Editor's opinion
Natalia Vorontsova
"I work in the sphere of hosting and server administration more than 5 years".
We checked all the information about the hosting company to make sure this review is fair.
First impression
Beget provides a wide range of services: shared hosting with a wide range of tariffs, VPS/VDS with a choice of configurations and rent of dedicated servers, where the user has the opportunity to administer the server himself or delegate administration to Beget. All information about the services and their description are presented on the main page.
The pricing policy of the hoster directly depends on the tariff. For example, the price for shared hosting ranges from 390 rubles to 890 rubles when paying for a month. It is more profitable to pay at once for a year, as from this price changes to a lesser extent. In this case, a month of hosting will cost from 320 rubles to 720 rubles. In addition, any user gets free unlimited traffic, SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, site profiler, antivirus, the ability to set up free Telegram notifications, Cron task scheduler, free mail server and much more.
If we talk about prices for VPS or dedicated server, it all depends on the server configuration. For VPS, for example, the price starts from 7 rubles per day. Considering the fact that there is free automatic data backup, DNS hosting, private networks and much more, it is doubly pleasant.
Also, Beget is one of the largest accredited national domain registrars. When you go to the Domains tab, you can see that Beget provides an extensive list of domain zones.
Trial Period
Beget provides its users with a free shared hosting test period of 30 days. It is enough time to evaluate all the benefits and features of hosting without limitations.
If you need to test VPS, unfortunately, there is no test period for VPS, but it is compensated by the fact that VPS at Beget can be started for any time from one day, which will cost only 7 rubles.
Billing cycle
The hosting provider gives users a choice in terms of payment terms and methods. Payment can be made in several ways: by bank card, bank receipt, as well as via SBP, ЮMoney, Robokassa and QIWI. On shared hosting first activates the test period, and after its expiration it will be necessary to pay for the services for the period selected by the user. For example, for a month or a year. When paying for VPS/VDS rental, the user is not limited in any way. You can pay for services on a daily basis, by month, or immediately replenish your balance for the amount of annual service. As for dedicated servers, hosting offers payment by month, and when paying for 6 months gives 14 days of server rental for free.
Control Panel
The hosting provider has its own control panel, which is available to all Beget customers. It allows you to manage websites, and also provides a file manager of its own development, Sprut.io. In Beget's control panel you can register and manage domains, manage sites, databases, backups, configure additional services like Memcached, Sphinx, Redis, etc.
In addition, the hosting provider provides an opportunity to install and configure in one click the most common CMS without having to manually install and configure them.
Limits
The limits of shared hosting concern the amount of disk space and the number of sites. There are no limits on the number of domains that can be linked to sites. VPS and dedicated servers have standard limits on the number of processor cores, RAM and disk space: for example, on VPS the number of cores is from 1 to 16, and disk space – from 1 GB to 480 GB, and on a dedicated server the number of cores – from 4 to 48, disk space – from 240 GB to 36 TB. Any of the servers can be configured to meet the needs of clients.
The main limits for virtual hosting tariffs: the number of sites – from 3 to infinity and the amount of disk space – from 10 GB to 140 GB. The number of domains, databases, FTP/SSH accounts and traffic volume have no limits. Also, each site is available up to 6 GB of RAM and from 30 to 60 simultaneously running processes (depends on the tariff).
On VPS resources CPU, RAM and disk space are available according to the selected configuration. Traffic is not limited, but bandwidth is limited to 250 Mbit. There are no other limits on VPS.
Security
In addition to the fact that all servers are protected from DDoS attacks, the hosting provider offers users multilateral protection against viruses. In the control panel in the "Services" section, there is an Ai-Bolit scanner and ImunifyAV+ antivirus.
To protect against DDoS attacks, all traffic to the servers is filtered at the L4 network level, it allows to protect sites from attacks such as tcp/udp-flood, SYN-flood and others.
To protect against viruses, all sites are isolated from each other, regularly scanned with ImunifyAV+ antivirus, and scanner and antivirus services are available in the panel. Beget also monitors the appearance of vulnerabilities in popular products and takes various measures, from emailing users with warnings to blocking malicious requests on the entire hosting.
OS
The shared hosting servers run on custom Ubuntu, which Beget keeps up to date. When creating a VPS from the panel, there are many OS options and additional software that can be installed.
Support
Technical support works 24/7 and is provided free of charge for users. The hosting provider does not use bots and scripts when solving tickets. Users can ask a question through a call, compose an appeal in the control panel, write in social networks VK and Telegram, as well as by email.
A distinctive feature of Beget's technical support is the readiness of specialists to help with solving issues even if they do not directly relate to the hosting provider's area of responsibility, including in case of need to help understand the code of projects and their setting.
Conclusions
About Beget, we can say that it is a hosting provider that provides solutions for projects of any complexity. In addition, many useful features are provided on a free basis, and if customers have difficulties in customization, technical support is always ready to help.