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WordPress hosting · in the EU

We host and look after your WordPress site, so you don’t have to.

Your website or online shop runs on our servers in the EU: fast, safe and backed up every night, and you manage it from one simple dashboard. We move it for you, free. From €3.49/mo + VAT.

  • Free move
  • Nightly backups
  • Our own dashboard
  • Data in the EU
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What Grandhosting does

Your website, in good hands.

Grandhosting is a hosting company for WordPress and WooCommerce. Hosting is where your website lives on the internet. We give it a fast, safe home, look after it every day, and you keep full control.

  1. Two people carrying a box into a calm new room
    1

    We move your site

    Send us access to your current host. We copy the files, database, security certificate and domain, for free. Your old site keeps running until you switch.

  2. An engineer checking a quiet technical room
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    We run it

    Your site gets its own reserved space and database, a backup every night, free SSL, malware checks and a check every minute that it’s up. On Standard it runs on at least two servers.

  3. A person managing a website on a laptop
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    You manage it

    One dashboard made for WordPress: updates, backups, a private test copy, logs and your costs. One click opens wp-admin. You pay by the hour, with a spending limit you set.

Who it’s for

Made for people who run a business, not servers.

A bakery owner at her counter

Business websites

A company site, a clinic, a café or a blog. From €3.49/mo + VAT.

For businesses →
A shop owner packing orders

Online shops

WooCommerce shops that stay fast on a sale day. From €5.99/mo + VAT.

For online shops →
An agency team reviewing website layouts

Agencies

All your client sites in one dashboard, with 60 days of free build time on request.

For agencies →
Why Grandhosting

Hosting, the way it should have been.

Most hosting was built for servers and sold with a first-year discount. Ours is built for WordPress, from the dashboard to the bill.

  • A server panelPlesk or cPanel: files, FTP and mail accounts. Built for servers.
    Our own WordPress dashboardUpdates, backups, a private test copy, logs and costs for each site. One click into wp-admin.
  • A cheap first yearAn introductory price, often paid upfront, that jumps at renewal.
    One price from month oneFrom €3.49/mo + VAT, billed by the hour, no prepay, with a spending limit you set.
  • One serverA busy day slows the site down, or pushes you to a bigger plan.
    Two servers or moreOn Standard, your site runs on at least two and adds copies by itself when it’s busy.
  • Images from the web serverEvery photo is sent by the same server that runs your site.
    Images from separate storageUploads are kept on replicated storage and served straight from it, so your site stays light.
  • Moving is your jobExport, upload, fix the links and hope nothing breaks.
    We move it for you, freeFiles, database, certificate and domain. Your old site runs until you switch.
  • Email as an afterthoughtOrder and password emails need an extra SMTP plugin to stay out of spam.
    Email set up on every siteWordPress emails go out through our email service and reach the inbox, not spam.

And your data stays in the EU. See how we compare

What will it cost?

Your price, in ten seconds.

Every site has a small monthly minimum. You pay that, or what your site actually uses if that’s more. Usage is never added on top, and a spending limit you set means it can’t run away.

1k100k200k
About€5.99/mo + VAT

Quiet months cost the minimum.

An estimate from typical sites on Standard (two servers or more), one site, up to 10 GB storage. Your real cost depends on your theme, plugins and what runs in the background, and shows live in your dashboard. Why it can differ

Work out your exact billSend us your traffic, we’ll estimate it
Try it first

14 days free. No card needed.

Founding members get 30 days, and keep their price while their account stays active.

Then use codeGH25for €25 of hosting credit

Credit excl. VAT, spent only on website hosting, valid 90 days after you redeem it. Redeem by 31 December 2026, once per person.

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Why trust us with it?

We break our own servers on purpose.

Before asking you to trust us, we tested what really happens when things go wrong: a greedy neighbour, a sudden rush, a server pulled out, the database switched off. Here is what we saw.

The neighbour.

Condition
Another website on the same machine gets hacked, or simply gets very busy.
What we did
We pushed one site to 100% of its CPU and drove its memory past its limit, with another site running beside it on the same machine.
What happened
The site beside it carried on as normal. The greedy one was stopped at its own memory limit, and nothing else on the machine felt it.In our tests.
For you
Your site gets its own reserved CPU and memory, and its own database. What happens next door stays next door.
One machineTwo websites
The site next doorNormal
CPU12%
Memory30%
Your siteNormal
CPU18%
Memory34%

Illustration of the test. The line on each bar is that site’s own limit.

The rush.

What if everyone arrives at once?

A newsletter goes out, a post takes off, a sale starts. On Standard your site runs as two copies, and when it gets busy more copies start by themselves and share the visitors. Scroll through one sale day.

