Green.ch Review 2026: Swiss Hosting With Serious Infrastructure Behind It

Green.ch started life in 1995 as a rural internet service for Swiss farmers. It’s now the fifth largest internet provider in Switzerland, operates four data centre campuses near Zurich, and holds the only Uptime Institute certification of any Swiss data centre operator. The hosting product is a small part of a much larger infrastructure business, which shapes both its strengths and its limitations.

This review covers the shared hosting product, the data centre credentials, the ownership situation, and where green.ch sits against the other Swiss providers already reviewed on TSH. It’s aimed at anyone based in Switzerland or serving Swiss customers who wants data that stays in the country and infrastructure they can point to when a compliance question comes up.

About green.ch

The company was founded in 1995 by the Swiss Farmers’ Association under the name agri.ch, providing internet connectivity to rural communities in Switzerland. It rebranded to green.ch in 2001 and has since grown into a full-service ICT company covering internet subscriptions, digital TV, telephony, web hosting, domain registration, cloud infrastructure, and colocation.

Headquarters are in Lupfig, canton of Aargau, which is also where the flagship Campus ZRH1 data centre sits. The company has 170+ employees and serves 100,000+ customers across its various product lines.

One piece of context worth stating upfront: green.ch changed ownership in October 2025. The IFM Global Infrastructure Fund acquired the company from InfraVia Capital Partners, completing the transaction on October 30, 2025. IFM is an Australian-based asset manager owned by 16 pension funds, with approximately $161 billion USD under management. Its remit is long-term infrastructure investment, not software acquisition or platform consolidation. For hosting customers, this is more relevant to understand than to be concerned about: infrastructure investors tend to hold assets for decades and invest in capacity rather than cutting costs. InfraVia had held green.ch for roughly eight years before the sale. If you want to understand what ownership changes mean for hosting customers in general, the TSH guide on what happens when your web host gets acquired is worth reading.

The current CEO of Green Group is Roger Süess. The company is not publicly traded.

Website Experience

On desktop, the green.ch site loads an almost full-page promotional banner on most pages that has to be manually dismissed before the content underneath is visible. It appeared consistently across the hosting and pricing pages during research for this review. It’s a minor friction point but an odd choice for a company positioning itself as premium Swiss infrastructure.

The navigation compounds this. The mega-menu expands to fill roughly a third of the viewport, making it harder than it should be to find the right hosting plan. For a provider with this many product lines, a cleaner structure would help considerably. Neither issue affects the hosting product itself, but first impressions count.

The mobile experience is notably better. The navigation is cleaner on smaller screens and the promotional banner doesn’t appear, making it easier to find what you need.

Shared Hosting

Three plans, all on annual billing. No monthly option exists. No money-back guarantee. These two facts together mean you’re committing to at least 12 months upfront before you’ve tested the product on your own site. That’s a meaningful decision point and worth knowing before you read the feature list.

All plans include: unlimited domains connectable, free SSL certificate (on Green nameservers), website builder, unlimited email addresses, one-click installation of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Typo3, DDoS protection, WAF with 24/7 monitoring, backup every 6 hours restorable for 14 days in self-service at no extra charge, webmail, antivirus and spam filtering, and container isolation per account. PHP 8.4, SSD storage, GZIP compression, and HTTP/2 are standard across all plans.

Prices are in CHF, annual billing only. A 50% discount on the M plan is currently available for the first year (CHF 7.45/mo). At renewal, the full CHF 14.90/mo applies. That’s a 2x renewal increase, less severe than many US hosts but more pronounced than Infomaniak or Hostpoint, both of which offer monthly billing and more gradual renewal pricing. If you’re price-sensitive or unsure about committing, one of those two is worth comparing first.

The L plan adds Git support, custom CGI scripts, and Code Igniter on top of the standard features. It’s positioned for developers and SMEs running more complex applications rather than standard WordPress sites.

green.ch also offers residential hosting plans starting from CHF 6.45/mo. These appear to be the same infrastructure at a slightly lower price point with the same annual commitment. The SME plans reviewed above are the ones most relevant for business use.

