Namecheap Bio:

  • Established: 2000
  • Sites Hosted: 17,000,000
  • Location: Phoenix, AZ
  • Host Award: Great Pricing
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  • Featured Package Price:$1.98
    /month
  • Storage Space:20 GB
  • Transfer/Bandwidth:Unmetered
  • Setup Fee:Free
  • Domain Name:1 Free
  • Money-Back Guarantee:30-day
  • Uptime Guarantee:99.9%
  • Free Website Builder:Yes
  • Multiple Domains:3 domains
  • E-mail Accounts:Unlimited
  • MySQL Databases:Unlimited
  • Control Panel:cPanel
  • Operating System:Linux
  • Server Backups:Twice weekly
  • 24/7 Monitoring:Yes
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  • Overall Score:

    9.2

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Our Review of: Namecheap

 

Overview:

"Cheaply Fantastic", are the best words to describe web hosting services at our #6 rated host, Namecheap! Namecheap, originated in Phoenix, Arizona in 2000, currently with thousands of customers and growing strong, they offer a unique, but outstanding web hosting package. From their fantastic support, to fantastic prices, quotas and features, Namecheap is a dominating presence in the hosting arena. But don't let their "cheap" slogans lead you to believe that their hosting services are any less than cutting-edge, which simply isn't the case.

Their 1,700+ customers, across 18 countries world-wide are proof that Namecheap will try their best to make you a satisfied customer and their "anytime" money-back guarantee proves this! Namecheap, as noted in their name, also specializes in domain name sales, with over 17,000,000+ hosted all over the world.

Pros:

  • Unique but very knowledgeable hosting company.
  • Powered totally by wind energy, making them 100% green.
  • One of the cheapest hosting providers out there.

Cons:

  • A little light on scripts active for each account.
 

Features & Specials:

Namecheap believes in keeping things simple. That said, they offer a one stop hosting package, sure to cater to almost any web site owner and at a price that is frankly unbelievably cheap! Their plan offers ample disk space and unmetered transfer allowances, free domain name, free setup, the ability to host 3 domains per account, with unlimited parked domains, just to start.

They also offer unlimited e-mail accounts, free comprehensive site builder, web traffic analytics and a whole plethora of scripting resources. Some notable resources not offered with other competing plans, are MySQL, PHP, full CGI directory, Ruby-on-Rails and Python.

Now, for a limited time, they offer free marketing credits at Google and Yahoo! Search Marketing, to get your site noticed. They also offer unbeatable free support, by e-mail, toll-free phone, and live chat.

 
  • Unlimited Domain Parking.
  • Frequently offer out heard of limited time pricing specials.
  • Google and Yahoo! advertising credits with each new account.
 

Reliability & Speed:

With a 99% uptime guarantee, Namecheap's reliability is second to none! They're connected via dual OC-48 connections to the world-wide web, ensuring lightning speed service for your web site and e-mail.

They also offer load balancing on all servers, which in short, minimizes site downtime by keeping a copy of your web site on an alternate live server, in the possibility of your main server outage. In addition to this, they also offer daily server backups, making the possibility of losing data almost non-existent. Rest assured that your hosting service at Namecheap will keep on trucking, no matter what they throw at it.

Reliability & Speed Factors:

Uptime Guarantee
99.9%
Server File Backups
Load-Balancing
Connections
Dual OC-48
24/7 Monitoring
Redundant Power
Summary: Utilizes a unique load-balanced architecture, with failover protections. Very good Internet backbone connections help deliver fast loading pages.
 

Support:

Namecheap isn't a bunch of bull when it comes to technical support and customer service! They offer all the bells and whistles of other major hosts and then some. Such as free toll-free phone support, which is US based (english speaking), free live chat and e-mail support and a comprehensive knowledge base, containing the most frequently asked support topics.

You’ll always be backed by a Support Team that’s renowned for being one of the most knowledgeable, friendly, and professional in the business " consistently getting rave reviews. Real people are ready to assist you with any issue, any time, 24/7. Integrity sits at the heart of their culture. All interactions are honest, action-oriented, and decisive, whether they•re with a customer or a co-worker, as stated on their website. We found this to totally be the case with needing a quick support question answered.

