Where to host a web app in Austria in 2026

If your app's servers must sit in Austria, Exoscale has two zones in Vienna with virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and managed Postgres, and Anexia, a cloud company from Klagenfurt, provisions capacity in Vienna and Klagenfurt. easyname rents VPS servers in a Vienna data centre at a fixed monthly price, and Microsoft Azure runs a region called Austria East in Vienna.

If a European location is enough and you'd rather push code than manage servers, Eurobase deploys from Git or a coding agent for a flat monthly price, but it doesn't run in Austria.

Austrian hosting at a glance

Platform	Company	Location in Austria	What you get	Starts at
Exoscale	Lausanne, Switzerland	Two zones in Vienna	Virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed Postgres	Micro instance at €0.00729 an hour, excl. tax
Anexia	Klagenfurt, Austria	Vienna and Klagenfurt	Virtual machines and Kubernetes through Anexia Engine	Not stated
easyname	Austria	Vienna	VPS servers and web hosting	€6.90 a month incl. 20% VAT after a 3-month offer
Microsoft Azure	United States	Austria East region in Vienna	Azure services, availability varies by region	Not stated
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	None	Git and agent deploys for frameworks and containers	Free, then €10 a month + VAT

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

What to check first

• Whether Austria is a real requirement. GDPR applies the same way in every EU country. A public tender, a bank or a hospital may still write "data in Austria" into a contract, so read the contract before you narrow your options.
• Who owns the provider. A region in Vienna run by a US company is a different legal position from an Austrian or Swiss company. EU region vs EU company explains why.
• How much of the stack you'll run. A VPS gives you a blank Linux machine. Patching, TLS, deploys and backups are then your work, every month.
• Where the database lives. Putting the app in Vienna and the database somewhere else defeats the point. Check that a managed database is offered in the same place.
• How the bill behaves. Hourly billing grows with what you run, a fixed VPS price doesn't, and promotional prices end after a set period.

1. Exoscale

Exoscale is run by Akenes SA in Lausanne and is part of A1 Digital. It has eight zones in Europe, and two of them are in Vienna: AT-VIE-1 in the Arsenal, a former military complex, and AT-VIE-2 in the A1 Next Generation Data Center. Instances are billed by the second, managed PostgreSQL is listed as available in all zones, and there's managed Kubernetes called SKS. Its compliance page lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a BSI C5 attestation, covered in BSI C5 explained.

• Best for: apps and databases that must stay in Vienna, with a second Vienna zone for failover.
• Price: the Micro instance, with 1 core and 512 MB, costs €0.00729 an hour excl. tax, about €5.32 over a 730-hour month. Disk is billed separately.
• What it lacks: deploys straight from a Git push. Setting up the server or container image and the pipeline that ships it stays with you.

2. Anexia

Anexia is headquartered in Klagenfurt, with offices in Vienna, Graz, Karlsruhe and New York, and holds a seat on the board of CISPE, the European cloud providers' association. Its locations list shows cloud capacity available in Vienna and Klagenfurt, along with many other cities. Through the Anexia Engine you manage KVM-based virtual servers, Kubernetes clusters, DNS and certificates by web interface, API or Terraform.

• Best for: companies that want an Austrian provider and a sales team to design the setup with them.
• Price: not published. Anexia asks you to request a consultation.
• What it lacks: self-serve prices you can compare before talking to sales.

3. easyname

easyname sells domains, web hosting and VPS servers, and says its cloud servers are housed in its ISO/IEC 27001-certified data centre in Vienna. The smallest Linux VPS has 1 vCore, 2 GB of RAM and 50 GB of SSD storage with root access.

• Best for: a small app, a WordPress or PHP site, or a single Docker host at a fixed monthly price.
• Price: €0.49 a month for the first 3 months, then €6.90 a month, both incl. 20% VAT. Larger servers follow the same pattern, for example €10.90 a month for 2 vCores and 4 GB after the offer.
• What it lacks: managed app deploys. You install the runtime, a reverse proxy and your own update routine.

4. Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's region list shows Austria East in Vienna, with three availability zones and no paired region. Each Azure service is billed on its own, and not every service is offered in every region, so check that the ones you need are listed for Austria East.

• Best for: teams already on Azure that need a contract to name Austria.
• Price: depends on each service. Use Microsoft's calculator.
• What it lacks: a European owner. Microsoft is a US company, so the data sits in Austria while the provider answers to US law as well.

5. Eurobase

Eurobase isn't an Austrian host. It's included because many people asking this question really want a European home for their app, not a Viennese one. You connect a repository on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea, and each push ships to European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider. Next.js, Astro, Nuxt and similar frameworks run on V8 isolates, and servers in Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET run as containers. Coding agents can ship through its MCP server and CLI.

• Best for: an Austrian team whose app may live anywhere in the EU and who doesn't want to run servers.
• Price: a Free plan, then €10 a month for Starter or €20 a month for Pro, + VAT, per workspace. There are no usage charges today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
• Company: a business registered in Warsaw, Poland.
• What it lacks: a location in Austria, preview deployments, managed Postgres, MySQL or Redis, and Dockerfile builds. It doesn't hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 yet; both are in progress. GitHub and GitLab Inc. become US subprocessors when you connect them, as the subprocessor list shows.

How to choose

1. The contract says Austria and you want managed services: Exoscale, with app and Postgres in the same Vienna zone.
2. You want an Austrian company and a tailored setup: talk to Anexia.
3. One small server at a fixed price is enough: an easyname VPS, if you're fine maintaining it.
4. Your company already runs on Azure: pick Austria East and keep your tooling.
5. Europe is enough and you'd rather not run servers: Eurobase, or another platform from best European PaaS.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to host in Austria to comply with GDPR?

No. GDPR treats every EU country the same, so a server in Germany, France or Poland is as lawful as one in Vienna. Austria becomes a must only when a contract, a tender or an industry rule names it. Data residency vs data sovereignty covers the difference.

Which cloud providers have data centres in Vienna?

Exoscale has two zones there, Anexia lists several Vienna locations with cloud capacity, easyname runs its VPS servers in a Vienna data centre, and Microsoft Azure's Austria East region is in Vienna.

Is Exoscale an Austrian company?

No. Exoscale is run by Akenes SA, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is part of A1 Digital. Two of its eight zones are in Vienna, so your data can stay in Austria while the contract is with a Swiss company.

How much does a small app server in Vienna cost?

An easyname Linux VPS with 2 GB of RAM is €6.90 a month incl. 20% VAT once the 3-month offer ends. An Exoscale Micro instance is €0.00729 an hour excl. tax, plus disk. Both leave the operating system and deploys to you.

Can I run Next.js on a server in Austria?

Yes, on a VPS or a virtual machine in Vienna you can run it with Node.js, a process manager and a reverse proxy. If you don't need the Austrian location, the Next.js hosting guide compares managed options in Europe.

Sources

• Exoscale: data centers
• Exoscale: pricing
• Exoscale: managed PostgreSQL
• Anexia: company
• Anexia: locations
• Anexia: Anexia Engine
• easyname: home page
• easyname: VPS servers
• Microsoft: list of Azure regions
• Microsoft: Azure geographies
• Eurobase: plans, containers, agents and subprocessors