EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: ES

Raiola Networks: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Raiola Networks is a Spanish hosting provider based in Lugo. Its offer covers web hosting for CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, VPS servers in standard, optimised and managed variants, dedicated servers, colocation and a Proxmox-based virtualisation cluster. The company describes its own data centre in Spain.

The legal notice names Raiola Networks S.L. with its address in Lugo. The website describes the data centre with 24/7 physical security and dual power supply with generators. The privacy policy states that data is processed on servers in the European Union, but it does not name the GDPR explicitly and refers to the general data protection rules. For a European organisation the company's seat and processing within the EU are relevant; the exact data-centre location and sub-processors should be fixed in the contract beforehand.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	ES (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	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	raiolanetworks.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Raiola Networks

The European alternatives to Raiola Networks 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 Raiola Networks

Raiola Networks is headquartered in ES 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 Raiola Networks scores best on data residency.

Raiola Networks 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 Raiola Networks 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 Raiola Networks?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Raiola Networks include 1984 Hosting, acens and Aiven. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Raiola Networks?

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

Is Raiola Networks GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Raiola Networks is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Raiola Networks 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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