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Grandhosting vs Hostinger

Hostinger's Premium WordPress plan is €2.99 a month on a 48-month prepay, renewing at €9.99, with email included and weekly backups. Grandhosting is €3.49 + VAT a month with no prepay and no introductory price, with backups every night, kept 30 days, on every site.

Hostinger details checked on 28 September 2026 against Hostinger’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.

At a glance

Side by side

Grandhosting compared with Hostinger. Prices exclude VAT unless stated.
	Grandhosting	Hostinger
How your site runs	Each site on its own, with its own reserved computing power, memory and database	Plans with set CPU, memory and PHP workers (Premium: 1 CPU, 2 GB RAM)[1]
When traffic spikes	Standard (from €5.99 + VAT) runs on at least two servers and gets extra power by itself when you’re busy, so there’s no plan to outgrow. Micro (€3.49 + VAT) runs on one server.	At a plan's limits the site slows down or returns 503 errors; the fix is a plan upgrade[2]
CDN	A CDN you switch on for any site in the dashboard. Images and static files are then also served from locations across Europe, including Greece.	Included on all plans[3]
Entry price	Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum)	Premium €2.99 a month on a 48-month prepay (€143.52 upfront), excluding VAT[4][5]
Billing	Pay by the hour for what your site uses, month to month; the monthly price is the minimum. No contract and no introductory price.	Paid in advance. Premium renews at €9.99 a month.[4]
Storage	10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT	20 GB (Premium) to 100 GB (Cloud Startup)[4]
Backups	Every night, kept 30 days, stored separately in the EU, one-click restore	Weekly on Premium; daily from the Unlimited plan up[4]
Test copy (staging)	Yes, a private test copy of every site	Yes, on all plans[3]
Control panel	Our own dashboard, made only for WordPress: one-click login, a private test copy, logs, blocked attacks, uptime and cost for each site	hPanel, its own[3]
Servers	Mainly in Germany, always within the EU, in ISO 27001-certified data centres	Your choice, including France, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands in the EU, plus the UK, US, Asia and Brazil[6]
Email accounts	Mailboxes are a separate product on a dedicated email platform, not on your web server, from €1.90 per month + VAT (8 GB): webmail, calendars and spam filtering, ordered in the same dashboard. Order and password emails from your site are included with hosting.	2 mailboxes per site on Premium; unlimited from the Unlimited plan up[4]
Moving your site	Free and done by our team; your old site stays untouched until you switch	Free, unlimited[4]

Your dashboard

Built for WordPress, not for servers

Hostinger, like us, has its own panel, hPanel. Most hosts in Greece and Cyprus give you Plesk or cPanel instead: good tools for running a server, where WordPress is one app among many. If that's what you're used to, this is what changes day to day with ours.

You want to…	Grandhosting dashboard	A typical Plesk or cPanel host
Log in to WordPress	One click from your dashboard, no password to share	Log in to the panel first, then open WordPress from its tools
Test an update first	A private test copy of every site, then publish it	Possible with extra tools on some plans, otherwise a manual copy
Get last night’s site back	Pick any of the last 30 nightly backups, restore in one click	A backup tool or a support request, depending on the plan
Know the site is down	Uptime alerts built in	Usually a separate service you set up yourself
Find out why something broke	Error and visitor logs for each site, in the dashboard	Find the log file in a file manager
See what the firewall blocked	Every blocked request listed; allow a false alarm in one click	Usually hidden; open a ticket
Handle a busy day	Extra power starts by itself on Standard	Upgrade to a bigger plan
Know what each site costs	Cost per site, with a spending limit and alerts	One invoice for the whole plan

Plesk and cPanel are solid tools for servers. The difference is what each one is made for.

How it’s built

Sealed off and 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.

Sealed off from other sites

Every site runs on its own, with its own reserved computing power, memory and database. No other site can use its share.
One site can’t reach another, so a problem on one site stays there.
We tested it: with one site pushed to full power, the site next to it kept running normally, and a site that ran out of memory was stopped at its own limit while its neighbour kept answering every visitor.

