Self-hosted Apache Guacamole,
fully managed.
Your machines in a browser tab: RDP, VNC, and SSH through one clientless gateway, with per-user permissions and session recording.
Billed yearly on a 1 GB server, or $6 month to month. Apache Guacamole itself is $0.
- Daily snapshots
- Free migration
- 500% SLA
- 4.4 on Trustpilot
- 500% SLA credited automatically
- Engineers 24/7, real humans
- Free migration of your Apache Guacamole
- Since 2001, independent
At a glance
Apache Guacamole here, in four lines.
What it is, what we install, what management covers and what it needs. The rest of this page is detail.
- What it is
- Apache Guacamole is the clientless remote-access gateway: your office PC, servers, and client machines reachable over RDP, VNC, and SSH from any browser, with nothing to install on the connecting side. One login, per-user permissions, optional session recording.
- What we install
- Our playbook deploys the official stack (guacd, the web app, and its PostgreSQL) behind the server's HTTPS front at your guac subdomain, with the default admin locked to credentials from your handover email and recording storage prepared.
- What managed covers
- Server updates, daily snapshots, optional Dual Backups covering the connection database and recordings, monitoring, firewall, and humans on call. Which machines it can reach, and who can reach them, stays entirely in your hands.
- What it needs
- 1 GB RAM
Fits on SC-1GB, from $5/mo. Bigger sizes leave room for the apps you stack beside it.
Your options
Three ways to run Apache Guacamole.
Installing Apache Guacamole is the easy part. The real question is who keeps it running.
| Do it yourselfOn any unmanaged VPS | One-click imageAt most clouds | RemarkableCloudManaged Apache Guacamole, from $5/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installing Apache Guacamole | You: dependencies, database, HTTPS | Preinstalled once, then it is yours | Deployed by a tested playbook, database and HTTPS wired |
| Updates | You | You | Us, with a snapshot first |
| Monitoring and security | You | You | Us, 24/7: monitoring, firewall and IDS |
| Backups | You | Usually a paid add-on | Daily snapshots included, Dual Backups optional |
| Other apps on the server | Yours to wire up | One app per server | As many as fit, $0 each |
| When something breaks | You fix it | You fix it | Our engineers fix it, day or night |
Built for
What people run on Apache Guacamole here.
On your own server, using it more never costs more.
RDP and SSH from a browser
Every server and desktop you manage, reachable from any machine with a tab, no client installs.
A bastion with an audit trail
One controlled door to your fleet, with session recording where policy needs it.
Vendor and contractor access
Grant a connection, not credentials: scoped, time-bound, revocable in one click.
Rescuing machines behind NAT
Pair with WireGuard and reach boxes that have no public address at all.
Stack it
Apache Guacamole works better with company.
Everything here can run on the same server as Apache Guacamole, at $0 per app. The server only needs the room.
Pick your server
Choose the size. Apache Guacamole is $0.
Apache Guacamole needs 1 GB. Bigger servers leave room for the apps you stack beside it. Every size is fully managed, and you can resize in minutes.
SC-1GB
The right size for Apache Guacamole
$6 month to monthSave 17% yearly
- 1 GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 25 GB NVMe
- 2.5 TB transfer
SC-2GB
Apache Guacamole plus a few more apps
$8 month to monthSave 17% yearly
- 2 GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50 GB NVMe
- 5 TB transfer
SC-4GB
A fuller stack beside Apache Guacamole
$16 month to monthSave 17% yearly
- 4 GB RAM
- 2 vCPU
- 100 GB NVMe
- 10 TB transfer
The details
Apache Guacamole here, in plain words.
Straight answers to what people ask before they choose where to run it.
What does 'use my PC from anywhere' actually look like?
Your computer stays at the office with all its software and files. From a hotel laptop or a tablet you open your guac subdomain, log in, and the desktop is there in the tab: the session runs browser to your server to your machine, with no third-party relay in the middle and nothing to install on either end.
My PC is behind home or office NAT. How does Guacamole reach it?
The gateway needs a route to the machine. The clean answer is WireGuard from our catalog on the same server: your PC keeps an outbound tunnel to the server, no ports opened at home, and Guacamole connects across it. Port forwarding works too if you control the router; the tunnel is the tidier habit.
Why this instead of TeamViewer or AnyDesk?
No third-party cloud sees your session, no per-seat subscription grows with your team, and it works on locked-down machines where remote-support agents are banned but RDP is allowed. For agencies, one Guacamole with per-user permissions to every client machine, plus session recording, is a compliance feature the SaaS tools price as enterprise.
How much server does it need?
1 GB runs the gateway for personal and small-team use; sessions are proxied, not rendered here, so the server stays light. Turn on recording for many concurrent sessions and disk becomes the resource to watch, so size the plan with recordings in mind.
FAQ
Apache Guacamole hosting, answered.
Still deciding? These are the questions we hear most.
Does Guacamole work with Windows, Mac, and Linux targets?
Windows over RDP natively, Linux over SSH or VNC, and Mac over VNC with screen sharing enabled. The connecting side needs only a browser, which is the whole point of clientless.
Can I give each team member different machines?
Yes: per-user and per-group permissions on every connection are core Guacamole, and admin actions are audited. One gateway serves the whole team with each person seeing only their machines.
What does Guacamole hosting cost?
The app is $0 and open source under Apache 2.0; a 1 GB server starts at $5/mo on annual billing and runs it with headroom, fully managed, Dual Backups optional. No per-user fees ever.
Which protocols does it speak?
RDP, SSH, VNC and Telnet, brokered by guacd and rendered in the browser. Windows desktops and Linux servers side by side in one connection list.
Is browser-based remote desktop responsive enough?
For administration and office work, yes, comfortably; it is not a video-editing link. Your server's location matters more than the protocol, so pick the region near the machines.
Is this Apache Guacamole on a VPS or on shared hosting?
A VPS. Apache Guacamole runs on your own private virtual server with dedicated, non-oversold resources and its own IP. You get real isolation and performance, with the setup, TLS and hardening handled for you.
Can I run other apps on the same server?
Yes. Add any other catalog app to this server from your client area, one click each, no per-app charge. How much fits is a question of RAM, and resizing is minutes.
Do you migrate my existing Apache Guacamole?
Yes, migration help is free. Open a ticket with access to the current setup and we move it, verify it, and hand it back running. Nothing switches until you approve.
Can I upgrade or downgrade the plan later?
Anytime. Plans resize from the client area in minutes, annual billing keeps its flat 17% discount at every size, and there is never a fee to change tiers.
Apache Guacamole runs. You sleep.
Managed Apache Guacamole from $5/mo, free migration and a 30-day money-back guarantee.