EU-hosted, non-EU parentWeb HostingHeadquarters: DE

Host Europe: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Host Europe is a German hosting provider offering domain registration, web hosting, managed hosting and cloud hosting, complemented by some software-as-a-service products. Services are hosted and operated by Host Europe; the product is not open source.

Host Europe is part of Host Europe Group, founded in 1997 and active under brands such as 123-reg, Webfusion and domainfactory. The group has belonged to the US company GoDaddy since April 2017; GoDaddy announced the acquisition in late 2016. A US parent is a CLOUD Act signal: US authorities can in principle request data from companies under US jurisdiction, even when servers are in Europe. The group's data centres are in Cologne and Strasbourg, that is, within the EU. A European organisation that cares about data sovereignty can therefore weigh the ownership structure alongside the server location.

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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

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	USVerified 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	AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL (US)Technically measured
Category	Web Hosting
Type	Product
Website	hosteurope.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 Host Europe

The European alternatives to Host Europe 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 Host Europe

Host Europe 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. The ultimate owner is based in US. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

Host Europe 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 Host Europe 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 Host Europe?

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

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

Is Host Europe GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Host Europe is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Host Europe 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

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Web Hosting

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