The Dhaka-based hosting platform joins a small but growing list of providers making the viral AI agent easier to deploy.
OpenClaw has become 2025's breakout open-source project, surpassing 100,000 GitHub stars within two months with demos of an AI agent that can actually control your digital life through Telegram or WhatsApp. But getting it running has been a different story. Docker, environment variables, API configurations, and the barrier to entry have kept casual users on the sidelines.
xCloud, the Bangladesh-based all-in-one hosting platform, is betting enough people want to experiment without the technical headache. This week, the company launched OpenClaw Hosting in beta, offering one-click deployment on managed servers with 4GB+ RAM.
xCloud isn't the first to market. DigitalOcean already offers 1-Click Deploy with security hardening, while Hostinger VPS provides Docker-based deployment with full root access. Boutique providers like BoostedHost and MyClawHost have emerged specifically for OpenClaw hosting.
What differentiates xCloud is its existing infrastructure. Created by Startise, a technology conglomerate with over 6 million users across its products, the platform has evolved into a comprehensive hosting solution that supports WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, PHP, WooCommerce, LLM applications, n8n, and application hosting on DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, and Vultr. OpenClaw becomes another managed service in its dashboard alongside existing sites.
The approach is pragmatic: xCloud will provision the server, install OpenClaw, and provide basic controls (restart, reinstall, environment management). Everything else, configuration, workflows, API integrations, remains the user's responsibility. Break something? Reinstall and start over.
What's refreshing is xCloud's transparency about what could go wrong. OpenClaw's design has drawn scrutiny from cybersecurity researchers due to the broad permissions it requires, access to email, calendars, messaging platforms, and other sensitive services. The platform mandates isolated API keys (never your primary OpenAI or Anthropic accounts), separate GitHub credentials, and treats the deployment as a sandbox.
OpenClaw's power comes from extensible skills that let the agent interact with external services. Some are excellent. Some are security nightmares. Most providers gloss over this. xCloud puts the warnings front and center.
The economics also matters. Hosting costs around $24/month plus $20-60 in API fees depending on usage. That's not trivial for something that might break if you configure it wrong, but it's cheaper than paying developers to maintain custom automation or fumbling through VPS setup yourself.
This launch reflects a broader shift in AI infrastructure. Hosting providers are embedding AI to automate resource allocation, load balancing, and threat detection, but most focus on model training or inference serving. Agent hosting, persistent, stateful services that integrate with external APIs, represent different infrastructure requirements.
Traditional shared hosting can't handle it. Enterprise platforms like Vertex AI Agent Builder target large deployments with centralized governance. Between these extremes sits a gap: individuals and small teams who want agent automation without DevOps overhead.
Several providers are testing this middle ground. Elest.io promises working dedicated instances in under 3 minutes with automated backups and monitoring. DigitalOcean's one-click option appeals to developers comfortable with VPS management. xCloud's angle is bringing OpenClaw into an existing managed hosting workflow where customers already run production sites.
Whether this becomes a major product category or a niche offering for early adopters remains unclear. OpenClaw demos rocketed across X, TikTok, and Reddit, but viral interest doesn't always translate to sustained usage, especially when the learning curve involves API configuration and security isolation.
For now, xCloud is making a measured bet: that enough people want to experiment with autonomous AI agents, and that removing the server management friction might convert interest into actual deployments.
OpenClaw Hosting (Beta) is available on xCloud managed servers with 4GB+ RAM. Documentation here.
