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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Great web hosting for low-volume sites

Review by: www.hennyadmoni.com
       from Connecticut, USA, on May 13th
        I recommend this host

I use Fat Cow for two websites: a personal website and a wedding site I am making for friends. My site has had great uptime and very decent loading times. The Fat Cow user interface is a bit unintuitive, but their tutorial and FAQs are very thorough. I like that this hosting company offsets their energy use by buying wind energy credits. You can get a badge to put on your website indicating that your site is eco-friendly. All in all, I would say this is a great hosting service.




 
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FatCow and Weebly made my life much easier

Review by: www.burronconsulting.com
       from Toronto, Canada, on May 13th
        I recommend this host

I was with another provider prior to moving to FatCow. The worst part was I did not move earlier! The other spot was a major player with a spokesperson and everything...but that does not guarantee quick customer service, user-friendly site-builder software or even a good-looking site and email solution. In fact, it sucked. Thankfully, the service from FatCow was fast, efficient and actually friendly! They answered my idiotically simple questions in terms that made sense.

The Weebly site-maker was simple to use and produced something that my colleagues and friends are quite jealous of.

JB




 
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Fat Cow is Phat

Review by: Cait Maloney www.caitmaloney.com
       from Columbia, SC, on May 13th
        I recommend this host

Its difficult for me to write a review in 600 characters apparently.

Fat Cow is inexpensive, customer friendly, super organized, easy to manage, green!, and has an awesome name!




 
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I Love Fat Cow!

Review by: http://www.bluemountainhandcrafts.com
       from Linden, VA, on May 13th
        I recommend this host

I recently needed to completely redo my website/shop and after looking into several options I chose Fat Cow. I was delighted to find their website options and templates are very user friendly and they had several shopping cart options for me to choose from. The customer service was second to none.......I actually talked to real people whenever I had and any questions or difficulties and was taken care of quickly in a friendly manner. All in all, I'm thrilled with Fat Cow & highly recommend them to anyone setting up a website whether they are newbies or experienced with computers.




 
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My Experience with FatCow

Review by: GoldenIslesPetSitting.com
       from Georgia, USA, on May 13th
        I recommend this host

I read many reviews online and finally decided to go with FatCow since most reviews said this was a good choice for someone with little knowledge of web design. I am very happy with my decision. The price was right, customer service is good and the site itself looks very professional (if I do say so myself!). In all seriousness, this was a very easy process and one that I never would have been able to do without the help and support of FatCow. You will not be sorry if you decide to use them for your web design projects.




 
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Truly...

Review by: Mike
       from Chicago IL, on May 10th
        I recommend this host

I have multiple sites including 2 e-commerce sites with Fatcow, as well as many resold accounts that I am using them to host. They are absolutely fantastic. I have been with them since 2009 and do not plan on changing anytime soon. They by far are the easiest ones I have had to deal with!




 
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Price increase without warning

Review by: Steven
       from NYC, on May 8th
        I don’t recommend this host

I joined Fat Cow when they offered their $99 package for $66. I just got an invoice for $107 but they still advertise a $56 special. Something is not right.

The explanation I got from them was the rising costs of running the service. So they offer a cheap introductory price and nail you to the wall a year later.




 
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The cow

Review by: Jerry
       from Chicago, Ill., on May 5th
        I recommend this host

They are great for small sites who need a reliable, trustworthy host. I had to contact support and had someone on chat within seconds for help. Nice!




 
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Fine so far!

Review by: www.mysite.com
       from Newark, NJ, on May 4th
        I recommend this host

After trying a couple other cheap hosts, I signed up with them. They are great so far. Just my two cents.




 
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Fatcow review

Review by: Adrian
       from Newark, on April 28th
        I recommend this host

Go for it! 1 month with them and no problems.




 
 
 
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