Alternativa solo UE a Vultr.
Vultr (operated by The Constant Company LLC) is a US-headquartered IaaS with strong global region coverage including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Madrid and Stockholm. The EU regions are EU-located, the parent is US-controlled, and the CLOUD Act analysis matches every other US IaaS in this guide. Vultr has carved out a niche on bare metal and GPU offerings, both of which have credible EU sovereign equivalents. The migration is mechanically simple — Vultr's product set is intentionally narrow.
"Región UE" no es soberanía. Cuatro preguntas lo deciden.
La residencia de datos indica dónde están los bits. La soberanía indica qué sistema jurídico puede obligar al acceso. La respuesta debe cumplirse en los cuatro puntos — o el stack no es soberano.
¿Dónde se almacenan físicamente los datos?
No "en la nube" — qué datacenter, en qué país, bajo qué jurisdicción.
¿Quién más está en su ruta de datos?
Cada proveedor que toca los datos: el CDN, el relay de correo, el rastreador de errores, el pipeline de analítica.
¿Qué leyes pueden obligar a la divulgación?
Un proveedor con sede en EE. UU. está sujeto a la FISA 702 y la CLOUD Act — incluso cuando los datos están en Fráncfort.
¿Quién posee realmente las claves de cifrado?
Si el proveedor cloud tiene tanto los datos como las claves, puede leerlos — independientemente del DPA.
Falla en jurisdicción y custodia de claves.
Bits en la UE, matriz con sede en EE. UU., subprocesadores estadounidenses en la ruta por defecto, claves gestionadas por el proveedor.
Pasa en los cuatro.
Alojado en la UE sobre infraestructura con sede europea. Cero subprocesadores estadounidenses en la ruta por defecto. Claves del cliente o de un KMS europeo. Nombrados en su DPA del Artículo 28.
Por qué los equipos están saliendo Vultr
Vultr migrations we have seen come from procurement audits (B2B SaaS or fintech), GDPR DPO reviews flagging Vultr as a US-jurisdictional processor, or — increasingly in 2025–2026 — companies reading their own DPA carefully and realising "Vultr LLC, US" is not a defensible answer to a regulator question. The EU bare-metal alternatives at Hetzner, Leaseweb and OVH are well-established, generally cheaper, and operate under EU law.
Vultr servicios y sus equivalentes solo en la UE
Una migración no es "cambiar una caja por otra". El mapeo a continuación es lo que ejecutamos para los clientes que dejan Vultr por motivos Schrems II — plena jurisdicción UE, sin matriz US en la ruta de datos.
| Vultr servicio | Alternativa solo UE | Nota de ingeniería |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Compute | Hetzner Cloud, OVH Public Cloud, Scaleway Instances | Standard VM migration; image rebuild and IP allocation, no application changes for most stacks. |
| Bare Metal | Hetzner dedicated servers, OVH dedicated, Leaseweb dedicated | Hetzner has the strongest bare-metal price/performance in the EU; provisioning typically takes minutes (auction servers) to hours (new builds). |
| Optimized Cloud Compute (CPU-Optimized, Memory, Storage) | Hetzner CCX (CPU-optimized), OVH HG (high-memory), Scaleway POP2 | Each EU provider has equivalent specialised instance families; Hetzner CCX in particular is highly competitive. |
| Object Storage | OVH Object Storage, Wasabi EU, Bunny Storage, MinIO self-hosted | S3-compatible across all options; migration is one config change in your application. |
| VKE (Vultr Kubernetes Engine) | Scaleway Kapsule, OVH Managed Kubernetes, Talos on Hetzner | Managed K8s parity; Helm charts and YAML transfer cleanly. |
| Block Storage | Hetzner Volumes, OVH Block Storage, Scaleway Block Storage | Standard NVMe-backed volumes everywhere. |
| Vultr File Storage (VFS) | OVH NAS-HA, self-hosted NFS or CephFS on EU compute | Shared filesystems are less common in EU managed offerings; self-hosted CephFS or GlusterFS is the standard pattern. |
