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OVH Webhosting: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OVHcloud Web Hosting is the shared web hosting offer of OVHcloud, for individuals, businesses and agencies. The plans support several websites and domain names per subscription, with one-click WordPress and, on higher plans, Joomla!, Drupal and PrestaShop. They also include free SSL, anti-DDoS protection, automatic backups and, depending on the plan, SSH, Git and FTP access, and there are separate plans for agencies. The service is delivered as a hosted service managed through a control panel.

OVHcloud (OVH Groupe SA) is headquartered in Roubaix, France, was founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba and is listed on Euronext Paris; the Klaba family still plays a central role in its leadership. According to OVHcloud, shared web hosting runs in French data centres. The company builds its own data centres and designs and manufactures its own servers, and it also operates data centres on several continents for other products. The service is not open source and cannot be self-hosted. For a European organisation, this means hosting under French and EU law with a provider that has no non-European parent company.

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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 July 2, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
OVH - OVH SAS, FR (CA)Technically measured
Category
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
ovhcloud.com ↗

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 OVH Webhosting

The European alternatives to OVH Webhosting 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 OVH Webhosting

OVH Webhosting is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

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

OVH Webhosting 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 OVH Webhosting 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 OVH Webhosting?

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

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

Is OVH Webhosting GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

OVH Webhosting is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes OVH Webhosting 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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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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