Knut Michael Haugland
Founder building European cloud infrastructure with a focus on control, transparency and open systems.
About
I build cloud infrastructure in Europe, with a focus on control, transparency and long-term reliability.
I am the founder of WAYSCloud, where we design and operate infrastructure that remains within European jurisdictions and under customer control — without dependency on external platforms.
I care deeply about how infrastructure is built, who controls it, and what assumptions it is based on. For me, this is not just technical — it is about trust, responsibility and long-term sovereignty.
My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, operational security and digital sovereignty. I focus on how systems behave under real-world conditions, not just how they are designed on paper.
I believe Europe needs infrastructure that is transparent, predictable and independent — not only for compliance, but for resilience and long-term trust.
I write about the decisions, trade-offs and structures behind building and operating infrastructure at scale — based on practical experience, not theory.
I write primarily in English, with a focus on European infrastructure, sovereignty and systems.
Latest writing
- From Eidsvoll to email: Norway's Constitution Day in a digital age On Norway's Constitution Day, WAYSCloud launched meil.no — a Norwegian productivity suite. May 17th is about self-determination, and in 2026 that also means digital infrastructure.
- Helsinki Shut, NATO Scrambled: Drone Alerts Hit Finland, Latvia Finland and Latvia sounded parallel overnight drone alerts on 15 May. NATO fighters scrambled, Helsinki-Vantaa briefly shut. Read alongside two years of Baltic seabed cable incidents, the pattern reframes European digital sovereignty as operational, not theoretical.
- Nine Weeks Open: Inside CVE-2026-41940 (cPanel/WHM Bypass) A technical walkthrough of the WHM/cPanel authentication bypass — how the exploit chain works, what the in-the-wild numbers actually mean, and the structural lessons for anyone running infrastructure.