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Cloudron is a self-hosting platform published by a third party. It installs applications from its own catalogue, keeps them updated, and brings backups, email and user management with it. On an OnetSolutions VPS, it is installed for you when the server is created.
Prerequisites
  • A plan with at least 2 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of storage
  • A domain name you can add records to, which Cloudron needs before you can finish the setup

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Order

1

Pick the plan

Pick a plan on the Cloudron VPS page: Cloudron is already selected in the order.
2

Check the installation

At the What do you want to install? step, Cloudron is shown on its own. Ubuntu 26.04 is chosen automatically.
3

Order

The server is created, then Cloudron installs itself. Count fifteen to twenty-five minutes, and a reboot at the end.
You can also install Cloudron on an existing VPS by reinstalling it.
Cloudron restarts the server when the installation finishes. The instance stays unreachable for a few minutes: this is expected, and no action is needed.

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First sign-in

Unlike the other panels, Cloudron needs its domain before you can use it.
1

Point your domain

Create two A records towards the server IP address: my.your-domain and *.your-domain. The wildcard is what lets Cloudron give each application its own subdomain.
2

Open the wizard

Once the card shows Installed and the server has rebooted, open https://<server IP address>. Your browser warns about a self-signed certificate: this is expected at this stage.
3

Enter the domain

Give Cloudron the domain you pointed above. It obtains its own HTTPS certificates, then serves the panel on my.your-domain.
4

Create the administrator account

The first account created becomes the administrator: create it right away.

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Licence

Cloudron’s free plan is limited in the number of applications it will run. Beyond it, a Cloudron subscription is required, bought from the publisher. It is not included in your VPS plan.

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Firewall

If you enable your VPS firewall, allow ports 80 and 443. Cloudron also uses the email ports when you enable its mail server: check the Cloudron documentation for the full list before you restrict anything.

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Troubleshooting

Contact support from the console: we will help you run the installation again. The installation details are logged on the server, in /var/log/onetsolutions-cloudron-install.log.
Cloudron reboots the server at the end of the installation. Wait a few minutes, then try again on https://<server IP address>.
Check that my.your-domain and the wildcard *.your-domain both resolve to the server IP address. A DNS change can take a few minutes to propagate.