How to Launch a Website on MCHosting: From the Free Trial to SSL

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MCHosting is web hosting on servers in Tashkent: website, DNS, SSL and backups in one client area, billed daily in UZS. Here is the whole path — from the free trial to a working site on your own domain with HTTPS.

When hosting fits and when you need a VPS

Hosting is a ready-made platform for websites: we take care of the server, updates and backups, you work in the panel. It suits sites on WordPress, Laravel and PHP: business card sites, company websites, online stores, a web studio’s portfolio of sites.

A VPS is needed when you require your own software, root access, Docker, 1C or a custom server setup. A detailed comparison is in the article “Shared hosting or VPS”.

Plans

PlanNVMe/SSD diskSitesDatabasesBackups keptPrice
Test1 GB11—7 days free
Lite1 GB127 days700 UZS/day, ≈ 21,000 a month
Start3 GB357 days1,200 UZS/day, ≈ 36,000 a month
Business5 GB101014 days1,800 UZS/day, ≈ 54,000 a month
Pro10 GB202014 days3,000 UZS/day, ≈ 90,000 a month
Max20 GB404030 days5,000 UZS/day, ≈ 150,000 a month
Ultra40 GB808030 days8,000 UZS/day, ≈ 240,000 a month

Every plan has unlimited traffic, free SSL, PHP 7.4 to 8.4 and MCDNS DNS hosting. SSH is available on all paid plans starting from Lite. The full table is on mchosting.uz.

Step 1. Sign up and start the trial

Sign up in the mcvps.uz client area — the shared account for all MYCLOUD services — and fill in your details: the company INN or an individual’s PINFL. Order the Test plan: 7 days, 1 GB, 1 site and 1 database. The trial is available once per customer. After ordering, you get an email with the panel and FTP login details.

Step 2. Create a site in the panel

In the MCHosting panel open the “Web” section and add a site with your domain. A DNS zone in MCDNS is created automatically along with it. If the site should also open at www or a second domain, add them as aliases.

Step 3. Upload your site or install WordPress

  • WordPress in a couple of minutes. In the site settings open the app installer, choose WordPress, enter the admin login, password and email and click “Install” — the database is created for you. Laravel and other apps install the same way.
  • An existing site. Upload the files to web/your-domain/public_html — with the panel’s file manager or FileZilla over SFTP (port 22, on plans from Lite) or FTP over TLS. Many small files are easier to upload as one ZIP archive and extract in the file manager.
  • A database. In the “DB” section click “Add database”. Import a dump with phpMyAdmin, large dumps over SSH. The host to connect to is localhost.

Step 4. Point the domain to MCDNS

At your domain registrar, change the name servers to ns1.mcdns.uz and ns2.mcdns.uz. If the domain’s email stays with another service, copy the MX and TXT records into the zone first. Changes spread within a few hours, sometimes up to 72 hours — keep your old hosting running all that time. Details are in “MCDNS: how to move your domain”.

Step 5. Enable SSL

Once DNS has spread, open the site in the “Web” section, tick Let’s Encrypt under “SSL” and enable the HTTP to HTTPS redirect. The certificate is issued in a minute and renews automatically. If it isn’t issued, DNS most likely hasn’t spread yet or an alias points to another server.

Step 6. Switch to a paid plan

Before the trial ends, click “Change plan” in the client area and choose a plan — your site and data are kept. You can’t return to Test afterwards. You can change plans any day, up or down, and the new price is applied in the daily charge.

How billing works

  • The balance is charged once a day at 00:00. There are no monthly or yearly plans; the time until the first 00:00 after you sign up isn’t charged.
  • To order a plan, the balance must cover at least 7 days. Rahmat credits immediately; Payme, Click, Uzum and bank transfers take up to 1 business day.
  • If the balance runs out, hosting is suspended and turns back on by itself after a top-up. Data is kept for 30 days, then deleted.
  • If you switch hosting off yourself, it is deleted immediately — save a copy of your site and databases first.

Corporate email on the same domain can be added as an option — MCMail, with its DNS records set up automatically. We move sites from other hosts — message the chat in your mcvps.uz account: an AI assistant or an operator will reply. More about hosting is on the MCHosting page.

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