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Namecheap Review – I paid for Namecheap only to regret it
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$1.58 a month for up to 3 websites and a free website name, doesn’t all of this look a little bit too good to be true? Well, that’s exactly what I’m gonna try and find out for myself in this Namecheap review. I’ll also take a look at how these stack up against other web
Hosting providers and if there’s anything fishy with this extremely cheap web hosting service. First of all, I’ll go ahead and grab the cheapest plan to test and since I get a website name for free I’ll go for emitncreview.com. Wait a minute, this ain’t free at all it’s $8.88.
Yup so as it turns out you only get trash domains with the cheapest plan like .website or .fun if you want a regular website name you would need to buy at least the stellar plus plan. I’ll just
Go for the .tech domain for now I guess. And I get an error… fine I’ll just try to reload the page, select the .tech domain again and it’s an error… Maybe the .tech domain is just broken I’ll try the
.fun one? Yeah of course it’s an error as well. To be honest I don’t have the patience to fight their broken controls so I’ll just use a domain name I already have since I certainly don’t want to pay
The extra $10. Okay so they force me to register if I want to do this. Now, I’ve just got to wait a bit and of course, the domain check failed. Keep in mind that at this point I’m still trying to
Give money to Namecheap. Dude take… It it’s not that’s not how you take. it’s not that hard. And stuff is already breaking all over the place. So, what do you think will happen when I actually buy a plan with them because my hopes aren’t high. They pretty much bullied me into paying
The extra $10 for a .com domain because surprise surprise the .com registration works flawlessly. But it raised my plan price from $18.44 to $27.50 which is a 50% increase in price. They also want me to pay an extra $5 for an SSL certificate. SSL certificates encrypt your website and give you a
Lock next to your domain name, they’re pretty much a must-have in 2021 because web browsers like chrome or firefox even block websites that don’t have an SSL certificate. The thing is they’re completely free you can get them for free yourself and I leave you a guide on how to do it
Right around here. Finally, I can finish up my order and go straight into the control panel and here interestingly enough even though I didn’t buy it Namecheap shows that my SSL certificate is activated. So, I’m glad I didn’t pay the extra $5 because I would have been paying for
Nothing. Either this is a bug or Namecheap is just sneakily taking $5 from people here and there. Anyways as you can see here the website is currently completely empty. So, let me just jump into my control panel and try to install WordPress, wait
Why is this taking so long? No no no no no… Of course, it’s another error. Let me try this again and yeah the same thing. So, I guess my manage button just doesn’t work. Anyways, I’ve used another method and installed a clean WordPress installation using cPanel. As soon as I was in my
WordPress dashboard I got a warning that my site is running on insecure and old PHP version 7.2. PHP 7.2 was actually developed back in 2017 and since then in 2021 newer versions exist like PHP 8.0 that’s being utilized by providers like Hostinger or SiteGround. 8.0 is around 30 faster
Than the old 7.2 version. So, why is Namecheap still using 7.2 as the default version? [ i like money ] no idea… they’re probably trying to cut costs since you wouldn’t even know this is the problem if you’re not that tech-savvy. The good thing is that you can go into your cPanel
And use the PHP manager to at least update to 7.4 manually. Which is basically a must at this point, anyways I spent some time tinkering around and I finally have this website ready to test but
There’s still the crucial question of how fast is it and can it handle more than one user at a time and what would it take to break it? Well, let’s do some testing, GTMetrix shows that the website
Takes 3.1 seconds to fully load which is quite slow. You want for this to be as close to 1 second as possible, I wanted to make sure that this slow performance isn’t caused by my theme.
So, I decided to take my website and create an exact copy of it on another web hosting company for this test I used an even cheaper solution for $1.25 a month called Hostinger. As you can see here it’s the exact same design tested from the same San Antonio location just 10 minutes after
The Namecheap test. My website scored an A and loaded in 1.6 seconds, almost twice as fast. And, just to be fair I also checked their performance under load. I’ve sent 50 virtual users to perform simultaneous actions on my website for 10 minutes and during that 10 minutes Namecheap was stable,
It didn’t crash. It was slow – but stable nevertheless. Anyways, how cheap is Namecheap? Maybe I’m just expecting too much of them? Well, take a look at this data here’s a list of the top 5 cheapest web hosting providers. So, coming in at $1.58 cents Namecheap isn’t even the cheapest
Option. Hostinger is cheaper and there’s plenty of other web hosting providers that barely miss the margin, but offer much better services. As it stands right now, I don’t really like Namecheap. I think they’re hard to recommend because there are other companies that do pretty much the same thing
Except better. To find out the best 3 web hosting companies that are cheap watch this video next!
In this Namecheap review, I will discuss my experience purchasing and using Namecheap web hosting services. ► Buy Hostinger Instead ➜ https://emit.reviews/go/hostinger-2023?nc ► Use Code ➜ EMITVIEW ► Namecheap Hosting ➜ https://emit.reviews/go/namecheap-2023?nc In recent years Namecheap web hosting has become very popular among people looking for a cost-effective solution to host their websites. Thanks to advances in web hosting technology, it is now possible to get good service at a reasonable price. So I bought a plan and documented my experience with Namecheap in this Namecheap review. The first red flag for me was ERRORS during the purchasing process. You're assuming this step should work fine, right? After all, they are trying to steal your money. However, purchasing a web hosting plan was extremely problematic for me. I encountered bugs that didn't allow me to use all of the promised features (such as a free domain name). Is this done intentionally so that you buy more expensive services from them? Hard to say, but the fact that I encountered about four errors in the first few minutes of writing this Namecheap review was definitely not a good sign. Namecheap appears to attract customers with low prices for its marketing materials, but makes it extremely difficult for anyone to take advantage of these offers. A bit deceptive, but because I spent 50% more than I originally thought, I bought a Namecheap plan and was ready to move on. What I noticed is that Namecheap tries to charge you extra money at every step. So if you come for cheap hosting, be prepared to spend more than you initially expected. After purchasing my plan, the problems didn't stop there. I couldn't use the basic functions of my control panel and creating a website was a pain. I had to find workarounds just to use the basic Namecheap features. However, you have the standard cPanel, which works perfectly, even if it looks outdated. For this Namecheap review, I really wanted to get into the core of web hosting – performance. So I set up a testing website and started GTMetrix speed tests and K6 cloud stress tests. The results were quite disappointing. Namecheap loaded a simple website in 3.2 seconds. This is incredibly slow compared to their competitors. Most web hosting companies load the exact same website in less than 2 seconds. I wanted to make sure that this was the fault of the web hosting and not my website building skills. So I decided to create the exact same website design, just used a different web hosting company – Hostinger (which was even cheaper). Hostinger was TWICE as fast. This shows how outdated the technology Namecheap uses is. Overall, I would like to conclude this Namecheap review: I do not recommend it. Even as a cheap web hosting solution, there are better competitors. Namecheap is slow, has lots of bugs, and you don't get value for money. Schedule 00:00 – Introduction 00:25 – The mistakes start here 01:55 – Predatory practices 03:05 – Things didn't get better after purchase 04:32 – Poor performance 05:45 – Good value for money? 6:12 – Recommendation ► Best Cheap Web Hosting ➜ https://youtu.be/xinTxAoaV8c – DISCLOSURE – I am affiliated but not sponsored by any hosting provider. This means I may earn money if you purchase hosting services through the links provided and may offer discounts when they are available. All my opinions on this channel are always mine! #NamecheapReview #Namecheap #NamecheapReviews
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