How to Self-Host Ghostfolio Personal Wealth & Stock Portfolio Tracker on VPS with Docker

The Privacy Danger of Cloud Wealth Management Apps

Commercial wealth tracking applications (like Mint, Personal Capital, or Kubera) require linking bank credentials and stock brokerages, exposing your entire financial history to third-party data aggregators and targeted advertisers. Ghostfolio is an open-source, privacy-first personal wealth tracker that allows you to manage stocks, ETFs, crypto assets, and cash reserves on your own private server.

Deploying Ghostfolio via Docker Compose on Contabo VPS

mkdir -p ~/ghostfolio && cd ~/ghostfolio
nano docker-compose.yml

services:
  ghostfolio:
    image: ghostfolio/ghostfolio:latest
    container_name: ghostfolio
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:3333:3333"
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://ghostfolio:db_secret@postgres:5432/ghostfolio
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379
      - JWT_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_64_CHARACTER_JWT_SECRET
    depends_on:
      - postgres
      - redis

  postgres:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=ghostfolio
      - POSTGRES_USER=ghostfolio
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=db_secret

  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: unless-stopped

docker compose up -d

Bind to Nginx on port 3333 with Let's Encrypt SSL, create your master account, and start tracking your global net worth with complete financial privacy.