Grandhosting vs DNHOST
DNHOST sells WordPress plans on Plesk and LiteSpeed from a data centre in Koropi, Greece, with a monthly pageview allowance and the same price at renewal. Grandhosting runs in Germany and Finland, starts at €3.49 + VAT with 10 GB, and bills the compute a site uses rather than its pageviews.
DNHOST details checked on 28 September 2026 against DNHOST’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Side by side
| Grandhosting | DNHOST | |
|---|---|---|
| How your site runs | Each site in its own isolated environment, with its own CPU, memory and database | WordPress plans with set memory and a pageview allowance (Business L: 1 GB RAM, 100,000 pageviews)[1] |
| Entry price | Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum) | Business L: €8.75 a month + VAT on a 12-month subscription, €11.36 otherwise[1] |
| Billing | Pay-as-you-go by the hour, month to month. No contract and no introductory price. | Renews at the same €8.75 + VAT[1] |
| Storage | 10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT | 5 GB NVMe on Business L[1] |
| Backups | Daily, kept 30 days, stored away from your server, one-click restore | Daily[1] |
| Control panel | Our own dashboard, built for WordPress: staging, logs, firewall events, uptime and cost per site | Plesk Obsidian, on LiteSpeed[1] |
| Servers | Germany and Finland (EU) | Greece: the Lamda Hellix data centre in Koropi, on GR-IX[1] |
| Moving your site | Free managed migration, with your old site untouched until you switch | Free[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.
DNHOST is the better fit if
- You want your site in a named data centre in Greece. DNHOST's is in Koropi; ours are in Germany and Finland.
- You want a fixed monthly price that renews at the same rate.
- You want Plesk, or a 90-day money-back guarantee.
Grandhosting is the better fit if
- You want a lower entry price: €3.49 + VAT month to month, against €8.75 on a 12-month subscription.
- You don't want a pageview allowance. We bill the compute your site uses, and on Standard it scales for a spike.
- You want 10 GB included rather than 5 GB.
- You want a staging copy and 30 days of daily backups on every site.
What you get either way: free SSL, daily backups, free migration. These are standard now, so they shouldn’t decide it. What happens when your site gets busy, or breaks, should.
Moving from DNHOST
Migration is free and handled by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your DNHOST 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 DNHOST, answered
At the entry level, yes: our Micro is €3.49 + VAT a month, DNHOST's Business L €8.75 + VAT on a 12-month subscription or €11.36 without one. DNHOST's plan includes up to 100,000 pageviews a month; we bill by compute, so a very busy site pays for what it uses.
Στο βασικό επίπεδο, ναι: το Micro μας κοστίζει 3,49 € + ΦΠΑ τον μήνα, το Business L του DNHOST 8,75 € + ΦΠΑ με συνδρομή 12 μηνών ή 11,36 € χωρίς. Το πακέτο του DNHOST περιλαμβάνει έως 100.000 προβολές σελίδων τον μήνα· εμείς χρεώνουμε με βάση την υπολογιστική ισχύ, οπότε ένα πολύ πολυσύχναστο site πληρώνει ό,τι χρησιμοποιεί.
It can. For visitors in Greece a server in Greece is closer, which helps most with the first byte of each page, and some businesses need their data in Greece specifically. If that's you, DNHOST states its data centre openly. If EU data residency is enough, ours stays in Germany and Finland.
Μπορεί. Για επισκέπτες στην Ελλάδα ένας server στην Ελλάδα είναι πιο κοντά, κάτι που βοηθά κυρίως στο πρώτο byte κάθε σελίδας, και κάποιες επιχειρήσεις χρειάζονται τα δεδομένα τους ειδικά στην Ελλάδα. Αν ισχύει αυτό για εσάς, το DNHOST δηλώνει ανοιχτά το data center του. Αν αρκεί η διαμονή των δεδομένων στην ΕΕ, τα δικά μας μένουν σε Γερμανία και Φινλανδία.
Yes, free. Our team moves the files, database, DNS and SSL, and your DNHOST site keeps running until you switch, so you can point the domain back if anything isn't right.
Ναι, δωρεάν. Η ομάδα μας μεταφέρει αρχεία, βάση δεδομένων, DNS και SSL, και το site σας στο DNHOST συνεχίζει να λειτουργεί μέχρι να κάνετε την αλλαγή, οπότε μπορείτε να επαναφέρετε το domain αν κάτι δεν πάει καλά.
Where the DNHOST details come from
Everything we say about DNHOST comes from DNHOST’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.
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