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uCoz

URL	www.ucoz.com
Type of site	Webmaster Services
Registration	Required
Available language(s)	English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Arabic
Owner	uCoz Media
Launched	2005

uCoz is a free web hosting with built-in content management system. The modules of uCoz CMS can be used either in combination to build a full-featured website, or separately, e.g. as a blog platform, webforum etc. uCoz takes the 13th place among the sites for Russian-speaking users according to Alexa Internet.

1 History
2 Current system features and capabilities
3 Modules
4 Paid services
5 Peculiarities
6 Similar services
7 Awards
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links

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). After almost a year of development, on October 29, 2005, the world saw the Russian version of the system. In June 2007, the English version was officially presented, and in August — the German one. At present uCoz is also available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Hungarian, Swedish, and partially in Latvian, Ukrainian, Georgian.

Current system features and capabilities

uCoz CMS platform currently includes the following free features available upon registration:

Global uNet profile - gives access to all uNet sites without separate registration.
More than 235 designs - can be used to create a site in minutes by using a template.
Customized design - the capability to make a custom design or customize an existing template.
400 Mb of disk space - available upon registration, the disk space increases with the increase of the number of website visitors.
A third-level domain - capability to choose from 21 different zones.
Custom domain - capability to attach an existing domain (that already belongs to the user) to the site.
Creation/editing of MX records and creation of subdomains - available after a domain has been attached.
FTP access
Technical Support
WYSIWYG - an online editor.
Visual Block Builder
PDA version of a website
Backup - backup of files and designs.
RSS import and export
Lightbox
Search engine friendly URLs
Awards for site users
Automatic creation of a sitemap file
and many other.

Modules

uCoz CMS platform includes modules that can be used to create a fully customized site, alternatively, some modules can be used separately to create a blog, a forum etc. Below is the list of currently available modules.

Users - managing the users of the site;
Forum - creating and managing forums;
Blog - creating and managing blogs;
Photo Albums - creating and managing Photo Albums;
Guestbook - creating and managing the Guestbook;
Publisher - keeping a catalog of articles;
Tag Board - creating a mini chat for the website with adjustable design and messages, smileys, automatic foul language replacement;
Templates - ready designs and site functions that can be added to the site;
Site News - a news feed on the site;
Statistics - monitoring and publishing site statistics;
File Catalog - a catalog of files added by users;
Site Catalog - a catalog of sites quoted by users;
Ad Board - Ads management system;
FAQ - frequently asked questions section;
Tests - testing the new features of the site before enabling them;
Web Polls - polling of the site users;
E-mail Forms - creating a customizable form for email inquiry by site users;
Search - searching for specific content on the site;
Online Games - allows to add online games at your site;
E-shop - online shopping module (beta testing).

Paid services

Removal of system copyright
Removal of ad banner
Removal of ads in Control Panel
Increase of disk space up to 10 GB
Hiding of uCoz counter
Capability to attach files to messages, sent via E-mail Forms

Peculiarities

Being a SaaS system, uCoz has SaaS features — closed source code, unavailability of runnig 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^[1]. Static HTML pages can be used but are not recommended – there are some limitations on their usage and uploading^[2].