OUTSTANDING FEATURES

What is Namecheap

Namecheap is a company selling domain name based in Arizona, USA. Founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall, the company quickly became one of the largest domain name companies in the world with more than 11 million customers and 3 million domain names registered.

Namecheap’s services

Beside domain selling, Namecheap has a other value added services being offered to customer. They are:

• Hosting service, including shared hosting, VPS hosting…
• Email hosting: allow you to create and manage professional email accounts associated with your domain.
• Marketing tools: SEO, logo design, Ads…

Overall, domain name and hosting service are 2 main business bringing revenue to this company.

Namecheap’s hosting feature

Easy to use

It is quick and easy to create a new account with Namecheap. After filling out the form with your information and making payment, you can expect your account to be activated within seconds.

The Namecheap dashboard is simple but useful enough to keep track of and manage your purchased products and add new ones. From there, you can access your control panel, which should be an industry-leading cPanel where you can easily install all the apps you want (thanks to Softaculous), check your SSL certificate, manage your backups, use the drag-and-drop website builder, contact the support team, and more.

Domain privacy

One of the best features of Namecheap is offering domain privacy forever. Namecheap helps you to migrate your WordPress site to free hosting services within 24 hours. All you have to do is to fill out and submit a request with a few details about your site.

Speed

According to multiple tests conducted via GTmetrix, the site took just 2.5 seconds to fully load and 62 simultaneous requests, both of which are typical cases of viable performance. Furthermore, all other important speed metrics crowned Namecheap’s site speed performance with a perfect A (100%).

In terms of uptime, Namecheap promises 100% monthly uptime with all shared and dedicated server plans and 99.9% of that with reseller and VPS plans. For every hour of downtime exceeding these limits, users get one free day of hosting added to their service.

Security

Here is a list of ways Namecheap hosting handles security.

• Uses the best firewall hardware and software and a high-tech internal security system.
• “Leech Protect” allows you to set the maximum number of login attempts that can occur in a 2-hour period. Protects your site from brute force attacks.
• Namecheap regularly creates its own backups of your site, you can request a copy of it if needed.
• “CodeGuard” – this add-on service provides monitoring, backup, and recovery services.
• Virus scanner included
• Hotlink protection provided
• Namecheap constantly tests its defenses and makes adjustments as needed.
• SSL certificates are available to ensure the security of your sites. SSL certificates help protect your sensitive data (including credit card information) from being stolen.
• DNSSEC is provided through Namecheap’s PremiumDNS service.
• WhoisGuard hides your name, address, email, and contact number. This prevents hackers, spammers, and marketing companies from contacting you or accessing your valuable data. All anyone can see is that your domain is hosted, but that’s it. Namecheap offers WhoisGuard Privacy Protection for free for life. However, not all domain extensions are covered by WhoisGuard, so check your domain extension before proceeding.

Pricing

Domain

Depends on your selected choice, the price of domain is ranging quite largely. Here’s an example of normal domain (around 10$ for first year). If you first registered Namecheap service, you can get 5.98$ off with code "Newcome598"

Hosting

There are 3 packages that might fit your business type: Online beginners, small businesses and Large businesses. The plans also vary from shared hosting, Reseller hosting, VPS or WordPress hosting. Below is an example for beginner to choose. Thus the cost for hosting at Namecheap in the 1st year can be ranging from 25$ to 360$. To check more about plan that suits you, follow this link.

Conclusion

Namecheap is suitable for newbie who want to start their website from scratch due to its low cost (in the first year) and easy-to-use control panel. Supporting from Help center can be considered fast and good. However, you should consider Namecheap when your website enters 2nd year, the cost of hosting can be tripled from what you paid for initial year.