Namecheap Review

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Company Introduction

NameCheap Has 59,459 domains

Namecheap is a web hosting company that was started way back in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall and it is best known for the cheap and affordable hosting services that they render to their customers. Namecheap aims at offering cheap web hosting services to clients and also offering them value-added packages that can help them adequately cater for the needs of the clients. Namecheap also goes a long way in offering great customer services to their clients such that they are among the leaders in the web hosting industry in terms of customer service.

Features
Reliability
Reputation
Speed
Support
Price	$3.45 / mon
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Type Of Hosting Offered

Linux Hosting
Windows Hosting

Reputation : Since its inception in 2000, it has grown to be among the best company providing hosting services on Linux based computers. Namecheap hosting is best renowned for its exemplary hosting on Linux. On top of that, Namecheap holds a great reputation in the webhosting industry due to its great customer services and highly economical packages. in terms of performance however, it has not made a name for itself in the industry.

Online Support

Live Support
Trouble Ticket
Email Support
Phone Support

Features : It offers its users free domains along with a dynamic DNS, the Softculous Script installer which allows a user to install about 200 scripts such as, Joomla, osCommerce, Word Press and much more. There are several other features that Name cheap hosting offers and they are determined by the hosting plan that one subscribes to. For instance, on the value plan, the user gets up to 25 GB disk space and 1000 GB on the professional plan whereas disk space is unlimited on the ultimate plan.

In terms of bandwidth, it is unlimited on all the three plans. Also on all the three plans, the cPanel is used as the control panel. The number of domains also vary depending on the hosting plan that a user is on. For instance, the number of domains that a user can host of the value plan are 5 ,25 on the professional plan and domains are unlimited on the ultimate hosting plan. The languages that are supported by the value plan are; PHP,CGI, JavaScript, MySQL support, SSI and Perl. The professional plan on the other hand supports all those on the value package and Postgre on top of them. The ultimate package also supports the same languages on the value plan and Ruby on Rails as an additional one.

Plans Offered at Namecheap

Plans	Value	Professional	Ultimate
Price	$ 3.45 / mon	$ 5.95 / mon	$ 9.95 / mon
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Diskspace	25 GB	100 GB	Unlimited
Domains	5	26	Unlimited
Uptime	99.9 %	99.9 %	99.9 %
Parked Domains	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
cPanel
Dedicated IP	$ 24 / yr	$ 24 / yr	$ 24 / yr
Email Accounts	50	100	Unlimited
MYSQL Databases	50	100	Unlimited
Server Side Support	CGI, Perl, JavaScript, SSI, PHP	CGI, Perl, JavaScript, SSI	CGI, Perl, JavaScript, SSI, Ruby on Rails
Money Back Guarantee	14 days	14 days	14 days
Web Stats	Free	Free	Free
Free Software’s	Softaculous, E-commerce, Site Builders, Polls and Surveys	Softaculous, E-commerce, Site Builders, Polls and Surveys	Softaculous, E-commerce, Site Builders, Polls and Surveys
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SSL Certificates starting at $8.95 per year
Comodo Positive SSL	$8.95/yr
Rapid SSL Certificate	$9.95/yr
Comodo EV SSL	$139.00/yr
Comodo Essential SSL	$25.00/yr

Performance : The company offers a range of hosting plans for their clients, the first one is the basic hosting plan at 2.95$ a month, the professional hosting plan at 5.95$ per month and the ultimate plan which ranges ranges from 9.95$ monthly. All these hosting plans have been put in place in a bid to suit the various types of users. All the above plans have various features which go a long way to meet all the customer needs. The cheapest plan that Name cheap offers ranges from 0.25$ monthly which is basically e-mail hosting and can go as high as 289$, which now becomes a fully managed dedicated server.

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Reliability : A user can have up to 50 e-mail accounts on the value plan, 100 on the professional plan and and unlimited e-mail accounts on the ultimate hosting plan. On top of that the speed is good and thus does not disappoint the clients. Namecheap however has a problem with its up time as most of their clients have complained about it. On top of that, the lack of telephone support for users is another disadvantage that Namecheap has in comparison to competitors.

Customer Services : It offers exemplary customer service to its clients as even with the lack of telephone support on Namecheap, users can still communicate via live chat or the ticketing system offered by Namecheap. Some of the services that are offered by Namecheap include; e-mail services, offering SSL certificates, registration of domains and web hosting. Namecheap has a great reputation in the hosting industry in terms of customer service.

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