Host Docmost without installing anything
A documentation space where several people write in the same page at the same time, with a space per team and pages nested as deep as you like.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
Docmost installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. A real-time collaborative documentation space in the spirit of Notion: nested pages, multi-person editing, comments and team spaces. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory, against a theoretical minimum of 1.5 GB. Simultaneous editing is expensive in memory: for every page open to more than one person, the server holds the document state and merges everyone's keystrokes live. Add PostgreSQL for content and search, Redis for sessions and jobs, and you can see why we do not recommend the theoretical minimum.
If you come from Notion, its export produces an archive of Markdown and HTML files, which Docmost can import, letting you rebuild the tree space by space. Plan on re-uploading images by hand, and know that Notion databases have no equivalent here — Docmost is a documentation space, not a spreadsheet. In the other direction, any page or space exports as Markdown, HTML or PDF.
What managed hosting changes
Several people writing in the same page
Other people's cursors appear in the text, each in its own colour, and edits blend in as they are typed. There is no lock, no "document being edited" message, and no second version of the minutes sent round by email.
Spaces per team, pages nested inside
One space for engineering, one for sales, one for management, each with its own members. Inside, pages nest as deep as needed and are reordered by dragging them in the tree.
Diagrams that live inside the page
Mermaid, Excalidraw and Draw.io insert straight into the text. The architecture diagram is corrected at the same time as the paragraph explaining it, instead of remaining an exported image nobody knows how to edit any more.
Comments pinned to a sentence
Highlight a passage, ask the question beside it, the right person answers and the thread closes. The discussion stays attached to the text rather than scattered across a chat tool.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A team of five leaving Notion
The same habits — page tree, blocks, Markdown shortcuts, comments — without a per-person subscription and without internal notes living at a third party.
An agency documenting client projects
One space per client, with only the relevant members. Minutes, access details and decisions sit in one place, and the end of an assignment is an export rather than a dig through three mailboxes.
Minutes written during the meeting
Two people take notes in the same page at once while a third tidies as they go. By the end of the meeting the minutes are written, not planned.
An engineering team documenting an architecture
The Mermaid diagram is in the page, under the paragraph it illustrates. When the design changes, it changes there, and the history keeps the previous version.
An internal handbook that gets handed on
Procedures, letter templates, past decisions: all of it stays readable and searchable, and a new arrival no longer depends on the memory of the person leaving.
Team notes that stay in France
The instance runs in our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and the automatic backup kept for 14 days restores from the client area.
Frequently asked questions
Partly, and it is better to know which part. Notion exports an archive of Markdown and HTML files that Docmost can import: pages, headings, lists and simple tables come across well, and the tree is rebuilt space by space. What does not follow: Notion databases with their views and relations, which have no equivalent here — for that, look at Baserow or NocoDB instead. Images have to be re-uploaded as attachments. Budget half a day for a medium-sized space, and use the opportunity to throw away what no longer serves.
Yes, and it is the heart of the software. Docmost relies on a conflict-free merging technique: two people can write in the same paragraph and the text recomposes without either of them losing a sentence. If the connection drops, what you typed during the outage merges back on reconnection. That machinery is exactly what explains the memory requirement: the server tracks the state of every open page.
The community edition, the one we install, covers the essentials: spaces, nested pages, simultaneous editing, comments, history, search, import and export. The publisher reserves certain organisational features for an enterprise edition, single sign-on among them. The list moves from version to version: if SSO is a decision criterion for you, check it on the publisher's site before choosing.
Nothing. You choose the application, fill in the two or three fields it asks for, and it goes online; the address and credentials arrive by email. The recommended plan for Docmost is App Confort, at €8.99/month incl. VAT with 4 GB of memory, and it can be changed later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving. Version upgrades are applied and checked by us, with a backup kept for 14 days so you can roll back from the client area.