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GreenGeeks: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

GreenGeeks is a web hosting provider offering shared hosting, WordPress and WooCommerce hosting, reseller hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, a website builder and domain registration. Customers can also host applications such as Node.js, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and PrestaShop. The company positions itself around green energy and says it matches its power use with renewable energy purchases. The services are delivered as managed hosting from the provider's data centres.

GreenGeeks says it is headquartered in the United States and describes itself as independent and founder-led; no parent company is named. It has four data centre locations: Chicago, Montreal, Amsterdam and Singapore. Customers can therefore opt for hosting in the Netherlands, but the company itself falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. No data processing agreement or GDPR statement is published. European organisations should ask about this up front or consider a hosting provider headquartered in the EU.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Web Hosting
Type	Product
Website	greengeeks.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GreenGeeks

The European alternatives to GreenGeeks 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 GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

GreenGeeks hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

GreenGeeks 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 GreenGeeks 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 GreenGeeks?

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

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

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

GreenGeeks is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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