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Elemental Hosting

Your website or application on European servers, looked after by a nonprofit.

Many organisations run their websites and applications on large American cloud platforms, without a clear view of where their data is or whose laws apply to it. Elemental Hosting is our own hosting, at elementalhosting.eu. Everything runs in Hetzner data centres in the EU, and we set up and look after the servers ourselves.

You get an application that keeps running and people who keep it safe. You do not need to manage a server yourself.

What you get

A server of your own. Your application runs on its own server, not shared with other customers. A problem somewhere else stays there.
Security updates. The server installs security updates by itself. When a serious flaw turns up in the software your application is built on, we update it, test it and put it live.
Backed up every night, in two places. An encrypted copy leaves the server every night. Our standard setup keeps it at two separate providers in Europe, and we regularly restore it to prove it works.
Watched. Uptime monitoring and alerts on the servers and on the backups. You can check how things stand yourself on our public status page.

Quick to act when it matters

On 21 October 2026, PHP announced fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities. PHP is the language many web applications are written in, including several of ours. We took the affected services offline as a precaution before the details were out, and had every one of our PHP applications updated, tested and back online the same day.

Who it is for

Organisations that want their website or application to run in Europe, looked after by people they can reach.

Software we build

From code to server

We host what we build for you, so one party is responsible for the application and the server under it.

Your own application

Built elsewhere

An application made by your own team or another supplier. We run it on its own server and keep that server up to date.

Simple websites

Plain pages

Websites like this one: fast, with no trackers, served from a shared server at a low cost.

Why European, and why a nonprofit

Where your data is stored decides whose laws apply to it. Our servers are in the EU and run by a Dutch foundation, so your data stays under European law, including the GDPR.

We do not sell data, show ads or add trackers. Everything is built on open-source software, so you are never locked in: your application can move to another host if you want it to.

About

Elemental Hosting is one of our own services. We are Stichting Elemental (the Elemental Foundation), a Dutch nonprofit that builds software and digital infrastructure that keeps working when things go wrong. See also our engineering services, for when the application itself still has to be built.

Contact

Tell us what you want to run, and we will tell you how we would host it. Feel free to send us an email at: inbox@elementalfoundation.eu