A business card site, an online store and a portal with 10 000 visitors a day need three different kinds of hosting. Here’s how to choose without overpaying or losing orders.
What shared hosting is
Hundreds of websites share one server. You get a control panel, FTP and a database, while the CPU, memory and disk are shared. It’s cheap (from 20–40 thousand UZS per month), but neighbors affect your speed, PHP versions and modules are limited, and when traffic spikes the host simply suspends your site “for exceeding resource limits.”
What a VPS is
A virtual server with guaranteed resources: your own cores, memory, disk and IP address. Install whatever you want — any PHP version, Node.js, Redis, Docker. Prices start at 4 000 UZS per day, i.e. from 120 000 per month. You need basic sysadmin skills — or a ready-made image (WordPress, Bitrix, 1C) plus our support.
Comparison
| Shared hosting | VPS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per month | 20–100 thousand UZS | from 120 thousand UZS |
| Resources | shared, load-capped | guaranteed |
| Software | only what the host provides | anything, root access |
| Speed under peak load | drops, or the site gets suspended | stable; add resources in a minute |
| Email on your domain | usually included, shared IP reputation | separate service with a dedicated IP |
| Best for | business card site, landing page, blog | store, CRM, portal, application |
When it’s time to move to a VPS
- Your site takes more than 2–3 seconds to load even though you haven’t changed anything — that’s the neighbors.
- Your host sent you an email about exceeding CPU limits.
- You need Redis, queues, cron more often than once an hour, a recent PHP or Node.js.
- You run an online store: every second of load time costs 5–7% of conversions.
- You need a separate IP for email or for a bank integration.
Why the server should be in Uzbekistan
For visitors in Tashkent, a server in Europe adds 60–90 ms of latency to every request versus 2–5 ms locally — the site is noticeably faster on local hosting. Traffic within UZ-IX isn’t billed by ISPs as international. The personal data law requires citizens’ data to be stored on servers in Uzbekistan. And you pay in UZS with closing documents — no foreign-currency cards needed.
What MyCloud offers
VPS with ready-made images (WordPress, Bitrix, Laravel, Node.js) in a data center in Tashkent, daily billing, help with moving your site from any hosting provider (we advise and walk you through the steps) and 1 day free — the server’s launch day isn’t billed (the first charge is at the next 00:00). For business card sites and landing pages, there’s a 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 20 GB configuration for 4 000 UZS per day.
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