How we tested it →

Built for WordPress

We host WordPress only, so everything, from the web server to the speed cache and the dashboard, is set up for WordPress rather than adapted from general hosting.
WordPress itself runs from a clean, protected copy; only your content changes. Updates reach your site with no downtime.
Your images and files aren’t stored on your web server. They live on separate storage and are served straight from there, so they never slow your pages down, and a server failing never loses them.
Our dashboard manages WordPress sites, not a server: a private test copy, plugins, logs, blocked attacks and cost, for each site.

How the platform works →

For developers: what runs your site

Web server and PHP. OpenLiteSpeed with LiteSpeed PHP, with GD, SOAP, BCMath, intl and zip on every site. Logged-in pages, carts and checkout are never page-cached.
Caching. A Redis object cache on every site, kept separate from every other site’s, plus an optional CDN per site.
Database. MariaDB, a dedicated database per site, with phpMyAdmin from the dashboard. Automatic failover to a live copy: in our tests about 14 seconds, with no lost writes.
Access. A WP-CLI terminal over SSH with your own SSH keys, a browser WP-CLI console, and one-click login to wp-admin.
Security. A web application firewall in front of every site, with every block visible in the dashboard, and malware scans every night and whenever a plugin is installed.
Media. Uploads live on separate storage in the EU and are served straight from it, not through WordPress or PHP.

Included

What every Grandhosting site gets

Micro and Standard get the same tools. Standard, from €5.99 + VAT, runs on at least two servers, keeps running if one fails and gets extra power by itself when you’re busy (marked below). Micro, from €3.49 + VAT, runs on one server.

Stays online

Runs on at least two servers at once, so one failing doesn’t take your site offline (Standard)
Gets extra power by itself when you’re busy, and gives it back afterwards (Standard)
Its own database, with a live copy that takes over by itself if a database server fails: in our tests in about 14 seconds, with no lost orders
A site that stops responding is restarted automatically
Updates with no downtime and no maintenance windows
99.9% uptime SLA

Fast

Images and files served straight from separate storage, not from your web server
Reserved computing power and memory for each site
A built-in speed cache
A CDN you can switch on for any site
Bandwidth included, with no metering or overage fees

Secure

A firewall that blocks hacking attempts, with every blocked request shown in your dashboard and one-click allow for a false alarm
Malware scans every night and whenever a plugin is installed
Protection against password guessing, a full login history, and a login page you can move to a private address
Free SSL, set up and renewed automatically
Two-step sign-in and an activity log for your account

See what’s happening

Uptime monitoring and alerts
Visitor statistics without cookies
Order and password emails that arrive, set up from day one
Error, visitor and WordPress debug logs
Server usage and cost for each site

WordPress tools

A private test copy of every site: try changes there, then publish them
Backups every night, kept 30 days and stored separately in the EU, plus backups whenever you want, with one-click restore
WordPress and PHP updates looked after for you; plugin and theme updates from the dashboard
One-click login to WordPress from your dashboard, with no password to share or reset
phpMyAdmin, opened from the dashboard
A WP-CLI terminal over SSH with your own SSH keys, and a browser WP-CLI console you switch on per site
One-click site copies, and reusable site templates for new sites

Billing you control

Pay by the hour for what your site uses; your plan’s monthly price is the minimum
Spending alerts and a spending limit, per site or for the whole account: usage never bills beyond your limit (your plan’s monthly minimum always applies)
10 GB storage included per site

Optional add-ons

Extra storage, €0.10 per GB per month + VAT
Email mailboxes on your domain, on a separate email platform (not your web server): webmail, calendars, spam filtering and any email app, from €1.90 per month + VAT (8 GB)
Domains: order them and connect them to your sites yourself, in the same dashboard

Full details on the features and pricing pages.

