Surmai Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Surmai hosting and organize a whole trip in one place: dates, destinations, transportation, lodging, activities, attachments and expenses, planned together with the people coming. xCloud runs the pinned Surmai v0.5.6 image with its PocketBase backend and embedded SQLite, generates your administrator account, mounts the surmai_data volume and publishes it over HTTPS on your domain. Turn off public sign-up afterwards.

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What is Surmai?

Surmai is a personal and family travel organizer. Upstream says it was built to solve three challenges when planning a trip: collaborative planning between several people, easy access to the necessary artifacts during the trip, and keeping the data private. It offers offline access and a mobile-friendly interface, and warns that it is a very alpha-stage project under active development. A self-hosted Surmai is the alternative to a hosted trip planner, under the MIT licence.

On xCloud it is Surmai v0.5.6, pinned by digest, as the app container with a PocketBase backend and an embedded SQLite database on the surmai_data volume, which also holds uploaded files, plus a small companion that keeps trip creation limited to signed-in users. The administrator email and generated password also open the PocketBase dashboard at /_/. Public sign-up is on by default, so switch it off after your first sign-in.

From Sign-Up to a Live Surmai In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a travel organizer normally means a container, a generated admin account, a domain and a certificate before you can plan a single trip. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Surmai from the OneClick catalog. Enter an administrator email and, optionally, a password — leave it blank and xCloud generates one.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Surmai v0.5.6 image, seed your administrator account, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Load Your Datasets
Save the administrator password from your installation credentials, sign in, turn off New User Signups under Settings if the instance should stay private, load the Places dataset, and create your first trip.

Everything Surmai Does, On Your Own Server

Surmai runs in full here — the same trip-planning tooling as any hosted travel app, on infrastructure you control.

Whole Trips, One Place
Dates, destinations, transportation, lodging, activities, notes and expenses each have their own place inside a single trip.
Plan Together
Invite collaborators and travellers to the same trip, instead of coordinating a shared document or spreadsheet.
Booking Confirmations Attached
Keep attachments and documents tied to the trip they belong to, so confirmations don't scatter across email threads.
Budgets And Expenses
Track trip budgets and expenses with currency conversion, right alongside the itinerary they belong to.
Take It On The Road
Install Surmai on a phone as a Progressive Web App and carry the itinerary without a native app store.
Your Trips, Your Server
Trips, attachments and loaded place data stay on a server you control instead of a third-party travel-planning account.

Everything You Need To Run Your Trip Planning 24/7

Managed hosting for Surmai, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Surmai v0.5.6 deployed instantly
Administrator account generated for you
Progressive Web App support
Collaborative trip planning
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Surmai

Plan a trip with the people coming
Several travellers add flights, lodging and activities to one shared trip instead of passing confirmation emails around.
Keep confirmations where you can find them
Attach tickets and reservations to the right day of the itinerary, so they are at hand even on a poor connection.
Track what the trip costs
Record expenses alongside transportation, lodging and activities, and review the total for the trip.
Keep travel plans private
Hold itineraries and documents on your own server, rather than in a third-party travel app's account.

Surmai vs Alternatives

Hosted trip planning apps: A hosted trip planner keeps itineraries and booking documents in a vendor's account. Self-hosted Surmai stores them in SQLite and a file volume on your own Cloud VPS.
AdventureLog: AdventureLog has its own OneClick page as another self-hosted travel tool. Surmai is built around planning one trip together, with transportation, lodging and activities in one place.
Wanderer: Wanderer has its own OneClick page for self-hosted trail and outdoor route planning. Surmai covers whole-trip logistics rather than route files.
Trip: Trip has its own OneClick page as a self-hosted trip planner. Surmai is a PocketBase-based travel organizer with shared trips, attachments and expenses, and is flagged by upstream as alpha.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Surmai hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More trips, more collaborators, more concurrent uploads.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Surmai alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Surmai itself is free under the MIT licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Plan Your Next Trip?

Surmai on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own your data. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can you self-host Surmai with Docker?

Yes. Upstream documents an installation with containers, and this template is Surmai Docker hosting already assembled: the v0.5.6 image pinned by digest, one surmai_data volume, a generated administrator and HTTPS. It is your own Surmai cloud travel organizer with no separate database.

How much RAM does Surmai need?

The template asks for 512 MB RAM, a single core and 5 GB disk; QA measured peak use of about 424 MiB while loading the world places dataset. This page begins at the 6 GB plan, with room for what the app itself needs.

Is Surmai free?

Yes, Surmai is MIT-licensed and carries no fee, though upstream calls it very alpha. The Cloud VPS is the one charge, cancellable whenever you wish. Trips and uploads stay on a volume you control. Test it with a sample trip before relying on it.

How do I sign in to Surmai?

Use the administrator email and password from your installation credentials. The same login also opens the built-in PocketBase database dashboard at /_/. The first administrator is seeded once, so later environment edits do not change it; change the password inside Surmai, then update SURMAI_ADMIN_PASSWORD to match so the hourly hardening check can still sign in.

Can other people sign up to my Surmai?

Yes, public sign-up is on by default at install. Turn off New User Signups under Settings right after your first sign-in to keep the instance to the people you invite, otherwise anyone who reaches the address can create an account.

Can several people plan a trip together in Surmai?

Yes, collaborative planning between multiple users is one of the three problems upstream built Surmai to solve. Invite the people who are travelling, keep sign-up closed, and let each of them add their own bookings to the shared trip.

Does Surmai work offline?

Upstream lists offline access and a mobile-friendly interface as features, so trip details can be reached with a poor connection. Check how it behaves on your own devices before you travel, since upstream warns the project is alpha stage and still changing.

Are Surmai shared attachment links secure?

Uploaded attachments open from an unguessable link without a login, so share those links with the same care you would a file link; they are not access-controlled behind sign-in. Do not post them publicly, and remove attachments you no longer want reachable.

How do I back up Surmai?

Back up the surmai_data volume, which holds the SQLite databases and uploaded files. Stop the app first for a consistent copy, keep the administrator credentials from the installation panel, and try a restore on a spare install before you rely on it.

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How do I upgrade Surmai?

The install stays on pinned v0.5.6 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up surmai_data first and go through upstream's release notes, since the project is changing fast. Then redeploy and open a trip and an attachment. Nothing upgrades automatically.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.