Lite.Host Mars, RUB 490.00/mo. on Linux VPS

Mars has been updated on February 1, 2023 (added December 1, 2018), Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 1 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	2 vCPU
🔋 RAM :	2000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	1
📌 Dedicated IPs :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	KVM
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Russian Federation
⚑ Targeting :	RU

See also initial Mars plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

LITE.HOST is a Russia-based hosting provider with activity dating back to December 2007. The company is connected to individual entrepreneur Evgeniy Sergeevich Rusachenko and operates mainly for Russian-speaking customers. The website is in Russian, prices are in RUB, and the hosting environment is clearly built around Russian infrastructure, Russian payment systems, and customers who prefer local hosting inside Russia.

Their product catalog is broader than simple shared hosting. LITE.HOST offers Shared Hosting, Developer Hosting, Business Hosting, CMS Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Bitrix Hosting, VDS / VPS, Mail Hosting for Domains, Cloud WAF, DNS Hosting, and Domain Registration. The company does not look like a classic retail dedicated-server or colocation provider; its strongest public services are shared hosting, virtual servers, mail, domains, DNS, and web-application protection.

Shared hosting is one of their core products. Plans include PHP from 5.2 up to 8.5, MySQL/phpMyAdmin, SSH, cron jobs, DNS management, free Let’s Encrypt SSL, webmail, POP3/IMAP/SMTP, antivirus scanning, daily backups, unlimited traffic, and protection against common network floods, bots, and application attacks. Developer-oriented hosting includes Git, NPM, Composer, PHPUnit, and WP-CLI, which makes the platform more flexible than many budget shared-hosting providers.

Their CMS hosting covers popular applications such as WordPress, OpenCart, Joomla, Bitrix, MODX, Drupal, and DLE. Framework-oriented hosting is also available for PHP, Python, and Node.js projects, giving developers a practical shared-hosting environment without immediately moving to a VPS.

The VDS / VPS product uses KVM virtualization and includes root access, Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and CentOS, weekly backups, a self-service management panel, and optional administration. Hardware is based on SuperMicro / HP servers, Intel CPUs, enterprise SSD storage, RAID, and 1 Gbps server ports. VDS bandwidth is available up to 200 Mbps under fair-use rules. The VDS service is not intended for VPN/proxy services, torrents, mining, high-traffic video streaming, or permanent heavy network-load projects.

Their mail hosting is useful for domain-based email. The service supports multiple domains and users, with pricing based mainly on disk space. Features include SMTP, POP3, IMAP, DKIM, webmail, calendar support through CalDAV/iCal, automatic backups, migration tools, and mail duplication across two data centers.

LITE.HOST also sells Cloud WAF and DNS hosting. WAF protection includes DDoS mitigation, bot and scanner filtering, country/IP/ASN filters, SQL/XSS signatures, custom filters, and per-site statistics. DNS hosting supports common record types such as A, AAAA, CNAME, ALIAS, MX, TXT, NS, PTR, and SRV.

The company is relatively transparent for a low-cost hosting provider. It gives operational statistics, lists many hosting nodes, names its Moscow data centers, and provides legal documents for support, refunds, privacy, and service terms. Their public figures show more than 12,000 active services, over 8,600 hosted sites, and more than 14,000 domains. Overall, LITE.HOST feels technical, budget-conscious, and Russia-focused rather than international or corporate, but the service has enough depth for customers who care about infrastructure, backups, control-panel choice, and local hosting.