Namecheap Review

The very reasonable amount of resources offered on these plans make them viable for long-term costing as well. Newbies who are unhappy with current hosts and want to move here can also take advantage of their free site migration offer.

For Freelancers and Small Businesses Owners

The biggest issue that freelancers and small business operators will likely face with Namecheap is in reliability. Although not horribly bad, Namecheap isn’t exactly the most outstanding when it comes to uptime and this might impact brand image for small businesses. Freelancers will also have issues recommending this host to clients for the same reason – despite reasonable costs.

There is a free website builder that can be used for rapid site development, but it isn’t exactly the best in the market. It’s useable for sure but lags dedicated site-building tools like those offered by companies like Wix and Weebly.

For Online Shops

Giving access to web application installers means opening the service to almost all types of websites, including eCommerce stores. Although this is possible with Namecheap, again their reliability of service might cause some impact here.

Online stores need to be ultra-reliable especially since they are processing payments. Can you imagine the problems that could arise if services go down during payments processing and if that happens on a large scale?

For Agencies and Developers

Thanks to the extra support added for developer tools, Namecheap can be a, pardon the pun, cheap platform to do some testing on. It isn’t easy to find a host that has shared web hosting plans that developers can use to run specialized-language scripts. Although from what I seem the field is widening and more choices are becoming available, for the time being, one of them is Namecheap.

Onboarding

Most Namecheap services are instantaneously available upon payment. Once you’ve made your selections, payment can be made using credit/debit cards, PayPal or Bitcoin. In fact, Namecheap was among the earlier adopters of Bitcoin web hosting.

Making payment will trigger their system to send you your account details. This will contain all the information you need to get started with them.