For Self-Hosters
Self-hosted video conferencing
without the suffering
You want to own your video platform. You don't want to babysit Jibri, wrestle Prosody, or scale JVB clusters at 2am. Castio deploys a complete video platform on your own Cloudflare account. No servers to manage. Ever.
What you escape
If you've self-hosted Jitsi, you know these pain points. If you haven't, this is what you're signing up for.
Jibri recording
8GB+ RAM per instance. One recording at a time. Headless Chrome that crashes. A dedicated server just for recordings. The single most complained-about component in the Jitsi ecosystem.
JVB cluster management
Horizontal scaling means provisioning more JVB instances, configuring load balancers, and monitoring CPU and bandwidth across every bridge. OCTO for multi-region is even worse.
Prosody bottleneck
The XMPP signaling server is single-threaded. It becomes a bottleneck at scale and requires careful tuning. Another component to monitor and maintain.
5-7 interdependent services
Nginx, Prosody, Jicofo, JVB, Jibri, Jigasi. Each needs configuration, monitoring, and coordinated updates. Version mismatches break things silently.
Endless maintenance
OS patches, Java heap tuning, Chrome/Chromedriver updates for Jibri, SSL certificate renewals, firewall rules, port configurations. The work never stops.
Manual scaling
No auto-scaling. You provision servers ahead of demand, overpay when they're idle, and scramble when traffic spikes. Bandwidth alone can cost hundreds per month.
What you get instead
Everything self-hosting should be. Ownership without the operational tax.
Deploy in minutes, not weeks
Connect your Cloudflare account and deploy. Castio provisions Workers, D1 database, R2 storage, and KV cache on your account automatically. No Docker, no VMs, no Ansible playbooks.
Recording that actually works
Built-in composite recording. No Jibri. No dedicated server. No one-recording-at-a-time limit. Recordings go straight to your R2 storage with a built-in playback UI.
AI transcription and summaries
Automatic transcription powered by Whisper v3 Turbo. AI-generated meeting summaries. No Jigasi. No external STT service to configure. Just toggle it on.
Analytics dashboard built in
Usage trends, per-participant quality metrics, meeting investigation tools. No Prometheus. No Grafana. No community-maintained dashboards that may or may not work.
5-tier role hierarchy
Owner, Admin, Host, Member, Guest -- with granular permissions per meeting type. Jitsi has two roles: moderator and participant. That's it.
Scheduling and meeting lifecycle
Instant, scheduled, recurring, and permanent rooms. Meeting invitations and auto-activation. Jitsi has zero scheduling -- you share URLs and hope for the best.
White-label branding from day one
Custom domain, logo, colors, and themes through a settings panel. Not by editing CSS files and replacing image assets on a server.
Diagnostics and investigation
Four-layer observability from infrastructure to individual participant. When someone says "my call was bad," you can actually investigate it without grepping log files.
Same ownership. Zero ops.
Traditional self-hosting gives you control but buries you in maintenance. Castio gives you control without the burden.
Traditional self-hosting (Jitsi)
Castio on your Cloudflare
Honest trade-offs
Self-hosters value transparency. Here's what Castio is and isn't, with no spin.
It runs on Cloudflare, not bare metal
Castio deploys to your Cloudflare account -- not to your own servers or a VPS you control. If "self-hosted" to you means bare metal in your basement or your own Proxmox cluster, Castio isn't that. You own the Cloudflare account and all the resources on it, but the compute runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure.
It has a license cost
Jitsi is free and open-source. Castio is not. You pay for the deployment and the software license. The trade-off: you don't pay for a DevOps team, Jibri servers, or weeks of your own time fighting configuration issues. Whether that trade-off works for you depends on what your time is worth.
Live video transits Cloudflare's SFU during calls
During active meetings, live audio and video are routed through Cloudflare's RealtimeKit SFU infrastructure. All stored data -- recordings, transcripts, user data, meeting history -- lives entirely on your Cloudflare account. If your requirement is that live media streams must never leave hardware you physically control, Castio doesn't meet that.
No end-to-end encryption yet
Jitsi offers E2EE on Chromium-based browsers (with limitations). Castio does not have E2EE currently. Media is encrypted in transit (DTLS-SRTP), but there is no option for end-to-end encryption where the server cannot access media content.
No native mobile apps
Jitsi has native iOS and Android apps. Castio is browser-based on mobile. It works, but it's not the same as a dedicated app. Jitsi wins here.
For Solo Entrepreneurs
Your own branded meeting platform
Your clients join meetings at your domain, see your logo, and experience your brand. Not a generic Zoom link that screams "I use the same tool as everyone else."
Your domain
meetings.yourname.com instead of zoom.us/j/123456789. Clients remember your brand, not someone else's.
Your brand
Your logo, your colors, your theme. Every touchpoint looks like your company, not a generic video tool.
Professional impression
Clients see a polished, branded experience. Recording transcripts and summaries come from your platform, not a third-party tool.
What your clients see
Meeting link
meetings.yourname.com/room/client-call
Join page
Your logo, your brand colors, your welcome message
After the meeting
Recording + AI transcript + summary, all hosted on your infrastructure
Data location
Your Cloudflare account. Not Zoom's servers. Not anyone else's.
Ready to stop babysitting servers?
Deploy a complete video platform on your own Cloudflare account. Keep the ownership, drop the ops burden.