uCoz
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| Headquarters |  Moscow, Russia |
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| Owner | uCoz Media |
| Employees | 50+[1] |
| Website | www.ucoz.com |
| Alexa rank |  858;  217 (February 2012[update])[2] |
| Type of site | Web Services |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 1 million |
| Available in | English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Swedish, Romanian |
| Launched | 2005 |
uCoz is a free web hosting with built-in content management system. The modules of uCoz CMS can be used together to build a fully featured website, or separately, e.g. as an online shopping platform, blog, webforum etc. As of July 10, 2010, there are more than one million websites created in uCoz systems[3]. uCoz is among the top sites for Russian-speaking users according to Alexa Internet[4].
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[edit] History
Initially the basis of the service development was formed by the combined experience of several developers, which consisted in previous work over such services as poll and free guestbooks, as well as professional CMS script (WoCatalog Pro). On October 29, 2005, after almost a year of development, uCoz announced the Russian version of the system. On June 2007, the English version of the system was officially announced, and on August — the German version. At the moment, uCoz is also available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, partially in Hebrew, Latvian, Ukrainian, and Georgian languages.
[edit] At a Glance
[edit] Main Features
- 246 website design templates to choose from
- Possibility to create custom design/template or modify any pre-installed
- 400 MB disk space. The disk size increases as the number of visitors on the website and the age of the website increases.
- Third level domains in 21 zones
- Possibility to attach any domain to the website
- Unrestricted МХ record creating/editing and subdomain creation the attached domain
- FTP access. Depositfiles hosting service account can be attached to the website if needed to upload larger files.
- WYSIWYG editor
- Visual block builder
- Mobile version of the website
- Project & Templates backup
- RSS import/export
- API
- A lightbox
- Rewrite engine
- Global authorization — uID (uNet)
[edit] Modules
uCoz CMS platform includes modules that can be used to create a fully customized site. The modules can be used unanimously as well as separately to create a blog, forums, online shopping, etc. At this moment uCoz offers the following modules:
- Users
- Forums (Bulletin Board)
- E-shop
- Site News
- Blog (Web Journal)
- Publisher (Article Catalog)
- File Catalog
- Site Catalog
- Mini Chat
- Ad Board
- Photo Albums
- Online games
- Polls
- Guestbook
- FAQ Service
- E-mail Forms
- Page Editor
- Statistics (Hit Counter)
[edit] Other Free Features
- Informers
- Banners rotator
- Substitution of any system phrase
- Banner and Copyright appearance customizations
- Automatic navigation builder
- Subscription via PM, email, and RSS
- Global blocks
- Quick substitution of template fragments
- User Awards
- Recommend a friend
- Custom pack of smileys
- Maximum security settings
- Users' and Admins' action logs
- Free limited technical support
[edit] Paid services[5]
- Removal of the system copyright
- Removal of uCoz advertising banner
- Increasing the available disk space up to 10 gigabytes
- Possibility to hide uCoz Statistics (in case of using the Statistics module)
- Possibility to attach files to letters sending via E-mail forms
- Possibility to use PHP
- SMS-services
| Free | Basic | Business | Advanced | Premium | |
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| Ads | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Disk Space (400 Mb +) |
+0 |
+800 Mb |
+1500 Mb |
+2500 Mb |
+2500 Mb |
| Bonus messages to Technical Support (per month) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Max. file size for uploading via FTP | 15 Mb | 60 Mb | 90 Mb | 135 Mb | 135 Mb |
| Hidden statistics counter | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Attach files in contact forms | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Inactive sites removal | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Free second-level domain when paying for a year | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-Shop module activation | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ads in Control Panel | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| uCoz copyrights | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
[edit] Peculiarities
Being a SaaS system, uCoz has SaaS features — closed source code, unavailability of running of server-side scripts and databases (all this is possible within Web 3.0 PaaS concept), which is balanced out by a great number of built-in system capabilities. Static HTML pages can be used but are not recommended – there are some limitations on their usage and uploading.
[edit] Awards
- Open Web Awards 2009 winner in the nomination Best Site for Publishers[6]
- Runet Prize 2008 – People's Ten[7]
- Runet Prize 2009 – Technologies and Innovations[8]
- Content Management Award Winners 2009
- Web Host Directory September 2008 – Best for Ecommerce
[edit] References
- ^ "uCoz Team"
- ^ "Ucoz.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ucoz.com. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ "Sites Rating. TOP 100". http://top.ucoz.com/.
- ^ http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/RU
- ^ http://forum.ucoz.com/forum/46-13008-1
- ^ Open Web Awards 2009: The Winners
- ^ "Runet Award 2008" (in Russian). Premia Runeta. 2008. http://www.premiaruneta.ru/about/archive/premia-2008/laureates/. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- ^ "Runet Award 2009" (in Russian). Premia Runeta. 2009. http://www.premiaruneta.ru/laureates/. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
