Skip to main content
DANIAN

Fully Managed PeerTube
as a Service

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

PeerTube is an open-source, federated video platform — uploads, channels, live streaming, and ActivityPub federation — combining the convenience of Vimeo and YouTube with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure.

✓Free 7-day trial  ✓99.9% Uptime SLA  ✓No credit card  ✓Cancel anytime

✓Free 7-day trial  ✓99.9% Uptime SLA
✓No credit card  ✓Cancel anytime

Start free trial
Pricing
PeerTube

PeerTube

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
Deploy in your region — 21 locations worldwide
GermanyFinlandNetherlandsUKSwedenUnited StatesCanadaSingaporeJapanAustraliaBrazilSouth Africa+9 more →
PeerTube Preview Image

ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is PeerTube

PeerTube is an open-source video platform that federates over ActivityPub. Instead of one company hosting every video, thousands of independent servers exchange metadata and embeds, and viewers reach content across the network from any participating site.

PeerTube ships under the AGPL-3.0 licence and is maintained by Framasoft, a French nonprofit that has stewarded the project since 2017. 

The federated network spans more than a thousand public platforms today. Notable instances include TILvids (curated edutainment), tube.numerique.gouv.fr (operated by DINUM, the French interministerial digital directorate), peertube.s2s.video (dedicated to sign-language content, presented at FOSDEM 2024), and Framasoft's own FramaTube. The stack is Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, ffmpeg, and ActivityPub, with optional remote runners for off-loaded transcoding and Whisper-based transcription.

FEATURES

What PeerTube does

The feature set covers what a video team actually ships: publish, transcode, stream, embed, federate, and moderate. Eight capabilities below; many more in the admin panel and through the plugin system.

Federated publishing

Videos federate over ActivityPub to followers across the network. Files stay on your instance; metadata and player embeds travel. Per-video visibility from public to instance-only.

Live streaming with RTMP ingest

OBS, Jitsi, or any RTMP source streams into PeerTube live. Scheduled streams, replays saved automatically.

Automatic transcription

Whisper-based transcription produces editable captions in dozens of languages.

Plugins and themes

Custom transcoding profiles, chat for live streams, LTI for course embedding. Installable from the admin UI; we test against staging.

HLS adaptive streaming

Each video is transcoded into multiple resolutions (240p–1080p by default) and served as HLS segments. Optional WebRTC peer-assist amortises bandwidth on popular content.

Team channel management

The v8 editor role lets multiple accounts co-manage a channel — upload, edit, manage playlists and comments, run synchronizations. Channel owners keep deletion rights.

Studio in-browser editor

Trim, cut, add intros and outros from the browser without re-uploading.

Mobile apps with creator mode

Official Framasoft mobile apps on F-Droid, Google Play, and the Apple App Store. Creator mode shipped in December 2025 — upload from gallery or record in-app.

Software Source
Documentation
Video Tutorials

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.

Start 7-day free trial

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed PeerTube

Vimeo's late-2025 acquisition by Bending Spoons triggered a forced re-tier in 2026. Legacy Plus users were auto-renewed onto the new Professional plan at $70/month — a 367% increase — and lost private video links and password protection unless they upgraded. That's what's bringing video teams to PeerTube this year.

Running PeerTube yourself in production isn't a weekend exercise. Transcoding ladders need tuning to match your audience devices. Federation needs an allowlist policy decision before the first follower request arrives, not after.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

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

No more maintenance headaches!

Finaly, I can relax and not bother with maintenance. Each of the softwares that we run on DANIAN is automated and running stable for couple months already. They even assist us with modifying the DNS records. Once we needed to modify the config of Nextcloud so that we are able to upload higher than 5GB files and they assisted us fast. I also love their documentation!

Review from Kevin Blackwell

Kevin Blackwell

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Best managed service

I previously ran Peertube, Mastodon, Mattermost and Mirotalk on other providers before switching to DANIAN. I was tired of handling the updates and backups myself. Not only that the performance is "out of this world" fast, but their tech support is amazing. Since then I added 5-10 more Apps on my account. I also love how they add more softwares on their list constantly!

Review from William Northfield

William Northfield

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Love the personalized service!

I own an ecommerce startup. I knew that I need some softwares so that I add automations in my biz. I hopped on their livechat and I explained my needs. Albert recommended me couple softwares, each for a specific use-case. I signed up for the free trial and tested all. Ended up activating 6 apps. Everything is running smooth 2 months so far. I love the personalized service that I get with them!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

n8n runs excellent

We needed to add the ffmpeg functionality to our n8n instance. I contacted their support team. They made the required changes in couple minutes and notified me. Usually for this type of service I would need to hire a developer on a hourly basis. Love them!

