Mchost Review 2025. Is mchost.ru good web hosting in Russian Federation?

📄 Editorial Review

🔧 Services: Web HostingDomain Registration
Founded in 2004, McHost.ru is a Russian hosting provider that prides in having over 50,000 customers at the moment. They work on cutting-edge Dell powered hardware with servers running on an SSD infrastructure with a total bandwidth of 300 Gbps.

They claim their plans are designed for all kinds of customers, including small and medium-sized companies, individuals, banks or even government companies.

They offer the following set of hosting services:

• Shared Hosting;
• VPS Hosting;
• Dedicated Servers;
• Domain Registration;
• SSL Certificates;

All shared hosting packages include a number of unlimited features:

• Unlimited mailboxes;
• Unlimited subdomains;
• Unlimited bandwidth;

More than that, a few features that are automatic are also integrated:

• Automatic backups;
• Automatic spam and virus filtering;
• Automatic setup of apps directly from the control panel;

All shared hosting packages support PHP (version selection), Ruby, Python, Perl, MySQL, phpMyAdmin as well as support for CMS and web applications.

VPS servers operate on Linux OS (CentOS, Ubuntu or Debian). These servers include full root access, filtering conditions, an IP address and upgrade your plans with additional services: customers can order another IP address, paid administration, SSL certificate.

They only offer one dedicated available that can be updated and personalized by customers. The pre-configured features include full DNS management, traffic up to 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps, access to the server through iDRAC and basic setup of software, operating systems or site transfer. Customers can choose to customize their RAM, processor, disk space of bandwidth. More than that, they can also choose from additional services (additional IP address, SSL certificates, Microsoft remote desktop services).

💰 Price & Cost

Their prices are reasonable given the features they include in their plans. However, some features that should be included for free in the plans are only provided when paid for them (as it is the case of SSL certificates).

They accept multiple payment methods, among which we can mention the following: PayPal, VISA, MasterCard, Bitcoin, bank transfer, QIWI, Yandex, Webmoney, Yandex.Kasa and Interkassa.

The company does not specify the possibility of a money-back guarantee so you might not be able to get your money back in case you are not satisfied with their services.

⌛ Reliability

The company promises 100% uptime guarantee which is a great uptime considering the fact that the majority of hosting providers very seldom provide such an uptime percentage.

🏢 Data Center

The headquarters of the company are located in Moscow, Russia. Besides this, they also own a data center in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The data center in Moscow operates at 1680 kVA with Diesel generators DRUPS power protection. The data center in Amsterdam is 2N fully redundant and integrates premium data transmission network (a total of 2 Tbit/s).

✍️ Customer Support

Active 24/7, tech support can be contacted via phone, live chat or e-mail. Customers can also check out their FAQ section to get answers for the most commonly encountered issues in server management and administration.

🔨 Control Panel

They provide their own control panel which has a user-friendly interface for server management in the case of their shared hosting plans. For VPS servers, they use Vesta (free) or ISPmanager Lite (paid separately).

🎯 Conclusion

McHost.ru is a Russian hosting company offering a variety of web hosting solutions and plans for cheap prices. Even if the plans are well-equipped, some features that should be included for free require additional fees.

Their prices are budget-friendly and the company accepts multiple methods of payment. However, there is no money-back guarantee available here.
The company has good web hosting offers and they work from both a Russian and a European data center proving high availability. They also use multiple control panels including their own.

McHost.ru is a good choice when looking for the right web host in order to start your online business.

🌏 Server locations:

Moscow

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