Chobble can run a separate ticketing site for £50 a year or £5 a month. Technical users can instead run the same software on infrastructure they control.
Managed hosting
Payment assigns a separate ticketing site and sends its setup link by email. Each site has its own database, encryption key, hosted address and renewal date.
Chobble manages deployment and software updates. Organisers manage their events, team, payment account, email settings, public pages and domain from the administration area.
A setup link is sent by email. It opens the new site's password and organisation setup process.
Each organiser receives a separate instance rather than an account inside a shared event marketplace.
The site works on its supplied address and can also serve up to three configured domain names.
Chobble deploys product updates. Updates require a recent database backup before the in-app process can run.
Database backups can be downloaded as zip files. Restores report the source-code version that matches the restored data.
Managed hosting runs the same AGPL-3.0-only code published on GitHub. The fee pays for hosting and maintenance.
| Managed hosting | Self-hosting | |
|---|---|---|
| Price paid to Chobble | £50/year or £5/month | £0 |
| Initial deployment | Chobble | Organiser or technical provider |
| Infrastructure account | Chobble | Organiser or technical provider |
| Software updates | Chobble | Organiser or technical provider |
| Source code | Complete AGPL-3.0-only product | Complete AGPL-3.0-only product |
| Event and attendee administration | Organiser | Organiser |
| Payment account | Organiser | Organiser |
| Email provider settings | Organiser | Organiser |
Managed hosting is intended for organisers who want to use the software without maintaining its deployment. Self-hosting is intended for people who are comfortable with databases, environment variables and deployment services.
A single instance can run through Docker or on services documented in the project README. The Bunny deployment path uses a fork of the GitHub repository, a database, an edge script and repository secrets.
The database sets itself up on the first request. The organiser then opens the site and creates the first owner password.
Because the organiser controls the deployment, no update reaches the site until its maintainer deploys it. The GitHub README contains the current deployment instructions.
Chobble Tickets also contains tools for technical providers who host sites for other organisers. A configured host can create a site, provision its database, set a new encryption key and publish it through the provider API.
Hosted sites can use alpha, beta or release update channels. This lets a provider test a release on selected sites before deploying it more widely.
The technical documentation covers site building, configuration and deployment. Providers can set their own hosting price and support terms.