Made in the EU, hosted in Germany and running on 100% renewable energy
We have now moved all of the website data from servers in the UK to servers in Germany.
This makes us more comfortable in the long run in terms of data security and privacy especially considering the doubts surrounding Brexit and its impact on the privacy laws in the UK.
And of no less importance, we’re now running on 100% renewable energy, which should further minimize our impact on the planet. Let’s look closer at these details.
Moving the data to Germany
Our main priority has always been and will continue to be not to collect and store any personal data in the first place. We’re private by design and we minimize any data collection in general. Whatever we store, such as your website traffic stats, is kept fully secured and encrypted. You can read more about it on our about page.
Some members of the community raised concern that our database, customer and site data was hosted on a server in the UK. Especially with the concerns about how Brexit will impact GDPR and other privacy laws in the UK, it made sense to move the data to the European Union to ensure being covered by its strict laws on data privacy in the future.
Our server is now hosted with Hetzner and located in a data center in Falkenstein, Germany. Hetzner is a European company. This ensures that all of the website data is being covered by the European Union’s strict laws on data privacy.
We use Bunny (another European-owned provider from Slovenia) for a global CDN and DDoS protection. This ensures that all visitor data we collect is exclusively processed with servers owned and operated by European companies.
As a Plausible user, you don’t have to worry about Schrems II and that it invalidates the EU-US Privacy Shield. Your website data never leaves the EU. Plausible is incorporated, made and hosted in the EU using only European-owned cloud infrastructure.
We’re confident and comfortable with Germany as an integral part of the EU that our server will continue to adhere to all the GDPR and other strong European and German privacy standards, laws and regulations even after the Brexit.
Moving to being 100% powered by renewable energy
We’re now also 100% powered by renewable and sustainable energy which is great in further minimizing our impact on the planet. Plausible Analytics script is very lightweight as well.
Give Plausible Analytics a chance
After using Google Analytics for many years we believe we have created a better alternative for some site owners and some use cases. Plausible Analytics gives you a web analytics tool that is:
- Open source with the code available on GitHub
- Simple to understand and get insights from in one minute
- A lightweight script so your site keeps loading fast
- Doesn’t use cookies so there’s no need for cookie banners
- Doesn’t collect personal data so no need for GDPR and CCPA consent prompts
- All the data is hosted on servers owned by Hetzner (a European company) in Germany. The data never leaves the EU
If this sounds interesting, do register for a trial. Our script is tiny so you can try and run it alongside Google Analytics. The free trial is for 30 days and no credit card is required.
