👋 Welcome to ElfHosted!

We run popular self-hosted apps for you, securely and reliably.
Attach your own storage or just use ours.
Only pay for the apps you need, swap them out when you want to, billed from $0.10/day

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NEW! Infinite storage / streaming with Plex and Debrid

Recently (2024), a selection of our apps used to integrate media streaming (Plex) and downloaders (Real-Debrid) have been popular. Here's a quick guide..

Get your own private Stremio Addons!

Customize your Stremio experience with your own instance of popular Stremio Addons!
Simultaneously Stream from Stremio

Need to stream torrents or consolidate your Debrid downloads from one source IP? Use Stremio Server!
Simply stream from Debrid with Plex

Here's all you need for infinite streaming from Real Debrid with Plex, stat!
Advanced Debrid streaming with Aars

Want to use familiar tools for advanced searching / quality? Here's the Advanced guide to infinite streaming / storage!

What users say..

"I would recommend ElfHosted to anyone. It has been great so far and made life a lot easier than running my own setups. If you’re in the fence give them a try and help support this great community." - Zestyclose_Teacher20

"thanks for the help and must say this is the best host I every had for my server 🙂 10/10 🙂 All other places I have try have I got a lot buff etc. Your host can even give me full power on a 4K Remux on 200GB big movie file . That's damn awesome 😄" - @tjelite (Discord)

The back-story

I love self-hosting¹, and have been publishing guides on building self-hosting platforms and running apps since 2016. Over time, I've updated my own platform from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes (several iterations).

Somewhere along the way, building automated / resilient / scalable systems in Kubernetes became my DayJob™, and I spent 2 years consulting/co-investing in a seedbox provider.

When this provider shut down, I took the opportunity to take my self-hosting to the next level. I leveraged what I'd built / learned over those past 2 years to build ElfHosted - a multi-tenant, resilient, automated and scalable app hosting platform, running on "budget" bare-metal cloud hardware. I wanted to be able to rapidly deploy new self-hosted apps in a templatized way, and I wanted to invite other geeks to join in / observe the process.

- David (@funkypenguin)

But.. but..

ElfHosted vs Selfhosting

Question:

"Why wouldn't I just run the app myself?"

Answer:

Totally valid. Here are some guides I wrote for doing just that on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

ElfHosted is for users (like me, post-kids!) who don't necessarily have the time / inclination to run (and maintain!) certain apps locally, want it to "Just Work™".

Defined as controlling and managing the apps I use, regardless of where they run ↩