Grandhosting vs SiteGround
SiteGround's StartUp plan is €2.99 + VAT a month for the first year, paid upfront, then €15.99. It includes email, and staging from GrowBig up. Grandhosting is €3.49 + VAT a month from the first month on, with no introductory price, and includes staging on every site.
SiteGround details checked on 28 September 2026 against SiteGround’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Side by side
| Grandhosting | SiteGround | |
|---|---|---|
| When traffic spikes | Standard (from €5.99 + VAT) adds instances automatically and runs on more than one server with failover. Micro runs one instance. | Sized by visits: StartUp suits about 10,000 unique visits a month, after which you “outgrow this hosting plan”[1] |
| CDN | CDN edge caching for images and static files, switched on per site from the dashboard | Included[2] |
| Entry price | Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum) | StartUp €2.99 a month + VAT for the first 12 months, paid upfront, then €15.99[2] |
| Billing | Pay-as-you-go by the hour, month to month. No contract and no introductory price. | Introductory price for the first term. Regular StartUp price €22.99 month to month, €15.99 on 12 months, + VAT.[3] |
| Storage | 10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT | 10 GB (StartUp), 50 GB (GrowBig), 100 GB (GoGeek)[2] |
| Backups | Daily, kept 30 days, stored away from your server, one-click restore | Daily, up to 30 copies[4] |
| Staging site | Yes, on every site | GrowBig and GoGeek only; not on StartUp[2] |
| Control panel | Our own dashboard, built for WordPress: staging, logs, firewall events, uptime and cost per site | Site Tools, its own[2] |
| Servers | Germany and Finland (EU) | Your choice, including Frankfurt, Eemshaven, Paris and Madrid in the EU, plus the UK, US, Asia and Australia[5] |
| 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. | Included[2] |
| Moving your site | Free managed migration, with your old site untouched until you switch | Free[2] |
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.
SiteGround is the better fit if
- You want the lowest price for the first year and are happy to pay it upfront.
- You want email included with the hosting.
- You want to pick a data centre outside Europe.
Grandhosting is the better fit if
- You don't want a price jump after the first year. StartUp goes from €2.99 to €15.99 + VAT a month; Micro has no separate renewal price.
- You want to pay month to month without the €22.99 month-to-month rate.
- You want staging on your entry plan, not only from GrowBig up.
- Your site has busy days. On Standard it adds instances by itself instead of outgrowing its plan.
What you get either way: a CDN, free SSL, daily backups kept up to 30 days, free migration, their own dashboard. These are standard now, so they shouldn’t decide it. What happens when your site gets busy, or breaks, should.
Moving from SiteGround
Migration is free and handled by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your SiteGround 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 SiteGround, answered
For the first year, slightly: StartUp costs €35.88 + VAT for 12 months paid upfront, our Micro €41.88 + VAT over the same year, paid monthly. From the second year StartUp renews at €15.99 + VAT a month (€191.88 a year); Micro has no separate renewal price. A busy site pays us for the extra compute it uses.
Για τον πρώτο χρόνο, ελαφρώς: το StartUp κοστίζει 35,88 € + ΦΠΑ για 12 μήνες με προπληρωμή, το Micro μας 41,88 € + ΦΠΑ για τον ίδιο χρόνο, με μηνιαία χρέωση. Από τον δεύτερο χρόνο το StartUp ανανεώνεται στα 15,99 € + ΦΠΑ τον μήνα (191,88 € τον χρόνο), ενώ το Micro δεν έχει ξεχωριστή τιμή ανανέωσης. Ένα πολυσύχναστο site πληρώνει σε εμάς την επιπλέον υπολογιστική ισχύ που χρησιμοποιεί.
Not on SiteGround: staging starts at GrowBig. With us every site, Micro included, gets a staging copy you can test updates on and promote when it's right.
Όχι στο SiteGround: το staging ξεκινά από το GrowBig. Σε εμάς κάθε site, και το Micro, έχει αντίγραφο staging για να δοκιμάζετε ενημερώσεις και να τις περνάτε στο ζωντανό site όταν είναι έτοιμες.
Yes, free. Our team moves the files, database, DNS and SSL, and your SiteGround site keeps running until you switch. Email isn't part of our hosting, so if your mailbox is with SiteGround, keep it there or move it to one of our mailboxes, from €1.90 a month + VAT.
Ναι, δωρεάν. Η ομάδα μας μεταφέρει αρχεία, βάση δεδομένων, DNS και SSL, και το site σας στο SiteGround συνεχίζει να λειτουργεί μέχρι να κάνετε την αλλαγή. Το email δεν περιλαμβάνεται στη φιλοξενία μας, οπότε αν το γραμματοκιβώτιό σας είναι στο SiteGround, κρατήστε το εκεί ή μεταφέρετέ το σε δικό μας, από 1,90 € τον μήνα + ΦΠΑ.
Where the SiteGround details come from
Everything we say about SiteGround comes from SiteGround’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.siteground.com/kb/choose-suitable-hosting-plan
- https://eu.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm
- https://www.siteground.com/kb/current-rates-shared-hosting-plans
- https://www.siteground.com/kb/backup-service
- https://www.siteground.com/kb/where_are_sitegrounds_servers
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