| Managed Databases | OVH Managed Databases, Aiven, Scaleway Managed DB | PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis equivalents on all options. |
| GPU Instances (NVIDIA H100, A100, L40S) | Hetzner GPU servers, Scaleway H100 instances, OVHcloud GPU | For training and inference, Scaleway and Hetzner have current-generation GPU offerings under EU jurisdiction. |
| Vultr CDN | Bunny.net, KeyCDN | Bunny is the migration target for nearly every CDN exit in this guide. |
| Vultr DNS | Hetzner DNS, Bunny DNS, deSEC | Standard zone migration. |
| Vultr Load Balancer | Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer, OVH Load Balancer, HAProxy self-managed | L4/L7 load balancing on all EU options. |
| Reserved IPs | Hetzner Floating IPs, OVH Failover IPs | All EU providers offer the equivalent failover-IP pattern. |
Cómo migramos desde Vultr
Una migración típica de mid-market se desarrolla en tres fases. Los números a continuación asumen un equipo de ingeniería de 6 a 10 personas y un stack de aplicación moderadamente complejo.
Inventory
List instances, bare-metal nodes, Object Storage buckets, DNS zones. Identify any Vultr API automations to rewrite. Vultr inventories are usually small.
Soft swap
DNS, Object Storage, monitoring moved to EU-jurisdictional alternatives. Database replicas pre-staged. CI/CD updated.
Compute & bare-metal cutover
VMs reprovisioned on Hetzner. Bare-metal workloads moved to Hetzner or Leaseweb dedicated. GPU workloads moved to Scaleway H100. K8s clusters cutover with managed EU K8s.
Vultr-to-EU TCO: typically 30–45% cheaper, with the largest gains on bare metal (Hetzner is ~40% lower per equivalent spec) and GPU (Scaleway H100 hourly pricing is competitive). Egress savings are modest because Vultr has reasonable bandwidth pricing already.
Preguntas frecuentes
Vultr has many EU regions — does that solve Schrems II?
No. The Constant Company LLC (Vultr's legal entity) is US-headquartered. The EU regions are operated under US corporate control and subject to the CLOUD Act. Region selection addresses residency only.
How does Hetzner bare metal compare to Vultr bare metal?
Hetzner has roughly 30–50% better price/performance on equivalent specs, particularly on the auction/used-server market. Provisioning is faster on Hetzner Cloud, slower on Hetzner Dedicated (1–24 hours). Vultr's bare metal advantage was historically the global region count; for EU-only workloads, that advantage doesn't apply.
What about GPU workloads — are EU options really competitive?
Yes for current-generation hardware. Scaleway has H100 instances available with EU jurisdiction. Hetzner has consumer/professional GPU servers. OVH has GPU instances including A100. The specific pricing varies but for the H100 generation, Scaleway is often the best EU option. For older generations (V100, T4), Hetzner is often cheaper.
How long does a Vultr migration take?
Typical workload (5–20 instances, some Object Storage, DNS): 2–5 weeks elapsed. With a managed partner driving it: 1–3 weeks. Vultr's product simplicity is a virtue here.
Can we move just the EU-customer-facing workloads?
Yes, this is a common partial pattern. Move EU-customer-facing infrastructure to a sovereign stack, keep Vultr for non-EU traffic. The discipline is to keep personal data of EU subjects strictly on the sovereign side, which often requires data segregation work in the application.
Will the migration cause downtime?
Not when done with proper choreography. Database migration via logical replication, compute via DNS-level traffic shift, object storage via dual-write — all standard zero-downtime patterns.
Planifique su salida de Vultr.
Llamada de alcance de 30 minutos. Mapeamos su stack frente a alternativas solo UE, estimamos el esfuerzo de migración y le decimos si es la decisión correcta.