Where do you want to install Lumio?
Step-by-step guides for the most common setups. If your platform isn't listed, follow the Hetzner guide — most steps are transferable.
Complete guide for European studios: order a server, secure it, install Docker, deploy Lumio. About 30–60 min.
Budget EU VPS as siblings of the Hetzner guide — with the provider-specific differences in firewall, performance and location.
Lumio on your own hardware — mini PC, workstation, dedicated server or VM. Focused on reachability and TLS, even behind CGNAT/LAN.
Lumio on a Raspberry Pi (arm64): model choice, booting from SSD, honest performance notes. For small, low-power setups.
Lumio on a Synology NAS with Container Manager (Docker). For smaller studios with local storage — including notes on performance and limits.
Lumio on QNAP (Container Station) and Unraid (Docker Compose). At its core like the Synology setup, with the platform-specific entry points.
What to back up (database, object data, .env), how to automate it and how a full restore works.
License — what self-hosting allows
Briefly, for anyone who wants the details — especially those eyeing SaaS: Lumio is source-available under the FSL-1.1. For your own studio and for your clients (also as an agency) you may use, modify and operate Lumio freely — no license fees.
The only restriction: you may not build a competing, hosted SaaS offering for third parties from it. If that's exactly your plan, you need a commercial license — or just use Lumio Cloud. Everything else is free, and two years after each release the version automatically becomes Apache-2.0 (true open source) anyway.
Self-host Lumio.
Source-available (FSL). Docker Compose file, setup guide, done.