HortusFox Plant Management - Pre-Configured

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

## Overview

HortusFox is a free open-source, self-hosted collaborative plant and garden management system used by plant enthusiasts, indoor gardeners, botanical teams, and horticultural organisations. It organises plants by location and provides a plant inventory, watering and care task scheduling, a photo gallery, a journal and history view, a calendar, inventory tracking, and a collaborative group chat behind an admin dashboard and a REST API.

This AMI delivers HortusFox fully installed, configured, and security-hardened so you have a working sign-in within minutes of launch - eliminating hours of manual dependency installation, web server configuration, TLS setup, and database provisioning. Additional charges apply for cloudimg support services. See the Pricing tab for current hourly rates and total cost details.

## Why Choose This AMI Over Manual Installation

A standard HortusFox deployment means installing PHP and its extensions, installing Composer and the application dependencies, configuring a web server with TLS, provisioning a database that meets the project's minimum version, running the migrations, seeding reference data, and creating an initial admin account - dozens of manual steps that need real Linux administration experience. This AMI completes all of it before first boot, so your team can start cataloguing plants rather than building infrastructure.

Compared to free community images, this listing includes 24/7 expert support from cloudimg covering deployment guidance, upgrades, SMTP and email-reminder configuration, performance tuning, and database administration.

## Application Stack

• HortusFox - latest stable release, served from a dedicated application volume
• PHP 8.3 with OPcache and every required extension pre-installed
• nginx serving the application over HTTPS on port 443, with port 80 redirected to HTTPS
• MariaDB 11.4 LTS bound to the loopback interface, on its own dedicated database volume
• Two-disk layout - database and application tiers each on an independently resizable EBS volume

## Secure First Boot

On the first boot of your instance, a one-shot service generates a fresh administrator password, a fresh MariaDB password, and a fresh cronjob token unique to that instance, and writes them to a root-only file - no shared or default credentials ship in the image. It also generates a per-instance self-signed TLS certificate so the interface loads over a secure context immediately; replace it with your own domain certificate at any time.

## Ready To Use

The HortusFox code tree, web server, and database are all configured; the schema is migrated, default plant attributes and calendar classes are seeded, an initial workspace and admin account are created, and one starter location is added. Browse to the instance address over HTTPS and sign in to add locations and plants, schedule watering and care tasks, upload photos, and plan seasonal care with the calendar.

## Getting Started

For detailed deployment steps including credential retrieval, SMTP configuration, EBS volume management, and upgrade procedures, refer to the cloudimg user guide for this product. cloudimg support is available 24/7 by email and live chat to help you retrieve credentials, configure SMTP reminders, and plan your deployment.

## Use Cases

• Indoor and greenhouse plant collection management
• Team and household garden coordination
• Watering and care task scheduling with email reminders
• Plant photo and journal archiving
• Botanical inventory and history tracking

## cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and live chat. Our engineers provide expert assistance with HortusFox deployment, configuration, upgrades, SMTP setup, the REST API, performance tuning, and MariaDB database administration. Critical issues receive a one-hour average response time.

All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.