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Premium Hosting
Premium Hosting
Explore Rapidnet’s Premium Hosting packages are thoughtfully designed to cater to a wide spectrum of SMME customers. Our comprehensive packages encompass daily backups, a choice of PHP versions, and MySQL support. Whether you prefer using the packages as they are or customising them with our versatile add-ons, you can count on experiencing affordable and dependable web hosting tailored to your specific requirements. Our high-performance hosting services come equipped with a range of features, ensuring your website operates seamlessly while bolstering your online endeavours. With Rapidnet, you can bring your business online swiftly, positioning yourself to capitalise on the abundant opportunities that lie ahead in the digital landscape.
R 99 / month
Premium Home
10GB SSD Storage
✔ 1 Domain
✔ 1 Domain Aliases
✔ 100 Subdomains
✔ 5 Email accounts
✔ 20 Email Aliases
✔ 1 FTP Account
✔ 2 MySQL Databases
✔ Site Monitoring Lite
✔ Daily Backup
R 175 / month
Premium Entrepreneur
15GB SSD Storage
✔ 1 free co.za domain*
✔ 2 Domain
✔ 2 Domain Aliases
✔ 100 Subdomains
✔ 10 Email accounts
✔ 30 Email Aliases
✔ 1 FTP Account
✔ 4 MySQL Databases
✔ Site Monitoring Lite
✔ Daily Backup
R 330 / month
Premium Pro
20GB SSD Storage
✔ 1 free co.za domain*
✔ 4 Domain
✔ 4 Domain Aliases
✔ 100 Subdomains
✔ 15 Email accounts
✔ 50 Email Aliases
✔ 4 FTP Account
✔ 8 MySQL Databases
✔ Site Monitoring Plus
✔ Daily Backup
R 550 / month
Premium Enterprise
30GB SSD Storage
✔ 1 free co.za domain*
✔ 10 Domain
✔ 10 Domain Aliases
✔ 100 Subdomains
✔ 20 Email accounts
✔ 75 Email Aliases
✔ 10 FTP Account
✔ 20 MySQL Databases
✔ Site Monitoring Plus
✔ Daily Backup
Premium Hosting
Softaculous
Daily Backups
Email Protection*
99.9% Server Uptime
Network Security
CPanel
Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate
Unlimited Traffic*
Malware Protection
Litespeed Server Technology
LiteSpeed Cache Plugin
Cancel Anytime
Antivirus Protection
WP Toolkit
Free Quik.cloud CDN Access
Locally Hosted*
*Monthly Contract, Monthly Billing, Cancel Anytime.
*co.za domain name is registered free when used as the primary domain for the hosting account. co.za annual renewal is billed at the normal price.
*Unlimited Bandwidth: Rapidnet reserves the right to reduce the bandwidth in cases of extensive use. Contact us if you have any questions. *Email Protection inbound and outbound email is scanned and filtered for various mail threats.
Faster Hosting With Lightspeed
Rapidnet has chosen LiteSpeed for our hosting services. NGINX and Apache are popular web server software options, each with its own strengths. Here’s a comparison of the benefits of LiteSpeed servers compared to NGINX and Apache. Litespeed also includes access to the QUIC CDN network to make your site load even faster when serving customers outside of South Africa:
Performance
LiteSpeed is known for its exceptional performance. It’s often faster than both Apache and NGINX, particularly when it comes to serving dynamic content and processing PHP requests. LiteSpeed’s LSAPI (LiteSpeed Server Application Programming Interface) is highly efficient.
Event-Driven Architecture
LiteSpeed uses an event-driven architecture, which allows it to handle a large number of concurrent connections efficiently. This is especially advantageous for high-traffic websites.
htaccess Compatibility
LiteSpeed is compatible with Apache’s .htaccess files, making it easier for users to transition from Apache to LiteSpeed without major configuration changes.
LiteSpeed Cache
LiteSpeed offers built-in caching mechanisms that can dramatically improve website performance, including a full-page cache and object cache for popular CMS platforms like WordPress.
QUIC.cloud CDN Integration
LiteSpeed has a partnership with QUIC.cloud, which offers a high-performance CDN (Content Delivery Network). This integration can further improve website speed and reliability by distributing content across a global network of servers.
Free QUIC.cloud CDN Cache
Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML
Automatically generate Critical CSS
Multiple CDN Support
Browser Cache Support
OPcode Cache Support
Cloudflare API
Attractive, easy-to-understand interface
Automatic page caching
Caching of WordPress REST API calls
Exclude from cache by URI, Cookie, User Agent
ESI (Edge Side Includes) support
Smart preload crawler with support for sitemaps
Private cache for logged-in users
Lazy-load images/iframes
Load CSS Asynchronously
Database Cleaner and Optimizer
HTTP/2 Push for CSS/JS
Single Site and Multisite (Network) support
WebP image format support
Automatic cache purging
Separate caching of desktop and mobile views
WordPress CLI commands
Multiple crawlers for cache varies
Widgets and Shortcodes as ESI blocks
Image Optimization (Lossless/Lossy)
Combine CSS/JS
Responsive Image Placeholders
Defer/delay JS loading
PageSpeed score optimization
DNS Prefetch
Import/Export settings
Heartbeat control
Ability to schedule purge for specified URLs
WooCommerce and bbPress support
HTTP/2/3 & QUIC support
Object Cache (Memcached/LSMCD/Redis) Support
LiteSpeed excels in terms of raw performance, especially for dynamic content and PHP processing. NGINX is known for its high concurrency and reverse proxy capabilities, making it ideal for load balancing. Apache is versatile and remains a popular choice, particularly for compatibility with legacy systems.
Typical Content Delivery Networks cache only static content (images, CSS, JavaScript, etc.), and those that claim to cache dynamic content often do so blindly. QUIC.cloud truly caches WordPress dynamic content, and it does so intelligently. QUIC.cloud integrates with LiteSpeed Cache (LSCache) to analyse dependencies and allow unprecedented cache accuracy on a global network scale.
QUIC.cloud global CDN caches ALL of WordPress. Using QUIC as the transfer protocol, QUIC.cloud reduces transmission time to all of your site’s visitors, no matter where they live.