  1. 1A quiet morning, two copies
  2. 2The newsletter goes out
  3. 3Extra copies start by themselves
  4. 4Quiet again, extras switch off

In our real test: every visitor was still served while a third copy of the site started by itself. In our tests. On Standard, from €5.99/mo + VAT. Micro runs on one server.

Visitors on your site08:00 · 40 right now
10:00 · newsletter
08:0012:0016:0020:00
Copy 1Serving
Copy 2Serving
Copy 3Off
Copy 4Off
Copy 5Off
What your visitors seeOpen

Aegean Bakery example shop

Pages loadNormally
CheckoutWorking
Copies running2
Busy hours you pay for0 h

Billed by the hour, with your monthly price as the minimum. Set a spending limit and usage never goes past it.

Illustration of a sale day, time compressed. Load per copy is shown as a share of its reserved power.

Now you try.

The plug.

What if a server breaks while people are shopping?

On Standard your site runs on two servers at the same time. This is our test, replayed in your browser: switch Server A off and watch what your visitors see.

  1. 1Two servers share your visitors
  2. 2Server A loses power
  3. 3Server B takes everyone, at once
  4. 4A replacement starts by itself

In our real test: the site stayed up on its other server. One request hung for a moment; everything else kept loading. In our tests. On Standard, from €5.99/mo + VAT. Micro runs on one server.

—visitors right now
Server AServing
Server BServing
ReplacementStarting by itself
What your visitors seeOpen

Aegean Bakery example shop

Pages served today1,240
CheckoutWorking
Visitors who saw an error0

    Illustration, time compressed. It runs in your browser and is not connected to our servers.

    The database.

    Condition
    The main database stops while orders are being written. The risk is not a down page, it is a half-finished order.
    What we did
    We shut down the main database mid-checkout, with a stream of orders coming in.
    What happened
    The live copy took over by itself. Writes paused for a few seconds, then carried on, and not one confirmed order was lost.In our tests.
    For you
    Your site has its own database, with a live copy on another server. There is nothing for you to do.
    Main databaseStopped
    Live copyStanding by
    Live copyNow the main database
    ~14sfor the live copy to take over, in our tests
    0confirmed orders lost

    And when we restored a backup.

    We restored a nightly backup into a sealed copy and compared it with the live site, row by row. It matched exactly.

    Every site is backed up every night and each backup is kept for 30 days, in the EU. Restoring is one click in the dashboard.

    • 58tables
    • 409posts
    • 493settings

    Built for WordPress, not for servers.

    Most hosts in Greece and Cyprus give you Plesk or cPanel: good tools for running a server, where WordPress is one app among many. Our own dashboard only manages WordPress sites, and every number on this page has a screen in it you can open.

    Grandhosting dashboard: uptime and response-time monitoring for a site
    Monitoring. Uptime and response time, checked every minute.
    Grandhosting dashboard: CPU and memory use, instances running and the usage rate per hour for a site
    Resources. CPU, memory, copies running and the hourly rate.
    Grandhosting dashboard: plugin updates for Elementor, WooCommerce and Yoast SEO, with an Update all button
    Updates. Plugins and themes, one button.
    Grandhosting dashboard: the list of automated nightly backups for a site, with a Create New Backup button
    Backups. Every night, kept 30 days, one click to restore.

    A spending limit you set. Per site or for the whole account. You are billed by the hour, never past your limit, and your plan’s monthly minimum always applies.

    Real dashboard. Names and figures are example data.

    Private test copy (staging)
    Try changes on a copy of your site. Publish when it’s ready.
    Templates
    Save a site as a starting point and build new ones from it.
    One-click wp-admin
    Straight into WordPress, no second password.
    PHP versions
    From 7.4 to 8.4, per site.
    Logs and debug mode
    Errors and visits, without logging in to a server.
    WP-CLI over SSH
    With your own SSH keys, plus a WP-CLI console in the browser.
    Visitor stats
    Without cookies or a third-party script.
    Bot scans cost you nothing
    Scans for hacker PHP files are answered before WordPress starts: no slowdown, no extra copies.
    Email set up on every site
    WordPress emails go out through our email service from day one, so order and password emails reach the inbox, not spam. No SMTP plugin.

    No lock-in. Standard WordPress, your domain in your name, 30 days to export, and no exit fee.

    Compared, with sources. We put ourselves next to eight named hosts, with what each does better. See the comparisons

    The last test is yours.

    Founding members get 30 days free with no card, and keep their price for as long as the account stays active. The first 100 only (everyone else gets 14 days). We move your site for you, free.

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    Building sites for clients? 60 days free per client site, on request.