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Hostnet: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hostnet is a Dutch hosting provider for entrepreneurs getting started online. Its offering includes domain registration (including .nl, .com and .eu), a website builder and webshop builder, WordPress hosting including managed WordPress hosting powered by WP.one, shared web hosting, Performance Hosting, VPS servers and SSL certificates. Hostnet also provides e-mail on your own domain and Microsoft 365. Services are delivered by Hostnet; the product is not open source.

Hostnet shows certification logos for ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and refers to green data centres without naming their locations. Its terms are governed by Dutch law, with disputes going to the court in Amsterdam. Hostnet is a brand of group.ONE, a group headquartered in Sweden that Cinven and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board have combined with dogado. Besides the data location, European organisations can weigh the ownership layer of the group and its investors.

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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
Ultimate parent companySEVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalONECOM - One.com A/S, DK (NL)Technically measured
CategoryWeb Hosting
TypeProduct
Websitehostnet.nl ↗

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 Hostnet

The European alternatives to Hostnet 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 Hostnet

Hostnet 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. The ultimate owner is based in SE, also within Europe.

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

Hostnet 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 Hostnet 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 Hostnet?

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

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

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

Hostnet is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Hostnet 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

Web Hosting: Web hosting providers — shared hosting, managed hosting, domain registration. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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