Review from David Hartmann

David Hartmann

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I needed a way to manage the projects and files for my company. This was the first time I learn about opensource. I asked their support and livechat and they assisted me immediately. I started with Openproject. Later I added Nextcloud. My team were able to get used to the apps fast.

Review from Levi Nilsso

Levi Nilsson

Review Origin Norway
5 stars review

Bye GA

I wanted to replace GA with something but I didn't know the options. I talked with Jack on the livechat. Couple minutes after that, I have a running Matomo Analytics. They even configured the tracking and connected it with my website. I have only words of appreciation and respect!

Review from Wyatt Mitchell

Wyatt Mitchell

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Love the freedom

I wanted to use a crm for my startup. I signed up for the free trial. Tried out espocrm and dolibar and picked one. Their dashboard is very easy for a beginner. I recommend them and feel confident in choosing them.

Review from Elias Koch

Elias Koch

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Wow just wow

After discovering DANIAN, I wished I'd found them sooner — their solution is excellent and deserves wider recognition. Very good solution!

Review from Tyler Hollander

Tyler Hollander

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Professional tech support!

I thought that I knew what I was doing and I made changes in the Mattermost backend config file. Then it broke. I reached out to their tech and received an incredibly specific and fast response. They found the error fast and provided a clear solution.

Review from Bastian Engel

Bastian Engel

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Their support team is the best!

I had a problem with my card and the subscription could not be renewed in time. I notified their support and surprisingly, they showed much understanding. They basically left my apps run until I solved the card issue. Other providers would have deleted my data in a heartbeat. This is the way to build client-vendor trust!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Fair price and fast

4 months ago I activated n8n, Uptime kuma, Vaultwarden and Paperlessngx. So far everything is perfect. The performance of all apps is excellent. I contacted their support team couple times for using custom subdomains for the apps and they were fast and kind. I'm constantly recommending them to my network!

Review from Atanas

Atanas

Review Origin Macedonia
5 stars review

Vaultwarden 10/10

I wanted to selfhost a passwords manager for my company but I didn't trust the mainstream providers. I tried out Vaultwarden for the free trial. I loved how their support team communicated with me professionally but still kind. I know that I can contact them whenever with whatever question I have. Recommended!

Review from James Smith

James Smith

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Multiple locations options

I run an agency. The majority of our clients are in different countries. I love that DANIAN has 20+ countries and I can spin up any app in any location. This gives us the freedom to focus on our clients. Sure, I can employee a dev in my team, but honestly, I prefer to not have those headaches. With DANIAN everything is running 24/7.

Review from Edward Nelson

Edward Nelson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Everything just works!

My focus is on my business, not running servers. I love that I can lauch any app without having to think about the tech behind it. Everything just works!

Review from Tony Roy

Tony Roy

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome support team!

I signed up for the free trial in order to test Chatwoot. I needed to put a livechat widget on my website but I don't have much tech experience. I contacted their support to see if they can assist. They went above and beyond by generating the livechat widget code for me and inserting it in my website. They answered all my additional questions. 

Review from Filip

Filip

Review Origin Austria
5 stars review

Very proactive!

Today couple of the videos on my Peertube got viral. Before I even noticed, their support have notified me via email that they proactively upgraded my app with more cpu & ram so that it continues to work without any downtime. They left the upgraded app with the added resources for couple days until the traffic stabilizes. After that I had the possiblity to stay on the same plan or keep the upgraded plan. Out of gratitude I stayed on the upgraded one.

Review from Luke Hall

Luke Hall

Review Origin Australia
5 stars review

Win-win!

I run a web design biz. After I perform the work for my clients, they constantly ask me for more software solutions. So I partnered with DANIAN. Not only I provide the requested softwares for my clients and get the increased revenue boost by delegating all to DANIAN, but also for those clients that wish to order directly from DANIAN, I send them an affiliate link. Win-win on all sides!

Review from Luke Walker

Luke Walker

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Flexible

For the past couple months I was running many apps with DANIAN for my clients. But one of my clients wanted a software that isn't on the current list. I talked with their tech support. They accomodated me and added the software the same day. The next day, I signed for their Partners program. We will go long way together!

Review from Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome customer service

I needed to add analytics on my website but I didn't know anything about DNS. Their team guided me at all phases and they performed the changes for me. Additionally they were transparent and notified me of every change applied and steps performed.

Review from Gabriele Marino

Gabriele Marino

Review Origin Italy
5 stars review

Good admin dashboard

Not only that I got Chatwoot, I also have access to the management dashboard. I love that I can view my hourly/daily usage and perform manual backups and restorations if needed. I don't need the level of control but it feels good to know that I have it if I need it.

