HLR-MAIN POWER-ON SELF TEST — COMPLETE

Hosting reviews built like benchmarks.

We buy every plan with our own money, mount it on a 90-day uptime monitor, fire support tickets from fake mailboxes, and only then score it. 137 hosts on the board — global brands and the local heroes of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and beyond — with zero sponsored verdicts.

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Y1 24M HLR 137-PROVIDER REV 2025.09 HOSTING LIST REVIEW — TEST BOARD J1 EDGE / GOLD FINGERS TP1..TP4 TP1 TP2
FIG. 01 — THE TEST BOARD · HOVER A TRACE TO POWER IT

BOM-2025-Q3 TOP RATED — BILL OF MATERIALS

The board, as measured.

Seven of 137 tested providers, filtered by region. Uptime strips show the last eight weeks at a glance — amber is degraded, red is down. Scores update quarterly.

Part Provider Region Uptime 90d TTFB From Score Review
U1 HHostingerSHARED · VPS · CLOUD GLOBAL 99.98% 142 ms $2.99/MO 24-MO 8.9 Review
U2 SGSiteGroundSHARED · WORDPRESS GLOBAL 99.99% 118 ms $3.99/MO INTRO 8.7 Review
U3 ADArsenalDSHARED · VPS · .UZ DOMAINS UZ · TASHKENT 99.95% 38 ms · 12 MS IN UZ 29,000 UZS/MO SHARED 8.4 Review
U4 A2A2 HostingSHARED · VPS · DEDICATED GLOBAL 99.97% 156 ms $2.99/MO INTRO 8.2 Review
U5 BGBegetSHARED · VPS · RU/CIS RU 99.96% 51 ms · 8 MS IN RU 190 ₽/MO SHARED 8.0 Review
U6 TWTimewebSHARED · VPS · CLOUD RU 99.95% 64 ms 175 ₽/MO SHARED 7.9 Review
U7 PSPS.kzSHARED · VPS · KZ KZ · ALMATY 99.93% 47 ms · 9 MS IN KZ 1,900 ₸/MO SHARED 7.8 Review

TTFB = MEDIAN TIME-TO-FIRST-BYTE FROM 12 CITIES · UPTIME PINGED EVERY 60 SECONDS FROM 3 CONTINENTS · FULL METHODOLOGY AT TP1–TP4 BELOW

TP1–TP4 TEST POINTS — HOW WE MEASURE

Four probes. No shortcuts.

Every provider on the board passes through the same bench — bought anonymously, tested blind, scored by spreadsheet. Here is what the probes actually do.

TP-01 · SPEED

TTFB benchmark

Time-to-first-byte from 12 cities across 4 continents, median reported. A Tashkent host wins in Tashkent and loses in Toronto — we show both, because your audience lives somewhere specific.

TP-02 · UPTIME

90-day monitor

Ping every 60 seconds from three continents. Every amber (degraded) and red (outage) day lands on the strip, with incident duration and cause logged where the provider reports one.

TP-03 · SUPPORT

Mystery tickets

We file real support tickets from fake mailboxes — one easy, one hard, one absurd. Speed, honesty and tone all get scored. Hosts never know which customer is the bench.

TP-04 · VALUE

Renewal honesty

Intro price divided by renewal price, plus what the small print hides: backups, migrations, SSL. The single biggest scam in hosting is the second year — we publish it.

SPOTLIGHT-01 REGIONAL FOCUS — UZBEKISTAN

In Uzbekistan, local beats global.

A $3 global host routes your Tashkent visitor through Amsterdam — 180 ms of apologies. A Tashkent DC answers in under 15 ms, in the local language, for local payment rails. We benched the whole UZ market so you don't have to.

BEST IN UZ — ARSENALD8.4 / 10

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FAQ SIGNAL QUESTIONS

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Yes. We buy every plan with our own money at full price, monitor it for at least 90 days, and only then score it. Some outbound links are affiliate links — they pay us the same regardless of which host wins, and scores are never for sale.

Every host is pinged once per minute from three continents. The 90-day strips on each review show every amber (degraded) and red (outage) day at a glance, and every incident is logged with duration and cause where the provider reports one.

Time To First Byte — how long the server takes to start answering. We measure it from 12 cities and report the median. It is the single best proxy for how fast a host "feels" on real pages, before any caching tricks.

Both. The board covers global brands and regional providers across Central Asia — Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and beyond — because for local audiences a Tashkent or Almaty datacenter often beats a cheaper global brand on latency by an order of magnitude.

Uptime strips update continuously, scores are re-evaluated every quarter, and any plan change or acquisition triggers an immediate re-test. The REV number on each review tells you when it last passed the bench.

Yes — email [email protected]. Fair warning: we buy the plan anonymously, run the same 90-day bench as everyone else, and publish whatever the numbers say. Nobody previews their own review.

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HOSTS ON BOARD137
MONITORED HOURS41,208
MYSTERY TICKETS612
SPONSORED VERDICTS0