EU VPS hosting and GDPR: what to check

What 'GDPR-compliant hosting' really means

No host can make your application GDPR-compliant — compliance is about how you collect, store and process personal data. What a host can do is not get in your way: keep data in the EU if you ask, sign the paperwork that makes you the controller and them the processor, and avoid quietly tracking your visitors. This is a practical checklist for that, and where IntoClouds stands on each point.

Keep the data in the EU

Deploy your server in an EU region and keep it there. IntoClouds offers Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany and Helsinki in Finland — all EU data centers. (US regions in Virginia and Oregon and one in Singapore also exist; simply don’t pick those if EU residency is a requirement.) You choose the region at create time; nothing moves it afterwards without you.

Sign a Data Processing Addendum

Server region does not describe every data flow. Review backups, connected services and subprocessors in the DPA and Privacy Policy.

Data Processing Addendum · Privacy Policy

No tracking bolted onto your account

We do not track browsing or advertising activity. Internal reporting uses existing account, billing and service records. You control any analytics installed on your own server.

The part that's still on you

• Back up application data and the database, then test a restore. Docker named volumes are not contained in the Compose project directory.
• Your own SPF/DKIM/DMARC and access controls. Mailboxes you turn on get the right DNS records written for you; how you secure accounts and who you grant access to is your call.
• Records of processing and lawful basis. No host provides these — they describe your service, not ours.

Want the residency and paperwork sorted without four separate vendors? See the pricing page or the EU VPS pricing breakdown, then create an account and pick an EU region.