Sovereign Drupal Hosting, Self-Host or Managed | Omega8.cc

Sovereignty comes down to four plain questions: who holds the root password, where your data physically lives (including where your site's AI sends it), who decides when the software under your sites changes, and whether you can walk away with it. Most managed Drupal answers all four for you (Pantheon runs on Google Cloud, Acquia runs on Amazon's), and you host where they host, or not at all.
Our answer is the other arrangement: you decide, in every mode, on a stack no single vendor can pull out from under you. It is the rule under everything we do: we don't strand the people who trusted us. Leaving is always possible, which is exactly what makes staying a choice, not a trap.
Owning the stack includes owning its memory: every hosting server keeps XDR9000, a permanent, append-only record of its own defence and health history, every attack blocked, every self-repair, every backup outcome, kept and readable on the server itself, not in a vendor dashboard that expires with the contract.
You are not locked to one of those answers, either. The same hardened, self-healing stack (BOA, the open-source stack behind everything we run) runs three ways, and these are modes, not tiers. On a hosted plan your sites live in your own isolated instance of Ægir, the open-source control panel that manages whole fleets of sites. What changes between the modes is only how much of the running you hold; what does not change is the platform, the data format and the exit, so you move between them without replatforming.
Hosting on our hardened Ægir stack. We keep the servers, the updates and the security running; you keep your focus and expertise.
The same hardened stack on servers you own, almost any provider or country. We handle as much of the day-to-day sysadmin as you choose.
BOA, the open-source stack behind everything we run, Free forever on its long-term-support branch. Read the docs at docs.boa.io and go.
None of that is tied to our hardware. The whole stack runs on almost any server, in any country: no Docker or Kubernetes required, no single cloud to be locked to.
This page settles which way you want to own it: the three cards above are the modes, side by side; then price it on the hosted plans or BOA PRO for your own servers.
Here is the part no hyperscaler platform can copy, and no pure self-hosting project can either: the managed plan and the run-it-yourself stack are the same stack. Start on a hosted plan and bring it in-house on a BOA PRO licence when you want our sysadmins behind it, or run the same free long-term-support branch outright. It is the same BOA platform and the same standard data at every step, so moving is more like a change of address than a migration: no export-and-rebuild, no new platform to learn.
Pantheon, Acquia and Upsun each run only on their own cloud: no self-hosting, no bring-your-own-provider. The dated receipts behind those lines are on the why page and the comparison pages.
A stack is only as sovereign as the parts beneath it. When a component's owner turns it against the people who depend on it, we move, on principle, every time. When Red Hat's systemd was imposed, we moved to Devuan, the systemd-free Debian fork built by Debian veterans. When MariaDB drifted from MySQL compatibility, we moved to Percona. When Redis relicensed to a restrictive corporate model, we adopted the open Valkey fork. Each is a deliberate step away from a vendor-controlled default, so no owner's licence change can be pushed down into the stack under your sites.
The instinct that will not abandon a customer will not be captured by a vendor either. We won't drag you off a cliff, and we won't let Oracle, Red Hat or an investor's licence change drag us off one. For universities, public bodies, NGOs and sovereignty-sensitive businesses, that two-way independence is the product itself.
The loop runs both ways.
For the record, we tell you exactly who you are dealing with: omega8.cc is Omega8cc Ltd, a UK limited company with a European office in Warsaw, run by one team since 1995. No private-equity owner, no rebrand carousel. But the whole point of sovereignty is that you should not have to take a vendor's location, or its promises, on trust. You don't have to. The stack is yours to read, to run and to move, developed in the open at github.com/omega8cc/boa, where reports and requests go too, while we keep watching the Drupal.org issue queues of the Ægir projects and backport the useful fixes found there. The safest place for your sites is wherever you decide to put them. You choose the country your sites run in, and that choice stays yours, not a vendor's.
If your obligations are formal, the data-protection terms live at data protection and GDPR.
The short version, point by point:
Sovereignty here is a dial you set where you want and move whenever you like. Weigh us against your current host, vendor by vendor, on Compare; read why continuity is the whole argument on the why page; and the product itself, documented in full, lives at docs.boa.io.
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BOA is an acronym of high performance Barracuda, Octopus and Ægir LEMP server stack. Barracuda installs and monitors all essential system services, while Octopus installs Ægir together with its ready Ægir Platforms: Drupal, the current cores and a dozen distributions such as Drupal CMS, Commerce, EzContent, farmOS, LocalGov, OpenCulturas, OpenFed, Opigno LMS, Open Social, Thunder, Ubercart and Varbase, with CiviCRM; Backdrop CMS, with CiviCRM and a built-in Drupal 6 → 7 → Backdrop upgrade chain; Grav CMS, with KahunaCart shops; and Textpattern CMS. BOA is Free/Libre Open Source Software. Backdrop is on by default e