Greenhost
Ethical Dutch hosting for open-web, nonprofit, and privacy-conscious projects.
What Makes It FOSS-Friendly
Greenhost is a Dutch independent host with a visible privacy, sustainability, and digital-rights stance. It is a natural fit for nonprofits, publishers, activists, and FOSS projects that want infrastructure from a provider aligned with open-web values.
Their positioning is less about racing to the lowest VPS price and more about responsible hosting: renewable energy, privacy-aware operations, and support for organizations doing public-interest work.
Best Fit
Choose Greenhost when the project needs credibility around privacy, sustainability, and ethics. It is especially compelling for NGOs, foundations, cultural projects, open knowledge communities, and European teams that prefer a smaller provider over a global cloud platform.
- Public-interest websites
- Civil society infrastructure
- Managed hosting with values
- European privacy-sensitive workloads
Caveats
Greenhost is not trying to be a low-end VPS warehouse. If your main requirement is the cheapest CPU and RAM, look at budget VPS providers. If your project needs a provider with a principled operating model, Greenhost belongs on the shortlist.
Pricing Tiers
Web Hosting
~€5/moManaged web, email, and basic services
Best for: Small sites, NGOs, personal projects
VPS Small
~€10/mo1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD
Best for: Managed apps, small production workloads
Managed Services
CustomCustom managed hosting with sustainability focus
Best for: NGOs, foundations, public-interest projects
Verdict
Recommended if…
You run an NGO, foundation, or public-interest project, want a provider that aligns with digital rights and sustainability values, or need managed hosting with ethical credibility.
Avoid if…
You need the cheapest possible VPS, want raw compute without managed services, or need global infrastructure across multiple continents.