Location
Hosting you can point to
Servers in the EU or UK, run under European law, in named data centres. Know where your systems are hosted and which provider operates them.
All services
Digital sovereignty · EU-hosted
Digital sovereignty and platform migration
Plan a move to EU or UK hosting and open-source tools, with documented dependencies, data exports and ongoing maintenance responsibilities.
EU and UK hosting · Open source · Your data, exportable
Provider dependencies
Understand who controls your systems
Your email, documents, chat and servers depend on the providers behind them. Review their access rules, pricing and availability alongside the location of your data.
Provider jurisdiction
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.
Provider terms and access
Prices, access and terms can change. Documenting your dependencies and testing an exit route helps you assess the effect of a provider change on your organisation.
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.
Continuity
Plan around shared points of failure
A shared provider or service can become a shared point of failure. Map those dependencies alongside your backup, recovery and migration options.
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
Hosting, software, portability and support
Practical properties to review: data location, provider jurisdiction, software dependencies and a tested exit route. No checklist removes every third-party dependency or guarantees security or compliance.
Software
Open source you control
Open-source tools on infrastructure you control, with documented exports and maintenance responsibilities. Hosting providers, upstream projects and integrations still have terms and dependencies.
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 named support contact
Someone who knows your setup, with clear responsibility for support and a documented way to raise questions.
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.
Further reading
Perspectives on European technology
These resources discuss European technology providers, infrastructure and policy.
EuroStack
A blueprint for a European stack
From chips to cloud to apps: the case for building a European digital stack.
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
Assessment, migration and ongoing care
We assess your setup, plan the changes and manage the move. If you are switching hosting panels along the way, see our hosting panel migrations.
Free sovereignty audit · Fixed quote
We map what you run
[free audit]Where your data lives today, which systems it depends on and what a move would involve. The first conversation is free, with no obligation.
We plan the move
[agreed plan]We identify the straightforward changes, complex dependencies and costs, then provide a fixed quote with the trade-offs explained.
Migration and handover
[delivery]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.
Talk it through
Plan your platform migration
Tell us what you run and where it lives. We will work through the hosting options, dependencies and changes involved.
Send an enquiry at any time. We will respond as soon as we can and agree a practical next step with you.