Independent tests, comparisons and explainers on European web hosting — updated regularly.
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Datenschutz, BSI, local cloud ecosystem: Germany attracts projects seeking to limit extraterritorial reach. What the choice really delivers — and traps of "sovereign" labels without proof.
"Data in France" reassures in meetings—but says nothing about certified scope, backups, or cloud subprocessors. What location actually delivers, and what to verify beyond the flag.
ISO 27001 proves a security management system exists — not that your shared instance automatically benefits. How to read the certificate before mistaking it for an operational guarantee.
The Netherlands concentrates TransIP, Antagonist and mature NL infra. Belgium has Combell and bilingual proximity. For a Benelux shop, hosting country follows legal entities and your FR/NL mix.
SecNumCloud answers one specific question—protection against extraterritorial access—not every compliance need. Here are the project profiles where this qualification genuinely changes the equation.
Hosted in Germany at a US subsidiary: the Cloud Act lets US authorities request certain data. Understand legal risk — and what EU hosts and encryption do or do not change.
French datacenter on the slide, subcontractors missing from the contract — before you sign, demand a DPA, real data location, logs and breach procedures. A host due diligence checklist.
Germany (Hetzner, Contabo, Netcup) dominates resources per euro. France (Scaleway, OVHcloud) often offers sovereignty and French support. With a tight budget, headroom is measured in euros and admin time.
Google Safe Browsing alert, obfuscated `.php` files in uploads — on shared hosting, priority is stopping spread, restoring clean, then finding the bad plugin or password.
A Stripe or AWS key in public git = incident in minutes. Separate config and secrets: CI variables, vault, files outside the repo — and rotation when someone leaves.
Keys, no root password, dedicated sudo user and fail2ban — four reflexes that eliminate most automated SSH compromises on a fresh VPS.
ALL-INKL is reputed for complete German plans without aggressive upsell. IONOS compresses entry price then multiplies options. For simple shared hosting, compare TCO — not checkout first line.
Open 22, 80, and 443 — then deny everything else by default. A missing or misordered firewall leaves Redis and MySQL exposed to global scans in minutes.
A WAF blocks some SQLi and XSS scans before they hit WordPress—but also causes false positives. Position it as a net, not an excuse for insecure code.
You do not need to be a multinational to suffer a flood — WordPress conflict, extortion, opportunist botnet. A small VPS with no headroom falls in minutes.
Greenhost is a committed Dutch host (energy, open source, ethics). TransIP is a powerful generalist Dutch cloud. The choice pits mission against technical scalability.
InnoDB, tested backups, limited users, and indexed queries—the MySQL foundations we postpone until the site falls under load or after an accidental DROP.
Managed Postgres promises peace of mind, but patching, backups, and HA must be read in the contract. Here is what leaves your plate—and what stays your problem.
Redis does three different jobs depending on config. Mixing volatile cache and user sessions on one instance without strategy leads to mysterious logouts and lost jobs.
Simply.com (Denmark) and 20i (UK) sell white-label reseller programmes. To launch European hosting, compare billing, datacenters, support and post-Brexit dependency.
Edge is not "run everything on Cloudflare". It is choosing which milliseconds — TLS, cache, auth, personalisation — deserve to be won near the user without moving your SQL database.
Serverless shines on rare spikes, short tasks and event pipelines — not on a permanent HTTP monolith. Here are cases where per-millisecond billing beats an idle VPS.
A VPS gives control and operational load. PaaS absorbs deployment and scaling — against less freedom and sometimes opaque billing. How to choose without cloud ideology.
Mittwald is the German WordPress reference for agencies with containerization and DE support. Raidboxes targets European agencies with multi-site dashboards and ecology. When growth arrives, the agency model beats unit price.