A Sovereign Cloud You Can Point At On A Map
Sovereign cloud hosting on hardware we own and operate in the United States: your data under U.S. law, on servers with an address, run by a company that answers to nobody else’s acceptable-use policy.
Sovereign Cloud: The Short Answer
A sovereign cloud is infrastructure where you know which country your data sits in, which company controls the hardware and whose law applies to it. Ours runs on servers LiberationTek owns and operates in the United States — not rented capacity resold from a hyperscaler — starting at $59 a month on annual billing for a managed VPS, with email from $1.95 per user a month on the same infrastructure.
The distinction matters because most “private” clouds are a reseller account on somebody else’s platform. NIST’s definition of cloud computing is about service models, not about who holds the keys. A sovereign cloud is a question of ownership and jurisdiction, and it is answerable in one sentence or not at all.
Three Questions That Sort Real Sovereignty From Marketing
Who owns the hardware?
If your provider rents its capacity, its landlord’s acceptable-use policy sits above its own, and you are subject to two sets of rules — only one of which was written by the company you pay. We own ours.
Which country is the data in, and under whose law?
“Global cloud infrastructure” usually means the provider does not decide. Ours is in the United States, under U.S. law and U.S. legal process, in facilities we can name.
What happens if someone objects to your content?
A platform that can be pressured upstream can be switched off upstream. Our policy is our own, it is published, and lawful speech is not a violation of it.
Sovereignty is not a feature you enable. It is a set of facts about who owns what, and any provider should be able to state them plainly.
- Managed VPS and dedicated servers From $59 a month on annual billing, with the operating system, patching and monitoring handled rather than left to you.
- Business email and collaboration Liberation Email from $1.95 per user a month and Hub for Teams from $7.49, on the same infrastructure rather than brokered from a third party.
- Websites, stores and applications WordPress, WooCommerce and custom applications, with backups that have been restored and a firewall in front.
- Mail that sends from our own SMTP servers Campaign and transactional mail on infrastructure we run, not a relay that can drop you at short notice.
What Runs On It
Who Moves To A Sovereign Cloud, And Why
Organisations that were deplatformed once
Campaigns, advocacy groups, firearms retailers and ministries that have lost a payment processor, a mail service or a host over policy rather than law. Continuity, not ideology, is what they are buying.
Public entities and regulated practices
Cities, districts and healthcare practices that have to say where records live and who can reach them, and want retention configured to a schedule rather than to a vendor’s defaults.
Businesses tired of renting everything
Companies that have watched per-user cloud pricing climb and want infrastructure with a fixed, knowable cost and a person to call.
Background reading: the sovereign cloud shift, digital sovereignty for businesses and our American cloud provider checklist.
- Start with one workload Usually mail or the website. Move it, live with it for a month, then decide about the rest.
- Copy before you cut over Data is copied while the old platform is live, with a final sync at the switch. Nothing is deleted on the way.
- Keep what still works If a system you rely on has no equivalent here, we say so. A sovereign cloud plan that ignores a tool your business runs on is not a plan.
Moving Without A Big Bang
- Managed VPS from $59 a month on annual billing, $79 month-to-month
- Larger managed VPS tiers at $99, $159 and $239 a month on annual billing
- Dedicated and build-your-own cloud servers — configured and quoted per workload
- Liberation Email from $1.95 per user a month; Mail Pro $7.95
- Hub for Teams from $7.49 per user a month, with private cloud at 10+ users
- Encrypted off-site backups from $2.09 a month
- Migration from your current platform, run with you
- U.S.-owned hardware, U.S. facilities, U.S. support
Sovereign Cloud FAQs
What is a sovereign cloud?
A sovereign cloud is infrastructure where you know which country the data is stored in, which company owns and controls the hardware and whose law applies. Ours is owned and operated by LiberationTek in the United States.
How is this different from a private cloud on AWS or Azure?
A private environment on a hyperscaler is still subject to that platform’s terms and its acceptable-use policy. We own the hardware, so our policy is the only one that applies to your workload.
What does a sovereign cloud cost?
A managed VPS starts at $59 a month on annual billing, or $79 month-to-month, with larger tiers at $99, $159 and $239. Email on the same infrastructure starts at $1.95 per user a month.
Can you tell us exactly where our data is?
Yes. We will name the facility your workload runs in. If a provider cannot do that, it is not a sovereign cloud.
Do we have to move everything at once?
No, and we would advise against it. Most customers move one workload — usually mail or the website — live with it, then plan the rest.
What is your policy on content?
Our acceptable-use policy is published, it is ours rather than a landlord’s, and lawful speech does not violate it. Illegal activity and spam do.
Is a sovereign cloud slower or less reliable?
No. It is the same class of hardware and network, with monitoring and tested backups. What changes is who is accountable for it — a company you can reach, rather than a support queue.
Ask Us Where Your Data Would Live
Book a call and we will tell you exactly which facility your workload would run in, what the sovereign cloud migration looks like and what it costs — before you commit to anything.
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