Average Support Wait Times:

Chat Wait Time
5 seconds
Phone Wait Time
2 minutes
 

Control Panel:

Namecheap users can easily maintain their hosting accounts with software from cPanel. cPanel is a comprehensive, complete web site management software used by thousands of web hosting companies world-wide. It makes modifications to your web site super easy, with the ability to setup e-mail accounts, view web site statistics, manage databases, domains and employ and automate many different hosting management scripts and resources. They also employ an in-house resource called Site Maker, to assist in creating and getting your new web site up and running.

 
 

What sets them apart?

"Fast, secure, and affordable hosting plans for any budget!"
Unmetered allowances on some plans.
Cheaply fantastic prices!
Green web hosting policies.
 

Summary:

Namecheap was chosen as a top rated web host, because of their "no bull" simple policies, making web hosting cheap and easy. We also rated them most "Unique" host on the list, due to their insanely low prices and as noted, simple, easy-to-understand domain name and web hosting policies. We have have received many glowing reviews from current Namecheap customers and think you will also agree.

With all that said, hop on over to Namecheap and give them a try! Their 30-day no questions asked money-back guarantee and 24-hour or less site migration should be more than enough reasons...

 

Namecheap Ratings ChartScore: 9.2%

Value for Money

5 / 5
Reliability & Uptime

4 / 5
Customer Courtesy

5 / 5
Technical Support

4 / 5
Features

5 / 5
Storage Space

5 / 5
Bandwidth

5 / 5
Tech Response Time

4 / 5
Ease of Use

5 / 5
Server Speed

4 / 5
 
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Renewing SSL

Review by: Jennifer from US, on October 11th
        I recommend this host

I'm not knowledgeable when it comes to web hosting. Namecheap has great customer service representatives who have been able to walk me through the whole process of obtaining a CSR and renewing my SSL. I've been dreading the idea of renewing my SSL but Aravindan S. walked me through the process. It was quick and easy. Thank you!




 
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Good, however

Review by: Drake from Pensacola, FL, on May 22nd
        I recommend this host

They have a good plan but be aware of CPU limits for your account. Like all hosts that offer unlimited bandwidth they really cant in real life as most of you know. Its just a matter of how much resources they are going to provide to each account before they get flagged. If you have a script intensive site, Id say to pay up and save the headache by looking at a dedicated of vps account.




 
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Intro price caution

Review by: Skip from New Hampshire, on May 15th
        I recommend this host

They have a GOOD introductory price but beware that when that term expires, a year or however ever long that the price goes to the normal rate of about double. They also offer a lot of addons that can rack up the price.

They are good at what they do and don't regret the move.




 
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Solid web hosting for a decent size site...

Review by: Scott from NYC, on April 3rd
        I recommend this host

We have a fairly busy ecommerce shop in the florist industry. They provide plenty of bandwidth for the images and speed is not an issue. Recommend them!




 
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Good choice

Review by: Cameron from Indianapolis, IN, on February 23rd
        I recommend this host

So far, for the past couple months they have hit the nail on the head with keeping the site going. I'd say generally a good decision.




 
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Reliable

Review by: Jonah from Philly, on February 8th
        I recommend this host

Since I have used support I cant say much, but the site hasnt been down yet since we started with them. Also very cheap prices...




 
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Terrific Support

Review by: Hannah from Nashville, on January 20th
        I recommend this host

Several email issues I couldn't resolve to get important mail. Support was online in seconds and get everything fixed. Pretty impressed so far with everything else.




 
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New to web development.

Review by: Rich from Pennsylvania, on January 2nd
        I recommend this host

I researched hosting sites and FatCow was one of the top hosting sites. I have no regrets. Tech support has been very good.




 
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Great, except for...

Review by: Paul from Kingman, on December 2nd
        I recommend this host

My site went down for a little while for a server upgrade. Can they not do this without causing downtime for clients? Although it was short, but still... I still like and will stay with them.




 
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Not alot to complain about

Review by: Adam from TN USA, on November 2nd
        I recommend this host

Really good price with most features you would want, for a small site of course. They are part of Ipower I found out, which hosts many thousands of sites. No downtime to think of either




 
 
 
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