🎧 Media

Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) Hosting — Plex for audiobooks and podcasts — your library, your apps

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Mobile apps for iOS and Android, progress sync across devices, podcast auto-download, library management with metadata fetching. Built for Audiobook listeners, podcast collectors, families with shared libraries.

Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) Plans

Three plans, one purr-fect fit.

Every audiobook / podcast (audiobookshelf) plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, daily snapshots, and 24/7 human support.

🐾 Starter
Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf)
$7.99/mo
  • 1 vCPU dedicated
  • 1 GB DDR4 RAM
  • 100 GB NVMe
  • 1 TB Bandwidth
  • 1 Gbps Network
  • Pre-installed: Audiobookshelf
Order Starter
🐈 Pro
Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf)
$15.99/mo
  • 2 vCPU dedicated
  • 2 GB DDR4 RAM
  • 500 GB NVMe
  • 2 TB Bandwidth
  • 1 Gbps Network
  • Pre-installed: Audiobookshelf
Order Pro
🐅 Premium
Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf)
$35.99/mo
  • 2 vCPU dedicated
  • 4 GB DDR4 RAM
  • 2 TB HDD
  • 3 TB Bandwidth
  • 1 Gbps Network
  • Pre-installed: Audiobookshelf
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What's included

Everything pre-installed, nothing to configure.

Order, wait 30 seconds for deploy, log in — your stack is running.

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iOS + Android apps

Official apps with offline download, sleep timer, variable playback speed, chapter navigation.

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Progress sync

Start a chapter in your car, finish it in bed — progress syncs across every device.

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Podcast subscriptions

Subscribe to any RSS feed. New episodes auto-download to your library. Listen offline.

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Multi-user accounts

Each family member gets their own progress, library scope, and reading list.

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Metadata fetching

Pulls book covers, author bios, series info from MusicBrainz, Google Books, and Open Library.

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Common formats

MP3, M4A, M4B, FLAC, OPUS — all supported. Drop the file in via SFTP, it's in the library after the next scan.

01 — Who this is for

Built for audiobook listeners

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Mobile apps for iOS and Android, progress sync across devices, podcast auto-download, library management with metadata fetching.

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Why a dedicated audiobook / podcast (audiobookshelf) VPS beats DIY

You could install Audiobookshelf on a generic $5 VPS. Most people who try spend an evening on the install, another on hardening, another on backups, and then it falls over the first time the kernel updates. We've done that work — every audiobook / podcast (audiobookshelf) plan is tuned, monitored, and updateable in one click.

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02 — The stack

What's actually running on your VPS

No black boxes — here's the exact software shipped on every Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) plan.

The Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) image ships with: Audiobookshelf + iOS/Android apps. We don't fork or patch — we use the official upstream releases, with sensible defaults for our hardware. Update on your schedule, not ours.

Everything runs in containers via Docker, so updates are atomic. If a release breaks something, roll back to the previous image in 30 seconds. No 'I broke prod by running apt upgrade' moments.

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03 — The hardware

Real cores, real NVMe.

The same KVM hypervisor and enterprise NVMe drives we use across every OliveVPS region.

99.99%
Uptime SLA
10 Gbps
Free DDoS
<30s
Deploy Time
20+
Regions

Pick from 20+ datacenter regions worldwide. Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) VPS pricing stays the same in every region — the hardware specs, the bandwidth allowance, the SSD speed. The only thing that changes is your latency to end users.

Common questions

About Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) hosting.

Can I upload my own audiobooks?

Yes — SFTP into the VPS and drop files into `/audiobooks///`. Audiobookshelf scans every hour by default.</p></div> </details> <details class="faq-item"> <summary>Does it work with Audible?</summary> <div class="faq-body"><p>Audible files (.aax) are DRM-locked. You can convert them legally for your own use with tools like AAXtoMP3, then upload to Audiobookshelf. We can't host the conversion ourselves — that's your call.</p></div> </details> <details class="faq-item"> <summary>How big are typical audiobooks?</summary> <div class="faq-body"><p>About 30 MB per hour at standard MP3 quality. A 12-hour novel ~360 MB. A 100-book library = ~40 GB. The 2 TB plan holds ~5000 audiobooks.</p></div> </details> <details class="faq-item"> <summary>Will it work for music too?</summary> <div class="faq-body"><p>Not really — Audiobookshelf is optimised for spoken-word with chapter navigation, progress tracking, and series grouping. For music, use Navidrome or Plex.</p></div> </details> </div> </div> </section> <!-- FINAL CTA --> <!-- TUTORIAL_BANNER --> <section class="section section-alt tutorial-banner-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="tutorial-banner"> <div class="tutorial-banner-icon">📖</div> <div class="tutorial-banner-body"> <div class="tutorial-banner-eyebrow">Full guide available</div> <h3>Want to install this yourself?</h3> <p>We have a complete step-by-step tutorial covering the manual install, configuration, and operational gotchas — useful even if you go with our pre-installed plan.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/posts/audiobookshelf-vps-tutorial.html" class="btn btn-primary">Read the full tutorial →</a> </div> </div> </section> <!-- /TUTORIAL_BANNER --> <section class="section"> <div class="container"> <div class="cta-card"> <h2>Ready to launch your <em>Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf)?</em></h2> <p>Order in 60 seconds. Server live in 30. No setup fees, 7-day money-back guarantee.</p> <a href="https://app.olivevps.com/index.php?rp=/store/audiobook-vps/pro" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Deploy Audiobook / Podcast VPS (Audiobookshelf) →</a> </div> </div> </section> <footer class="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="footer-grid"> <div class="footer-col footer-about"> <a href="../" class="brand"><span class="brand-mark">🐱</span>Olive<em>VPS</em></a> <p>Cat-powered cloud hosting. Fast NVMe servers, real humans, 20+ locations worldwide.</p> </div> <div class="footer-col"> <h4>Products</h4> <ul> <li><a href="../vps.html">VPS Hosting</a></li> <li><a href="../apps/">VPS Apps</a></li> <li><a href="../linux-vps.html">Linux Hosting</a></li> <li><a href="../windows-vps.html">Windows Hosting</a></li> <li><a href="../dedicated.html">Dedicated Servers</a></li> <li><a href="../locations.html">All Locations</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer-col"> <h4>Company</h4> <ul> <li><a href="../about.html">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="../contact.html">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="../blog/">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="../report-abuse.html">Report Abuse</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer-col"> <h4>Legal</h4> <ul> <li><a href="../privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="../terms.html">Terms of Use</a></li> <li><a href="../refund-policy.html">Refund Policy</a></li> <li><a href="../report-abuse.html">Acceptable Use</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="footer-bottom"> <div>© 2026 OliveVPS. Made with 🐾 by humans (and cats).</div> <div>support@olivevps.com</div> </div> </div> </footer> <script src="../js/main.js"></script> <!--Start of Tawk.to Script--> <script type="text/javascript"> var Tawk_API=Tawk_API||{}, Tawk_LoadStart=new Date(); Tawk_API.onLoad = function(){ if (window.innerWidth < 768) { if (typeof Tawk_API.hideWidget === 'function') { Tawk_API.minimize && Tawk_API.minimize(); } } }; (function(){ var s1=document.createElement("script"),s0=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s1.async=true; s1.src='https://embed.tawk.to/676bfa9baf5bfec1dbe1b437/1ifusls8g'; s1.charset='UTF-8'; s1.setAttribute('crossorigin','*'); s0.parentNode.insertBefore(s1,s0); })(); </script> <!--End of Tawk.to Script--> </body> </html>