We build what we'd want to buy
Anchras is a Belgian, EU-grounded private cloud and managed self-hosting company. Our control plane runs in the EU; customers choose where workloads and data run. We name our software and document our compliance posture instead of claiming it.
The cloud was supposed to simplify infrastructure. It traded one kind of complexity for another.
Public cloud is fast to start and slow to leave. Egress fees, opaque pricing, shared-tenancy compliance theatre, a jurisdiction you did not choose, and terms that change without notice: the cost of convenience compounds. For organisations in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare, government, energy), the public-cloud model introduces risk that no amount of shared-responsibility documentation can offset.
The alternative, building infrastructure yourself, demands specialists, on-call rotations, hardware refresh cycles, and capital expenditure that competes with the thing you are actually trying to ship. Most teams cannot justify the second route, so they accept the first.
Anchras is the third option. We package the operations work, the curated software, the networking, and the AI governance into one control plane while you keep control over workload placement, data, and jurisdiction. The control stays yours; the operational burden does not.
Private cloud and managed self-hosting, from Belgium, with an EU-hosted control plane and explicit workload placement.
Anchras Platform is the operator surface: register Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, or XCP-ng capacity; install Anchras Node OS; connect cloud accounts; run VMs, containers, and Kubernetes; deploy curated software; manage Tailscale or Headscale networking; and operate governed AI. The control plane runs in our EU region; workload placement remains your choice and the infrastructure work lives with us. The platform is in closed beta. Compliance posture is GDPR by jurisdiction, with security controls documented and open to review; certifications and sector-specific frameworks are scoped per engagement, not pre-claimed.
Adjacent to the platform sit the Anchras professional services for migration, virtualisation, and security-and-compliance review, and the Selfhosting catalog, an open community resource where the same Sovereignty Score discipline scores any open-source app you might run.
Four principles. Zero hedging.
These are the lines the work cannot cross. They guide product decisions, contract language, and what we are willing to say on a marketing page.
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Sovereignty
Your workloads on capacity and in a jurisdiction you choose, with explicit tenancy and placement rather than hidden defaults. Portable runtimes reduce lock-in. The Sovereignty Score on every catalog app, security controls documented and open to review, GDPR by jurisdiction rather than by checkbox.
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Security
Defence in depth as the baseline. Private-by-default networking on your tailnet, secrets sealed per organisation, tenant isolation enforced at the database row, an append-only audit log for infrastructure actions and another for AI decisions. Stated as facts in plain language: never weaponised, never theatre.
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Simplicity
The operations work lives with us; the infrastructure stays with you. Pricing and terms stated in writing up front, a clean operator surface, contracts that read like an engineer wrote them. No hidden complexity.
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Sustainability
Long-term partnerships, not short-term extraction. Efficient resource use, hardware refresh cycles planned and stated, and a business model that has us here next year. EU-grounded means EU-incorporated, EU-operated, EU-taxed.
Built for EU organisations where data residency, regulatory posture, and infrastructure control are not optional.
Anchras is aimed at mid-market and SMB organisations operating in finance, healthcare, government, energy, and adjacent regulated sectors across the EU, Belgium and the Benelux first. Where GDPR is a daily reality, where data residency is contractual rather than aspirational, where the right answer to "where is my data" cannot be "in a region we'll add later." Sector-specific framework reviews (NEN 7510 for Dutch healthcare, PCI DSS for payment processing, and others) are scoped per engagement.