How we compare,
with sources.
Side-by-side comparisons with the hosts people most often ask us about. Every detail about another company comes from that company’s own pages, with the link and the date we checked it. Each page also says when the other host is the better choice.
Compared with Greek hosts
Most Greek hosts sell shared hosting: many accounts on one server, a fixed plan, and a bigger plan when you outgrow it. Here is how that compares with a platform where each site runs on its own.
Grandhosting vs Papaki
Fixed WordPress plans managed in Plesk, with a mailbox included, versus sites billed by the hour that scale on their own on Standard.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs top.host
Plesk hosting in Belgium with fixed resources you upgrade by hand, versus sites billed month to month that scale automatically on Standard.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs Pointer
cPanel or Plesk hosting on servers in Greece, versus WordPress sites in the EU that scale on their own on Standard.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs Cretaforce
Long-running shared hosting with unlimited email accounts, versus WordPress sites with 10 GB included that scale on their own on Standard.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs DNHOST
WordPress plans on servers in Greece with a pageview allowance, versus sites billed by the compute they use, from €3.49 + VAT.
Read the comparison →Compared with international WordPress hosts
The large international WordPress hosts are the usual next step up. Here is how they compare on price, where your data lives, and who you talk to.
Grandhosting vs Kinsta
Premium managed WordPress priced in dollars by monthly visits, versus euro pay-as-you-go from €3.49 + VAT.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs SiteGround
A low first-year price that renews higher, versus the same monthly price from the first month, with staging on every site.
Read the comparison →Grandhosting vs Hostinger
A very low price for a four-year prepay that renews higher, versus month-to-month billing with daily backups on every site.
Read the comparison →Isolated by design, built for WordPress
Most hosting puts many customers on one server and hands them a general-purpose panel. We built the platform the other way round.
Isolated by design
- Every site runs in its own isolated environment, with its own CPU, memory, storage, network rules and dedicated database.
- Network rules stop one site from reaching any other site on the platform, so a problem stays where it started.
- We tested it: with one site pinned at 100% CPU, the site next to it stayed within measurement noise; a site driven out of memory was stopped at its own limit while its neighbour kept serving every request.
Built for WordPress
- We host WordPress only, so every layer, from the web server and PHP to caching and the dashboard, is set up for it rather than adapted from generic hosting.
- WordPress core, PHP and the web server are baked into a read-only image; only your content changes. Updates roll out as new instances behind health checks, with no downtime.
- Your images and uploads aren't stored on your web server. They live on replicated object storage and are served straight from there, without going through WordPress, so loading them never takes computing power away from your pages, and a server failure never loses them.
- The dashboard manages WordPress sites, not a server: staging, plugins, logs, firewall events and cost, per site.
What every Grandhosting site gets
Micro and Standard include the same platform. Standard, from €5.99 + VAT, adds high availability and auto-scaling, marked below; Micro, from €3.49 + VAT, runs one instance.
Stays online
- Runs on more than one server at once, with automatic failover (Standard)
- Adds instances by itself when traffic spikes, then scales back (Standard)
- Automatic database failover, with a dedicated database per site
- Self-healing: unhealthy servers are detected and replaced
- Zero-downtime updates, no maintenance windows
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Fast
- Images and uploads served straight from object storage, not from your web server
- Dedicated CPU and memory per site
- Redis object cache
- CDN edge caching you can switch on per site
- Bandwidth included, with no metering or overage fees
Secure
- Web application firewall, with every block shown in your dashboard and one-click exclusions
- Nightly malware scans, plus scans on uploads and plugin installs
- Brute-force login protection with a full login history, and a login URL you can hide
- Free SSL, provisioned and renewed automatically
- Two-factor sign-in and an activity log for your account
Monitoring & insights
- Uptime monitoring and alerts
- Traffic analytics without cookies
- Email sending (SMTP) preconfigured, so password resets and order emails go out from day one
- Access, error and WordPress debug logs
- CPU, memory and bandwidth usage per site
WordPress tools
- Staging: clone the live site, test, then push to production
- Daily backups kept 30 days, plus on-demand backups, with one-click restore
- Managed WordPress core and PHP updates; plugin and theme updates from the dashboard
- One-click SSO login to WordPress admin from your dashboard, with no password to share or reset
- phpMyAdmin database access, opened from the dashboard
- A browser WP-CLI console, switched on per site
- One-click site cloning, and blueprints: reusable site templates for new sites
Billing you control
- Pay-as-you-go: a base price per site plus the compute it uses
- Spending alerts and hard spending caps, per site or for the whole account
- 10 GB storage included per site
Optional add-ons
- Extra storage, €0.10 per GB per month + VAT
- Professional mailboxes on your domain, on a dedicated email platform: webmail, IMAP/SMTP, calendars and spam filtering, from €1.90 per month + VAT
- Domain registration and transfers, managed next to your sites
What actually matters
Free SSL, daily backups, one-click WordPress and free migration are standard almost everywhere now, so they shouldn’t decide it. These questions separate hosts:
- Does your site share a server with other customers, or run on its own resources?
- What happens on your busiest day: does the site scale, or do you upgrade the plan?
- Is the monthly price an introductory one that rises at renewal?
- Where do your site and backups physically live?
Our own answers are on the features, pricing and reliability pages.
Founding Member pricing.
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From €3.49/mo + VAT — pay only for the compute you use. Founding-member pricing stays locked for as long as your account remains active.
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