my.host Review 2026: Dutch Hosting With Unchanged Prices Since 2016 and GWF-Verified Green Credentials

Most Dutch hosting providers have a story that involves being acquired at some point. my.host doesn’t. Marijn Vlug founded it in Amsterdam in 2016 because he was fed up with watching prices rise and service quality fall every time a competitor changed hands. His response was to build something independently, keep prices the same year after year, and stay out of international acquisition pipelines entirely.

Nine years later, prices are still the same. The company serves 45,000 customers in the Netherlands without having bought a single competitor. And in July 2026, it launched my.host as the English-language face of the business for the first time.

This review covers what you get, what it costs, and whether the price stability story holds up on examination.

About my.host

Marijn Vlug launched mijn.host in 2016 from Amsterdam. The company is registered at Thomas R. Malthusstraat 1 in Amsterdam and has grown to 45,000 customers managing 200,000 active domain names. Every one of those customers came through organic growth. No acquisitions, no mergers, no parent company.

The context matters. The Dutch hosting market has been consolidating for years. TransIP, once the largest independent Dutch host, merged with Belgian group Combell in 2019 to form team.blue, now backed by British private equity firm Hg. Versio, Antagonist, and several other Dutch brands followed similar paths into international ownership structures. Customers switching to my.host frequently mention a previous provider that was acquired and whose service quality declined afterwards. That pattern shows up repeatedly in the Trustpilot reviews.

Vlug’s stated position: keep prices stable, stay independent, keep data in Europe. The English-language my.host site launched on July 6, 2026. Belgium expansion followed in August, with Brussels as the first data centre location outside the Netherlands. The registrar portfolio covers .nl (SIDN), .be (DNS Belgium), and .se and .nu (Internetstiftelsen), with more countries planned.

No phone support. Ticket and email, seven days a week including weekends. Multiple Trustpilot reviewers specifically mention fast Sunday responses from a support agent named Sven.

Shared Hosting

Four plans: .starter, .basic, .advance, and .ultimate. All run LiteSpeed with Redis caching and CloudLinux account isolation. Wildcard SSL is free on every plan, which means your main domain and all subdomains are automatically secured. One-click installs run through Softaculous.

The control panel is DirectAdmin, not cPanel. That’s worth flagging clearly. DirectAdmin is a capable, modern control panel, and many users prefer it. But if you’ve spent years in cPanel, there’s a learning curve. It’s not a dealbreaker, it’s just different.

All prices listed exclude 21% Dutch VAT.

The promotional price applies to the first term. Renewal is 2x across all plans: .starter goes from €1.99 to €3.99, .basic from €3.99 to €7.99. That’s a moderate renewal gap compared to US hosts, and transparently disclosed on the pricing page. Monthly billing is available from day one. 14-day money-back guarantee. No lock-in contract, monthly cancellation through the control panel.

All plans include unlimited data traffic, SpamExperts spam filtering, CalDAV calendars and contacts, webmail, IMAP and POP support, and unlimited subdomains.

Email Hosting

Three standalone email plans, all with GWF-verified green hosting, daily backups, SpamExperts filtering, CalDAV, and webmail. No setup fees. Free migration on .business and .enterprise.

For Dutch businesses wanting business email on their own domain without routing through Google or Microsoft, this is a clean, European-owned option at a competitive price.

Domains

The domain pricing page carries the same philosophy as the hosting: “A fixed price. Also valid after the first year.”

That’s not a marketing tagline. It means the price you pay for a .com in year one is the same price you pay in year two, year three, and every year after. No introductory rate that doubles at renewal. No bait-and-switch. A .com costs €12.99/yr, every year.

Registered instantly. Free DNS management. White-label domain reselling available. my.host is a direct registrar with SIDN for .nl, DNS Belgium for .be, and Internetstiftelsen for .se and .nu, so these extensions don’t route through a third party.

For Norwegian and Swedish readers: the .no and .se prices are competitive for direct registration. GoDaddy’s .com renewal is typically €18-20/yr after the first-year promotional rate. my.host’s €12.99 flat is meaningfully cheaper over any multi-year period.

VPS Hosting

Two lines: unmanaged and managed. Six tiers on each. All prices exclude VAT, promotional rates apply for the first three months.

Unmanaged VPS:

The XS at €5/mo for the first three months (then €7.50/mo) is one of the most competitive entry points for NVMe VPS in the Netherlands. These are self-managed: bring your own stack and operating system.

Managed VPS includes DirectAdmin, CloudLinux, Imunify360, JetBackup with backup storage, Softaculous, and LiteSpeed. The renewal gap on managed VPS is notably small: the managed L plan goes from €149.99 (promo) to €159.99 (regular), a 7% increase and far more reasonable than the 2x gap on shared hosting.

Dedicated Servers

A large catalogue of dedicated servers from €69.99/mo, delivered and ready to use within five minutes. That provisioning speed is unusual for dedicated hardware. Configurations cover Intel Xeon E3 through dual Intel Xeon Gold and AMD EPYC processors, with HDD, SSD, and NVMe storage options depending on the configuration. DC locations include Netherlands (DC2, DC3, DC5, AMS1) and France.

