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dogado: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

dogado is a German hosting provider for small and medium-sized businesses. Its offering covers web hosting, WordPress hosting, website builders, SSL certificates and domains, complemented by e-mail services, Microsoft 365 and online backup. dogado also provides virtual and managed servers, Shopware hosting and managed cloud solutions. Services are hosted and operated by dogado itself; the product is not open source.

According to its website, dogado hosts exclusively in Germany; the company states that its data centre is ISO 27001 certified. After the combination with group.ONE announced by Cinven and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, dogado belongs to a group headquartered in Sweden. The relevant ownership question is therefore the investor layer: the data is in Germany, but control of the group rests with those investors. A European organisation can weigh that in its assessment.

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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 2, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
ONE-NETWORK - dogado GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
dogado.de ↗

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 dogado

The European alternatives to dogado 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 dogado

dogado is headquartered in DE 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 dogado scores best on data residency.

dogado 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 dogado 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 dogado?

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

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

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

dogado is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes dogado 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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Web Hosting

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