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Greenhost: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Greenhost is a Dutch hosting provider that describes itself as a Libre Hosting provider. Its offering covers virtual private servers, sustainable web hosting with domain names, managed services and performance hosting. Greenhost also offers Rapid Response support for organisations, activists and journalists facing digital attacks, and develops open-source projects such as Stackspin, a cloud collaboration suite. The hosting services themselves are not open source, but the company says open source is its first choice in the software it uses.

Greenhost states that it fully owns and controls its hardware, infrastructure and uplinks, and that it is a RIPE and APNIC member. According to its website, the servers are located in the IronMountain data centre in Amsterdam and run on Dutch wind energy. The sources name no parent company outside the EU. For a European organisation this means hosting under Dutch and European law.

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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 4, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalGreenhost - Greenhost BV, NL (NL)Technically measured
CategoryWeb Hosting
TypeProduct
Websitegreenhost.net ↗

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 Greenhost

The European alternatives to Greenhost 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 Greenhost

Greenhost 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 Greenhost scores best on data residency.

Greenhost 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 Greenhost 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 Greenhost?

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

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

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

Greenhost is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Greenhost 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 4, 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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