Press kit: European Mac hosting, on European terms
Everything a journalist or analyst needs to write about vBoxx Mac Hosting: boilerplate, verified facts, our EU digital sovereignty angle, logos and photography. All figures on this page are our own and can be checked against our public pricing and certificate.
Boilerplate
Short (one paragraph)
vBoxx Mac Hosting rents out dedicated Apple Mac hardware from ISO 27001-certified Dutch datacenters in Amsterdam and Naaldwijk, with an optional German location in Frankfurt. Every machine is single-tenant, comes with remote power control and full macOS access, and is billed in euros by a Dutch company under EU law.
Long (about us)
vBoxx Mac Hosting provides dedicated Apple Mac servers — Mac mini and Mac Studio — to development teams that need real macOS on real Apple silicon: iOS and macOS CI/CD, Xcode build farms, app release automation, rendering and on-device AI workloads.
Machines are hosted in ISO 27001-certified datacenters in Amsterdam and Naaldwijk in the Netherlands, with Frankfurt available for teams that require a German location. Each Mac is single-tenant hardware, not a virtual machine sharing a host, and ships with remote power control over an APC PDU, an optional JetKVM console with virtual media, and the customer’s choice of macOS release.
vBoxx is a Dutch company: contracts, invoicing and support run in euros under Dutch and EU law, and customer data stays inside the European Union unless the customer chooses otherwise.
Fact sheet
- Product
- Dedicated Apple Mac hosting (Mac mini M4, Mac Studio M4 Max, Mac mini M6 / M5 Pro on pre-order)
- Locations
- Amsterdam (NL), Naaldwijk (NL), Frankfurt (DE) on request
- Certification
- ISO 27001-certified operations — certificate available for download
- Entry price
- Dedicated Mac mini M4 hosting from €99 per month
- Mac Studio
- Mac Studio M4 Max (14-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36 GB, 512 GB) from €225 per month, three-month minimum term
- New hardware
- Mac mini M6 and M5 Pro available to pre-order — we ship from end of september
- Tenancy
- Single-tenant physical hardware, full administrative macOS access
- Remote management
- APC PDU power control (on / off / reboot) with audited reasons, optional JetKVM console with ISO mount
- Billing
- Euro invoicing by a Dutch entity, monthly / quarterly / annual terms
- Status page
- status.vboxx.nl
We do not publish customer counts, revenue or machine counts. If a story needs a figure we have not published, ask us rather than estimating it.
The story: EU digital sovereignty for Apple workloads
European teams have moved storage, databases and CI to European providers. Their Mac build fleet is usually the last thing still sitting in a US-operated cloud, because macOS cannot simply be virtualised somewhere else. That is the gap we exist to close.
EU jurisdiction, not just an EU region
The hardware, the operating company, the contract and the invoice are all European. Choosing an EU region inside a US-headquartered cloud does not change which jurisdiction ultimately governs the provider — choosing a Dutch provider does.
Data stays where the customer put it
Customers pick Amsterdam, Naaldwijk or Frankfurt and the machine stays there. There is no background migration between regions and no shared control plane outside the EU.
Single-tenant hardware
Each customer gets a physical Mac, not a slice of someone else’s host. Nothing else runs on the machine, which makes the security boundary easy to explain to an auditor.
Auditable operations
Operations are ISO 27001-certified and the certificate is public. Remote power actions are logged with a mandatory reason, so there is a record of who restarted what and why.
Apple silicon is the one workload teams cannot virtualise away
Building and signing Apple software requires macOS on Apple hardware. For European teams that is precisely the workload most likely to sit outside Europe today — which is why hosting it in the EU matters more than it looks.
Photography
Free to use in coverage of vBoxx, with credit to vBoxx. Apple product photography is Apple’s; Apple, Mac, Mac mini, Mac Studio and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc.
Media contact
Interviews, datacenter visits, benchmark data and test machines for review: reach us through the contact page and mention “press” — we answer during EU business hours.