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Rackhost: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Rackhost is a Hungarian hosting provider offering colocation, bare-metal servers, cages in data centres and remote hands services, where the customer manages the systems itself. The company operates a data centre in the BIX building in Budapest and one in Szeged, which is linked to Budapest by dark fibre.

The head office is in Szeged. No parent company is named publicly, and the privacy policy should be read before ordering. Both locations are in Hungary, and therefore within the EU. The product is not open source; European organisations should check the contractual terms on data location themselves. As a Hungarian provider it falls under EU data-protection law. Contractual terms on location, access and sub-processors remain the main point to check.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
HU (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
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Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Rackhost

Rackhost is headquartered in HU 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 Rackhost scores best on data residency.

Rackhost 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 Rackhost 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 Rackhost?

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

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

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

Rackhost is headquartered in HU (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Rackhost 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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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