At the top end: an AMD EPYC 9334 with an NVIDIA H100 GPU, 512GB RAM, and 2×7.68TB NVMe at €5,249.99/mo. GPU servers at this level are rare from a Dutch-incorporated independent provider. For AI workloads and high-performance compute that need to stay within European jurisdiction, it’s a notable option.

For the full dedicated server catalogue and current configurations, visit my.host/dedicated-server directly.

Green Credentials

my.host is verified by the Green Web Foundation. The GWF record was last updated August 9, 2026, confirmed by webhosting.today. This is independent third-party verification, not a self-reported badge.

Green hosting is visible across all shared and email plans. The specific energy sourcing details aren’t published, but GWF verification means the hosting infrastructure meets the foundation’s verified green criteria. You can check current status with the Green Hosting Checker tool.

For more on what green hosting claims actually mean and how to distinguish between direct renewable sourcing and offset models, the sustainable hosting guide covers the distinctions.

Data Centres

Primary infrastructure in the Netherlands across multiple Amsterdam area facilities. France is available on some dedicated server configurations. Belgium (Brussels) is the first expansion location outside the Netherlands, announced in August 2026.

my.host is Dutch-incorporated with no US parent company. That means no CLOUD Act exposure: US authorities cannot compel my.host to produce customer data under the US CLOUD Act the way they can compel AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, regardless of where those companies’ servers physically sit. For businesses with European data sovereignty requirements, that distinction matters.

The Netherlands hosting market and verified provider options are covered in the Dutch hosting guide.

Support

Ticket and email, seven days a week. No phone support. If you need to call someone for urgent issues, my.host isn’t the right choice. If you’re comfortable resolving issues through a ticket system, the response times are genuinely fast.

Multiple Trustpilot reviews mention Sunday responses within 10 minutes. Several name a specific support agent, Sven, which signals a small, consistent team rather than a rotating offshore support pool. The migration service gets specific praise: my.host plans the migration at a time you choose, you provide the login details, and they handle the transfer.

Trustpilot shows 4.9/5 from 304 reviews. 88% are five-star. The 2% one-star reviews don’t show a pattern of systemic issues. The common themes in positive reviews: previous provider was acquired and quality dropped, customer switched to my.host, found prices lower and support better.

Who Should Use my.host?

The clearest fit is a Dutch business or individual who wants hosting from a genuinely independent Dutch provider, with stable pricing, GWF-verified green credentials, and seven-day support. The founding story and the price stability since 2016 are not marketing: they show up in the Trustpilot reviews as the reason customers switched.

For Nordic readers: the .no and .se domain registrations and the fixed domain pricing make my.host worth considering for domain management even if you host elsewhere. A Dutch provider with direct SIDN and Internetstiftelsen accreditation offering fixed-price .no domains is an unusual combination.

Developers wanting a competitive NVMe VPS in the Netherlands will find the unmanaged XS at €5/mo (promo) and €7.50/mo (regular) hard to beat for European infrastructure.

The product isn’t right for anyone who needs phone support, or for cPanel users who aren’t prepared to adapt to DirectAdmin. The English-language site is very new, launched July 2026, so documentation and community resources in English are limited compared to providers with longer international track records.

Common Questions About my.host

Does my.host use cPanel? No. my.host uses DirectAdmin across shared and managed VPS plans. DirectAdmin is a capable modern control panel with a different layout from cPanel. Softaculous is included for one-click application installs. If you’ve used cPanel for years, expect a short adaptation period.

Where are my.host’s servers located? Primary data centres are in the Netherlands, across multiple Amsterdam area facilities. Some dedicated server configurations offer France locations. Belgium (Brussels) was announced as a new location in August 2026. All infrastructure is within Europe.

Has my.host increased prices since 2016? The company says prices have remained the same since launch in 2016. Domain prices are explicitly described as fixed and valid after the first year. The hosting plans show a promotional rate and a standard renewal rate, which is a 2x gap on shared hosting plans.

Is my.host green hosting? Yes. my.host is verified by the Green Web Foundation, with the record last updated August 9, 2026.

Does my.host offer a money-back guarantee? Yes, 14 days on shared hosting plans. No lock-in contract on any plan. Monthly cancellation is available directly through the control panel.

Final Verdict

my.host has built something unusual in the Dutch hosting market: a genuinely independent provider that’s stayed independent for nine years, kept prices stable, and grown to 45,000 customers without buying a single competitor. The GWF verification, the fixed domain pricing, and the seven-day support record are all consistent with that founding philosophy.

The 14-day money-back is shorter than some competitors. DirectAdmin requires adaptation for cPanel users. Phone support doesn’t exist. The English-language presence is brand new as of July 2026.

For Dutch businesses, for European developers who want NVMe infrastructure in the Netherlands, and for anyone looking for a hosting provider that hasn’t been through a private equity reshuffling: my.host is worth a close look.