Ireland hosts the European headquarters of much of the technology industry, which makes its data protection commission the authority that sets precedent for everyone else.
Being established in Ireland means answering to the regulator whose decisions other authorities cite afterwards.
Who processes what, where it is held, and which subprocessors are involved — kept as documents rather than assembled after an enquiry arrives.
The site, its backups and its request logs stay inside the EU, and we will name the location rather than describing a network.
The registry requires evidence of a genuine link to Ireland, which is a documentation step rather than a payment. We will tell you what it involves before you commit.
Visitor addresses are truncated before being written, so diagnostics stay useful without building a retention obligation nobody chose.
Irish and UK audiences overlap heavily, and delivery is arranged so serving one does not mean a long trip for the other.
Irish infrastructure is excellent and the hosting is straightforward. What makes Ireland different is being answerable to an authority with more open technology cases than any other in the union.
Ireland is compact and well connected, so performance is a solved problem. The work is being able to answer precisely where everything is.
The technical setup is ordinary EU hosting. The difference is how completely you have to be able to describe it.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Processing records | Maintained continuously rather than produced on request | An enquiry from the authority that sets EU precedent is not the moment to start working out which subprocessors touch your data. |
| Residency | Origin, backups and logs pinned to the EU together | Residency covering the live site but not its copies is the version that collapses under examination, and it is what most providers actually ship. |
| Log identifiers | Visitor addresses truncated before the line is written | Full addresses in plain log files create a retention obligation that nobody made a decision about and nobody is monitoring. |
| .ie registration | Eligibility requirements explained before purchase | The registry requires evidence of a genuine connection to Ireland, so a domain can be paid for and still not be granted. |
| Cross-island delivery | Arranged for overlapping Irish and UK audiences | Most Irish sites serve both markets, and optimising for one at the other's expense is a choice usually made by accident. |
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
Move the site to an EU origin — migration is free, records provided.