Digital sovereignty is the practice of keeping your data, communications, and infrastructure under your own control. These guides cover the tools and patterns that take you off the hyperscaler treadmill: self-hosted email, encrypted messaging, decentralised identity, hardware wallets, offline backups, and operational security practices that work in daily life. Not paranoia, prudence. Privacy is a right, not a suspicious activity. The goal is a dual persona that lets you participate in normal society without surrendering ownership of your digital footprint. Whether you are protecting a journalist source, locking down a business, or just tired of being the product, the approach is the same: own the stack.
From zero to a working multi-domain Mailcow email server: the DNS that actually matters, the firewall gotchas nobody mentions, and how to prove your mail arrives.
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European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure is set to triple from 6.7 billion dollars in 2025 to 23.1 billion by 2027. The EU just awarded 180 million euros to four European providers. Meanwhile, the UK does not have a sovereign cloud strategy at all.
European Sovereign Cloud Spending to Triple by 2027: Where Does the UK Stand? Read More »
Sadiq Khan just blocked a 50 million pound AI deal between the Met Police and Palantir. The NHS has a contract break clause approaching in February 2027. And the total value of UK government contracts with this single US firm exceeds 670 million pounds.
The Met Police, Palantir, and the 670M Pound Question About Who Controls UK Data Read More »
A German state has migrated 30,000 workstations away from Microsoft, moved 40,000 email accounts off Exchange, and is saving over 15 million euros a year in licence costs. This is not a proof of concept. It is 80% done.
Germany Migrates 30,000 Workstations from Microsoft: What Comes After Office 365? Read More »
France just told 2.5 million civil servants to stop using Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and every other non-European videoconferencing platform. The replacement? A tool built in-house by the French government’s own digital directorate.
France Ditches Microsoft for Government Use: The Biggest Sovereign Tech Shift in Europe Read More »
The Dutch government just blocked a US company from buying the host of their national identity system. The reason? The CLOUD Act. This is what jurisdictional risk looks like in practice, and it matters for every IT professional.
Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of National ID System: What It Means for IT Professionals Read More »
A weekend rabbit hole worth sharing. I stumbled across Project NOMAD a few days ago. It’s an open-source bundle (Apache 2.0, runs in Docker) that puts the useful parts of the internet on a Raspberry Pi or a mini-PC. The first thing that surprised me was that I’d never heard of it. The second was
Project NOMAD: Self-Hosted Internet in a Box for Practitioners Read More »
From Gmail to self-hosted – understanding email privacy, control, and the spectrum of options. A practical guide to email sovereignty.
Email Sovereignty: Why Your Email Provider Matters in 2026 Read More »
The hosting landscape has fundamentally changed in the last three years. If you last looked in 2022, you probably still think the choice is “shared hosting for a tenner a month, or a VPS if you’re technical.” In 2026 there are four realistic ways to put a website on the public internet, and the right
How to Host Your Own Website in 2026: Four Realistic Options Read More »
83% of enterprises say they plan to bring workloads back from public cloud. Sovereign cloud spending is projected to hit $80 billion this year. The direction of travel is clear. But direction isn’t capability. I’ve spent 20 years building infrastructure – enterprise, cloud, and self-hosted. I architect Azure environments during the day and run my
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