The perfect hosting for the Grav Flatfile CMS
With our Grav hosting in Germany, peaknetworks provides a fast and lightweight hosting environment for the Grav flat-file CMS.
The infrastructure is specifically designed for performance-focused, database-free websites and is ideal for developers, agencies, and businesses that value speed and simplicity.
As an experienced hosting provider, peaknetworks operates all systems in Germany and additional European data centers. We combine modern web hosting with personal support and clear processes to ensure Grav projects run stable, secure, and sustainably over the long term.
Grav hosting offers
Grav CMS Hosting Medium
- latest Grav preinstalled
- 20GB superfast ZFS with SSD
- 1 domain permanently free
- SSL certificates permanently free of charge
- Daily backup
- Control panel for administration
- Free migration service
- SSH access
- Upgradeable at any time
Grav CMS Hosting Large
- Extra power with high-performance hosting
- latest Grav preinstalled
- 50GB superfast ZFS with SSD
- 2 domains permanently free
- SSL certificates permanently free of charge
- Daily backup
- Control panel for administration
- Free migration service
- SSH access
- Upgradeable at any time
The perfect hosting for the Grav Flatfile CMS
Grav CMS is the most renowned Flat-File CMS, offering various advantages that make it an attractive choice for website creation.
Grav was voted the best CMS in 2016 and the best Flat-File CMS in 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Swift Web Pages: Thanks to its Flat-File architecture and the absence of database queries, GRAV typically ensures fast webpage loading. This is advantageous for both user experience and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Fantastic Package Manager: One-click plugin installation and updates!
SEO Optimization: GRAV supports SEO optimizations and provides features such as clean URLs, metadata management, and the capability to generate XML sitemaps to enhance your website's discoverability in search engines.
Multilingual Support: Implementing various languages or regions is effortlessly achievable within Grav.
CLI Tools: When combined with peaknetworks hosting, you can work directly with command-line tools via SSH.
Support: Our dedicated support team is at your disposal to answer your questions.
P.S.: We use it ourselves :-)
Why customers choose peaknetworks?
Advantages of peaknetworks Grav Hosting
peaknetworks Grav CMS Hosting offers high performance and fast loading times for your website. This is crucial for increasing customer satisfaction and improving conversion rates.
Our continuously monitored server infrastructure ensures high availability, ensuring that your website is accessible.
As with all our hosting products, a free domain is included with the purchase of Grav CMS Hosting (a domain from the top-level domains at, ch, de, com, net, info, org). Let's Encrypt SSL is included for free with all hosting packages.
- High Performance with HP Enterprise Servers
- Reliable and High Availability
- Choice of PHP Interpreter Version
- Daily Full Data Backups
- State of the Art Control Panel
- SSH Access - Utilize all Grav CLI Tools
Grav CMS–Optimized Hosting in Germany
Our Grav hosting in Germany is technically tailored specifically to the Grav CMS. We optimize the Nginx reverse proxy, Apache web server, and multiple PHP versions for Grav, which is built on Twig, Symfony, and modern caching mechanisms.
Combined with powerful HP Enterprise servers, this creates a hosting environment that delivers fast load times, high stability, and reliable performance for Grav websites of any size.
Choose Your Grav Hosting Location: Germany, Austria & Switzerland
As a hosting provider, peaknetworks deliberately focuses on the German-speaking region. You decide whether your Grav hosting runs in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland and benefit from short load times, clear data sovereignty, and regional proximity.
Our hosting infrastructure is distributed across multiple data centers in three countries. A particular highlight is our data center in Gais, Switzerland, which is among the most environmentally friendly data centers in Europe and sets benchmarks in green hosting.
All hosting services are, of course, fully GDPR-compliant. Upon request, we provide a data processing agreement.
FAQ
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What is Grav CMS?
Grav is a modern open-source flat-file CMS that works without a database. Content is stored as files, making Grav especially fast, low-maintenance, and ideal for performance-critical websites.
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Which projects is Grav hosting best suited for?
Grav hosting is well suited for corporate websites, documentation sites, landing pages, and developer projects where speed, simplicity, and version control are more important than complex editorial workflows.
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Why is Grav hosting faster than traditional CMS hosting?
Because Grav operates without a database, database-related queries are eliminated. Combined with server-side caching and optimized PHP configurations, this results in very short load times.
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Is Grav hosting suitable for developers?
Yes. Grav hosting is particularly popular with developers because its file-based structure integrates easily with Git, SSH, and modern deployment workflows.
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Can I migrate existing Grav websites to peaknetworks?
Yes. Existing Grav projects can be migrated including content, configurations, and themes. The migration is performed in a structured way to avoid data loss or downtime.
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Which PHP versions are supported by Grav hosting?
Grav hosting supports multiple current PHP versions. The PHP version can be adjusted to ensure maximum compatibility with plugins, themes, or existing projects.
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Is Grav hosting GDPR-compliant?
Yes. All data processed with Grav hosting is stored in European data centers. Server locations in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland enable GDPR-compliant operation.
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Does Grav hosting require a database?
No. Grav is a flat-file CMS and does not require a MySQL or MariaDB database. This significantly reduces maintenance effort and simplifies backups.
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How are backups handled with Grav hosting?
Regular file-based backups are created. Since Grav is entirely file-based, backups can be restored quickly or reused locally without additional dependencies.
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Is Grav hosting suitable for long-term projects?
Yes. Grav is stable, modular, and easy to maintain. Combined with scalable hosting, it is well suited for long-term websites and continuously growing content.
Contact us
You certainly want to focus on what you like to do and can do? We understand that. We will be happy to help you.
Contact our support team. Competent and solution-oriented, we will be happy to help you in several languages.
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