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Fully Managed Owncast
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Deploy Owncast as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

Owncast is an open-source live video and chat server — your own Twitch-style broadcast destination — combining the convenience of platforms like Dacast or Vimeo Premium with the control of self-hosted infrastructure. You own the stream, the chat, the recording, and the audience.

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Owncast

Owncast

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is 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.

FEATURES

What Owncast does

Owncast bundles the broadcast pipeline, the player, the chat, the moderation tools, and the Fediverse distribution layer in a single Go binary. The features below are the app's own capabilities — what DANIAN adds is the operations work around them.

RTMP ingest

Accepts streams from OBS, Streamlabs, Restream, ffmpeg command-line, hardware encoders like Atem Mini, and anything else that speaks RTMP. Stream key on a URL-safe character set.

Built-in live chat

Real-time chat with custom emotes, moderation roles, chat-only-when-live mode, slow mode, and a 2-hour message-pruning default. Optional require-chat-authentication added in 0.2.5.

Object storage offload

S3-compatible HLS segment offload with automatic cleanup. Path-prefix bug from earlier releases fixed in 0.2.5. Works with any S3-API storage provider.

Admin dashboard

Browser-based admin with viewer count, hardware utilization, transcoder status, stream history, federation log, and a one-click broadcast key reset.

Adaptive bitrate HLS

Transcodes the source into one or more HLS variants for different connection speeds. Players negotiate the right rung automatically. Bitrates above 6000 kbps supported since 0.2.4.

Fediverse follow

ActivityPub actor for the stream. Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, and other servers can follow, get go-live notifications, and reshare. Shared-inbox support added in 0.2.5.

Embeddable player

One iframe drops into any web page. Stream URL also accessible directly in VLC, mpv, Quicktime, or any HLS-capable player at /hls/stream.m3u8.

Custom branding

Replace the logo, favicon, page title, social links, and CSS. The default frontend is a starting point, not a constraint — point a custom domain and rebrand end-to-end.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed Owncast

In December 2025 Twitch confirmed it is building live in-stream DMCA strikes through a partnership with the National Music Publishers' Association — a system that can take a channel offline mid-broadcast. The May 13, 2026 "Monetization for All" rollout kept the 50% Affiliate revenue cut intact. Both events accelerated a creator migration that was already underway.

Self-hosting Owncast solves the platform problem. It introduces an operational problem in its place. Running Owncast in production means provisioning a Linux VPS, installing FFmpeg with the right codec support, sizing the encoding preset against the broadcasting source, configuring a reverse proxy with TLS, setting up S3-compatible storage for HLS segment offload, writing the CORS headers that storage needs to talk to the player, tuning HLS segment time against latency tolerance, configuring chat moderation, patching on every Owncast release, and monitoring the whole stack.

The non-obvious failure mode is bandwidth. Once a stream is transcoded, the box just serves static files — CPU sits low. What runs out first is outbound network capacity: a 1080p viewer pulls 4–6 Mbps; a typical residential or low-tier VPS uplink saturates around 20–40 simultaneous 1080p viewers. From there the stream buffers for everyone at once. There is no graceful degradation. One Owncast user reported buffering for 20 simultaneous 4K viewers on a 24-core, 40 GB RAM box — because the box had a 50 Mb/s upstream cap. CPU usage at the time: 20%.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day

USE CASES

Three teams who run Owncast on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN

Weekly live show, moved off Twitch after a DMCA strike on a four-year-old VOD

1080p source from OBS, stereo audio at 192 kbps. EU region for European listener base. Fediverse follow enabled so a 6k-follower Mastodon account distributes the go-live ping. CCLI music license held separately. About 200–400 simultaneous viewers per Friday set.

ONLINE YOGA STUDIO

Replacing Vimeo OTT with €9/month plus bandwidth, no per-student fee

Canada region. Veryfast preset, 1080p + 720p variants. Recordings archived to S3 with a 90-day lifecycle for replay access by enrolled students. Embedded into a Teachable course page via the Owncast iframe. Four live classes per week, 30–60 attendees each.

