Non-EU vendorCloud IaaSHeadquarters: US

Hivelocity: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hivelocity provides bare-metal dedicated servers, colocation and virtual private servers. The company describes itself as a US-based hosting provider with human support, and also offers server management, firewall, backups and cloud object storage. According to its website, it operates data centres in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific; in Europe these are Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Stockholm.

Hivelocity, Inc. is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, United States. The company's public pages name no parent company. The privacy policy states that data is processed in line with the GDPR, that Hivelocity acts as a processor for data customers store in the services, and that it participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Choosing a European location allows data to stay in the EU, but the provider remains American, with exposure to the CLOUD Act.

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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	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	hivelocity.net ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Hivelocity

The European alternatives to Hivelocity 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 Hivelocity

Hivelocity 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.

Hivelocity 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.

Hivelocity 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 Hivelocity 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 Hivelocity?

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

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

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

Hivelocity is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. 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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