Review from Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Financially wise decision

Why install Chatwoot on a VPS that will cost me $20-25/month. Then worry about security, updates, backups, etc. Instead, I can activate it on DANIAN the same day for half the price. Plus, less headaches for maintenance. So happy I found out about this company!

Review from Andreas Schmitt

Andreas Schmitt

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Great service!

I configure custom Matomo tracking for my clients as a monthly service. Many of my clients were asking if they can selfhost Matomo instead of using the Cloud service. My employee recommended DANIAN. Basically, I can activate as much Matomo's in any of 20+ countries the same day. Additionally the affiliate revenue is a nice bonus.

Review from Jacob Turner

Jacob Turner

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I was listing through youtube tuts on how to install Bookstack myself. Then randomly, I found their video playlist exactly for Bookstack. Got curious and went at their website. For the same price (or higher) that I would pay for just the VPS, with them I'm getting a fully managed Bookstack. It's a no-brainer decision!

Review from Elias Gustafsson

Elias Gustafsson

Review Origin Sweden
5 stars review

I love opensource software

2 days ago I haven't heard about opensource softwares. Today I'm running 4 apps and enjoying the trip. Hey, 1 month later I may become a developer, haha just kidding. Love you guys!

Review from Mason Hayes

Mason Hayes

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Its a great service

Its a great service. I love the performance of my Mastodon community. It keeps on growing and I don't have any worries about backups, secuirity, updates, etc.

Review from Vinícius Rocha

Vinícius Rocha

Review Origin Brazil
5 stars review

Very intuitive solution!

I wanted to use a nocode software for my company. A friend recommended them so I tried both Baserow and NocoDB, couple days later picked one.

Review from Haruto Hashimoto

Haruto Hashimoto

Review Origin Japan
5 stars review

Top-notch security

Honestly, I don't care much about performance and functionalities. I just wish to not bother with hacking attacks so that I can focus on my firm. I recommend them!

Review from Henrik Otto

Henrik Otto

Review Origin Germany
See more reviews

USE CASES

Three teams who run PeerTube on DANIAN

The shape of a PeerTube deployment varies by team. The three patterns below cover most of what we see: an editorial collective that owns its distribution, a public-sector portal with a sovereignty mandate, and a conference team handling a 48-hour burst of recordings.

6-PERSON EDUTAINMENT COLLECTIVE

Replacing a YouTube channel after the January 2026 enforcement wave

Six contributors, ~200 hours of educational video, federation enabled to reach Mastodon followers. Sensitive-content tagging redesigned in v7.2; Podcast 2.0 export so talks also surface in podcast clients. Channel sync mirrors the old YouTube catalogue for the migration.

200-USER PUBLIC-SECTOR VIDEO PORTAL

Sovereign archive built to replace a foreign-vendor streaming product

Operated by a ministry communications team. Storage region pinned to France. Federation set to an allowlist of peer government instances. Sepia Search inclusion off, recorded sessions cross-posted to the internal Matrix-based messaging channel. Visio handles live production; PeerTube archives.

28-TRACK HACKER-CONFERENCE VIDEO TEAM

Ingesting 750+ talks across one weekend on volunteer hardware

Volunteer recording team operating ~60 capture boxes across parallel tracks. Bulk import via peertube-cli post-event. Auto-transcription generates captions stored in the captions/ prefix. Archive retained indefinitely.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run PeerTube

Each path costs a different mix of money, time, and risk. The honest tally lands DANIAN at the floor for one user, five users, and ten users — and the math holds further out, because the price doesn't scale with seat count.

 PATH1 USER5 USERS 10 USERS
Vimeo (proprietary SaaS)
$12/mo
Starter tier
$25/mo
Standard tier
$65/mo
Advanced tier
Self-host on a $24/mo VPS
~$44/mo infra
VPS + backups + monitoring
~$60/mo infra
+ object storage
~$80/mo infra
+ runner machine
Home server
€650+ hardware
Synology DS923+ or HP ProLiant ML30 Gen10
Same hardware
+ €40–80/mo business internet, static IP
Likely insufficient
bandwidth and uplink bottleneck
DANIAN Managed PeerTube€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo

Vimeo prices verified May 2026; legacy Plus subscribers were auto-renewed onto the new Professional plan at $70/month in the 2026 restructure — a 367% increase versus their old billing. The 2 TB/month bandwidth ceiling is shared across every self-serve tier; exceed it twice in a year and Vimeo's account team initiates an Enterprise migration. VPS path math assumes a 2 vCPU / 4 GB production-class machine, object-storage backup, and an external monitoring tier — not a budget-VPS test setup.

BY INDUSTRY

PeerTube for specific industries

PeerTube's federation model and self-hosted control put it in front of buyers in regulated and sovereignty-conscious sectors. The four industry fits below each carry their own configuration choices, workflow patterns, and quantitative pressure that shape how we tune the instance.

