Editor's opinion
Sean Thompson
I am a full-time web developer & IT professional with more than 18 years experience. I have been working with numerous hosting companies over the years.
First impression
SpaceWeb is a Russian web hosting services provider that was founded in 2001 in St. Petersburg, Russia. They offer scalable, flexible, and affordable hosting plans that include Shared Hosting, VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server), VPS (Virtual Private Server), Mail Solutions, Domain Registrations, SSL certificates, and more. Their services are backed by daily backups and support for various scripting languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Trial Period
SpaceWeb offers new Shared Hosting customers a free 14-day trial period to test out their services and make sure they are a good fit. There is also a 30-day trial on their website builder and a short, 3-day trial on VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) and VPS (Virtual Private Server) plans.
Furthermore, if you signed up for an annual subscription and need to cancel before the end of the term, SpaceWeb will refund the balance of the subscription.
Billing Cycle
Customers looking for Shared Hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Server), or VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) plans have the option to pay either on a monthly or yearly basis, while their dedicated server plans only offer monthly signups.
They currently accept Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, and MIR cards issued by Russian banks as valid forms of payment.
Control Panel
SpaceWeb includes its own, in-house developed control panel in all its hosting plans. This control panel is both extremely user-friendly and fully responsive on all devices and features a single-page application architecture interface from where users can manage all aspects of their websites, including their databases, domains, SSL certificates, and more. With this type of architecture, the panel sections instantly open without reloading and are updated in real-time.
Limits
They offer six different Shared Hosting plans that you can scale up as needed. The smallest plan, "Take Off," gives you 5GB of blazing-fast NVMe SSD disk space and includes a free domain (the offer is limited to one of these extensions - .ru, .рф, .online, .shop, .spb.ru). At the other end of the spectrum, the "Jupiter" plan offers a whopping 90GB of NVMe space and comes with six free domain names. All their Shared Hosting plans come standard with Zend Guard Loader, Zend Optimize, daily backups, unlimited MySQL 8/5.7 or PostgreSQL 14.4 databases, FTP accounts, POP/IMAP email accounts, and support for Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Their VPS plans on the other hand are fully customizable, and although they do give a few base options to choose from, it is advised to create your own VPS according to your needs. All VPS plans include VNC Console and 2x IP addresses (IPv4 + IPv6).
Website Builder
They offer their clients 3 distinct website builder options to choose from that all make use of the Site Pro builder, with the only difference being the amount of disc space allocated and the number of templates available. The Site Pro builder is widely used and comes with over 200, fully responsive, editable templates. It has all the tools you need to create a professional-looking website effortlessly and without any coding knowledge.
Security
Security comes in the form of comprehensive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack protection that defends their servers against the full spectrum of attack vectors, including protocol exploits, amplification, and reflection attacks, volumetric flooding, malicious inputs, resource depletion & exhaustion, application-layer vulnerabilities, and more.
Furthermore, all accounts come standard with free virus website protection that does automated scans for malicious code and malware, as well as Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus for mail by Kaspersky. Hosting plans also feature a Global Sign 256-bit SSL certificate that is free for the first year.
More advanced SSL certificates such as GlobalSign AlphaSSL and GlobalSign OrganizationSSL WildCard are available for purchase should you need better protection.
OS
SpaceWeb's Shared Hosting plans operate on the Gentoo Linux Operating System (OS). This OS is renowned for its adaptability and performance enhancements, making it a robust and stable choice. By installing directly from source code, Gentoo offers a level of functionality that surpasses binary-based systems.
Their VPS plans on the other hand offer users the option to choose between Ubuntu, Rocky Linux 9, Debian, Centos, and AlmaLinux.
Support
SpaceWeb provides expert support around the clock via Email, Phone, Live Chat, or VKontakte, a Russian online social media and social networking service. Their agents are friendly, competent, and quick to reply. Expect a response on Live Chat in mere seconds and on Email in less than an hour.
Conclusion
Pros |
Cons |
- Affordable Plans;
- Excellent Support;
- 14-Day Trial on Shared Hosting;
- Free SSL Certificates;
- Fast NVMe storage.
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- Website only in Russian;
- No data centers outside of Russia.
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SpaceWeb is an affordable and well-rounded hosting provider that exceeded my expectations in every area. Their plans are well structured, support is excellent, and they only make use of super-fast NVMe drives on all their plans. If you are based within Russia you will have a hard time finding another provider better than them.