How to move your Base44 hosting to the EU or any country

Most Base44 users only find out where their app is hosted when somebody asks. The app is built, sometimes it already has paying users, and then a client's legal team wants to know where the data is stored. Or a partner asks right before launch, or it's a question on a form from the tax office. Then you find the answer: the United States.

I get emails about this every week, from the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, even Saudi Arabia. Some call it data residency, others just say the app has to be on servers in their country. Everyone wants the same thing: to keep the app they built and its users, and have it hosted in the country they need.

Base44 hosts every app in the United States

Base44's servers are rented from an American hosting company called Render, and your app's database, uploaded files and AI all sit in American data centers too. It's the same for every app on the platform, whichever country you or your users are in. Base44 never asks where you want your app to live.

There are plenty of good reasons to want your data elsewhere. In many countries and industries it's the law, especially for health, financial or government data. Often it's your customers: GDPR itself doesn't force EU hosting, but many European companies and public bodies only sign if their data stays in the EU. And a lot of people simply don't want their users' data sitting in the US when their users are in Canada or Australia.

Base44's “data residency” option doesn't help

Base44 does have a setting for data residency. It stores an app's data in the EU or the UK instead of the US. It sounds like the answer. It isn't, for three reasons:

1. It starts at $800 a month. Data residency only comes with Base44's top plans. If your workspace was created before October 2026, you may still get it on the Elite plan, starting at $200 a month. Any newer workspace needs the Business or Enterprise plans, and the cheapest Business plan is $800 a month. You'd need to keep paying this for as long as your app is live, even if you're done building.
2. It moves just the database, so most of your app stays in the US. The servers that run your app stay in the US. Every file your users upload stays in the US, photos and documents included. The AI runs in the US, and the emails your app sends go out from the US. And because the option only covers where data is stored, not where it's processed, even the “data residency protected” records do pass through the US before they're saved in Europe.
3. It doesn't work for an app you already created. The region has to be chosen before an app is created, and an app that already exists can't be switched. Base44's suggestion is to make a copy of the app in the new region and move your data into it by hand. User accounts can't be moved at all.

So even if the EU or the UK is exactly what you need, Base44's data residency doesn't get you there. Your records would sit in Europe while the app around them keeps running in the US. Having one part of your app in the right country is the same as not having it there.

And it supports the EU and the UK only. For Canada, Australia, Switzerland or anywhere else, there's no solution at any price.

Waiting for Base44 isn't a plan either, as its feedback board shows. People have been asking for data residency there for over 15 months. The EU and UK option took a year to show up, and since then both the frustration with it and the requests for other countries have gone unanswered. No data residency improvement or feature is anywhere on Base44's roadmap. To Base44, data residency is a niche enterprise feature.

On normal providers, you just pick any country

Outside Base44, choosing where your app lives isn't a niche enterprise feature. It's the default. On AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner or pretty much any normal hosting provider, one of the first things you do when you set up a server or a database is pick where it lives. The options are everywhere: the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Singapore, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Brazil. Google Cloud and AWS alone cover more than 30 countries. Hetzner is a German provider whose whole business is EU hosting. There's no special plan for it. That's just how hosting works.

So the natural way to get your data into the country you need is to turn your Base44 app into a normal app: one that runs on normal providers, on accounts you own, where you pick the country like everyone else does. The hard part is getting a Base44 app there.

The three mistakes people make trying to move their app out of the US

I've watched people burn weeks trying to get around Base44's data residency problem. Nearly all of that time goes into one of these three mistakes:

1. Using Base44's “export” and hosting it in your country. This is the first thing people try, and at first it looks like it worked. The app loads from your new server and people can log in. But nothing actually moved. The database, the user records, the files, everything is still on Base44's US servers. Every time someone logs in, opens a record or uploads a file, the app still calls Base44's servers in the US, exactly like before. The reason is that a Base44 app's code depends heavily on Base44's backend: every screen calls it through Base44's SDK, and that backend, where your data and your users actually live, isn't part of the export.

