Why Choose Namecheap To Deploy Your Web App/Website

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Namecheap was founded all the way back in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall

Namecheap is home to over 9 million domain names, which puts them at around 2.5% market share. As the name would indicate, Namecheap is one of the most affordable registrars. They will also help you transfer all the domains that you might have registered with another registrar.

Namecheap offers web hosting, WordPress hosting, email hosting, integration with third-party apps and website builders (like Weebly), security services, and more. It’s worth noting that Namecheap’s interface makes it very easy to manage domains.

During checkout, you can choose to buy your domain name for anything from one to even ten years. You have the option of choosing to have the domain auto-renew, too.

Upgrades and extra costs:

Premium DNS: $4.88/year
Web hosting: from $8.88/month
__Namecheap VPN: free trial, then from $0.83/month afterwards
Email hosting: free trial, then from $0.74/month afterwards
Premium SSL certificate: $3.88/year
ICANN fee: $0.18/year

Free bonuses:
-WHOIS privacy
-Domain lock

Pros of Using Namecheap Hosting

Big Discounts for Domains, Hosting, SSL and more
Namecheap starts strong with a free domain name, speed, uptime, migrations, and extra plan features like backups.

Here are the full details:

1. Free Domain and Migration

Namecheap excels at domain names. So it only makes sense that they’ll happily throw one in if you sign up for their hosting plan. It’s free for the first year only, though. After that, you’d have to pay the renewal price of the domain. For example, for .com it’s $8.88/year.

If you already have a website set up somewhere else, they’ll also help you migrate the service for free. For a full cPanel migration, Namecheap guarantees to do it in less than 24 hours and with no more than 15 minutes of downtime. If they fail (or you’re not completely satisfied with how the migration went), they’ll credit your account with the value of your first purchase of shared hosting.

2. Good Uptime – 99.96%

Uptime is one of the most important criteria to look for
in a host and it’s something that we always test.

Namecheap delivered a stellar 100% uptime the first month we signed up. That gave us plenty of excitement to see what was to come.

And we’re happy to say that Namecheap didn’t disappoint.

Even though Namecheap had some problematic months during our testing period, we’re still happy to say that they managed to deliver decent uptime, coming at an average of 99.96%. In total, they had 62 outages.

NameCheap last 12-month uptime and speed statistics
NameCheap average uptime | See stats

Last 12-month average uptime:
March 2021: 99.99%
February 2021: 99.89%
January 2021: 99.98%
December 2020: 100%
November 2020: 99.89%
October 2020: 100%
September 2020: 99.93%
August 2020: 99.91%
July 2020:99.99%
June 2020: 99.99%
May 2020:99.98%
April 2020: 100%

3. Decent Load Time 417 ms

After the uptime, the second most important criterion is speed. The reason it’s so important is that speed has been directly correlated with visitor happiness.

Google recently found that the probability of someone bouncing increases over 100% if your pages take up to six seconds to load.

So yes, you need your site to stay alive. If that site is slow, then it’s almost as bad. Your site might as well be down because people will be leaving in droves.

Namecheap has been able to post an average page speed of 417 ms over the past 12 months, which easily gets a thumbs up from our side.

NameCheap Speed Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021

Moreover, they are steadily improving their loading times from month to month.

4. 30-day Money-Back Guarantee

Namecheap does offer a rock-solid 30-day money-back guarantee. You’ve got a full month to see if their service is right for you. Otherwise, it’s not too late to back out and try something else.

5. Fully-Loaded Value Plan

We’ve reviewed many hosts to date.

And for each one, we typically sign up for the most basic plan to set up our test website.

The reason is twofold:

We want to be able to base these reviews on real data and performance figures.
Most base-level plans at each hosting company are pretty similar.
In other words – this allows us to compare apples to apples (for the most part). Each shared offer is fairly similar, with the same features offered on each.

Namecheap surprised us, though.

First, they offered unmetered bandwidth on their cheapest plan. They also give you access to standard features like cPanel access and apps like WordPress.

Their cheapest plan also includes a free SSL certificate for the first year.

You also get twice-a-week backups, just in case things go haywire while updating your new site.

The best part about their cheapest offer is that you get 50 MySQL databases (which is way more than what most companies offer on a similar tier).

Plus, you can set up three websites on this plan. Most base-level hosting plans only allow you to host one single website. This is a great value if you have several sites, like a business and a personal one.

They also give you up to 30 email addresses right out of the gate, too.

This can add up to huge cost savings over time.