Self-host Chatwoot
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Deploy Chatwoot on your own instance with Freehold in one click. Freehold runs the container, issues the TLS certificate, keeps your data on a persistent volume, and gives Chatwoot a free Tor .onion address — with no identity check to sign up and a hard cap on what it can cost you each month.
How Chatwoot runs on Freehold
Chatwoot runs in its own container with its own volumes on a private network — nothing else on Freehold can reach its data or its ports.
A valid HTTPS certificate and a free Tor v3 .onion address are provisioned at deploy time. You can also run Chatwoot onion-only.
Turn on automatic image updates and the container is replaced on a new release; your volumes are never touched.
Download a ZIP of Chatwoot's volume data from the dashboard whenever you want. No SSH.
Metered hourly with a hard monthly ceiling. Stop Chatwoot and the charges stop.
Sign up with an email or GitHub. There is no identity check to run Chatwoot, at any usage level.
Questions about self-hosting Chatwoot
- Do I need to verify my identity to deploy Chatwoot?
- No. Freehold asks for an email and a password, or a GitHub login. There is no ID upload, phone verification, or business check to deploy Chatwoot — and none introduced later as your usage grows.
- Is my Chatwoot instance private?
- Each Chatwoot deployment is an isolated container with its own storage on a private network. It gets a free Tor .onion address alongside its normal URL, and you can run it onion-only so it is reachable exclusively over Tor.
- How much does running Chatwoot on Freehold cost?
- You pay for the hours Chatwoot is actually running, metered hourly, with a hard monthly ceiling on the app so the bill can't run away. Stop the app and billing for it stops. There is no flat subscription and no setup fee.