Why MariHostGood hosting, without the catch
Fast servers close to Malaysia, security and backups on every plan, prices that don't jump when you renew, and a real person when you need help. Here's how each part works, with the numbers behind it.
- Servers in Singapore
- MariHost Shield on every plan
- Same price when you renew
Singapore: the region's internet hub, next door to Malaysia
Our servers are in Singapore, where South-East Asia's undersea cables and networks meet. That puts your site a few milliseconds from Malaysian visitors, and well connected to the rest of Asia and the world.
We measured it. These are round-trip times from public test machines to one of our servers in Singapore, on the same network as the hosting servers: the time for a tiny message to get there and back. A shorter time is faster.
| From | Test network | Longer bar = faster | Round trip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | |||
| Johor Bahru | Advin Services | 1.6 ms | |
| Johor Bahru | Terabix | 1.8 ms | |
| Kuala Lumpur | IP ServerOne | 7.4 ms | |
| Kuala Lumpur | TM | 8.5 ms | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Maxis (Binariang) | 10.1 ms | |
| Kuala Lumpur | TM, a second test machine | 17.9 ms | |
| Cyberjaya | TM | 8.9 ms | |
| Kuching | IP ServerOne | 9.2 ms | |
| Malacca | TM | 20.2 ms | |
| Kota Kinabalu | TM | 26.3 ms | |
| The region | |||
| Singapore | OVH | 0.8 ms | |
| Singapore | xTom | 0.9 ms | |
| Jakarta | Huawei Cloud | 16.0 ms | |
| Jakarta | Cybertechtonic Pratama | 20.1 ms | |
| Bangkok | AIS Fibre | 29.9 ms | |
| Hong Kong | AkileCloud | 34.0 ms | |
| Manila | Huawei Cloud | 42.5 ms | |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Saigon Postel | 42.8 ms | |
| Further away | |||
| Mumbai | Oracle | 60.2 ms | |
| Tokyo | Oracle | 66.7 ms | |
| Sydney | Oracle | 99.0 ms | |
| London | a London data centre | 154.0 ms | |
| Frankfurt | Oracle | 155.2 ms | |
| New York | DigitalOcean | 222.1 ms | |
| Los Angeles | HostPapa | 232.2 ms | |
Measured on 23 October 2026 with Globalping, a free public network of test machines in data centres and homes. Mobile networks add their own delay: 48 to 77 ms from Kuala Lumpur on DiGi and U Mobile, much of it between the phone and the mast.
What the numbers mean
A web page takes hundreds of milliseconds to load. The few milliseconds between Singapore and a server in Kuala Lumpur are too small for a visitor to notice, and for Johor Singapore is closer than KL.
Visitors further away
From Europe or America, every round trip takes longer. Put a CDN in front of your site, such as Cloudflare or our own MariCDN, and your images and files come from a server near them.
Fast on the server too
OpenLiteSpeed with LiteSpeed Cache and Redis, on NVMe storage, so most pages are ready before anyone asks for them.
MariHost Shield, on every server
Every MariHost server runs MariHost Shield, our server security, powered by BitNinja. It protects every website on the server, on every plan, and you don't have to install or set up anything.
Malware detection with AI
Finds known, changing and brand-new malware in your site's files.
Web application firewall
Stops SQL injection, cross-site scripting and known attacks on WordPress and other software before they reach your site.
Global IP reputation
Blocks known attackers, using threat data shared live by protected servers around the world.
Less load
Bad traffic is dropped before it reaches your site, so the server's power goes to your real visitors.
Nothing to maintain
Shield runs on the server and updates itself. You don't need a heavy security plugin slowing WordPress down.
Free SSL for every domain, set up and renewed for you.
Mistakes happen. Undo them in a few clicks.
Daily backups
Every website is backed up once a day, and you can restore it yourself from the control panel.
Want a second copy away from our servers, and someone to restore it for you? WordPress Care adds daily backups kept away from our servers, for up to 30 days.
Staging
Make a private staging copy of any site, try a new theme, plugin or update there, then push it live when you're happy. Staging copies don't count towards your plan's websites, and search engines don't see them.
Our own IP addresses
Our servers use MariHost's own block of IP addresses, registered to us with APNIC, the internet registry for Asia and the Pacific.
What that means for you
- We look after their reputation.Abuse reports about any of our addresses come straight to us, and we act on them quickly.
- Run by us.Blocklists and email providers judge an address by how its owner looks after it. We look after ours ourselves.
The price you sign up for is the price you renew at
Many hosts advertise a low price that needs three or four years paid upfront, then renew at two to six times as much. We don't.
Monthly or yearly
No long contract. Pay monthly, or pay yearly and get two months free.
Same price when you renew
There's no introductory price that jumps at renewal. You renew at the price you signed up for.
Change plans any time
Move up to a bigger plan from your client area, and pay only the difference for the rest of your billing period.
Already with us? Nothing changes
Existing customers keep their plan and their price. You can switch to one of the new plans whenever you like.
Try it first. Get your money back if it isn't right.
3-day free trial
Try any hosting plan free for 3 days. Set up a site, move one over, and see how fast it is before you pay. After 3 days it carries on as your paid plan, at the price you chose. Don't want to keep it? Cancel in your client area before the trial ends, and you pay nothing.
14-day money-back guarantee
Not happy within 14 days of your first hosting order? Tell us what's wrong: most problems can be fixed, and we'll try first. If you'd still rather leave, we refund your hosting in full. Domains aren't refundable once registered.
Help from a real person who knows the servers
When you open a ticket, a person who works on the servers reads it and answers. No chatbot, no script.
- What's includedEverything about your hosting: the server, the control panel, email, DNS, SSL, backups and restores, your migration and your account.
- How fastWe reply within 2 business days, usually sooner. Business days are Monday to Friday, UK time.
- Server problemsIf a server has a problem, we fix it as soon as we spot it, without waiting for a ticket.
- No 24/7, and we say soWe'd rather promise what we can do. If you need faster answers, add Priority or Enterprise support to your account.
- WordPress itselfHelp with plugins, themes, errors and changes to your pages is what WordPress Care is for.
Who runs MariHost
MariHost is a trading name of Berkat Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15864991). Our servers are in Singapore, most of our customers are in Malaysia, and we work in English, with Malay guides to come.
Questions about choosing MariHost
Is a Singapore server slower than one in Malaysia?
Not in a way your visitors will notice. From Kuala Lumpur our servers are 6 to 12 milliseconds away, and from Johor Bahru about 2. A page takes hundreds of milliseconds to load, so a few milliseconds either way don't change how fast it feels. The table above has every measurement.
What is MariHost Shield?
Our server security, powered by BitNinja, a security system built for web servers. It runs on every server and protects every site on it: malware detection, a web application firewall, blocking of known attackers, and dropping bad traffic before it reaches your site. Nothing to install, and nothing to pay extra.
Do you use cPanel?
No. We use Enhance, a modern control panel built for speed and security. If you're on cPanel today, we can move your sites across from a cPanel backup as part of the free migration.
I'm already a MariHost customer. Does my price change?
No. Your plan and price stay the same. You can switch to one of the new plans whenever you like, for more websites and email.
Can I talk to someone before I sign up?
Yes. Message us on WhatsApp or use the contact form, and you'll get an answer from a person.
See for yourself
Start a free 3-day trial, or ask us anything on WhatsApp.