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Gigahost: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gigahost is a Norwegian provider of web hosting and server services. Its web hosting product, called Webhotell, is aimed at websites, blogs and online shops and includes one-click installation of applications. Customers use the hosted service and do not run the infrastructure themselves. The company also offers server and data centre services under its own name.

Gigahost AS is a Norwegian company. According to the website, the service runs from the company's own data centre in Sandefjord, where servers, the customer database, DNS and monitoring run on its own infrastructure. Norway is part of the European Economic Area, so the core processing of customer data takes place within the EEA. The privacy page also names some suppliers outside the EEA, mainly in the United States, which are involved in parts of the service. No owner or parent company is named. No self-hosted option is described.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EEA: the GDPR applies directly
  • 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
Headquarters
NO (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
Category
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Gigahost

The European alternatives to Gigahost come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Gigahost

Gigahost is headquartered in NO, which falls under the GDPR through the European Economic Area. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

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

Gigahost 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 Gigahost 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 Gigahost?

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

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

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

Gigahost is headquartered in NO (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Gigahost 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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