WordPress Hosting

The WordPress hosting pages market the same three plans with WordPress-specific messaging. Behind the scenes it’s the same shared hosting product, with WordPress installable via one click through the control panel.

There’s no WordPress Toolkit, no staging environment, no live security patching, and no managed updates. If those features matter to you, green.ch’s WordPress hosting won’t deliver them. For a managed WordPress experience with those tools built in, Hostpoint’s managed WordPress tier or Infomaniak’s WordPress offering are the more relevant options within Switzerland.

What green.ch does offer for WordPress is a solid shared hosting base: SSD storage, PHP 8.4, GZIP, HTTP/2, and a WAF. For a basic WordPress site without complex development requirements, the M plan at CHF 14.90/mo renewal gives you a comfortable 250GB and 2GB RAM in a geo-redundant Swiss data centre.

Windows hosting is also available, though pricing wasn’t captured for this review. Check green.ch directly for current CHF figures on Windows plans. The availability of Windows hosting is worth noting: it’s uncommon among Swiss shared hosting providers at this level.

Cloud and Colocation

Beyond shared hosting, green.ch offers cloud and colocation services for SMEs and enterprise customers. The SME cloud tier provides scalable, secure cloud hosting for businesses that need more than shared hosting can offer. Colocation is available as rack space in the Swiss data centres, with options from single racks through to private cages and suites at the enterprise level.

For larger organisations, the product range extends to private, public, and hybrid cloud, Infrastructure as a Service, Azure Local, and hyperscaler connectivity. These products sit on the same infrastructure as the shared hosting, the same four Zurich campuses, the same ISO certifications, the same 100% renewable energy.

Pricing for cloud and colocation isn’t listed publicly and requires a direct quote from green.ch.

Data Centres and Infrastructure

This is where green.ch separates itself from most Swiss hosting providers. The company doesn’t use a third-party data centre. It owns and operates four campuses, all in the Zurich area, with over CHF 120 million invested in infrastructure.

Campus ZRH1, Lupfig is the headquarters location and the flagship facility. It’s the only Swiss data centre to hold the Uptime Institute Management and Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval. This is a process certification covering operational disciplines, staffing, and management practices rather than a Tier facility rating, but it’s independently awarded and meaningful for enterprise customers assessing operational quality. ZRH1 has over 10,000 sqm of data centre space and a fourth building is currently under construction, adding 12MW of new capacity.

Metro-Campus ZRH2, Dielsdorf holds ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 1 Type 2/ISAE 3402 certification. The campus uses ambient air free cooling to minimise mechanical cooling energy, and the waste heat from the facility feeds into the local Naturenergie Eigenamt heating network run by IBB Energie AG, providing warmth to local households and industry.

ZRH3, Schlieren is a Tier III facility with ISO 27001, ISO 50001 (energy management), and ISAE 3402.

ZRH4, Glattbrugg is a subterranean facility designed for the finance sector, connected to the Green fibre ring for geo-redundant connectivity.

All four campuses operate on 100% renewable energy. Geo-redundant hosting across multiple Swiss locations is included as standard on shared hosting plans, which means your data sits in at least two physical locations simultaneously.

Connectivity covers 50+ carriers and connections to 700+ data centre locations worldwide, with direct access to major cloud providers.

One note on a claim circulating in third-party directories: at least one aggregator lists green.ch’s facilities as “Tier 4 certified.” This couldn’t be verified from green’s own documentation. ZRH3 and ZRH4 are listed as Tier III. ZRH1 holds the Uptime Institute M&O Stamp, which is a process award, not a facility Tier rating. The review here reflects what green.ch’s own pages confirm.

Green Credentials

The name creates an expectation the company takes seriously. Free cooling with ambient air minimises the energy cost of cooling. Waste heat utilisation at ZRH2 means the data centre’s thermal output contributes to local district heating rather than being vented. 100% renewable energy is operator-stated across all campuses.

green.ch was not listed as a verified provider in the Green Web Foundation dataset at the time of writing. The GWF is an independent non-profit that maintains the largest open dataset of verified green hosting providers. Not being listed doesn’t mean the energy claims are inaccurate, but it does mean they haven’t been independently verified by that specific body. You can check the current status yourself using the Green Hosting Checker tool.

