Timeweb - excellent Russian hosting of opencart projects → review
Timeweb is a universal Russian hosting with friendly technical support and affordable prices. The main office and its own data center are based in St. Petersburg, but some services, such as virtual servers, can be rented in Europe.
The billing and server control panel is self-written, has mobile applications associated with it, so it is convenient to manage services from any device. When transferring sites from another hosting, special benefits are provided: free months of service, transfer of balance and files, special discounts.
For all other customers - there is a completely free test for 10 days.
Pros:
Owned data center, corresponds to Tier 3 level.
A wide range of services for beginners and professional webmasters (promotion, site acceleration, mail on your domain, virus protection, etc.).
Adequate prices for registration and renewal of domains (it is the official registrar of RU / RF domains). There are domains as a gift.
Everything is in Russian (panel, documentation, round-the-clock technical support).
Free transfer of projects and special benefits for migration.
Fast SSD and NVMe drives.
Shared hosting tariffs are flexibly configured/expanded by resources.
Free test and backups (stored up to 30 days).
SMS notifications about important events in the account.
Ready and personal configurations of VPS/dedicated servers.
VPS can be rented for rubles in Europe.
Own cloud infrastructure for high-load projects.
Possibility of cooperation with Russian legal entities (including with the allocation of VAT and payment according to invoices).
Minuses:
DDoS protection is always paid separately (there is no traffic filtering at the data center level).
You can expect free website transfers up to a few days.
Starting rates for shared hosting are frankly weak in terms of available resources (may not be suitable for OpenCart). They will have to be expanded for an additional fee (or you need to immediately switch to more powerful tariffs).
There is free VPS administration, but it is provided only to customers with certain control panels.
Hosting cost:
Classic virtual (shared) hosting:
Year+ - from 119 rubles / month. One site, 1-2 domains for free, 10 GB on an NVMe disk.
Optimo + - from 169 rubles / month. Up to 10 sites, up to 30 GB on disk, increased load on MySQL.
Century + - from 289 rubles / month. Up to 25 sites, 40 GB on disk. Even more RAM and load on MySQL.
Millennium+ - from 439 rubles / month. Up to 50 sites, 50 GB on disk.
Powerful shared hosting plans (ideal for eCommerce and OpenCart:
1Site - from 349 rubles / month. Only one site, 10 GB on NVMe disk, extended RAM and MySQL limits. One domain for free.
Eterno - from 996 rubles / month. Up to 30 sites, 60 GB on disk.
Premium - from 3600 rubles / month. Up to 100 sites, 100 GB of disk space, maximum server limits.
VPS servers with KVM virtualization - from 189 rubles / month.
Dedicated servers - from 6700 rubles / month (you can turn on the full administration service).
Cloud servers with payment for days of use - from 6 rubles / day.