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Uberspace: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Uberspace is a web hosting service that gives customers shell access over SSH and SFTP on Linux servers, for hosting websites, mail, git repositories and their own web services. The manual covers languages such as PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby, and databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Customers pay what they consider fair: there is no minimum term or subscription and the first month is free.

Uberspace has operated since 2010. It is a small, owner-managed company, formally a sole proprietorship with its address in Mainz, Germany. Uberspace says it is not backed by a startup investor or a global corporation and that it owns and maintains its server hardware itself instead of relying on outside cloud providers. The pages consulted do not state where the data centre is located, so a European organisation should confirm the server location with the provider.

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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
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified 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 signalRHTEC-AS - rh-tec Business GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteuberspace.de ↗

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 Uberspace

The European alternatives to Uberspace 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 Uberspace

Uberspace is headquartered in DE 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 Uberspace scores best on data residency.

Uberspace 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 Uberspace 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 Uberspace?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Uberspace include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Uberspace?

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

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

Uberspace is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Uberspace 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
uberspace.de/imprint

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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