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alwaysdata: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

alwaysdata is a French managed hosting platform for web applications and APIs. Customers choose the language and version for each site from options including PHP, Python, Java, Node.js and Ruby. The platform includes MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, email, scheduled and background tasks and SSL certificates. It is delivered as fully managed hosting, from a range of plans up to fully managed dedicated servers, so customers do not need to run the underlying infrastructure themselves.

According to its current terms and conditions, the company is a French SARL with its registered office in Paris, and it operates its own network and servers. Its primary infrastructure is in Paris, in Equinix data centres; secondary infrastructure, including backups, sits in other data centres at least ten kilometres away. For a European organisation, this means a French provider with primary infrastructure in Paris, subject to French and EU law. The sources consulted name no non-European owner.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 10, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to alwaysdata

The European alternatives to alwaysdata 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 alwaysdata

alwaysdata is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so alwaysdata scores best on data residency.

alwaysdata 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 alwaysdata 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 alwaysdata?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to alwaysdata include amazee.io, anynines (a9s) and CapRover. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to alwaysdata?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to alwaysdata include Coolify. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is alwaysdata GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

alwaysdata is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes alwaysdata an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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