Web Hosting in the UAE for Bilingual Sites

  • Arabic and English on one account
  • Free migration from your current host
  • cPanel, LiteSpeed and NVMe SSD

Most businesses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi publish twice: once in Arabic, once in English. ElySpace hosting is set up so both builds live in one cPanel account, share one free SSL, one backup schedule and one invoice. LiteSpeed and NVMe storage underneath, and a ticket queue that keeps running right through the UAE weekend, Saturday and Sunday included.

What a UAE Business Gets on an ElySpace Plan

Six things that matter more in the Emirates than they do anywhere else on this site.
Arabic and English sites on one hosting account

Two Languages, One Account

Serve your English build from the root of your domain and the Arabic build from a subfolder or a subdomain, both inside the same cPanel account. One SSL covers them, one backup job protects them, and you are not billed twice for what is really one website.

Named hosting stack used on ElySpace servers

A Stack You Can Name

LiteSpeed Enterprise as the web server, CloudLinux for account isolation, cPanel and WHM to drive it, EasyApache ea-php83 for PHP, NVMe SSD for storage, Imunify360 for malware scanning and JetBackup for restores. No adjectives, just the software you are actually buying time on.

Round-the-clock chat and ticket cover for UAE working days

Cover Through the Gulf Week

Live chat and tickets run every day, weekend included, so a Saturday problem in Dubai is an ordinary staffed hour here rather than a Monday one. The phone and WhatsApp lines, and the numbers to use, are listed on our contact page.

Free website migration handled by the ElySpace team

Migration We Do, Not You

Hand over the login for your current host and our team copies files, databases and mailboxes across. Your existing account stays live the whole time, so you test the Arabic build and the checkout before anything points at us.

Security tools included with UAE hosting accounts

Security Switched On by Default

Imunify360 scans in the background, Let's Encrypt certificates issue and renew themselves, and Cloudflare sits in front of the account. If you want to go further, our website security add-ons cover WAF tuning and hardening.

Uptime commitment published in the ElySpace SLA

99.9% Uptime, Written Down

ElySpace publishes a 99.9% uptime commitment, and the definitions that go with it are in the service level agreement rather than in a marketing line. Read it before you order so you know what is measured and what is not.

One Account, Two Directions:
Arabic RTL and English LTR

An Arabic site is not an English site with the words swapped. The layout mirrors, the typography changes, and the database has to hold the text without turning it into question marks after the first restore. None of that is difficult, but the hosting underneath has to cooperate. On an ElySpace account it does, because the pieces that usually break Arabic sites are set correctly before you log in for the first time.

If the site is a store rather than a brochure, the same logic applies to product data and order emails. Our online store hosting notes cover the WooCommerce side of it, and the managed WordPress stack is the same LiteSpeed build with LSCache configured.

  • utf8mb4 databases so Arabic script survives export and restore
  • Run WPML, Polylang or a second WordPress install, your choice
  • Host Arabic web fonts on your own domain, no third-party font call
  • Split ar and en by subfolder or subdomain and set hreflang either way
One-click application installer running a bilingual WordPress site

Your .ae Name,
and How It Reaches Us

The .ae namespace is administered by aeDA, the .ae Domain Administration, which sits under the TDRA. A plain .ae is open to register. The restricted second levels, .gov.ae, .ac.ae, .sch.ae and .mil.ae, are held back for organisations that qualify for them, and there is an Arabic-script equivalent of the country code as well.

ElySpace's published domain catalogue covers .com, .net, .org, .co, .in, .io, .shop, .store, .online, .tech, .cloud, .app, .dev, .info and .xyz. Search for the name you want on our domain registration page first. If the .ae you need is not in that catalogue, register it through an accredited .ae registrar and point its nameservers at your ElySpace account. Nothing about your hosting changes, and you keep the registration wherever it suits your licence paperwork.

