Surmai Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Organize a whole trip in one place — dates, destinations, transportation, lodging, activities, attachments and expenses — and plan it together with the people coming. xCloud configures the pinned Surmai v0.5.6 image, generates your administrator account and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

Deploy your Surmai

No terminal
No technical skills needed
No lock-in, cancel anytime

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

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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Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Surmai on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

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Unlimited sites
All features included
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The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

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Unlimited sites
All features included
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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.

Self-managed hosting

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.

What is Surmai?

Surmai is a free, open-source, self-hosted personal and family travel organizer for trips, itineraries, transportation, lodging, activities, attachments and expenses. This template deploys version 0.5.6.

What makes Surmai different from a shared document or spreadsheet?

It is built for trips: dates, destinations, transportation, lodging, activities, attachments and expenses each have their own place, and several people can plan the same trip together.

Is Surmai free?

Yes — it is free and open source under the MIT licence. What you pay xCloud for is the dedicated server it runs on and the management around it, not the application itself.

How do I sign in after installing?

Use the administrator email and password from your installation credentials. The same login also opens the built-in PocketBase database dashboard at /_/.

Can other people sign up?

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.

What runs alongside Surmai?

Nothing else: it is a single container with a PocketBase backend and an embedded SQLite database.

Are 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.

What are the server requirements?

The template manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk as a floor. This page sells the 6 GB tier, comfortable headroom above that floor — QA measured peak use of about 424 MiB while loading the world places dataset.

What should I back up?

The surmai_data volume, which holds the SQLite databases and uploaded files. Stop the app first for a consistent copy.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Surmai?

No. Upgrades are a manual step: bump the readable tag and digest together after reading the upstream release notes, and back up the data volume first.

What survives a restart?

Everything on the surmai_data volume — trips, attachments and loaded place data. QA verified this by restarting the container and reading the same trip and attachment back.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Surmai?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Surmai project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Surmai project.

Can I run other apps on the same server?

Yes. It is a dedicated Cloud VPS, not a locked appliance, so you can deploy other OneClick apps or your own sites beside it as long as the resources are there.

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.