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HOSTKEY: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

HOSTKEY B.V. is a hosting company based in Amsterdam that rents dedicated servers, virtual private servers, GPU servers and private cloud infrastructure. Its range also includes S3-compatible object storage, colocation and DDoS protection. The services are delivered as hosted infrastructure for organisations that want servers without operating their own hardware.

The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and is therefore subject to EU data protection law. According to its website, servers are hosted in Tier III data centres in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and Switzerland, as well as in the United Kingdom, the United States and Turkey. A European organisation should confirm the data centre used for each service before ordering. The website names no owner or parent group.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, CH, US, OTHER)
  • 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-645
    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
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, CH, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitehostkey.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to HOSTKEY

The European alternatives to HOSTKEY 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 HOSTKEY

HOSTKEY 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.

HOSTKEY hosts data in EU, CH, US, 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.

HOSTKEY 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 HOSTKEY 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 HOSTKEY?

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

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

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

HOSTKEY is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, CH, US, OTHER. That makes HOSTKEY 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 11, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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