  • Register .ae where you like, host the site with us
  • Full A, CNAME, MX and TXT control in the cPanel zone editor
  • Free SSL issued for the .ae and every alias you add to it
cPanel zone editor showing DNS records for a domain

Moving a UAE Site Across
Without Losing a Trading Day

Four steps, and only the last one is visible to your customers. Migration is included, so the cost of getting this wrong is the only thing you are really weighing up.

01

Start With the Audience

Before you order, tell our team where your visitors actually sit and which of your two languages carries the traffic. We confirm in writing which region we are placing the account on.

02

Hand Over the Old Login

Send your current cPanel, Plesk or FTP details on a ticket. If your site sits with a local reseller who will not release panel access, a full backup archive works just as well.

03

Check It on a Test URL

We copy files, databases and mailboxes, then serve the result on a temporary address. Nothing changes for your visitors while you test the Arabic build, the forms and the checkout.

04

Switch on a Quiet Window

You pick the moment. Friday afternoons and Sunday evenings tend to be the calmest for a UAE audience. We drop the DNS TTL first so the change lands in minutes rather than days.

What UAE Buyers Check Before They Order

Straight answers on ownership, currency, region and regulation, including the places where the honest answer is "not yet".

Company identity and registration details

Who Am I Buying From?

ElySpace IT Services LLP, a firm registered in India that has sold hosting since 2016 and now serves 27,000+ customers. We are not a UAE-registered company and we do not describe ourselves as one. The registration details your procurement team will ask for are on our company page.

Checkout currency options

Which Currency Am I Charged In?

ElySpace quotes in US dollars, euros, pounds sterling, Indian rupees, Saudi riyals and Bitcoin. The dirham is not on that list today, so a UAE-issued card is charged in the currency you pick and your bank shows the AED equivalent on the statement. Confirm the figure at checkout before you approve it.

Choosing the serving region for an account

Where Will the Account Sit?

ElySpace runs in more than one region and the right one depends on where your readers and your buyers are, not on where your licence was issued. Ask before you order and we will name the region for your account in writing. If a contract obliges you to keep data inside the UAE, raise it at that point rather than after the migration.

UAE personal data protection law

Does UAE Data Law Apply to Me?

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 sets the federal personal data protection framework. Companies licensed inside DIFC or ADGM fall under those free zones' own data protection laws instead. Which applies to you follows your licence, not your server. Read our privacy policy and ask for a processing agreement if your compliance team wants one on file.

TDRA regulatory scope

What Does the TDRA Regulate?

The TDRA oversees the UAE's telecommunications and digital government sector, the .ae namespace through aeDA, and the country's internet access management policy. It does not license web hosts based outside the UAE, so no overseas provider can hand you a TDRA approval certificate. Treat anyone who offers one with suspicion.

Invoices and billing records

Can My Accountant Get an Invoice?

Every order produces an invoice you can download at any time from the client area at my.elyspace.com. Put your company name, trade licence number and free zone or mainland address into the billing profile before you place the order and they appear on the document itself.

Support Through the Gulf Week

A desk that is awake when Dubai is

The UAE moved to a Monday to Friday working week in 2022, with Friday running short. Our live chat and ticket queue do not keep that calendar, or any other: they are staffed every day of the week, so a Saturday incident is not a Monday problem. Tickets and chat are answered in English. There is no Arabic-language desk, and you are better off knowing that before you buy than after. Phone and WhatsApp numbers for sales and support are published on our contact page.

Talk to Sales Open a Ticket
ElySpace support engineer answering a customer ticket

Read our customer reviews

That's probably enough from us, we'll let our customers do the talking and with over 2000 reviews on Trustpilot and Facebook, see for yourself why you can trust us to power your website.

Web Hosting in the UAE FAQ

Yes, and most UAE customers do. You can put the English build at the root of your domain and the Arabic build in a subfolder, or create a subdomain such as ar.yourdomain.ae and run a separate install there. Either way it is one cPanel account, one free SSL covering the domain and its aliases, and one backup job. There is no extra hosting charge for the second language.

