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EU-hosted, non-EU parentCloud IaaSHeadquarters: NL

TransIP: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TransIP is a Dutch provider of virtual servers (VPS) and cloud infrastructure. Its VPS packages offer shared or dedicated vCPUs, distributed NVMe network storage with three replicas, root access, a firewall, monitoring and a REST API. HA-IP, a load balancer, private networking, backups and block storage are also available. You can choose from a range of Linux distributions and Windows Server. The services are delivered as a hosted cloud service.

TransIP is based in Leiden and is part of team.blue, a European digital services group headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. The investor Hg has been involved in team.blue since 2019; it is an investment firm with offices that include London, and Sofina and CPP Investments took stakes in 2024. The VPS services run from two availability zones in the Netherlands, Amsterdam and Alblasserdam. Your data therefore stays in the EU, although the ownership structure also includes an investor outside the EU. The services are not open source.

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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
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyGBVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalTRANSIP-AS - Signet B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitetransip.nl ↗

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 TransIP

The European alternatives to TransIP come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 TransIP

TransIP is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in GB. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

TransIP 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 TransIP 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 TransIP?

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

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

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

TransIP is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes TransIP 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".

EU hosting documented
transip.nl/hosting/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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