ArozOS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Storage

ArozOS, a self hosted web desktop and cloud file platform that puts a full browser based desktop, file manager and multi user file server on your own server.

Base

Hardened build

minimal ports, security patches applied at build time

Access

Unique credentials

generated on first boot, readable only by root

Verified

Boots working

services pass a health gate before release

Support

24/7, 365 days

by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

ArozOS is a web desktop operating system: open it in a browser and you get a complete desktop environment, with a start menu, a task bar and draggable windows, running over a virtual file system that you own. Its core is a drag and drop file manager for uploading, organising, previewing and sharing files, alongside a built in text and code editor, media streaming, and a per user static web server for publishing pages straight from a folder.

It is multi user from the ground up. Administrators create accounts, assign permission groups and set storage quotas, so a family, a team or a small organisation can share one server while each person keeps a private file space and a shareable public one. Optional built in file servers expose the same storage over FTP, WebDAV, SFTP and TFTP for desktop clients and legacy devices, and additional storage can be mounted into the virtual file system so local and remote volumes appear side by side.

It suits anyone who wants the convenience of a hosted drive and desktop without handing their files to a third party: a personal cloud, a shared team drive, or a self owned alternative to a commercial file sync service.

Why the cloudimg image

ArozOS is delivered fully installed, with its web resource archive already unpacked, so the desktop answers as soon as the instance boots rather than spending the first several minutes unzipping itself. cloudimg ships it with no baked account: the account store is empty, so the first person to reach it gets the create administrator form and chooses their own credentials, and no two instances share a login. The official release archive ships a fixed private key that every installation worldwide otherwise reuses as its file server host key, so cloudimg removes it from the image entirely and generates a fresh, stronger key uniquely on each instance's first boot. Your files and the account store live on a dedicated data volume that is captured into the image and re provisioned on every instance, separate from the system disk and independently resizable. The base is fully patched with unattended security upgrades enabled, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide, backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.

Common uses

A private personal cloud drive with a full browser based desktop
A shared multi user team file server with quotas and permission groups
Self owned file storage reachable over the web, WebDAV, FTP and SFTP

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

Overview

Why the cloudimg image

Common uses

See it running

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