Our published domain catalogue covers .com, .net, .org, .co, .in, .io, .shop, .store, .online, .tech, .cloud, .app, .dev, .info and .xyz. Search for your name on the domain page before you order. If .ae is not offered on your account, register it with an accredited .ae registrar and point the nameservers at ElySpace. Your hosting works exactly the same way, and you keep the registration wherever your licence paperwork needs it to sit.

Not today. ElySpace quotes in US dollars, euros, pounds sterling, Indian rupees, Saudi riyals and Bitcoin, and AED is not currently one of the checkout currencies. A card issued by a UAE bank is charged in whichever of those you select, and your statement shows the dirham equivalent at your bank's rate on the day. Check the total on the order confirmation page before you approve the payment.

Yes, and it is worth doing. ElySpace operates in more than one region, and the right one depends on where your visitors are rather than where your company is licensed. Put the question in a pre-sales ticket and we will confirm the region for your account in writing before you pay. If a client contract or a regulator requires your data to stay inside the UAE, tell us at that point, because it is a decision to settle before the migration rather than after it.

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 is the UAE's federal personal data protection framework, and it is the starting point for most mainland businesses that collect customer data through a website. Whether and how it applies to your particular operation is a question for your own legal advisers, not for a hosting provider. What we can tell you is what we do with data on our side, which is set out in our privacy policy.

It changes which data protection regime you answer to. DIFC and ADGM each operate their own data protection law rather than sitting under the federal decree-law, and both are closer in shape to European practice. Firms licensed in those free zones usually want a written processing agreement with any supplier that touches personal data. Ask our team for one before you migrate and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot sign.

No. The TDRA regulates the UAE telecommunications and digital government sector, administers the .ae namespace through aeDA, and sets the internet access management policy that governs what may be published or reached from inside the country. It does not license overseas hosting providers, and no provider outside the UAE can issue you a TDRA approval. Your obligations run through your trade licence and the content rules that apply to it.

Yes, provided the database uses a utf8mb4 character set, which is what we create by default in cPanel. That is the single most common reason Arabic content turns into question marks after a restore or a host move, and it is worth checking on your current provider before you export. On the mail side, message bodies and display names in Arabic are handled normally, and you can set the account name in Arabic if you prefer.

In almost every case, yes. Where a small reseller refuses to release panel access, and some do, a full backup archive of your files and databases is enough for our team to work from. Where cPanel or FTP access is available, send the credentials on a ticket and we handle the copy for you. Either way your existing service keeps running until you have tested the copy on a temporary address and told us to change the DNS.

Live chat and tickets are staffed every day of the week, weekend included, so an incident that starts on a Saturday in Dubai does not wait until Monday. Tickets and chat are answered in English. The phone, sales and WhatsApp numbers are published on our contact page rather than repeated here, so you are never dialling a line that has since changed.

Gateway plugins are ordinary PHP, and our accounts run EasyApache ea-php83 with the PHP selector in cPanel, so you can enable the extensions a given plugin asks for such as curl, openssl, mbstring or soap. If your gateway provider publishes a minimum PHP version or a required extension list, send it to support before you order and we will confirm the environment matches it.

Every order generates an invoice you can download from the client area at any time. Add your company name, trade licence number and free zone or mainland address to your billing profile before you place the order and they are printed on the document. If your accountant needs confirmation of how tax is applied to a cross-border purchase from an India-registered supplier, ask our billing team before you pay rather than after.

We do the copy, you keep the switch

Pick a plan and our team will take it from there: we copy the files, the databases and the mailboxes, stand the site up on a test address, and leave the DNS switch entirely to you. If you would rather see the specification first, the full cPanel hosting line-up lists what is on every plan, and business hosting covers the tier with dedicated resources.

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ElySpace cPanel hosting dashboard on a laptop