WYGIWYH Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy WYGIWYH hosting and track what you earn and spend on your own server. xCloud runs the pinned WYGIWYH 0.23.2 image with a private PostgreSQL 15 database, generates the admin password, secret key and database password, mounts persistent volumes for your data and uploaded files, and publishes the app over HTTPS with public sign-up disabled.

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What is WYGIWYH?

WYGIWYH (What You Get Is What You Have) is an open-source, principles-first finance tracker for people who prefer a no-budget approach to managing their money. It is built around a simple idea: use what you earn this month for this month, and treat any savings as untouchable for future months.

It combines multi-currency accounts, customisable transactions and a built-in dollar-cost averaging tracker in one web app. On xCloud it runs on your own server with a private PostgreSQL database.

From Sign-Up to Your First Transaction In 3 Easy Steps

A WYGIWYH stack normally means the app, a PostgreSQL database, generated secrets, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first transaction. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick WYGIWYH from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the administrator email you will sign in with.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official WYGIWYH image pinned by digest with a private PostgreSQL 15 database that publishes no host port, mount the wygiwyh_postgres and wygiwyh_attachments volumes, generate the admin password, secret key and database password, and publish the app over HTTPS.
Step 03
Add Your First Transaction
Save the admin password from the protected installation credentials, wait about two minutes for the first start to apply migrations, then sign in over HTTPS. Create your currencies and accounts, then record your first transaction.

Everything WYGIWYH Does, On Your Own Server

WYGIWYH runs in full here: a multi-currency finance tracker on your own domain, backed by a database you own.

Unified Transaction Tracking
Record all your income and expenses in one place, organised across the accounts where your money and assets are kept.
Multi-Currency Support
Track transactions and balances in different currencies out of the box.
Custom Currencies
Create your own currencies for crypto, rewards points or any other unit you want to follow.
Dollar-Cost Averaging Tracker
A built-in tracker for recurring investments, aimed at crypto and stocks.
Rules And API
Upstream provides customisable rules that adjust transactions automatically, and an API for connecting other services.
Attachments On A Persistent Volume
Files attached to transactions are stored on the wygiwyh_attachments volume and were still present after a restart in QA.

Everything You Need To Run Your Finance Tracker 24/7

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

WYGIWYH 0.23.2 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin and database passwords generated
Public sign-up disabled
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With WYGIWYH

See what you earn and spend each month
Keep income, expenses and accounts in one place instead of a spreadsheet that grows unwieldy.
Manage money in several currencies
Hold accounts and record transactions in different currencies without converting them by hand.
Follow recurring investments
Use the dollar-cost averaging tracker to watch regular purchases of crypto or stocks.
Track points and other units
Create custom currencies for rewards points or anything else you want to count alongside your money.
Keep records with the transaction
Attach files to transactions and keep the uploads on a persistent volume on your own server.

WYGIWYH Screenshots

The WYGIWYH monthly view showing a transaction with income, expenses and total summary cards

The WYGIWYH monthly view after a restart, with the transaction and its attachment still present

WYGIWYH vs Alternatives

Actual Budget: A local-first envelope budgeting app; WYGIWYH is not a budgeting app and follows a use-this-month's-income-this-month principle instead.
Firefly III: A double-entry personal finance manager with budgets, bills and reports; WYGIWYH is a lighter, opinionated tracker with a built-in DCA tracker.
A spreadsheet: Flexible, but it becomes unwieldy with several currencies, accounts and investments; WYGIWYH keeps them in one app.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if WYGIWYH sits alongside other personal 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. WYGIWYH itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

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WYGIWYH 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.

Is WYGIWYH a budgeting app?

No. It follows a simple principle: use what you earn this month for this month, and treat savings as untouchable for future months.

How do I sign in for the first time?

Use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated admin password from the installation credentials. Public sign-up is disabled: the sign-up routes return 404 and every page except sign-in requires login.

What runs alongside WYGIWYH?

A PostgreSQL 15 database in a private container on the Compose network. It publishes no host port and is not reachable from outside the server.

Can I change the generated admin password?

Yes, inside the app. The environment value only creates the first account; it does not change an existing password.

Does WYGIWYH send email?

No. Email delivery is not configured because the app has no SMTP settings in this template.

What should I back up?

Both volumes: wygiwyh_postgres (accounts, transactions and settings) and wygiwyh_attachments (uploaded transaction files). Keep an off-server copy, use PostgreSQL-native dump tooling or stop the stack before copying data, and test a restore on the same image versions.

Backups in xCloud

Is it safe to remove the containers?

Do not run docker compose down -v on an install you intend to keep: it removes the named volumes that hold your data.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update WYGIWYH?

No. The template pins WYGIWYH 0.23.2 by immutable digest; existing sites are not automatically upgraded. To upgrade, read the upstream release notes, back up both volumes, then bump the readable tag and digest together. Migrations run on every app container start. 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, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 416 MiB (app 343 MiB plus PostgreSQL 73 MiB). This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

What survives a restart?

Data on the wygiwyh_postgres and wygiwyh_attachments volumes: a transaction and its attachment were still present after a restart in QA, because both are persistent named volumes.

Is there anything odd in the logs?

The container starts as root only to hand the attachments volume to the app user, and QA logged a harmless gunicorn control-socket warning on boot.

Is xCloud officially partnered with WYGIWYH?

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