Non-EU vendorWeb HostingHeadquarters: GB

20i: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

20i is a web hosting company that sells reseller hosting, managed WordPress hosting, managed cloud servers, virtual private servers (VPS) and domain names. Its services are delivered as hosted products, and customers choose a data centre location from a worldwide network of facilities. The offer is aimed mainly at resellers and web agencies that want to run hosting for their own customers.

20i is registered in England and Wales, with its registered office in Mansfield, United Kingdom. The company says it intends to remain independent, and no parent company is named on its website. Its data centres include sites in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and, since December 2025, Amsterdam, so an EU location is among those offered. As a British company, 20i is outside the EU legal framework, and its privacy terms should be checked for the transfers that apply to the data it processes.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Web Hosting
Type	Product
Website	20i.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to 20i

The European alternatives to 20i come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with 20i

20i is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

20i hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

20i is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs 20i together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to 20i?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to 20i include Alfahosting, ALL-INKL.COM and Antagonist. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to 20i?

Our list of EU alternatives to 20i is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is 20i GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

20i is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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