Location
Hosting you can point to
Servers in the EU or UK, run under European law, in data centres you can actually name. Not the cloud in the abstract, a real place with a real address.
Digital sovereignty · EU-hosted
Own your stack. Don't rent your sovereignty.
Where your data lives, and who can ultimately reach into it, is an infrastructure decision. Most of Europe has quietly handed that decision to a handful of American companies. It does not have to stay that way.
EU and UK hosting · Open source · Your data, exportable
The problem, part one
Europe runs on borrowed infrastructure.
Most of the email, documents, chat and servers that European and UK organisations rely on sit with three American firms. That is convenient right up until the moment it is a problem.
The legal reality
Under the US CLOUD Act, an American provider can be compelled to hand over your data wherever in the world it is stored. So “our data is in an EU data centre” is not the same as “our data is under EU control.” The building is here. The jurisdiction is not.
The leverage problem
It is not only about surveillance. It is leverage. Prices, access and terms can change with a policy shift or a political falling-out, and you would have very little say. Dependence you cannot walk away from is not a great negotiating position.
Proton has written this up more fully than we can here, in US tech rules Europe and their ongoing Europe Tech Watch. Both are worth a read.
The problem, part two
And putting everything in one place is fragile.
Set nationality aside for a second. When a handful of providers host most of the web, their bad days become everyone's bad days. One misconfiguration takes down half the internet, and lock-in makes leaving expensive by design.
The counterweight is not “no cloud.” It is spreading things out: self-hosting what you sensibly can, choosing open tools that run anywhere, and always keeping the ability to move.
In practice
What sovereignty actually looks like.
Not a slogan. A short list of concrete, checkable properties. If your setup has these, you are sovereign. If it does not, you are a tenant.
Software
Open source you control
Tools like Nextcloud, Matrix and Mastodon, running on your own infrastructure. No account someone else can close, no feature that can be taken away in an update.
Portability
Data you can leave with
Standard formats, full exports, and a documented way out. Sovereignty is really just the freedom to go somewhere else, whether or not you ever use it.
People
A person, not a portal
Someone who knows your setup and answers when you ask. Support that is a name and a reply, not a ticket in a queue three timezones away.
The open-source side of this is a whole service in itself. See managed open source hosting for the tools we run and what they replace.
A bigger shift
You would be in good company.
This is not a fringe worry. Governments, universities and companies across Europe are moving the same way, and there is a growing stack of European alternatives to build on.
EuroStack
A blueprint for a European stack
From chips to cloud to apps: the case for building a digital stack Europe actually owns.
Proton
US tech rules Europe
Why Europe's dependence on American technology is a strategic problem, not just a preference.
Proton
Europe Tech Watch
An ongoing tracker of the issue and the policy around it. Worth a bookmark.
How it works
Sovereignty is an ops project. That is our job.
We do the unglamorous part: the audit, the plan, and the move itself. If you are switching hosting panels along the way, that is its own well-worn path, see hosting panel migrations.
Free sovereignty audit · Fixed quote, no surprises
We map what you run
[free audit]Where your data lives today, what it sits on, and what leaving would actually take. Free chat, no obligation, no sales script.
We plan the move
[honest plan]Which pieces are easy, which are fiddly, and what it costs. A fixed quote and the trade-offs said out loud. We will not pretend it is all painless.
We move it. You own it.
[you own it]EU or UK hosting, open tools, your data in your hands. We keep running it if you want that, or we hand you the keys.
Move your stack home.
Tell us what you run and where it lives. We will tell you honestly what it takes to bring it home. No pressure, no jargon.