MULTI-CAMPUS CONGREGATION

One 90-minute Sunday service across three campuses, plus weddings and funerals

Atem Mini RTMP feed from the main sanctuary. Mid-Atlantic region for proximity to congregation. 720p single variant — lower bandwidth budget, longer keepable archive. CCLI Streaming License covers the hymns. Chat moderated by the tech volunteer team via assigned moderator roles.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run Owncast

Streaming SaaS isn't priced per seat — it's priced in tiers of bandwidth and feature unlocks. The columns below show what each path costs at a small, medium, and growing-audience level. DANIAN's row stays flat across all three because the unit is the instance, not the viewer-hour.

 PATHLOW VOLUMEMEDIUM VOLUMEHIGHER VOLUMEOPS TIME
Proprietary live-streaming SaaS
Dacast tiers, annual billing
$39/mo

Starter — 2.4 TB, 1 user
$63/mo

Event — 6 TB, paywall, analytics
$250/mo

Scale month-to-month — 24 TB, 5 users
~0 hrs

vendor-locked, no source access

Self-host Owncast on a VPS
2 vCPU / 4 GB production-class VPS
~$44/mo

$24 VPS + $15 monitoring + $5 backup
~$80/mo

same + S3 storage and egress
~$150+/mo

upgraded VPS + scaled S3
5–10 hrs/mo

patching, FFmpeg, TLS, on-call
Home server
Synology DS923+ or similar, amortised
~€60/mo

hardware + electricity + business uplink
~€95/mo

same + off-site backup target
capped

residential uplink ceiling
3–5 hrs/mo

plus the day the uplink dies
DANIAN Managed Owncast
€9/mo

1 TB bandwidth included
€9/mo

+ bandwidth at €0.03/GB
€9/mo

+ bandwidth at €0.03/GB
0 hrs/mo

operations stack is the product

BY INDUSTRY

Owncast for specific industries

Live streaming is one of those tools where the buyer's regulatory context shapes the configuration as much as the audience size does. The four industries below put different demands on the same software — and DANIAN tunes the deployment accordingly.

Streaming weekly services means streaming licensed music — and on Twitch or YouTube Live, that triggers automated DMCA enforcement that does not understand a CCLI Streaming License, OneLicense agreement, or local ASCAP/BMI blanket. The stream goes offline mid-hymn while the congregation watches a black frame. With managed Owncast, your music licensing is between you and your collecting society; the broadcast stays on your own domain and your own player.

DANIAN provisions Owncast at 720p single-variant by default for service streams — lower bandwidth, longer keepable VOD window — with a 14-day archive lifecycle into S3 for catch-up viewers. Chat is configured with moderator roles for the tech volunteer team and a require-authentication setting for prayer-request channels. A mid-size congregation streaming one 90-minute service per week to 200 concurrent viewers uses roughly 80 GB of bandwidth monthly — well inside the base €9 plan.
Live-class platforms charge per seat or per viewer-hour, and the math gets painful past 30 students. Owncast charges nothing per viewer — bandwidth is the only variable. Course operators use it to broadcast live cohort sessions, host pay-walled workshops behind a reverse-proxy auth layer, and keep VOD archives accessible to enrolled students. The embed iframe drops into Teachable, Thinkific, Moodle, or any LMS that accepts an iframe block.

DANIAN configures HLS segment retention to 30 days for replay access, enables Owncast 0.2.5's require-chat-authentication setting so only enrolled accounts can post, and sets the player's lower-latency mode for instructors who want chat questions to feel synchronous. A workshop running two 2-hour sessions per week with 80 attendees and a 100-session VOD library fits the base plan plus modest storage.
This is the segment hit hardest by platform-side music enforcement. The December 2025 announcement that the National Music Publishers' Association is building live-strike functionality into Twitch means a four-year-old VOD can take down an actively-monetised channel mid-stream. Owncast moves the licensing decision off the platform's automated bot and onto your relationship with your collecting society.

