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Outline is a modern team wiki — clean, fast and with real-time co-editing. The Notion alternative you host yourself.
Excl. VAT. Monthly cancellable.
- Own Docker container + persistent volume
- Daily backup with 14-day retention
- 24/7 monitoring + Dutch support
Available immediately. No long-term contracts.
Outline is the most polished open-source alternative to Notion or Confluence. A clean, fast wiki with markdown syntax, real-time co-editing, powerful search, and a document structure that scales. For teams who take their knowledge base seriously but don't want to commit to a SaaS platform.
At Virtual Computing, Outline runs in a Node container with Postgres for documents and Redis for live editing. Log in via your own SSO (Microsoft, Google, Slack) or via password. Your data stays in NL, and you pay a flat monthly price regardless of users — unlike Notion ($10+/user/month).
Outline is strong in structure: documents live in 'Collections' with nested sub-pages, and you can share a collection with externals via a share link (read-only or edit). Search scans all docs and shows contextual highlights — feels like Algolia/Google.
Outline is ideal for
Internal knowledge base
Onboarding docs, processes, policy, FAQs. One place for all company info, searchable.
Engineering documentation
Tech design docs, runbooks, post-mortems. Markdown + code blocks + diagrams supported.
Customer onboarding (public)
Create a collection 'docs.yourcompany.com' with public documentation for customers. No separate tool needed.
Project wikis
Per customer or project a collection. Notes, decisions, deliverables — structured.
Included in every deployment
Real-time co-editing
Multiple people in the same document, no conflicts. Notion-level responsiveness.
Markdown + WYSIWYG
Write in markdown or type /command for blocks (table, code, embed). Best of both worlds.
SSO via Microsoft/Google/Slack
No separate passwords. Auto-provisioning from your IDP.
Powerful search
Full-text search with contextual snippets. Finds your doc in milliseconds, even in large knowledge bases.
Public sharing + embed
Share a document or collection publicly. Embed YouTube, Figma, Loom, Google Docs out-of-the-box.
Templates + automations
Standard templates for meeting notes, project briefs, post-mortems. Slack integration for notifications.
Live within one business day
1. Order
Click order, pick your subdomain and plan. Pay monthly, cancel any time.
2. We deploy
Container runs within minutes in our NL data centres. Auto-SSL, daily backups and monitoring are set up automatically.
3. Manage in the portal
Update, restart or scale from the customer portal. We watch updates and security.
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Outline can be live this afternoon at Virtual Computing
One click to order. We handle the container, SSL and backups in our Dutch data centres. Cancel monthly, no commitment.