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High-Performance Grav Hosting
Managed Grav hosting in the UK for the flat-file CMS
Grav stores its content in files, so the content tree and its permissions are central to the hosting and backup plan.
Grav hosting
Managed Grav hosting, built for speed.
Grav stores its content in files, so the content tree and its permissions are central to the hosting and backup plan.
We check the application and its required services before agreeing a migration. The plan tables show the hosting resources; extra software licences and external services should be scoped separately.
Bespoke Grav packages
Grav hosting plans for every stage.
Free planned migration. 30-day money-back guarantee. Switch credit up to £100 inc VAT per qualifying account.
How you pay
Solo site
Startup
For a single site you want hosted properly.
£5.99 /mo , ex VAT
Pay yearly: £59.90, two months free. £59.90 billed yearly, ex VAT. Save £11.98.
- 1 Website
- 30GB NVMe
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Free SSL certificates
- Free site migrations
- Daily malware scanning
- Staging sites
Most sites
Business
For a busy site or a few projects at once.
£8.99 /mo , ex VAT
Pay yearly: £89.90, two months free. £89.90 billed yearly, ex VAT. Save £17.98.
- 3 Websites
- 100GB NVMe
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Free SSL certificates
- Free site migrations
- Daily malware scanning
- Staging sites
Scaling up
Enterprise
For several sites or a growing portfolio.
£11.99 /mo , ex VAT
Pay yearly: £119.90, two months free. £119.90 billed yearly, ex VAT. Save £23.98.
- 5 Websites
- 250GB NVMe
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Free SSL certificates
- Free site migrations
- Daily malware scanning
- Staging sites
Busiest sites
Max
Priority resources for the busiest sites.
£24.99 /mo , ex VAT
Pay yearly: £249.90, two months free. £249.90 billed yearly, ex VAT. Save £49.98.
- 10 Websites
- 500GB NVMe
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Unlimited mailboxes
- Free SSL certificates
- Free site migrations
- Daily malware scanning
- Staging sites
Need a custom solution? Contact us, enterprise setups with advanced security and dedicated resources.
What every plan includes
Everything your Grav site needs.
LiteSpeed Grav Speed
Cache eligible public pages to reduce repeated application work. Check personalised pages, cache exclusions and background processing for your installation.
Flat-File, No Database
Grav needs no MySQL database, content lives in flat files, so deployments are simpler and there's nothing extra to tune or break.
Multilayered Grav Security
WAF firewall, mod_security, CageFS isolation and daily malware scanning protect your Grav site, with no database to expose.
Free Grav Migrations
Our 24x7 UK team migrates your Grav website free of charge, handling everything from testing to go-live with no downtime.
Git & SFTP Deploys
Manage your flat-file Grav site with Git, SFTP or cPanel, version content easily and push changes with no database migration.
24x7 UK Support
A UK-based team with 20+ years' experience is on hand via live chat and tickets whenever your Grav site needs help.
Deploying Grav
Check PHP extensions and the requirements of the theme and plugins. Decide how file edits made in the admin panel will coexist with deployments from Git.
Moving your Grav site
Copy the user content, configuration, plugins and themes, with permissions that allow the intended editing workflow. Rebuild caches and check media and routes.
Agree a final data sync and the DNS change after staging checks pass. Keep the old service available through the transition and check backups on the destination.
Why Grav is easy to host, and what still matters
Grav is a flat-file CMS: content lives as Markdown files in folders, there's no database to create or back up, and a whole site is a directory you can copy or keep in Git. That makes it one of the simplest platforms to host. What a Grav host still has to get right is PHP: Grav wants a current PHP 8 release with a handful of extensions, and it's fastest with an opcode cache in front of it.
Every plan here has PHP 8 switchable per site with the extensions Grav needs, SSH for the Grav CLI, and Git for the Git Sync plugin if you edit locally and push. NVMe storage suits a file-based CMS well: every page render is file reads, and NVMe makes those quick. LSCache sits in front for the pages Grav has already rendered.
Running Grav day to day
Install Grav by uploading the Grav Core plus Admin package and opening the site; the Admin plugin gives editors a browser interface so nobody has to touch Markdown who doesn't want to. Themes and plugins install from the Admin or with the Grav CLI over SSH. Updates run from the Admin dashboard, and because there's no database, a backup is the folder: Grav's own backup command zips it, and our off-site backups cover the account as well.
If you develop locally, the Git Sync plugin keeps the server in step with your repository, so the hosting workflow is a git push. Staging is a second folder or a second site on the same plan.
PHP 8 with the right extensions
Grav's requirements met out of the box, and the version switchable per site.
Git Sync ready
Git on the account, so the Git Sync plugin pushes and pulls without workarounds.
Grav CLI over SSH
bin/gpm and bin/grav for installs, updates and cache clears.
Free SSL and backups
Let's Encrypt on every domain; off-site backups of the whole account.
Moving a Grav site
The easiest migration on this list. A Grav site is its folder: user, system and the installed plugins and themes. We copy it, set the PHP version, check the Admin login and a page save on a staging address, and switch DNS. Free, done by our UK team, usually the same day.
Check the official Grav requirements for your release, then plan the migration with us. See our hosting platform for the infrastructure behind the plans.
The right stack
Tuned for how Grav runs.
Check PHP extensions and the requirements of the theme and plugins. Decide how file edits made in the admin panel will coexist with deployments from Git.
Platform
- 100% NVMe SSD storage
- AMD EPYC processors
- Free managed migration, staged and tested first
- Daily backups, free SSL & DDoS protection
- 24/7 UK-based support
- PHP · Flat-file content · Plugins
100Gbps
DDoS protection
Always-on mitigation upstream of our network, filtering attack traffic 24x7 before it reaches your server. Included on every plan at no extra cost.
Which environment does Grav need?
What is included in the migration plan?
Will my site fit the lowest-priced plan?
Are software licences included?
Does Grav need a database?
Can I use Git Sync with Grav here?
Which PHP version does Grav need?
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Ready to move Grav to a faster host?
Free managed migration from your current host, a UK support team on hand around the clock, and a platform tuned to keep Grav quick. Let's get you set up.