Grandhosting vs top.host
top.host sells Plesk hosting from Belgium with fixed CPU, memory and disk per plan, and unlimited email accounts. Grandhosting scales each site automatically on Standard and bills month to month from €3.49 + VAT, where top.host's lowest prices need a one- or two-year prepay.
top.host details checked on 28 September 2026 against top.host’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Side by side
| Grandhosting | top.host | |
|---|---|---|
| How your site runs | Each site in its own isolated environment, with its own CPU, memory and database | Plesk plans with fixed CPU, memory and disk per plan (Micro: 1.5 cores, 1.5 GB RAM)[1] |
| When traffic spikes | Standard (from €5.99 + VAT) adds instances automatically and runs on more than one server with failover. Micro runs one instance. | By hand: you raise resources by upgrading your plan[1] |
| Entry price | Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum) | Micro €11.50 month to month, €6.00 on a 1-year or €5.70 on a 2-year prepay, per month + VAT[1] |
| Billing | Pay-as-you-go by the hour, month to month. No contract and no introductory price. | Discounts apply to the first order only; renewal prices may differ[1] |
| Storage | 10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT | 8 GB (Micro) to 40 GB (Tera) SSD, fixed per plan[1] |
| Backups | Daily, kept 30 days, stored away from your server, one-click restore | Daily, to remote servers, plus a self-service backup tool[1] |
| Control panel | Our own dashboard, built for WordPress: staging, logs, firewall events, uptime and cost per site | Plesk, with WordPress Toolkit[1] |
| Servers | Germany and Finland (EU) | Belgium, with a Greek IP address and GR-IX connection. VPS plans are in the Netherlands.[1][2] |
| 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 (500 MB each on Micro), up to 300 emails sent per hour[1] |
| Moving your site | Free managed migration, with your old site untouched until you switch | Free within 90 days of purchase[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.
top.host is the better fit if
- You want unlimited email accounts in the hosting plan. We sell mailboxes separately.
- You already know Plesk and want to keep using it.
- You want a Greek IP address for your site, or a 90-day money-back guarantee.
Grandhosting is the better fit if
- You don't want to prepay. Our Micro is €3.49 + VAT month to month; top.host's Micro is €11.50 + VAT month to month and drops to €5.70 only on a two-year prepay.
- You want the site to handle a spike on its own. On Standard it adds instances automatically, where top.host needs a plan upgrade.
- You want a staging copy and 30 days of daily backups on every site.
- You want a dashboard built for WordPress rather than a general server panel.
- You want email that doesn't live on your hosting plan: our mailboxes run on a dedicated email platform and start at 8 GB, where top.host's Micro mailboxes are 500 MB with a 300-emails-an-hour sending cap.
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 top.host
Migration is free and handled by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your top.host 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 top.host, answered
Month to month, yes: our Micro is €3.49 + VAT, top.host's Micro €11.50 + VAT. top.host gets cheaper per month if you prepay: €6.00 for one year, €5.70 for two. Its discounts apply to the first order only. Our price is the same every month, and a busy site pays for the extra compute it uses.
Μήνα με τον μήνα, ναι: το Micro μας κοστίζει 3,49 € + ΦΠΑ, το Micro του top.host 11,50 € + ΦΠΑ. Το top.host γίνεται φθηνότερο ανά μήνα αν προπληρώσετε: 6,00 € για ένα έτος, 5,70 € για δύο. Οι εκπτώσεις του ισχύουν μόνο για την πρώτη παραγγελία. Η δική μας τιμή είναι ίδια κάθε μήνα, και ένα πολυσύχναστο site πληρώνει την επιπλέον υπολογιστική ισχύ που χρησιμοποιεί.
top.host lists “Hosting in Belgium” for its web hosting, with a Greek IP address, and says its VPS plans are in the Netherlands. Ours are in Germany and Finland. Both keep your data in the EU.
Το top.host αναφέρει «Φιλοξενία σε Βέλγιο» για το web hosting του, με ελληνική IP, και ότι τα VPS του βρίσκονται στην Ολλανδία. Οι δικοί μας servers είναι σε Γερμανία και Φινλανδία. Και οι δύο κρατούν τα δεδομένα σας στην ΕΕ.
Our dashboard, which only manages WordPress: staging, backups, logs, firewall events, uptime and cost per site. phpMyAdmin and a browser WP-CLI console (switched on per site) are there when you need them. There is no mail server, DNS zone editor or FTP account setup in it, because hosting doesn't include those with us.
Το dashboard μας, που διαχειρίζεται μόνο WordPress: staging, backups, logs, συμβάντα firewall, uptime και κόστος ανά site. phpMyAdmin και κονσόλα WP-CLI στον browser (ενεργοποιείται ανά site) υπάρχουν όταν τα χρειάζεστε. Δεν περιέχει mail server, επεξεργασία DNS zone ή λογαριασμούς FTP, γιατί η φιλοξενία σε εμάς δεν τα περιλαμβάνει.
Where the top.host details come from
Everything we say about top.host comes from top.host’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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