Is Namecheap Best Web Hosting Provider? (Review)

In this Namecheap hosting review I’m going to tell you everything that you need to know about Namecheap. Before deciding if this is the right web hosting provider for you I will provide you with the most comprehensive review. I will break down the pricing structure and show you how to get the best deal currently available. I will guide you through the entire sign up process and judge how easy their platform is to use. I will then grade their performance based on page load speed and uptime from the Namecheap plan that I purchased and lastly I will provide you with the pros and cons and my honest recommendations on if or who should buy a Namecheap at the end of this blog I will give you a very special offer.

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Now I will be comparing their shared hosting plan in this review. Although Namecheap does offer other types of hosting like bps dedicated and cloud hosting. So they can support you when your business grows and you're ready for an upgrade. There are two basic shared hosting plans and one cloud shared hosting plan. In this review I will just concentrate on their basic two plans as these are the two options. Most people will want to know about cloud hosting is usually talked about in a different hosting category. So I won't go in depth on it. In this review now with the stella tier you are limited to three websites and 20 gigabytes of ssd storage. However on the stella plus plan you have unlimited websites and storage another notable difference between the two plans. Is they provide automatic backup on their stellar plus plan whereas you don't get this on their normal stellar plan. Many companies don't provide this feature at all they try to upsell you on this. But Namecheap is very good and giving it away upfront for free at least. On their stellar plus plan I just wish they gave it away for free on their basic stellar plan. Also now Namecheap also has two data center locations around the world. There's one in the US and there's one in the UK if you select the UK option you have to pay an extra dollar per month. But at least the option is there and it will be useful for anyone who has most of their customers located outside of the US and close to Europe as it will increase the speed performance of their website.

For their customers and therefore increase the conversions the next thing I want to talk about is their payment plans. Namecheap offer monthly yearly and two yearly hosting plans. So this is pretty obvious but the longer you buy the cheaper it's going to get. For example the two year plan you can see here. It's a dollar forty four whereas if it's yearly it's going to be a dollar fifty eight and if it's monthly it's going to be 2.88. So what I always recommend you do is to buy the two-year plan. As it's going to be the cheapest for you and with web hosting you normally stick with the same hosting provider once you have chosen the one you're happy with and you've tried them out and everything works okay. So in this case Namecheap might be fine for you but we'll have to test them out but you should remember that they have a 30-day money-back guarantee. So if you don't like it you can just change hosting providers later but further down in this review I’m going to test their performance for you. So you can make a better informed decision overall. The decision is very simple to make really with Namecheap. If you only need three websites or less then go with a stellar plan. But if you need more than that then the stella plus is a must for you. So now I’m just going to choose the stella plus plan for this tutorial and test them out. Overall pricing score I would give Namecheap is nine out of ten. They are a really cheap hosting provider starting at just 1.44 per month and they provide you with all the features you need to get started. They even give you the automatic backup features for free on their hire stella plus plan. This is one of the more important features for me and many other hosting providers don't provide this to you at all and they try to upsell you instead. So well done to Namecheap on this. I did take one markov name cheap however as they don't offer a custom caching plugin which other hosting providers like a2 hosting and siteground does this feature would further increase the speed performance of your website. But is missing with namecheap here this would not matter if their overall speed is still high. But there's only one way to find out and that is to test it and I would do just that later in this video. So keep watching to find out after purchase setup and ease of use right away from their dashboard. You can see it looks very clean and easy to navigate. Namecheap uses cpanel so old-school wordpress users will love it. They have also somewhat catered to beginners. Here as they have added shortcuts from cpanels onto the dashboard so you can see important ones like adding domains and email accounts an ssl certificate is all here for you.

Now let's see how easy it is to install and create wordpress website. So we just scroll down to here and click on add-on domains. Now type in the domain that you want to install wordpress on and then click on add domain and the next step is to go back to your dashboard and click on wordpress click on install now and choose your domain that you want to install the website for entering your site name and site description. Now choose your username and password and then come down to the bottom and click on install. That's it it's that simple your wordpress website is now up and running the next step is to install the ssl certificate. So let's see how easy that is so we go back to dashboard click on ssl click on manage ssl sites and you can see here that Namecheap has automatically installed the ssl for you without you having to do anything. So that bits done and just to check for you that it's all working. I will copy the website and paste it here. Now the page is loaded and you can see here that it's got a lock on it and it's saying that the connection is secured so this means the ssl certificate has been installed correctly by Namecheap and it was done automatically which was awesome.

