Virtual hostings in Uzbekistan

When choosing a hosting service, you should pay attention to several factors that together help to assess the reliability of the provider. The length of work in the market, the number of customers, reviews and their average rating — all these characteristics individually may not say much, but together they form an overall impression. For example, it is difficult to trust a company with a high rating received from two users. But if the hosting service has been running for more than a few years, serves a lot of clients and has a sufficient number of positive reviews, the average rating of which is close to "5" — this is trustworthy.

Location of the servers plays the most important role. The closer the server is to the user, the faster the site pages load. For websites aimed at the Uzbek audience, it is preferable to choose hosting with servers located on the Tas-IX network in order to minimize delays in page loading.

The test period is an important factor that allows you to evaluate the quality of services at no extra cost. The longer the free period, the better you can test the service. Reliable hosters, confident in the quality of their services, can afford to provide a long-term test. The maximum test period, which is usually offered by hosting companies in Uzbekistan, is up to 7 days.

An SSL certificate is required for every website today. Customer convenience-oriented companies often provide free certificates such as Let's Encrypt, which are suitable for most websites. Those who seek to earn as much as possible from their clients offer only paid certificates or give only one year of free use. It is important to remember that the annual cost of the cheapest paid certificate can be comparable to the price of high-quality hosting for a year.

Backup is a mandatory feature to protect a website from viruses, errors, and force majeure. Free backup is available on many tariffs. If your hosting service offers backup for a fee, you should either purchase this service for security or save copies of the site yourself.

It is worth paying attention to the hosting control panel, which is installed at the supplier. If you are not familiar with the proposed resource management system, you will have to spend some time studying it. Therefore, it is better to choose the one with which you already have experience. Most often hosting companies have such panels:

• CPanel;
• ISPmanager;
• Plesk;
• DirectAdmin;
• Vesta Control Panel.

SSD (solid state drive) hard drives significantly outperform legacy HDDs (hard disk drive) in terms of data read and write speed, which makes websites run faster on SSD servers. This advantage is actively used by hosting companies to attract customers, and they often focus on this on their platforms.