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OpenResty: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OpenResty is an open-source web platform that combines the Nginx core with LuaJIT, so that developers can write request-handling logic in Lua inside the Nginx server. It is used to build scalable web applications and services, including gateway and proxy setups that need custom routing or traffic logic. The software is distributed as source code and packages under a BSD 2-clause licence and runs on the operator's own servers. OpenResty Inc. also sells commercial products and support, among them OpenResty Edge, a CDN, gateway and web application firewall platform, and OpenResty XRay for observability.

OpenResty Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, which brings the company within US jurisdiction. Because the platform is installed on the organisation's own infrastructure, a European operator decides where traffic, logs and application data are processed. Commercial support, Edge and XRay are contracted with the US company, and its data processing terms should be reviewed before use. The BSD licence allows the source code to be audited and modified.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 12, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	CDN, DNS & Domains
Type	Product
Website	openresty.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OpenResty

The European alternatives to OpenResty come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 OpenResty

OpenResty is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

OpenResty hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

OpenResty is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs OpenResty 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 OpenResty?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OpenResty include Bunny.net, CDNsun and ClouDNS. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to OpenResty?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to OpenResty include deSEC and dnsdist. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

OpenResty is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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