Now the next thing I want to tell you is creating the email account. So to do that we just go back to the dashboard and click on email accounts. Click on create type in your username, password and now click on create that's it. It's that simple you can see overall th installation of wordpress was a two-step process as we had to add our domain name in and the ssl certificate we didn't have to do anything as it was done automatically. The email address was also very simple here with one step. So overall I would score Namecheap an 8 out of 10 for setup and ease of use I really like the extra cpanel shortcuts they added to the dashboard and everything is very easy to set up. However I took two marks off as they don't have a full custom dashboard like a lot of other hosting providers have which make it extra friendly for beginners to use. Other than that for a cpanel I think they have done a great job and I really can't fold them on anything else speed and uptime performance test so after I have installed the basic wordpress site I went ahead and tested out the speed of my bare bones website using gt metrics the result is 1.6 seconds. This is a great start even though it's not the fastest in my test. So far I must say the result is decent and there's some potential there. So now I will take it a step further and add some design elements to it to increase the page size and don't worry if you are overwhelmed looking at this. My course that I will provide you for supporting the blog will guide you through this step by step. I’m also going to install some free plugins to speed up the website wp fastest cache which is for speed optimization and short pixel which is for image optimization and lastly I will install the free cloudflare app which will also increase the website performance with their cdn. This will make it more comparable to what you would do in real life. The speed is now 3.4 seconds which is a little slow. To be honest google recommends a site to load in under 3 seconds. So Namecheap missed that although not by much. Now I have also been monitoring the stability performance of Namecheap with uptime robot and can report that the uptime for the last 30 days is 99.91 this is below my standard of 99.95 percent uptime. But is still above their own uptime guarantee of 99.9 I was really disappointed with this result and Namecheap has dropped the ball on this one although I must say their performance for the previous month was 100. So I must give them a little bit of credit for that overall I would rate Namecheap speed and uptime performance a 5 out of 10. i took 4 marks away for failing the speed test and one mark for failing my 99.95 uptime requirement. Even though they did fail on both these two performance indicators. They didn't fail by much and were not far off a pass. So I wanted to make a quick note on that here's a quick question for you.

What is your current page load speed and who is your web hosting provider? Let me know in the comments section below.

Support: Namecheap provides 24/7 customer support through email and live chat. I will test them out by asking them these three different questions on live chat.

One I will tell them that I have been infected by a virus on my website and asked for their help.

Tow I will ask them a quick question about their domain name renewal costs.

Three I asked them if they could do me a favor and install an ssl certificate and cloudflare for me.

As I am a complete newbie and have no idea how to do this and here are the results for the first question they were willing to help straight away and scanned the website for me and provided me the malware report right away. However they were not able to remove the virus for me. If any were found they instead provided me a step-by-step guide on how to remove it myself. So it's not ideal but at least I can final the virus for you and you just have to go to the files and remove it yourself. For the second question they answered all four of my questions in one message and the whole discussion took less than 10 minutes to resolve. I was very happy with their service. Here for the third question they were willing to help me out right away and install the ssl certificate immediately. For cloudflare they gave me a custom guide and stayed online until I was satisfied and able to install it. They were very quick and knowledgeable in helping me out. Here also with regards to their response time I contacted them at three different times of the day to make sure I get an overall average. Not just the bias fast response during their off-peak hours. So the three response times were 32 seconds, 23 seconds, and 31 seconds. The average of those three times turns out to be 29 second wait time which is definitely the fastest out of all the hosting providers. I have tested out so far overall I had to score Namecheap support a 9 out of 10. I would say Namecheap's 24/7 customer support was amazing. They were really responsive with only a 30 second wait time and they helped me immediately with all my issues on the spot without having to refer me to any other technical department. I only took one mark off them because they were not able to remove any malware for me. I had to do this part myself.

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