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Cloud86: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cloud86 is a Dutch web hosting provider. Its offer covers shared hosting, managed WordPress and WooCommerce hosting, managed VPS, domain names and email hosting. The services are delivered as hosted products: customers order and use hosting without operating servers themselves. The company targets customers who want hosting for their websites.

Cloud86 B.V. is based in Drachten in the Netherlands, according to its general terms. The website states that hosting runs from the company's own data centre in the Netherlands, and that the hardware is owned and managed by Cloud86 itself. The general terms do not explicitly state where the servers are located. No foreign parent company is named. For European organisations this means a provider headquartered and hosting in the EU. No self-hosted option is described.

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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 11, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryWeb Hosting
TypeProduct
Websitecloud86.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cloud86

The European alternatives to Cloud86 come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Cloud86

Cloud86 is headquartered in NL 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 Cloud86 scores best on data residency.

Cloud86 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 Cloud86 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 Cloud86?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cloud86 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 Cloud86?

Our list of EU alternatives to Cloud86 is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Cloud86 GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cloud86 is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cloud86 an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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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