Grandhosting vs Pointer
Pointer hosts in its own equipment in a Greek data centre, and offers cPanel or Plesk. Grandhosting hosts mainly in Germany, always within the EU, gives each site extra power by itself on Standard, and keeps nightly backups for 30 days on every site.
Pointer details checked on 28 September 2026 against Pointer’s own public pages. Sources are listed at the bottom.
Side by side
| Grandhosting | Pointer | |
|---|---|---|
| How your site runs | Each site on its own, with its own reserved computing power, memory and database | cPanel or Plesk plans with fixed CPU, memory and I/O per plan (Bronze: 1 core, 1 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. | Resources are set per plan; automatic scaling isn't mentioned[1] |
| Entry price | Micro €3.49, Standard €5.99 per site per month + VAT (the monthly minimum) | Bronze: €5.90 month to month, €4.20 yearly or €3.90 on a 2-year prepay, per month + VAT. The cheaper Basic plan is “not recommended for WordPress”.[1] |
| 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. | Monthly, yearly or two-year terms; longer terms cost less per month[1] |
| Storage | 10 GB included, then €0.10 per GB + VAT | “Unlimited” NVMe from Bronze up, within a file-count limit (100,000 files on Bronze)[1] |
| Backups | Every night, kept 30 days, stored separately in the EU, one-click restore | A full-server backup every two days, kept 14 days in another data centre; restore on request[1] |
| 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 | cPanel or Plesk, your choice[1] |
| Servers | Mainly in Germany, always within the EU, in ISO 27001-certified data centres | Greece: its own equipment in a Greek data centre, connected to GR-IX[1][2] |
| 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. | Unlimited mailboxes of 1 GB each, from Bronze up[1] |
| Moving your site | Free and done by our team; your old site stays untouched until you switch | Free with a yearly hosting purchase[1] |
Built for WordPress, not for servers
Pointer gives you cPanel or Plesk: good tools for running a server, where WordPress is one app among many. Our dashboard only manages WordPress sites, so the things you do every day are one click away.
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Choosing between us
Neither host is right for everyone. Here is where each one is the better choice.
Pointer is the better fit if
- You want your site on servers physically in Greece. Pointer's are; ours are mainly in Germany, always within the EU.
- You want unlimited mailboxes included, or cPanel specifically.
- You have a simple site and are happy to prepay two years for the lowest monthly price.
Grandhosting is the better fit if
- You want backups every night, kept 30 days, with one-click restore, instead of a backup every two days kept for 14.
- Your site has busy days. On Standard it gets extra power by itself and keeps running if a server fails.
- You want a private test copy of every site to try updates before they go live.
- You want to pay month to month without paying more per month for it.
- 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 Pointer's are 1 GB each.
What you get either way: free SSL, free migration. These are standard now, so they shouldn’t decide it. What happens when your site gets busy, or breaks, should.
Moving from Pointer
Migration is free and done by our team: files, database, DNS and SSL. Your Pointer site keeps running untouched until you switch, so if anything isn’t right you point the domain back.
Move my site from Pointer, free →
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Grandhosting vs Pointer, answered
For visitors in Greece, a server in Greece is closer, and that matters most for the first byte of each page. How fast a WordPress site feels also depends on its speed cache, the computing power it gets and what happens on a busy day, which is where we focus. With our CDN switched on, images and static files are also served from locations across Europe, including Greece. If servers in Greece are a requirement for you, Pointer is the honest choice.
Για επισκέπτες στην Ελλάδα, ένας server στην Ελλάδα είναι πιο κοντά, και αυτό μετράει κυρίως στο πρώτο byte κάθε σελίδας. Το πόσο γρήγορο φαίνεται ένα WordPress site εξαρτάται επίσης από τη μνήμη ταχύτητας (cache), την υπολογιστική ισχύ που έχει και το τι γίνεται σε μια πολυσύχναστη μέρα, όπου εστιάζουμε εμείς. Με ενεργό το CDN μας, οι εικόνες και τα στατικά αρχεία σερβίρονται επίσης από σημεία σε όλη την Ευρώπη, μαζί και την Ελλάδα. Αν οι servers στην Ελλάδα είναι απαίτηση για εσάς, το Pointer είναι η ειλικρινής επιλογή.
Month to month, yes: our Micro is €3.49 + VAT, Pointer's Bronze €5.90 + VAT. On a two-year prepay Bronze drops to €3.90 + VAT a month, close to ours. Our price is the same whether you stay one month or two years, and a busy site pays for the extra server usage it needs.
Μήνα με τον μήνα, ναι: το Micro μας κοστίζει 3,49 € + ΦΠΑ, το Bronze του Pointer 5,90 € + ΦΠΑ. Με προπληρωμή δύο ετών το Bronze πέφτει στα 3,90 € + ΦΠΑ τον μήνα, κοντά στο δικό μας. Η δική μας τιμή είναι ίδια είτε μείνετε έναν μήνα είτε δύο χρόνια, και ένα πολυσύχναστο site πληρώνει την επιπλέον χρήση server που χρειάζεται.
Pointer backs up the whole server every two days and keeps 14 days, restored on request. We back up each site every night, keep 30 days, store the backups separately in the EU, and you restore with one click in the dashboard.
Το Pointer παίρνει backup ολόκληρου του server κάθε δύο ημέρες και το κρατά 14 ημέρες, με επαναφορά κατόπιν αιτήματος. Εμείς παίρνουμε backup κάθε site κάθε βράδυ, το κρατάμε 30 ημέρες, το αποθηκεύουμε ξεχωριστά εντός ΕΕ, και το επαναφέρετε με ένα κλικ από το dashboard.
Where the Pointer details come from
Everything we say about Pointer comes from Pointer’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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