Course recordings, conference proceedings, and lecture archives have moved from departmental file servers to managed video — and from there often to YouTube against institutional policy. The accessibility standard universities work to is WCAG 2.1 AA, with captions and transcripts required for any video forming part of teaching. Data-processor agreements (DPAs) with the hosting provider are standard procurement.

A typical workflow: a lecturer publishes a recorded session via channel synchronization from institutional storage, captions generate automatically, and an LTI embed places the player inside the relevant Moodle or Canvas course page. A 30-session lecture series — roughly 25 hours of source video — clears the transcoding queue in well under a day.
2026 has been a tipping year for sovereignty-driven video. France's Minister of Public Service announced on January 26, 2026 that Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet may no longer be used for official French government work; ~2.5M civil servants migrate to the sovereign DINUM-built Visio platform by 2027. A follow-up DINUM directive on April 8, 2026 ordered all ministries to formalise plans by autumn for eliminating foreign-vendor digital dependencies across eight categories — including collaborative and communication tools.

For a public-sector PeerTube instance we use the server region of your choice, set federation to a closed allowlist of peer government instances, and disable Sepia Search inclusion so the instance isn't surfaced publicly. The published savings cited by the French government for the Visio migration alone are roughly €1M per year per 100,000 users — a quantification public buyers reuse in their own procurement business cases.
Editorial collectives, investigative outlets, and reader-supported media run into platform-risk and budget pressure on every commercial video host. Vimeo's 2026 forced re-tier moved legacy Plus users onto the new Professional plan at $70/month — a 367% increase versus their old $15/month Plus billing — and stripped private video links and password protection unless they upgraded. A four-contributor editorial collective hits roughly $3,360/year there to retain prior functionality.

For a media collective we harden private HLS playlists per the CVE-2025-32943 fix so unlisted source material can't be enumerated by guessing URLs. The 2025 word-monitoring moderation tool catches abuse and harassment across federated comments. Storage stays in the region of your choice, with the streaming-playlists fronted by signed URLs so embedded video can't be re-hosted without going through your access control. €108/year on DANIAN replaces the Vimeo line item, and federation amplifies reach without paying for it.
Conference recording is bursty work. FOSDEM 2020 documented 60 video-capture boxes producing 750+ talks across 28 parallel tracks over a 48-hour weekend; the post-event transcoding queue is the operational bottleneck. PeerTube's per-resolution rate limiter starts returning HTTP 429s once a single runner is processing 5–7 simultaneous live resolutions (issue #5834) — a real-world ceiling that needs configuration relief before the event, not after.

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

Public videos federate over ActivityPub to any instance that follows yours. Videos remain physically stored on the origin instance — federation passes metadata and player embeds, not file copies. You can set visibility to Internal (instance-only) per video, switch on an allowlist of peer instances, or disable federation entirely from the admin federation policy.
Yes. We set the auto-follow-back policy to false, leave the followers and followings allowlists empty, and disable Sepia Search inclusion so the instance isn't surfaced in the federated meta-search. Internal-visibility videos require an authenticated account on your instance to view. This is a common configuration for corporate training portals.
A default ladder of 240/360/480/720/1080p costs roughly 1.5–3× video duration per resolution on one CPU core. On a vanilla install with transcoding on the web server, a busy upload saturates ffmpeg and degrades playback for everyone. We configure it differently so that the web server stays responsive.
WebRTC peer-to-peer playback exchanges connection candidates between viewers, which can include IP addresses. As of v6.0.0 PeerTube removed the legacy WebTorrent path and uses HLS-over-WebRTC only — still toggleable per instance. We disable P2P by default on private and unlisted videos and surface viewer telemetry only behind the v8 player's right-click Stats panel rather than in the main UI.
Essential: the transcoding-custom-quality plugin for a tuned bitrate ladder, a chat plugin if live streaming is on. The v8.x run-actions plugin API and the v7 caption and storyboard path deprecations broke a handful of community plugins on upgrade. We pin tested plugin versions, test against staging before a release, and roll back if something regresses.

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.
Channel synchronization imports videos from a YouTube channel URL on a polling interval — default one hour. v8.0 added automatic retry for failed imports. You keep the video files, titles, descriptions, captions where available, and original upload dates. You lose YouTube comments, watch-time analytics history, exact like counts, and any Shorts-specific monetization signals.

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.
150+ open-source apps across automation, team chat, file sync, analytics, AI, password management, email marketing, dev tools, project management, smart home, CMS, and federated social. See the full catalog →
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

Global Reach Map
Browse all 150+ apps →

Try managed PeerTube for 7 days

No card. Cancel from the dashboard.
Start free trial