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Hostpoint: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hostpoint is a Swiss hosting provider offering web hosting, managed Flex servers, domain registration, e-mail and Cloud Office, the Sites website builder, webshops, WordPress hosting and SSL certificates. It also offers SEO tools (rankingCoach) and File Express for sending large files. Services are hosted and operated by Hostpoint itself; the product is not open source.

Hostpoint AG is based in Switzerland and, according to a 2026 trade article, is fully owned by its founders and owner-managers, who have deliberately taken no external investors. The infrastructure is in Swiss data centres in Zurich and is run by Hostpoint itself. Switzerland is outside the EU but is a European (EFTA) country. No foreign parent company is known, so Swiss law applies to the data; for a European organisation this is relevant when assessing jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score

67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-380
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	HOSTPOINT-AS - Hostpoint AG, CH (CH)Technically measured
Category	Web Hosting
Type	Product
Website	hostpoint.ch ↗

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 Hostpoint

The European alternatives to Hostpoint 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 Hostpoint

Hostpoint is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Hostpoint hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Hostpoint 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 Hostpoint 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 Hostpoint?

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

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

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

Hostpoint is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Hostpoint an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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