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cPanel LiteSpeed Web Hosting
that’ll put you lightyears ahead

Light’s got nothing on LiteSpeed. Enjoy the speediest web server technology available today that’s perfect for almost every CMS, including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magneto. This best-in-class web server takes performance parameters and processes them with near-perfect precision. Now that’s power.

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LiteSpeed hosting plans

Peek at our LiteSpeed hosting packages and find one that fits you. This bad boy is ideal for almost every CMS, including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magneto. Sounds like an inclusive party and you’re invited.

Starter

$7.73 per month

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  • 20GB SSD Storage
  • Host 1 Domain
  • 100 Subdomains
  • 25 Email Accounts
  • 1 FTP Account
  • 5 MySQL Databases

Basic

$13.07 per month

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  • 40GB SSD Storage
  • Host 2 Domains
  • 100 Subdomains
  • 25 Email Accounts
  • 1 FTP Account
  • 50 MySQL Databases

Power

$23.33 per month

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  • 100GB SSD Storage
  • Host 3 Domains
  • 500 Subdomains
  • Unlimited Email Accounts
  • 5 FTP Accounts
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases

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$38.93 per month

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  • 200GB SSD Storage
  • Host 5 Domains
  • 1000 Subdomains
  • Unlimited Email Accounts
  • 10 FTP Accounts
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases

LiteSpeed Hosting Plans: Monthly Contract, Monthly Billing, Cancel Anytime.
*.africa domain name is registered free when used as the primary domain for the hosting account. Renewed annually at the normal price.
*Unlimited Web Traffic (Bandwidth): HOSTAFRICA reserves the right to reduce the bandwidth in cases of extensive use. Contact us if you have any questions.

LiteSpeed hosting features and capabilities

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    Free QUIC.cloud CDN Cache

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    Private cache for logged-in users

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    Image Optimization (Lossless/Lossy)

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    Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML

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    Minify inline & external CSS/JS

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    Combine CSS/JS

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    Automatically generate Critical CSS

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    Lazy-load images/iframes

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    Responsive Image Placeholders

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    Multiple CDN Support

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    Load CSS Asynchronously

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    Defer/delay JS loading

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    Browser Cache Support

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    Database Cleaner and Optimizer

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    PageSpeed score optimization

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    OPcode Cache Support

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    HTTP/2 Push for CSS/JS

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    DNS Prefetch

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    Cloudflare API

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    Single Site and Multisite (Network) support

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    Import/Export settings

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    Attractive, easy-to-understand interface

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    WebP image format support

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    Heartbeat control

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    Automatic page caching

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    Automatic cache purging

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    Object Cache (Memcached/LSMCD/Redis) Support

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    Caching of WordPress REST API calls

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    Separate caching of desktop and mobile views

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    Ability to schedule purge for specified URLs

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    WooCommerce and bbPress support

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    Exclude from cache by URI, Cookie, User Agent

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    WordPress CLI commands

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    API system for easy cache integration

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    Smart preload crawler with support for sitemaps

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    Multiple crawlers for cache varies

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    HTTP/2/3 & QUIC support

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    ESI (Edge Side Includes) support

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    Widgets and Shortcodes as ESI blocks

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    WordPress CLI commands

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    Smart preload crawler with support for sitemaps

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    Widgets and Shortcodes as ESI blocks

Client reviews

Our clients have rated our hosting services and support 5 stars!

  • Thank you HOSTAFRICA

    Our company has been with HOSTAFRICA for 7 and a half years. Being a florist, I am not 100% tech savvy but the wonderful staff at HOSTAFRICA always assist effectively and efficiently so that we can make sure that there are no interruptions to our website. Thank you HOSTAFRICA for being so awesome!
    Dagny
  • All you need!

    Although you build your own website, HOSTAFRICA make it seamless. The support response is incredibly fast - even on weekends. I’m paying R99 for support, storage, 25 emails, and cpanel also, I’m using their light speed server for Wordpress. Over and above that, they put you in the right direction to get your website optimal as well as getting your emails to end up in an inbox and not spam. My mobile page rating score is 94 out of 100.
    Elisio
  • Excellent live support

    HOSTAFRICA has excellent support. Their live chat support is always available and they answer questions quickly. The support person even phoned me after one of our chats to make sure I got the answer. Pretty awesome. Their registration process and backend is easy to follow as well.
    Zaid
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Quickfire, top quality support

Expect unrivalled quality support with a response time swifter than the time it takes to make a cuppa. Our lightning-quick support staff will give your issue the jolt it needs to get your operation back on track. That’s a support team with whom you can run.

Powerful cPanel LiteSpeed hosting, includes spam filtering

Power your already performance-driven web server with plugins that’ll take you over the moon. Settle for nothing other than top security and secure mailing with SpamExperts. Maximise your efficacy with QUIC CDN, LS Cache. With these additions, you might say your web server moves at the speed of Lite.

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QUIC CDN

Built within the LSCache plugin and part of the LiteSpeed family, you’ll have access to the QUIC CDN that has global servers - free of charge.

