What is Namecheap?
- Namecheap is one of the American web hosting and domain registration providers.
- Namecheap is distinguished by offering its services at competitive prices and is considered one of the cheapest web hosting and domain registration companies.
- Namecheap is known in the field of domain registration as the best company, but is it also the best foreign hosting company?
This is what we will try to discover in the following lines of the Namecheap hosting review and analysis.
Like its counterparts from hosting companies, Namecheap offers a set of services that suit the needs of most users and website owners.
These services include almost all types of website hosting such as
Domain registration and reservation service, which is the most important and famous service of the company.
- Shared hosting.
- Managed WordPress website hosting.
- Reseller hosting.
- VPS virtual server hosting.
- Full servers.
Namecheap Features
In this section of the Namecheap review, we will discuss the features of Namecheap hosting in detail and what features may prompt you to use Namecheap services.
The features that we will mention are not all the features of the company, but the most important and famous ones.
The goal of mentioning the advantages and disadvantages of hosting companies is not to push you to join those companies and buy their services or avoid them, as this is not our goal.
Our goal in the first place is to present to you the advantages and disadvantages of companies and their services in a way that is as simple as possible without bias so that you can determine whether the company or service is the most appropriate for your site and needs.
Namecheap prices are low.
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The most important feature of Namecheap hosting and most of the company's services in general is the very low prices. The company is considered one of the cheapest companies for hosting websites and domains as well. However, low hosting prices do not necessarily mean that they are of high quality.
Namecheap offers three shared hosting plans, all of which include unlimited bandwidth. The first plan, Stellar, comes at a price of $4.48 per month ($1.58 first time) and includes 20 GB of storage space and allows you to create 3 websites on the same account.
The second plan, Stellar Plus, differs from the first plan in that it includes unlimited storage space. The plan also allows you to create an unlimited number of websites on the same hosting account without additional costs. This plan also includes automatic backups for free. The price of the second plan is $6.48 per month ($2.28 first time).
As for the third plan, Stellar Business, it is distinguished from the other two plans in that it is built on cloud hosting, which makes it more stable and secure. This is because the files and data are on another device, so any problem with the current server will not affect the site, because the site will work from another server.
The price of this package is $9.48 per month ($4.48 first time) and comes with 50 GB of storage, unlimited sites, and free automatic backups.
All Namecheap hosting packages come with a 30-day money-back guarantee if you don't like the hosting service. So you get the ability to try the hosting without worrying about losing your money.
Namecheap uses cPanel
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- cPanel is a powerful and easy-to-use web hosting control panel and is considered the most popular panel.
- The cPanel interface is available in Arabic and there are many explanations on how to use it in Arabic and other languages on the Internet.
- Namecheap uses cPanel as the control panel for shared hosting accounts.
Good uptime
Uptime is the time when the hosting is working and not down.
The closer the uptime is to 100%, the better because it means that the site will not be down very often. Every 1% of downtime annually means that your site will be down for 3 days and 15 hours per year or 7 hours and 12 minutes per month on average.
According to our follow-up of Namecheap hosting, we found that the hosting uptime is good and the work rate is often around 99.9%, which is equivalent to about 43 minutes of downtime per month.
Namecheap hosting speed is acceptable
Hosting speed is one of the most important things to consider as it greatly affects the user experience and the site's ranking in search engine results. When a visitor visits your site, if he finds that your site is slow, he will click the back button and visit another site.
According to our follow-up, Namecheap hosting has an acceptable speed, as it is about half a second on average.
The ability to choose the hosting location
Namecheap is one of the few companies that provides hosting in more than one place, such as A2 Hosting, which gives you hosting in three different countries, and SiteGround, which provides hosting in four countries.
On the contrary, you will find HostGator, which provides hosting in America only.
While Namecheap gives you the ability to choose between hosting your site in the United States of America or Europe, specifically Britain and the Netherlands, hosting in the British data center is more expensive at $ 1 than hosting in America and the Netherlands (more information in the Namecheap disadvantages section below).
When purchasing hosting, always make sure to host your site in the closest place to your site visitors. Because this will reduce the distance between the site and its visitors, which will increase the speed of the site and improve the user experience.
Free Backup
- Namecheap shared hosting comes with a free twice-weekly backup of the site, which is available with all hosting packages.
- While the second and third packages come with a better backup service that takes daily, weekly and monthly backups, and you can restore the copy you want from them.
- We always advise sites with important content to use an external backup service.
Free Domain with Namecheap Hosting
Since Namecheap is a domain registration company in the first article, the company is one of a small group of companies that offer free hosting and domain with it.
All hosting packages come with a free domain for a year as part of the Dean of Hosting discount. Although the free domain is not .com or .net due to their high prices compared to Namecheap hosting itself, it comes with good extensions including .site, .host, .online, .live, .pw, .website, and .fun. In addition to the free domain, you get a service to hide the domain owner's data from WHOIS search services. This service is mostly a paid service and costs around $10 or more per year, but Namecheap offers it for free to readers of the Dean of Hosting website.
Free SSDs and SSL Certificates
- Namecheap uses Solid State Drives.
- If you don't know, this type of file storage media is faster than regular HDDs because it doesn't have moving parts. But the disadvantage of SSDs is that they are more expensive than HDDs.
- Namecheap uses this type of fast disks for shared hosting without additional costs for users, which increases the speed of hosting.
- All Namecheap hosting packages include 50 free SSL certificates. These certificates encrypt data transferred between the site and the visitor's browser and vice versa.
- When you use them, you can use the HTTPS protocol for your site, which will increase visitors' confidence in your site and your site will get the green lock in the address bar of the browser.
- This certificate is also important in terms of improving your site's ranking in search engines SEO.
Moving your site to Namecheap for free
If you are using another hosting company and want to move to Namecheap, you are probably worried about moving the site to the new hosting.
Fortunately, Namecheap is one of the companies that offer free website transfer service
Unlimited Namecheap Hosting
- Namecheap's shared hosting is characterized by unlimited bandwidth hosting, as they do not calculate consumption. This is not only related to the large hosting packages, but to all packages as they include unlimited Bandwidth data transfer as well.
- Also, the second package includes unlimited file storage capacity, but you should know that there is a fair use policy and according to Namecheap, the unlimited space is allocated to your site files and not to store other files such as file upload and download sites.
Namecheap Disadvantages
Additional cost for hosting servers in Britain
As mentioned above in the Namecheap hosting advantages section, the company provides European website hosting through the United Kingdom (Britain) data center located in Nottingham.
In 2021, Namecheap announced the addition of a new data center in Europe in the Netherlands, specifically in Amsterdam, which gives more options for those looking to buy European hosting from Namecheap.
But the downside to this is that Namecheap hosting in the UK comes at higher prices than other American and European hosting services. If you choose a UK data center, you will find that the hosting price has increased by $1 compared to the price of the same package if you choose an American or European data center.
For your information, the principle of changing the hosting price by changing the data center location is not strange to the website hosting market, and this happens as a result of the change in the cost of the service and the reliance of many hosting on external data centers owned by other companies, which raises the cost of the service itself on the hosting company, which requires passing this increase on to the end user (customer).
Technical support is not the best
It is difficult to judge the quality of technical support for any company because it varies from one case to another and from one person to another. Namecheap provides technical support via live chat for its users for free 24 hours a day, 7 days a year.
Technical support is available in English and technical support representatives will help you solve most problems.
But if the problem is big or difficult, technical support may not be able to help you easily. Also Namecheap has great tutorials and knowledge base but the problem is that it is very focused on the company's main product which is domain.
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