For more context on what green hosting claims actually mean and how to evaluate them, the TSH guide on green web hosting and sustainability covers the distinctions between operator-stated claims and independently verified ones.

Support

Phone support is available Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:30 Swiss time, in German, French, Italian, and English. The 24/7 claim you’ll see on green.ch’s infrastructure pages refers to data centre monitoring, not customer-facing support. The two are separate and worth distinguishing before you sign up.

Some reviewers note that hands-on technical support is limited on lower-tier plans. The support model is more account management and billing than server-level troubleshooting. If you need someone to debug a PHP application or fix a broken WordPress install over the phone, that’s not what this support line is built for.

Trustpilot shows a 4.3 star rating from 495 reviews. Worth noting that these cover all green.ch services, not hosting specifically: internet subscriptions, TV, telephony, and hosting are all reviewed together. The most consistent positive theme is fast and knowledgeable technical support. Negative reviews tend to involve billing disputes or service activation delays on the internet subscription side rather than hosting. The overall score is solid but less directly comparable to hosting-only providers.

Swiss-market reviews and PCtipp magazine (a respected Swiss tech publication) have given the service strong marks, particularly for value and reliability. The support quality mentioned in user reviews is generally positive, especially on responsiveness.

Who Should Use green.ch?

The clearest fit is a Swiss business or individual that wants data in Switzerland, values the compliance and certification credentials of the infrastructure, and is comfortable committing to an annual plan.

The FADP (Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, in force since September 2023) created new obligations for Swiss website operators similar to GDPR. green.ch’s Swiss data centres and DPA availability make compliance documentation cleaner than routing through an EU or US provider. That’s a concrete practical benefit for Swiss-based operators, not just a marketing point.

If you want monthly billing flexibility, a money-back period, managed WordPress with staging and security tooling, or LiteSpeed performance, look at Infomaniak Hostpoint instead. Both are Swiss providers with more flexible terms and richer WordPress features. If you’re outside Switzerland and evaluating on price alone, European providers like Hetzner offer comparable infrastructure at lower EUR pricing.

green.ch is also worth considering if you need Windows hosting in Switzerland, or if you’re an enterprise customer interested in the colocation or cloud infrastructure products that sit above the shared hosting tier.

Common Questions About green.ch

Where are green.ch’s servers located? All hosting infrastructure is in Switzerland. green.ch operates four data centre campuses near Zurich: Campus ZRH1 in Lupfig, ZRH2 in Dielsdorf, ZRH3 in Schlieren, and ZRH4 in Glattbrugg. Geo-redundant hosting across multiple campuses is included as standard on shared plans.

Does green.ch offer a money-back guarantee? No. There’s no money-back guarantee, and no monthly billing option. All shared hosting plans are sold on annual subscriptions billed in advance. This is one of the most important things to know before signing up.

Is green.ch good for WordPress hosting? For a standard WordPress site, yes. SSD storage, PHP 8.4, DDoS protection, and a WAF give a solid base. The 6-hour backup cycle is particularly good. The limitation is that this isn’t managed WordPress: there’s no Toolkit, no staging, and no automated security patching.

Who owns green.ch? Since October 30, 2025, green.ch is owned by the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund, managed by IFM Investors (Melbourne, Australia). The previous owner was InfraVia Capital Partners, a French private equity firm, which held the company for approximately eight years.

Can I pay monthly with green.ch? No. All shared hosting plans require an annual commitment paid upfront. There is no monthly billing option on any shared hosting tier.

Final Verdict

green.ch occupies a specific and honest position in the Swiss hosting market. It’s a large, established infrastructure company with four data centre campuses, ISO and Uptime Institute certifications, and 30 years of operational history in Switzerland. For a Swiss business that wants those credentials behind its hosting, the shared hosting plans deliver them at a price that’s competitive for what the infrastructure represents.

The limitations are real too. Annual billing only, no monthly option, no money-back guarantee, no managed WordPress tooling, and support that’s office hours rather than round the clock. These aren’t incidental drawbacks. They define who this product is and isn’t for.

If you’re a Swiss business that needs data sovereignty, compliance documentation, and geo-redundant Swiss infrastructure, green.ch is a credible choice.