ITWatch sat down with Webdock founder & CEO Arni Johannesson to talk about our Funen (Denmark) datacenter, why we insist on end-to-end control, and how we’re scaling to serve more European businesses with simple, sovereign, developer-friendly cloud.
If you want the big picture in two minutes, this is it — and the full Danish article is linked below.
Inside the interview
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Ambition: Webdock is gunning for a top-five EU cloud position by doing the unglamorous thing well: reliable, fairly priced infrastructure with a clean control panel and real support.
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Built, not rented: Arni explains why we built our own datacenter on West Funen instead of piggy-backing on someone else’s cloud. Control over hardware, network, and costs = predictable performance and fewer surprises.
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Scaling up: We’re in scale-up mode — investing in infrastructure, sales, and engineering. Headcount has grown fast since 2019, with more hires planned to keep pace with demand.
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Who we serve: Not hyperscaler use-cases. Our sweet spot is agencies and small businesses that run standard web workloads and want things to “just work,” without enterprise complexity or pricing games.
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Sovereignty & GDPR: A core theme is trust. EU data residency and GDPR alignment are part of the design, not bolted on. Control lets us help customers stay compliant without hoop-jumping.
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New revenue stream: Owning the stack opened a second leg to the business: other companies buy compute and bandwidth from us for specific workloads (e.g., VPN providers).
Why all this matters to customers
Control is not a buzzword. It’s the difference between “sorry for the outage, our upstream did X” and “we fixed it.”
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Reliability: End-to-end control removes weak links.
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Privacy: EU-based infra and GDPR-first processes reduce risk and paperwork.
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Value: No platform rent on top of platform rent. More of your spend becomes performance.
Read the full interview on ITWatch
Get the story behind Webdock’s momentum — straight from our founder.
Why we built our own datacenter on Funen, what end-to-end control really delivers for reliability, GDPR and value, and how we’re scaling with clear European ambitions that don’t mimic the hyperscalers.
If you care about faster sites, fewer surprises and a team that owns the stack, this interview is your five-minute shortcut.
Read the full interview on ITWatch (Danish, paywall)
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