Upvote RSS Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Upvote RSS hosting and generate RSS feeds of only the popular posts from Reddit, Lemmy, Hacker News and more on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Upvote RSS v1.8.1 image as a single container, mounts a persistent cache volume and publishes the generator over HTTPS in minutes — there is nothing to sign up for or configure before you copy your first feed URL.

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What is Upvote RSS?

Upvote RSS is an open-source application that generates RSS feeds of the popular posts from social aggregation sites. It supports Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters, PieFed, Mbin and, for repositories, GitHub.

Instead of subscribing to everything a community posts, you set a score filter and Upvote RSS keeps only the posts above it. You build the feed in a web page, preview the posts, copy the URL and add it to any feed reader. This template deploys v1.8.1.

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

Self-hosting Upvote RSS normally means a container, a cache volume, a domain and a certificate before the first feed. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Upvote RSS from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in and no credentials to generate.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Upvote RSS image as a single container, pinned by immutable digest, mount the upvote_rss_cache volume and publish it over HTTPS on your domain. It is usually ready within about 30 seconds.
Step 03
Copy Your First Feed URL
Open your HTTPS Upvote RSS URL, pick a platform, a community and a minimum score, preview the posts, then copy the generated feed URL into your feed reader.

Everything Upvote RSS Does, On Your Own Server

Upvote RSS runs in full here: a feed generator on your own domain, with a cache that survives restarts.

Score-Based Filtering
Filter by score, by a threshold against the past month's average, or by a target number of posts per day, so a feed reader gets the number of posts you expect.
Seven Platforms, One Generator
Build feeds for subreddits, Hacker News, Lemmy communities, Lobsters, PieFed communities, Mbin magazines and GitHub.
Plain RSS For Any Reader
Open the site, copy the generated URL and paste it into the feed reader you already use, with a preview of the posts first.
Article Content And Comments
Optionally include parsed article content, featured images, estimated reading time, the post score and the top comments in each item.
Optional AI Summaries
Add a provider key such as Ollama, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Mistral or DeepSeek, or any OpenAI-compatible provider, to put a short summary above the content.
Persistent Cache
API responses, parsed pages, AI summaries and resized images are kept on the upvote_rss_cache volume, which survives an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Feed Generator 24/7

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

Upvote RSS v1.8.1 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Persistent cache volume
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 Upvote RSS

Follow only the popular posts of a community
Set a minimum score or a posts-per-day target per feed, so a busy subreddit or Lemmy community reaches your reader as a short list.
One feed source for several platforms
Use the same generator for Reddit, Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, Hacker News, Lobsters and GitHub instead of a different tool for each.
Read the discussion inside your feed reader
Turn on article content, the post score and the top comments to read a post and its best replies without leaving the reader.
Summarise articles with your own provider
Add your own AI provider key and each item can carry a short summary, with the cost and the provider under your control.

Upvote RSS Screenshots

The Upvote RSS home page, where a platform, community and minimum score are chosen to build a feed

The Upvote RSS feed form with Hacker News selected as the platform

A generated Upvote RSS feed preview listing the filtered posts with their scores

Upvote RSS vs Alternatives

RSS-Bridge: Generates RSS and Atom feeds for sites that do not publish one, using bridges maintained by the project. Upvote RSS is narrower: it focuses on filtering the popular posts of social aggregation sites by score.
RSSHub: Generates RSS feeds for websites that do not provide them, through a large set of routes. Upvote RSS is built around score, threshold and posts-per-day filters for a smaller set of platforms.
A site's own RSS feed: Many sites publish their own feeds. Upvote RSS adds a minimum-score, threshold or posts-per-day filter on top of the same communities, plus optional article content and AI summaries.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Upvote RSS sits alongside other feed and reader apps.

$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. Upvote RSS itself is licensed by its maintainer under MIT.

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Upvote RSS 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.
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Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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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.

Do I need an account to use Upvote RSS?

No. There is no login and no setup step: open your domain, pick a platform, a community and a minimum score, and copy the generated feed URL.

Is the instance public?

Yes, by design. The instance only generates read-only feeds and stores no user data, and your feed reader must be able to reach the feed URLs without signing in. Anyone who knows the address can generate feeds.

Can I keep my instance private?

Yes. Use a private domain or Basic Auth at the access layer; this template does not enable Basic Auth itself. Your feed reader then needs to reach the feed URLs through that.

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Does it need Reddit or AI keys?

No. Both are optional and off by default; the other platforms work without them. Add them from the site's Environment editor and redeploy.

What happens if I add Reddit or AI keys?

Because the instance has no login, every visitor can spend those quotas. Use a private domain or Basic Auth at the access layer if that matters.

Which platforms are supported?

Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobsters, PieFed, Mbin and GitHub.

What should I back up?

Nothing essential. The only volume is upvote_rss_cache, a rebuildable cache of API responses, parsed pages, AI summaries and resized images; it holds no settings or accounts. Back it up only to avoid regenerating AI summaries.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

The cache on the upvote_rss_cache volume. In QA a repeated feed request was served from cache in about 0.6 seconds versus 8.3 seconds cold after the cache was warm.

Is the cache private?

Do not rely on it. Cached feed data and request logs are kept under /cache and /logs inside the app and may be retrievable by direct URL to anyone who guesses a file name.

What can visitors make the server do?

Feed requests make the server fetch the addresses named in them, so visitors can make it request addresses they put in the feed URL. Restrict access if that matters to you.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Upvote RSS?

No. The template pins Upvote RSS v1.8.1 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release and existing sites are not automatically upgraded. 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 1 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 91 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Upvote RSS?

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