Beget outage: tiny UFO Hosting won more sites than Timeweb

Over the month, its Runet Pulse tool saw 2,095 infrastructure changes, including 1,944 hosting changes. That means almost 90% of recorded hosting moves were people leaving Beget. Those who kept their DNS with another provider, and stored code and backups separately, could switch quickly. Everyone else had a harder time.

Where did the Beget sites go?

By raw numbers, REG.RU received the most sites. But counted against the size of each host's tracked fleet, the picture changes. Hosts with at least 10 arrivals were compared: UFO Hosting took 17 against a fleet of 42, RUVDS took 15 against about 61. Cloud.ru and Adman gained more in absolute terms, 73 and 84. FastVPS, with 755 tracked sites, received 94. It also had an outage in those days and its subnets look very similar to Beget's, though the authors say that proves nothing.

If size decided everything, the biggest providers would collect the biggest shares. They don't. The authors suggest customers weigh price, support quality, how easy the control panel is, how simple a migration is, and what developers and admins they know recommend.

One caveat: the ranking sample covers 66,202 sites as of 12 November 2026, and it counts infrastructure change events, not unique paying customers.