Grandhosting vs Cretaforce
Cretaforce has sold hosting since 2003: shared plans sized by disk, unlimited sites and email accounts, and its own control panel. Grandhosting hosts WordPress only, with 10 GB included from €3.49 + VAT, staging on every site and automatic scaling on Standard.
Cretaforce details checked on 28 September 2026 against Cretaforce’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Side by side
| Grandhosting | Cretaforce | |
|---|---|---|
| How your site runs | Each site in its own isolated environment, with its own CPU, memory and database | Shared hosting plans sized by disk (1 GB to 5 GB), with unlimited sites[1] |
| Entry price | Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum) | 1GB plan: €5 a month or €50 a year + VAT[1] |
| Billing | Pay-as-you-go by the hour, month to month. No contract and no introductory price. | Monthly or yearly; no introductory price shown[1] |
| Storage | 10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT | 1 GB to 5 GB on shared plans; Premium plans with 10 GB to 30 GB from €30 a month + VAT[1][2] |
| Backups | Daily, kept 30 days, stored away from your server, one-click restore | Daily, weekly and monthly backups, restored from its control panel[3] |
| Control panel | Our own dashboard, built for WordPress: staging, logs, firewall events, uptime and cost per site | CretaPanel, its own[3] |
| Email accounts | Separate professional mailboxes on a dedicated email platform, not on your web server, from €1.90 per month + VAT (8 GB). Webmail, IMAP/SMTP, calendars and spam filtering, ordered and managed in the same dashboard. | Unlimited accounts included[1] |
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
Choosing between us
Neither host is right for everyone. Here is where each one is the better choice.
Cretaforce is the better fit if
- You want unlimited email accounts and sites in one plan.
- You host small non-WordPress sites too. We host WordPress only.
- You value a company that has been in hosting since 2003.
Grandhosting is the better fit if
- You need room to grow: 10 GB included from €3.49 + VAT, then €0.10 per GB, where Cretaforce's €5 plan has 1 GB.
- Your site has busy days. On Standard it adds instances by itself and fails over to another server.
- You want a staging copy on every site to test updates first.
- You want a dashboard built for WordPress, with logs, firewall events and cost per site.
What you get either way: free SSL, Redis caching, their own control panel. These are standard now, so they shouldn’t decide it. What happens when your site gets busy, or breaks, should.
Moving from Cretaforce
Migration is free and handled by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your Cretaforce site keeps running untouched until you switch, so if anything isn’t right you point the domain back. You can also try the platform first on a free demo site: 30 days for founding members, 14 days standard, no credit card. How migration works.
Grandhosting vs Cretaforce, answered
For a WordPress site, usually: our Micro is €3.49 + VAT a month with 10 GB, Cretaforce's entry plan €5 + VAT (or €50 a year) with 1 GB. Cretaforce includes unlimited email accounts and sites; we sell mailboxes separately, from €1.90 a month + VAT.
Για ένα WordPress site, συνήθως ναι: το Micro μας κοστίζει 3,49 € + ΦΠΑ τον μήνα με 10 GB, το βασικό πακέτο της Cretaforce 5 € + ΦΠΑ (ή 50 € τον χρόνο) με 1 GB. Η Cretaforce περιλαμβάνει απεριόριστους λογαριασμούς email και sites· εμείς πουλάμε τα γραμματοκιβώτια ξεχωριστά, από 1,90 € τον μήνα + ΦΠΑ.
Cretaforce's shared plans are sized by disk, from 1 GB to 5 GB, with Premium plans from €30 a month + VAT above that. With us a site has 10 GB included and pays €0.10 per GB + VAT beyond it, and on Standard it adds instances by itself when traffic rises, so there is no plan to move up to.
Τα shared πακέτα της Cretaforce ορίζονται με βάση τον χώρο, από 1 GB έως 5 GB, και πάνω από αυτά υπάρχουν πακέτα Premium από 30 € τον μήνα + ΦΠΑ. Σε εμάς ένα site έχει 10 GB και πληρώνει 0,10 € ανά GB + ΦΠΑ πέρα από αυτά, και στο Standard προσθέτει instances μόνο του όταν αυξάνεται η κίνηση, οπότε δεν υπάρχει πακέτο στο οποίο πρέπει να αναβαθμιστεί.
Yes, free, if it's a WordPress site. Our team moves the files, database, DNS and SSL, and your Cretaforce site keeps running until you switch. Keep your email where it is or move it to one of our mailboxes.
Ναι, δωρεάν, αν είναι WordPress site. Η ομάδα μας μεταφέρει αρχεία, βάση δεδομένων, DNS και SSL, και το site σας στην Cretaforce συνεχίζει να λειτουργεί μέχρι να κάνετε την αλλαγή. Κρατήστε το email σας εκεί που είναι ή μεταφέρετέ το σε δικό μας γραμματοκιβώτιο.
Where the Cretaforce details come from
Everything we say about Cretaforce comes from Cretaforce’s own public pages, checked on 28 September 2026. Plans and prices change, so check their current offer before you decide. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@grandhosting.gr and we’ll fix it.
- https://www.cretaforce.gr/shared-hosting/
- https://www.cretaforce.gr/premium-hosting/
- https://wiki.cretaforce.gr/cretaforce:cretapanel
- https://www.cretaforce.gr/
- https://www.cretaforce.gr/about-us/
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