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Cutting Edge Tech

LiteSpeed provides the fastest HTTPS and HTTP/2 performance, with HTTP2 server push support, Edge Side Includes (ESI) cache, and Brotli Compression.

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Advanced Caching

Enjoy the robust LSCache plugin that offers a multitude of options and allows for an intelligent and accurate server-level full-page caching system.

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Incremental Daily Website Backups

Automatic backups through Acronis ensures your data is recoverable from within your control panel. You can restore individual files, mailbox’s, databases, or the entire account.

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Full Featured Control Panel

We use the industry-leading control panel: cPanel. It has tons of included features that make managing your website, emails, files, database, filters, and everything else a breeze.

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Automatic Malware & Vulnerability Removal

Imunify360 & ImunifyAV are able to remove vulnerabilities and malware safely and automatically. They’ll scan whenever a new file is uploaded.

Get your business online today!

Join the thousands of happy clients hosting with us.

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Option
Price

Additional SSD data storage tiers

We offer the following tiered fees for shared hosting disk space if you need more storage.

Tier
Price per GB
20 GB to 40 GB
$0.52
40 GB to 100 GB
$0.30
100 GB to 200 GB
$0.26
200 GB+
$0.19
SSD
All our servers run on SSD storage
SSL certificate
Included
Daily Backups
Acronis backups included
cPanel
Latest control panel included
Starter Basic Power Business
Speed 200 300 400 600
PMEM 2048 3072 4096 6144
IO 128 MB/s 192 MB/s 256 MB/s 384 MB/s
IOPS 768 1024 2048 4096
EP 40 45 50 60
NPROC 200 250 300 400

real performance comparison

Still unsure how LiteSpeed compares? Check out the comparison between LiteSpeed and Apache below. We used the same site across both platforms, with and without caching enabled.

Apache with no optimizations

apache unoptimized lighthouse results

LiteSpeed with no optimizations

litespeed unoptimized lighthouse results

Apache with industry leading caching plugin

apache optimized lighthouse results

LiteSpeed with LSCache plugin

litespeed optimized lighthouse results

Hosting packages with additional resources will also see further improvements, and with the free LSCache plugin, you're able to optimize your website even more. With Google favoring First Contentful Paint and First Meaningful Paint as part of the Core Web Vital metrics, you can see how much of an improvement LSCache has on these metrics and page speed when properly configured.

Option
Price

Additional SSD data storage tiers

We offer the following tiered fees for shared hosting disk space if you need more storage.

Tier
Price per GB
20 GB to 40 GB
$0.52
40 GB to 100 GB
$0.30
100 GB to 200 GB
$0.26
200 GB+
$0.19
SSD
All our servers run on SSD storage
SSL certificate
Included
Daily Backups
Acronis backups included
cPanel
Latest control panel included

Starter

Speed 200
PMEM 2048
IO 128 MB/s
IOPS 768
EP 40
NPROC 200

Basic

Speed 300
PMEM 3072
IO 192 MB/s
IOPS 1024
EP 45
NPROC 250

Power

Speed 400
PMEM 4096
IO 256 MB/s
IOPS 2048
EP 50
NPROC 300

Business

Speed 600
PMEM 6144
IO 384 MB/s
IOPS 4096
EP 60
NPROC 400

real performance comparison

Still unsure how LiteSpeed compares? Check out the comparison between LiteSpeed and Apache below. We used the same site across both platforms, with and without caching enabled.

Apache with no optimizations

apache unoptimized lighthouse results

LiteSpeed with no optimizations

litespeed unoptimized lighthouse results

Apache with industry leading caching plugin

apache optimized lighthouse results

LiteSpeed with LSCache plugin

litespeed optimized lighthouse results

Hosting packages with additional resources will also see further improvements, and with the free LSCache plugin, you're able to optimize your website even more. With Google favoring First Contentful Paint and First Meaningful Paint as part of the Core Web Vital metrics, you can see how much of an improvement LSCache has on these metrics and page speed when properly configured.

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Frequently asked questions

If you still have unanswered questions, please reach out to us and we’ll be happy to assist.

LiteSpeed servers are event-driven servers, and less hardware is needed to handle the same load as a process-based server. This means the CPU and RAM don’t need to be used as much, freeing them up to make your website faster.

It depends on what you’re looking for. LiteSpeed has incredible server speeds, resource distribution and allocation, and security. Apache is more user friendly, and also has these features but does not outperform LiteSpeed.

Both have event-driven architecture, making them speedier than Apache. LiteSpeed has shown better results on benchmarks tests when up against NGINX, however.

With a LiteSpeed web server, your site will be able to handle more traffic without sacrificing speed or requiring more resources.

Yes, with additional modsec rules, anti-ddos measures, the http/3 protocol (and some other cool features), LiteSpeed is a lot more secure than traditional hosting.

Yes, you have access to all the regular cPanel functionality as well as additional features like the LSCache plugin for all supported content management systems.