DANIAN provisions Owncast with stereo audio passthrough at 192 kbps, configures the player aspect ratio for multi-camera concert setups, sets up Fediverse-follow notifications so Mastodon and Pixelfed audiences receive go-live pings, and pre-builds a recording archive into S3 for the post-show release window. Weekly performances with 100–500 simultaneous listeners stay inside the base plan envelope.
Studios moving off Vimeo Premium or Dacast's Event tier ($63–$250/month with bandwidth caps and per-team-member limits) typically pay 70–90% less per month on managed Owncast, with no per-student fee and no platform veto on background music. The trade-off is operational work — and that's the work DANIAN takes on.

We set the encoding preset to veryfast with 1080p + 720p adaptive variants so a single instructor's high-motion Pilates class doesn't drop frames on the base €9 tier. Recorded classes archive to object storage with a 90-day lifecycle for on-demand replays. Chat is configured as a moderated room with the class instructor as default moderator. A studio running 4 live classes per week with 30–60 concurrent attendees and an on-demand library of 50–80 sessions stays comfortably inside the base plan plus storage.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

Owncast uses HLS, which has inherent buffering. Default latency runs around 8–10 seconds from broadcaster to viewer. With the experimental lower-latency setting and the bundled stream-latency-compensator, we can get most streams down to 4–6 seconds. If you need sub-second latency for live auction, multiplayer reaction, or trading-style use cases, HLS is the wrong protocol — WebRTC is, and we'll tell you that on the trial chat rather than waste a week.
The base €9 plan includes 1 TB of monthly bandwidth. A 1080p stream pulls roughly 4–6 Mbps per viewer; a 720p adaptive fallback pulls 2–3 Mbps. We monitor usage and reach out before the cap so you can pre-approve more capacity at the published overage rate (€0.03/GB). We don't silently meter, throttle, or upgrade the plan. The recurring trust line on this page is the contract — we won't upgrade your resources or charge you without your explicit consent.
No, and Owncast itself doesn't support it. Each Owncast instance is single-broadcaster by design — one RTMP ingest, one chat room, one identity. Organizations that need N broadcasters provision N instances at €9 each, each with its own subdomain and chat. We typically set those up under one team account so billing, monitoring, and support tickets stay consolidated even when the public-facing streams are separate.
Yes. Owncast's ActivityPub features are enabled by default, including the shared-inbox support added in 0.2.5. Your Owncast instance gets its own Fediverse actor (e.g. @stream@live.yourdomain.com) that Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, and other ActivityPub servers can follow. Going live triggers a federated post to your followers' timelines, and chat replies federate back. The follower contact-name and profile-picture refresh bug from older releases is patched.
Yes, once the instance is provisioned. You'll get an RTMP URL (rtmp://your-instance/live) and a stream key in the dashboard within minutes of activation. The default abc123 key is regenerated automatically — Owncast 0.2.5 strips special characters from auto-generated keys so OBS, Streamlabs, Restream, and the rest accept them without URL-encoding issues. Point your broadcasting software at the URL, paste the key, and go live.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
You change two settings in your broadcasting software: the RTMP server URL and the stream key. Bitrate, resolution, framerate, audio settings — keep what already works. Most streamers are live on Owncast within 10 minutes of swapping those two fields. We send the exact strings and a one-page checklist after signup.
No — neither Twitch nor YouTube exposes those exports to third parties. You can announce the new URL on your existing channels and rebuild on Owncast. The Fediverse follow feature compounds faster than people expect: each follower's reshare hits their followers, so by week three the curve usually catches up.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

DEPLOY IN YOUR REGION

21 datacenter locations on six continents

Pick the region closest to your users.

United States, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Chile, South Africa and more coming soon

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