Are you looking for a fast hosting provider with great customer support? Well in this Namecheap
hosting review I'm going to show everything that you need to know about Namecheap so you can decide
if they are the right hosting provider for you. I'm not going to waste your time with
fluff content here instead i'm going to show you the most important results from my live test
like the page load speed up time and customer support quality i'll also show you a live demo
so you essentially get to test out namecheap without having to purchase a hosting plan from
them for yourself and lastly i'll provide you with my honest recommendations on if or who
should purchase namecheap i will have a special bonus offer if you decide to purchase namecheap
hosting through my special discounted link in the description below i also have a free checklist on
starting a successful blog for everyone so make sure to stay with me to the end and i'll show you
how to get access to this bonus but for now let's get straight into the review 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've 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 a wordpress website 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
enter in your site name and site description now choose your username and password and then
come down to the bottom and click on install and 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 you go back to the 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
it's done and just to check for you that it's all working i will copy the website and paste it here
and 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 name cheat and it was done automatically which was awesome now the next thing
i want to show 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 the 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 and the email address was also
very simple here with one step so overall i would score namecheap and 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 tests 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 channel 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 their 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 a 100 percent so i must give
them a little bit of credit for that overall i would rate name cheap 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 they were not far off a pass so i wanted to make a quick note on that
here's a quick question for you do you think namechief's page load speed of 3.4 seconds
is faster or slower than you expected 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 two 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
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 they 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 and 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 and i had to do this part myself do you like the level of detail i'm providing you my
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now i will be comparing the 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 44
whereas if it's yearly it's going to be a dollar 58 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 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 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 the overall pricing score i would give namecheap is 9 out of 10.
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 higher stellar 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
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overall i have given name cheap an average score of seven out of ten they are a solid hosting
provider they have really cheap hosting plans with a clear user interface and their support
team is top notch so this is my recommendation for you whether you're a beginner or advanced user
looking for a cheap hosting provider with great customer support team and are not so worried about
website performance then i believe namecheap is a worthy consideration however if speed performance
really matters to you then i don't think namecheap is the right hosting provider for you
now i think picking the right hosting provider is such a crucial step for your business
so this is important to get right and if after watching this review
you think namecheap hosting is not the right option for you and i recommend you check out
this hosting alternative which i know will do the job for you but if you're happy with namecheap
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