Why Hostander

European hosting, all the way down.

EU-owned, EU-staffed, EU-hosted. No US parent company, no US cloud underneath, no US jurisdiction over your data. The kind of sovereignty most providers only put in their brochure.

What makes us different

The six pillars of a sovereign stack.

EU-owned and EU-operated

Hostander is an EU company headquartered in Tallinn. Ownership, executives and staff are all in the EU. There is no US parent and no US subsidiary that could be compelled abroad.

Outside US jurisdiction

We are not a covered provider under the US CLOUD Act and cannot be lawfully compelled to disclose customer data to US authorities. We respond only to lawful EU requests through the proper channels.

No US hyperscalers underneath

We don't resell AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure under the hood. We own our hardware, our ASN, our IP space and our private backbone end-to-end.

GDPR-native by design

EU-only processing, EU-only sub-processors, no transfers outside the EEA, DPA available by default. Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling.

Senior engineers, not scripts

Every ticket is read and answered by an engineer with at least 5 years of production experience. No outsourced first-line, no overnight call centers.

Hardware and network we own

Servers, switches, cabling, management network, ASN, IP space and the private wavelength between Tallinn and Amsterdam, all Hostander.

Compared honestly

Hostander vs "EU region of a US cloud".

Same continent on the map, very different legal and operational posture.

Criteria
US hyperscaler EU region
Hostander
Company ownership
US parent
EU company, EU shareholders
Staff jurisdiction
Mostly US, with EU teams
EU only
CLOUD Act exposure
Yes
No
Underlying cloud
Themselves
We own the hardware
Sub-processors
Global, often US-based
EU only
Support reach
Tickets routed globally
EU senior engineers, 24/7
Hardware lifecycle
Opaque
Owned, tracked, audit-ready
Sovereignty FAQ

The questions procurement always asks.

Why does sovereignty matter for hosting?

Where your provider is incorporated determines which legal regime can lawfully demand your data. EU-only providers are bound exclusively by EU and member-state law, with the protections of the GDPR and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Providers with US ties can be subject to extra-territorial requests under instruments like the CLOUD Act, regardless of where the data physically sits.

Isn't 'hosted in the EU' enough?

No. Many US-owned providers host data in EU regions but remain subject to US law because of their corporate structure. Real sovereignty needs the company, the staff and the infrastructure to all be in the EU, with no US entity in the chain. That's our default.

What about the EU-US Data Privacy Framework?

The framework is useful for organisations that need to transfer data to the US. We don't need it, because we don't transfer data to the US, and we don't depend on US infrastructure. Customers who want to avoid framework dependency entirely can do that on Hostander.

Are you affected if a US hyperscaler raises prices, changes terms, or has an outage?

No. None of our hosting platform runs on a US hyperscaler. We are insulated from their pricing changes, contract changes and large-scale outages.

Ready to leave the hyperscaler?

We help SaaS, e-commerce and regulated industries migrate from AWS, Azure and GCP to a fully EU-sovereign stack, without rewriting their applications.