| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
|---|---|
| Owner | uCoz Media |
| Employees | 50+[1] |
| Website | www.ucoz.com |
| Alexa rank | 896; 229 (January 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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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.
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:
| Free | Basic | Business | Advanced | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.