   See exactly what Base44 export includes (and what it doesn't)
2. Keeping the app on Base44 and adding a database in your country. I've seen this one sold as the fix. The app stays on Base44, and the sensitive data goes into a separate database in Europe, or wherever you need it. Watch what happens when a user opens a record: the data still passes through Base44's servers in the US on its way to that database and back, and logins and uploaded files don't move at all. Your data ends up in two places, and one of them is still the US.
3. Rebuilding the app from scratch outside Base44. That does work, and a rebuilt app can go wherever you want. It's also weeks of work and a full development project, with a matching price tag, just to end up with an app you already have.

How to actually move your whole Base44 app to the country you need

You already have the app. It works, people use it, and the only thing wrong with it is where it's hosted. Changing the country shouldn't mean rebuilding your app.

This is exactly why I built EscapeBase44. I got stuck on Base44 with an app of my own, and ended up spending months reverse-engineering Base44's entire backend until I could actually escape. Then I automated this whole process. EscapeBase44 takes the Base44 app you already built and moves all of it, as it is, onto normal providers under your own accounts. You log in with Base44, pick your providers and the region for each, and the migration runs by itself.

The thing that actually solves data residency here is the providers, not EscapeBase44. All EscapeBase44 does is get your Base44 app onto them without you having to rebuild it.

Each part of the app goes wherever you want: the server that runs it, the database, your users' files and the backend functions can all sit in the same country.

Your Base44 app stays untouched while this happens, and your users don't notice a thing. They keep their accounts and their passwords, and nobody has to sign up again.

The emails your app sends go out from your region too. And if the app uses AI, it stops going wherever Base44 sends it. It runs on your own key, with a provider you choose. OpenAI, for example, offers data residency in Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia and several other places.

Once the app has moved, nothing in it runs on Base44 anymore: no $800 plan, no Base44 plan at all. Nothing runs through me either. The move happens once, and from then on the app lives on your own accounts and has nothing to do with EscapeBase44.

If you need paperwork for a contract or an audit, it comes straight from the provider. They all have the security certifications and data processing agreements that legal teams ask for, and they cover your account directly.

From then on, your app is hosted wherever you want. Like every normal app.

Base44 data residency FAQ

• Can I host my Base44 app in the EU or the UK?

  Not on Base44. Its data residency option moves only your database to the EU or the UK; the servers, every uploaded file, the AI and the emails stay in the US. To host the whole app there, it has to move to normal providers in that region.

• Where does Base44 host my app?

  In the United States. The servers, the database, the file storage and the AI all run in the US, and nothing asks you to choose a country when you create an app.

• How much does Base44's data residency cost?

  At least $800 a month, because it only comes with the Business and Enterprise plans. Workspaces created before October 2026 can still get it on the Elite plan, starting at $200 a month.

• Can I move an existing Base44 app to the EU region?

  Not directly. The region only applies to apps created after it is set, so Base44's route is to copy the app into the new region and move the data by hand. User accounts can't be moved at all.

• Does Base44 offer data residency in Canada, Australia or other countries?

  No. The only regions are the US, the EU and the UK. The requests for Australia, Canada and Singapore have been “under review” since late 2025.

• Which countries can I move my Base44 app to?

  Any country where a normal hosting provider has a data center. Google Cloud alone covers 28 countries, and AWS, Hetzner and the others add more: Canada, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and so on.

• Will my users have to sign up again if I move my app off Base44?

  No. With EscapeBase44 they keep their accounts and their passwords, and your Base44 app stays untouched while the move runs.

• Do I have to rebuild my app to host it in another country?

  No. The app you already built can move as it is onto normal providers in the country you pick. Rebuilding it is one way to get there, but it isn't required.

• Is Base44 GDPR compliant?

  Base44 says it is, and GDPR by itself doesn't force you to host in Europe. But if you need your app's data to stay in the EU, Base44 can't do that: the app stays in the US.