ɳCloud
ɳCloud is the MAX tier of the ɳSelf ecosystem. Pay a flat monthly management fee, get a full ɳSelf stack provisioned, patched, backed up, and monitored plus the everything license of ɳSelf+ and Cloud-only ɳTV features that standalone installs can't get.
- Product surface: cloud.nself.org
- Infrastructure: Hetzner (default) or AWS (opt-in, higher cost)
- Pricing: management fee + at-cost infrastructure, below every competitor on per-GB and per-core
What you get
- One-click provisioning of a full ɳSelf stack on a VPS you control
- ɳSelf+ everything license: All 87 pro plugins + all bundles + priority support
- Cloud-only ɳTV: Geo-distributed streaming, offload transcoding, acquisition worker pool, extra storage tiers
- Automatic backups with point-in-time recovery
- Patch + upgrade managed for you (CLI + Admin + plugin updates)
- 24×7 monitoring, alerting, and on-call response
- Domain + TLS automated (Let's Encrypt)
- Admin UI at your subdomain, plus CLI access if you want it
How it compares
| Tier | License | Infrastructure | Ops | When to pick it |
|---|
| Self-hosted free | Free plugins only | Your own | You | Hacking on ɳSelf, learning the stack |
| One bundle ($0.99/mo) | One bundle | Your own | You | Running one product (e.g. ɳChat only) |
| ɳSelf+ ($3.99/mo or $39.99/yr) | All bundles + apps | Your own | You | Power user self-hosting everything |
| ɳCloud (MAX) | ɳSelf+ everything + Cloud ɳTV | Managed (Hetzner / AWS) | ɳSelf team | Want the stack without running it |
Cloud-only ɳTV features
- Geo-distributed streaming edge nodes
- Acquisition worker pool (shared torrent/metadata fetcher)
- Hot + cold storage tiers with auto-migration
- Transcoding queue that scales beyond one VPS
- Free inbound bandwidth from Hetzner to clients
Get started
- Visit cloud.nself.org and sign in.
- Pick a region (Hetzner Falkenstein is the default).
- Pick a plan tier (CX23, CX33, CAX11, etc. , pricing shown at at-cost).
- Enter the domain you want to serve from (or a free
*.cloud.nself.org subdomain). - Wait ~5 minutes for provisioning. You get Admin at
admin.yourdomain.com and API at api.yourdomain.com.
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