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Hoststar: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Hoststar is a Swiss web hosting service. It offers shared web hosting plans, WordPress and webshop hosting, reseller hosting, domain registration, virtual servers and managed servers. Customers administer their services through a control panel called My Panel. Further services include own e-mail addresses, a website builder, cloud storage, monitoring, SSL certificates and a VPN. The service is aimed at private users and small and medium-sized businesses and is delivered as a hosted service running on the provider's own server farm.

Hoststar is a brand of Multimedia Networks AG, headquartered in Fraubrunnen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. No foreign parent company is named on the provider's site. Switzerland is not an EU member but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. According to the provider, its data centres are located in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and customer data is backed up to a different data centre. The hosting plans are described as GDPR-compliant ("DSGVO-konform"). The data centre serving a given plan is not stated; organisations needing data to stay in Switzerland should ask.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-390
    Hosting in the EU and Switzerland
  • 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 17, 2026
Headquarters
SwitzerlandVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Switzerland and EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
hoststar.ch ↗

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European alternatives to Hoststar

The European alternatives to Hoststar come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Hoststar

Hoststar 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.

Hoststar hosts data in the EU and in Switzerland. Switzerland is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. If you require strictly EU hosting, check the data processing agreement for which data is stored in Switzerland.

Hoststar 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 Hoststar 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 Hoststar?

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

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

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

Hoststar is headquartered in Switzerland (EFTA) and hosts data in Switzerland and the EU. That makes Hoststar 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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Compliance evidence

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