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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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.
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LOG-2025-09 LATEST OFF THE BENCH
Fresh from the test bench.
Tashkent's quiet workhorse since 2012 — NVMe everywhere, 12 ms latency inside Uzbekistan, Telegram support that answers in minutes. The strongest local pick on the board, with two honest cold joints.
Still the value benchmark for global shared hosting — fastest panel in the business, honest renewals, and the 2025 price rise finally makes the math interesting.
Almaty's veteran — unbeatable in-country latency and a .kz domain desk that actually answers. International routing from the KZ DC keeps the score honest.
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
Read the ArsenalD ReviewFAQ SIGNAL QUESTIONS
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The six questions readers send weekly. Yours not on the board?
Ask the LabYes. 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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