Built for WordPress.
Not adapted for it.
We only host WordPress, so everything, from the dashboard you use to the servers underneath, is made for it. Here is what happens to your site on Grandhosting, in plain words first and with the details for your developer further down.
How your site runs on Grandhosting
Create your site
Start a free demo site from your dashboard: 30 days for founding members, 14 days standard, no credit card.
Build and test
A private test copy, a built-in speed cache, SSL, malware scans and an optional CDN, all working from day one.
Go live
Point your domain at it. Your site runs sealed off, with its own reserved CPU and memory; on Standard it gets extra power by itself when it’s busy.
Try it free — 30 days for founding members, 14 days standard, no credit card, no billing details. Build your site, take your time, show it to clients. If you decide not to continue, it’s simply deleted — nothing to cancel, nothing to pay.
Want the technical details? Keep reading.
Built for WordPress, not for servers
Most hosts give you a place on a server and a server panel such as Plesk or cPanel: good tools for running a server, where WordPress is one app among many. We built the whole thing around WordPress sites instead.
A place on a server
Many websites share one server. They share its power, so a busy or broken site next door can slow yours down, and if that server stops, every site on it stops.
- A server panel where WordPress is one app among many
- Shared power with the other sites on the server
- A bigger plan when you need more
- One server: if it fails, your site is down until it’s fixed
- Images and files on the same server as the site
Your own sealed-off site
Every site runs sealed off, with its own reserved CPU, memory and database. Nothing another site does can take your power, and on Standard your site keeps running if a server fails.
- Our own dashboard, made only for WordPress sites
- Reserved power for your site alone
- Extra power by itself when you’re busy (Standard)
- At least two servers, so one failing doesn’t take you offline (Standard)
- Images and files on separate storage, served straight from it
Three ideas behind every site
Each one fixes a problem you may have met with ordinary hosting.
Every site sealed off
Each WordPress site runs on its own, with CPU and memory reserved for it and a database of its own. Sites can’t reach each other.
So an attack on another site never touches yours. A badly written plugin on someone else’s site can’t use up your memory. Another shop’s Black Friday rush won’t slow down your blog.
We tested this by attacking the platform ourselves: with one site pushed to full CPU and another driven out of memory, the site next door kept running normally. The details are on our security page.
A clean copy of WordPress, every time
WordPress core runs from a clean, protected copy. If malware changes a core file, that change doesn’t survive a restart: the core comes back clean.
Your own content (uploads, plugins and themes) is kept safely apart from it, and it’s what our malware scan checks every night and whenever a plugin is installed.
Updates to WordPress and the platform go out with no downtime. The new version starts, is checked, and only then takes over from the old one. No clicking “Update” and hoping nothing breaks.
Extra power when you’re busy (Standard)
On Standard your site always runs on at least two servers at once. If one fails, the other keeps serving your visitors while a replacement starts. (A Micro site runs on one server: fine for brochure and landing-page sites where a short interruption isn’t a problem.)
When your site gets busy, extra copies of it start by themselves on other servers and share the visitors. When the rush is over, they’re removed again. You pay by the hour for what’s used, with your monthly price as the minimum.
Technical details
The parts that run your site, and what each one does. Nothing is proprietary: it is standard WordPress on standard software.
OpenLiteSpeed and LiteSpeed PHP
A fast web server made for PHP, with LiteSpeed PHP. Logged-in visitors, carts and checkout are never served from a saved copy, so they always show live data.
PHP extensions
GD, SOAP, BCMath, intl and zip on every site, plus what common WordPress and WooCommerce plugins expect.
Redis speed cache
Redis keeps your WordPress object cache and visitor sessions in memory, so repeated database questions are answered from memory and pages load faster. It’s kept separate per site, and if it’s ever unreachable the site keeps working from the database.
MariaDB and phpMyAdmin
Your own MariaDB database, opened in phpMyAdmin from your dashboard in one click. A live copy is kept on another server and takes over by itself if the main one fails: in our tests about 14 seconds, with no lost writes. Your site always reads its latest data.
Separate media storage
Your images, PDFs and downloads live on separate, replicated storage in the EU and are served straight from it, not from your web server. Every server running your site sees the same files, and a server failing never loses one. An optional CDN can be switched on per site.
WP-CLI and access
A WP-CLI terminal over SSH with your own SSH keys, a WP-CLI console in the browser, phpMyAdmin, and one-click login to wp-admin. Plugins, themes and updates stay in step across every copy of your site within seconds.
Security built into every layer
Security is not an add-on or a premium feature. It is on for every site, with nothing to switch on.
Site isolation
Each site runs sealed off and can’t talk to any other site. Even if one site is hacked, it cannot reach any other site on the platform.
Automated malware scanning
Every site is scanned every night and whenever a plugin is installed. We also watch every site for unusual behaviour, and anything suspicious starts a scan. Findings raise an alert and appear in your dashboard.
Free SSL certificates
Every site gets a free SSL certificate that is set up and renewed by itself. No configuration needed. HTTPS is on from the moment your site goes live.
Protected WordPress core
WordPress core runs from a clean, protected copy, so a tampered core file doesn’t survive a restart. Plugins, themes and uploads are what the nightly malware scan checks.
A firewall that blocks hacking attempts
A web application firewall runs in front of every site and blocks common attacks and vulnerability scanners before they reach WordPress. Every blocked request shows in your dashboard, and you can allow a false alarm with one click.
Automated backups
Your database and files are backed up every night and kept for 30 days, on storage separate from your site, in the EU. Restore any backup with one click from the dashboard.
A day in the life of your site
Here is what happens behind the scenes when a site on Standard has a busy day. You don’t have to do anything.
Morning, low traffic
Your site runs on two servers. The speed cache answers repeat requests, and images come straight from separate storage. Everything is quiet.
Newsletter goes out
You send a newsletter to 20,000 subscribers. Traffic starts climbing. Both servers handle it comfortably, and visitors notice nothing.
A rush arrives
A popular blog picks up your article and traffic triples in minutes. The platform sees your site working hard and starts a third copy of it, which begins serving visitors by itself.
The busiest hour
Traffic is now five times normal, so a fourth copy starts. Visitors are shared between all four, and the site keeps loading normally for them.
Back to normal
The rush is over. The extra copies finish serving the visitors they have, then are removed one at a time, and your site is back on two servers.
Nightly maintenance
Your database and files are backed up to separate storage in the EU, and the malware scan checks your plugins, themes and uploads. Everything passes. You sleep soundly.
Throughout this entire day, you did nothing. No watching servers. No plan upgrade. No emergency calls. The platform handled it by itself, and you paid only for the hours the extra copies ran.
Want to know exactly what happens when something fails? Read about reliability & your data →
Founding Member pricing.
Yours while you stay.
From €3.49/mo + VAT — pay only for what your site actually uses. Founding-member pricing stays locked for as long as your account remains active.
Early access means direct access to our team. You’re not a ticket number. You’re a founding partner.
No commitment and no card to start. Takes a minute.
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