How to order Owncast?

Deploy Owncast as a fully managed service starting at €9/month. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, monitoring, and human support, all included.

DANIAN runs Owncast as a fully managed service: installation, updates, backups, monitoring and security are handled for you.

See the owncast hosting page for plans, pricing and a free trial.

1. Login at: https://portal.danian.co

2. Manage Apps - Add an App

3. Select: Owncast

4. Select service Region

This is the datacenter location where your App will be located.

5. Select the App Address (URL) - Select 1 of the 2 options:

A. Use a free URL provided by DANIAN

B. Use my own Domain/Subdomain. Then enter the URL. Later an automated email will be send to you with additional info.

6. Click: Send

7. You will be notified via email as soon as your App is activated.

8. To access the App credentials:

https://portal.danian.co - Manage Apps - My Apps - Click on the App
There you will find:
A. Account related info: Email, Username
B. App related info: Order Date
C. App info: App name, Plan, Disk, Region, Public IP Address, Charge
D. App Login: URL, Username and/or Email, Password & Useful info
E. Status: Delivered or Pending
F. Total Cost per month

About Owncast

Owncast is an open-source, self-hosted live video and chat server — a "Twitch in a box" you run yourself. It accepts a stream over RTMP from OBS or any standard broadcasting software, transcodes it with FFmpeg, and delivers HLS playback plus integrated chat to viewers through any modern browser.

The project was started by Gabe Kangas in 2020 and is distributed under the MIT License. The backend is written in Go; the frontend is a React single-page application. It has more than 11,000 stars on GitHub and an active contributor community organized through Matrix and Rocket.Chat. The project is supported by infrastructure sponsors including Fastly, Docker, and Cypress.

Owncast is deliberately a single-broadcaster server: one RTMP ingest, one chat room, one identity per instance. The deployment footprint is small — a 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM machine handles a single 1080p stream with two adaptive variants. The Fediverse integration (ActivityPub) lets a Mastodon, Pleroma, or Misskey account follow the stream, receive go-live notifications, and reshare to followers — turning the Fediverse into a distribution layer the broadcaster owns end-to-end.