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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Actual Budget, the open source, local-first personal finance and envelope budgeting app, preinstalled as a sync server behind an nginx reverse proxy on port 80. A unique server password is generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview Actual Budget is a popular open source, local-first personal finance application built around the proven envelope budgeting method, where you give every dollar a job. It is fast, private and works offline: your data lives in your browser and on your own server, never on a third party's cloud. This image delivers the Actual sync server fully installed and configured as a system service, so your self hosted budget - with multi device sync and the bundled web app - is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Actual Budget 26.6.
Application Stack The Actual sync server is installed globally with npm on Node.js 22 LTS and run by an unprivileged service account. It listens on the loopback address and an nginx reverse proxy fronts the application on port 80, with a raised upload limit for budget file sync. A systemd service starts the server on boot and restarts it on failure. The bundled web client is served by the same process, so a browser is all your users need.
Secure By Default Actual protects the whole instance with a single server password. This image generates that password uniquely for your instance on its first boot, applies it through the server's own bootstrap mechanism, and writes it to a root only file. No shared or default password ships in the image, and the build time setup is wiped before capture so nothing sensitive is baked in.
Ready To Use Browse to the instance on port 80, enter the generated server password, and create your budget - or import an existing one from Actual, YNAB, or a nYNAB export. Connect the desktop and mobile apps to the same server for end to end synced budgeting across your devices. Your database and budget files live on a dedicated, independently resizable storage volume kept separate from the operating system disk.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with Actual Budget deployment, multi device sync, importing existing budgets, end to end encryption, TLS termination, backups and scaling.
Use Cases Self hosted personal and household budgeting with full data ownership. A private, in your own VPC alternative to SaaS budgeting services for people with data residency or privacy requirements. Shared family budgets synced across devices. Small business envelope budgeting.
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Highlights
- Actual Budget, the open source local-first envelope budgeting and personal finance app, preinstalled as a sync server (Node.js 22 LTS) behind an nginx reverse proxy on port 80, with the bundled web app served and ready with no manual setup
- Secure by default: the whole instance is protected by a single server password that is generated for every instance on first boot, applied through the server's own bootstrap mechanism and stored in a root only file
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg, with expert help on multi device sync, importing existing budgets, end to end encryption, TLS termination, backups and scaling
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t3.small Recommended | t3.small | $0.04 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
p5en.48xlarge | p5en.48xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
u7i-8tb.112xlarge | u7i-8tb.112xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c8in.8xlarge | c8in.8xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m8azn.xlarge | m8azn.xlarge instance type | $0.12 |
c8ine.12xlarge | c8ine.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m5ad.12xlarge | m5ad.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
g5.48xlarge | g5.48xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
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Initial release of the Actual Budget 26.6 self-hosted sync server.
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Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant; on Ubuntu it is 'ubuntu'). The Actual Budget sync server is served by nginx on port 80: browse to http://<instance-public-ip>/ and enter the generated server password. Retrieve the generated password with: sudo cat /root/actual-budget-credentials.txt. The server runs on loopback port 5006 and is reached only through the nginx proxy on port 80. Configuration lives in /etc/actual-budget/actual-budget.env and the data (account.sqlite, server-files, user-files) under /var/lib/actual. The service is managed with systemctl (actual-budget.service, nginx.service). After signing in, create a new budget or import an existing one from Actual, YNAB or a nYNAB export, then connect the Actual desktop and mobile apps to this server for synced budgeting. The user guide covers first sign-in, connecting client apps, end-to-end encryption and enabling HTTPS.
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cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat. Our engineers help with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting; critical issues receive a one hour average response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk .
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