How to order The Lounge?

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

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

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

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

2. Manage Apps - Add an App

3. Select: The Lounge

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 The Lounge

The Lounge is an open-source web IRC client that doubles as a persistent bouncer. You connect once; The Lounge holds the IRC sessions open and lets you reattach from any browser or phone with full scrollback.

The Lounge is MIT-licensed software maintained by a small community of contributors on GitHub. The project is a fork of the older "Shout" client by Mattias Erming and has been community-maintained since 2016. The repository at github.com/thelounge/thelounge sits at roughly 6,200 stars.

The architecture is Node.js on the server, Vue.js in the browser, with SQLite for message history. In private mode — the deployment we run on DANIAN — The Lounge acts as a bouncer and a client at the same time, which removes the need to run ZNC or Soju alongside a separate web client. Authentication options include local accounts with bcrypt hashing and LDAP for teams that already run a directory. Push notifications use the standard web push protocol with auto-generated VAPID keys. The Progressive Web App manifest lets users install the client on iOS, Android, and desktop home screens.