Which one fits

Choosing between us

Neither host is right for everyone. Here is where each one is the better choice.

Hostinger is the better fit if

You want the lowest monthly price and are happy to prepay four years.
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 to prepay. Micro is €3.49 + VAT month to month with no separate renewal price; Premium renews at €9.99.
You want backups every night, kept 30 days, on your entry plan, not weekly.
Your site has busy days. On Standard it gets extra power by itself rather than slowing down or showing 503 errors at a plan limit.
You want your data in the EU without having to choose it.

What you get either way: a CDN, free SSL, a test copy (staging), 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.

Switching

Moving from Hostinger

Migration is free and done by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your Hostinger site keeps running untouched until you switch, so if anything isn’t right you point the domain back.

Move my site from Hostinger, free →

A free demo site: 30 days for founding members, 14 days standard, no credit card.

Questions

Grandhosting vs Hostinger, answered

Hostinger is €2.99. Why pay €3.49?Το Hostinger κοστίζει 2,99 €. Γιατί να πληρώσω 3,49 €;

Hostinger's €2.99 needs 48 months paid upfront (€143.52) and renews at €9.99 a month. Our €3.49 + VAT is paid monthly, with no commitment and no separate renewal price. Over the first four years Hostinger costs less if you prepay; after that, and if you might leave sooner, we do. You also get backups every night instead of weekly.

Τα 2,99 € του Hostinger απαιτούν προπληρωμή 48 μηνών (143,52 €) και ανανεώνονται στα 9,99 € τον μήνα. Τα δικά μας 3,49 € + ΦΠΑ πληρώνονται μηνιαία, χωρίς δέσμευση και χωρίς ξεχωριστή τιμή ανανέωσης. Τα πρώτα τέσσερα χρόνια το Hostinger κοστίζει λιγότερο αν προπληρώσετε· μετά, ή αν ίσως φύγετε νωρίτερα, κοστίζουμε εμείς λιγότερο. Επιπλέον έχετε backups κάθε βράδυ αντί για εβδομαδιαία.

What happens when my site hits its limits?Τι γίνεται όταν το site μου φτάσει στα όριά του;

Hostinger says a site at its plan limits slows down or shows 503 errors, and the fix is to upgrade. On our Standard tier the site gets extra power by itself for the busy period and you pay for the server usage, with a monthly spending limit if you want one: usage never bills beyond it (your plan's monthly minimum always applies).

Το Hostinger αναφέρει ότι ένα site στα όρια του πακέτου του επιβραδύνεται ή εμφανίζει σφάλματα 503, και η λύση είναι η αναβάθμιση. Στο Standard μας το site παίρνει μόνο του επιπλέον ισχύ για το διάστημα της κίνησης και πληρώνετε τη χρήση του server, με μηνιαίο όριο δαπάνης αν το θέλετε: η χρήση δεν χρεώνεται ποτέ πάνω από το όριο (το μηνιαίο ελάχιστο του πακέτου σας ισχύει πάντα).

Can you move my site from Hostinger?Μπορείτε να μεταφέρετε το site μου από το Hostinger;

Yes, free. Our team moves the files, database, DNS and SSL, and your Hostinger site keeps running until you switch. Mailboxes aren't part of our hosting, so keep your mailbox where it is or move it to one of ours, from €1.90 a month + VAT.

Ναι, δωρεάν. Η ομάδα μας μεταφέρει αρχεία, βάση δεδομένων, DNS και SSL, και το site σας στο Hostinger συνεχίζει να λειτουργεί μέχρι να κάνετε την αλλαγή. Τα γραμματοκιβώτια δεν περιλαμβάνονται στη φιλοξενία μας, οπότε κρατήστε το γραμματοκιβώτιό σας εκεί που είναι ή μεταφέρετέ το σε δικό μας, από 1,90 € τον μήνα + ΦΠΑ.

Sources

Where the Hostinger details come from

Everything we say about Hostinger comes from Hostinger’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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