video Archive?

Tube Archivist on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your library, your index, 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.

What should I archive with Tube Archivist?

Only videos, channels or playlists you are authorised to retain. Downloading is the customer's responsibility, and the template makes no claim that any particular content may be archived. Review the download format first, and respect each source's terms.

Why does Tube Archivist need Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch holds the index that makes your collection searchable. It needs a host vm.max_map_count of at least 262144 and about 1 GB of heap, which is part of why the template asks for 4 GB of RAM. It stays on the private network.

Does Tube Archivist work with Jellyfin or Plex?

Upstream lists a Jellyfin plugin and a Plex plugin that add your archived videos to those players. Those plugins are separate projects and are not installed by this template, so set them up on your media server.

Can you self-host Tube Archivist with Docker?

Yes. Upstream requires Docker, and this template is Tube Archivist Docker hosting with the stack assembled: the 0.5.12 image, Elasticsearch and Redis pinned by digest, four volumes and HTTPS on your own domain, with no Compose file to maintain.

How much RAM does Tube Archivist need?

Upstream says around 2 GB for a small test setup and around 4 GB for a mid to large one. The template asks for 4096 MB, 4 CPU cores and 30 GB of disk, which is why this page sells the 16 GB plan.

What is the Tube Archivist admin login?

The administrator username and password you set at install, or a generated one shown once by xCloud. Change the password in your user settings after the first sign-in. There is no SSO or multi-tenant support in this template.

Is Tube Archivist open source?

Yes. Tube Archivist is GPL-3.0 software, so there is no licence fee. You pay for the Cloud VPS and its disk, which gives you a Tube Archivist cloud of your own instead of a hosted archive.

How much disk does a Tube Archivist library need?

More than the 30 GB installation floor, since archived video is large. Monitor free space, choose download formats carefully and keep media backups off the host. The disk, not RAM, usually decides how large the library can grow.

How do I back up Tube Archivist?

Stop the stack and snapshot tubearchivist_media, tubearchivist_cache, tubearchivist_redis_data and tubearchivist_elasticsearch_data together, and keep ELASTIC_PASSWORD with them. Keep an off-host copy before upgrades. Nothing backs these up automatically, so run the copy yourself and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Tube Archivist?

The install stays on its pinned 0.5.12 images until you adopt a newer template version. Take a stopped-stack backup of all four volumes and read the upstream notes first. ELASTIC_PASSWORD initialises Elasticsearch and must stay stable.

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.