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Combell: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Combell is a Belgian hosting provider, founded in 1999, serving individuals, small businesses and larger organisations. Its offer includes domain names, web hosting and managed WordPress and WooCommerce hosting, business email and Microsoft 365, as well as infrastructure such as cloud servers, VPS, dedicated servers, private cloud, Kubernetes, OpenStack and colocation. Combell also provides managed services and support in the customer's own language. The services are delivered as a managed cloud service.

Combell is based in Belgium, with offices including Ghent, and is part of the European hosting group team.blue, which was formed in 2019 and is headquartered in Ghent. The investor Hg has been involved in the group since 2019. Combell lists data centres in Belgium and the Netherlands and holds ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and ISO 9001 certifications. The service itself is not open source. The group's investor base is relevant when assessing the ownership structure.

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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 1, 2026
HeadquartersBE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCOMBELL-AS - Combell NV, BE (BE)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitecombell.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Combell

The European alternatives to Combell 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 Combell

Combell is headquartered in BE 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 Combell scores best on data residency.

Combell 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 Combell 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 Combell?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Combell include 1984 Hosting, acens and Aiven. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Combell?

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

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

Combell is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Combell 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 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
combell.com/nl/over-combell/privacy-policy
Security page / trust center
combell.com/nl/over-combell/iso-certificaat-hosting
EU hosting documented
combell.com/nl/over-combell/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-statedISO/IEC 27701Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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