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Crushed all performance tests with 100% uptime and 0.7s load times
Intuitive setup process takes minutes to launch a new site
Exceptional customer support with fast response times
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I have been using Namecheap's shared web hosting services for over two years. Recently, I decided to try Namecheap’s EasyWP, a managed WordPress hosting service, and after a thorough evaluation, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Right off the bat, the setup wizard is so beginner-friendly that even the least tech-savvy person you know can follow along and launch a basic WordPress site within minutes. That same user-friendly vibe continues right into the user dashboard and never changes as you continue building your website.
Luckily, if you do hit any speed bumps, live chat is only a few clicks away, and I can personally vouch for its quality. The knowledge base is also helpful and extensive.
Combine the above with generous storage space, high monthly visitor limits, a free SSL, a free CDN, and an array of additional features, and you’ve got an impressive hosting setup.
Overall, Namecheap’s EasyWP plans are an excellent option for any business owner or entrepreneur with a single site who needs powerful features delivered in an accessible way. To get a deeper understanding of why that is, be sure to read this entire review.
| EasyWP price | $3.58-$26.88/mo |
| Money-back guarantee | 30 days |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.9% - 99.99% |
| Monthly visits | 50K - 500K |
| Number of websites | 1 |
| Storage | 10 - 100 GB |
| Free SSL certificate | On all plans |
| Free domain for a year | Starting with Turbo annual |
| Backup frequency | One-click manual backup + restore |
| Migration assistance | On all plans |
| 24/7 support | On all plans |
| Learn more | Get Namecheap |
We use our proprietary grading rubric to evaluate web hosts based on performance, ease of use, features, support, and overall value. Our hands-on approach ensures our ratings reflect how each service actually performs in the real world, so you can choose a host with confidence.
Our process starts with signing up for each service and setting up a real website, just like you would. We run page speed, uptime, and stress tests to measure reliability and performance under load. We also explore the dashboard, test security tools, and contact support to see how responsive and helpful it is.
To learn more about how we test, check out our full testing methodology here.
Here's how our star rating is calculated:
| Decision factor | Weight | Namecheap Verdict |
| Our experience | 10% | 5/5 |
| Prices and capacity | 18% | 4.6/5 |
| Performance | 20% | 5/5 |
| Features | 25% | 5/5 |
| Security | 20% | 5/5 |
| Support and reputation | 7% | 4.2/5 |
We last tested Namecheap on October 5th, 2025.
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Crushed all performance tests with 100% uptime and 0.7s load times
Intuitive setup process takes minutes to launch a new site
Exceptional customer support with fast response times
Having used Namecheap’s shared hosting for several years and now shifting over to the EasyWP Turbo plan, I immediately understood the appeal. The easy setup process, unified interface, and the ability to access the WordPress backend with a single click are major conveniences you don’t get with shared hosting.
Let me walk you through how dead simple it was for me to set up a basic ecommerce site.
After you sign up for an EasyWP plan and log in, you’ll see a screen that prompts you to Set up WordPress:
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Tap it, and you’ll be asked whether you want to create a new website or migrate an existing one from another host. Since most of you reading this will probably be building a new site, we’ll continue down that road.
Next, you’ll need to give your website a name:
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You’ll also see an option to choose up to three goals for your website, but there is no clear correlation between doing this and how it affects the setup process. My guess is that it’s probably just used for Namecheap’s internal data.
After this, you will need to connect a domain name (i.e., yourwebsite.com):
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If you purchase an annual contract with either of the two higher EasyWP plans, then you will get a free domain name for your first year. You’ll be able to connect the domain here.
Otherwise, you can also buy a domain name directly on the Namecheap website. It is the second-largest domain name registrar in the world (preceded by GoDaddy), so you’ll have no shortage of options, and the pricing is fair.[1]
Following this step, you’ll be asked to choose a theme for your website:
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I would recommend skipping this step and leaving it on the default setting. Later, you’ll be able to choose from a much more extensive list — more than 13,000 — directly from the WordPress dashboard.
The same goes for the next step, which will ask you to choose from a list of plugins. Skip it. Installing plugins on a WordPress site is straightforward, so you can always install any of these later. This way, you’ll start with a clean website that you can gradually modify as you see fit.
When you finish the setup process, you’ll be given a success message:
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From here, you can either:
Though it can be tempting to head straight into WordPress, the smarter move is to access the dashboard to activate your free SSL certificate and CDN. The one-click WP Admin access will be waiting for you when you finish.
As you can see, the process of setting up a new WordPress site using Namecheap and EasyWP is a proverbial walk in the park. Believe it or not, this actually isn’t that unique to Namecheap, though.
I’ve set up similar sites using Bluehost, Hostinger, SiteGround, and other managed WordPress hosts. They’re not that different from each other. The real standout feature here is the Namecheap user dashboard (i.e., the EasyWP control panel). In my opinion, it’s arguably the easiest to navigate: simple enough for absolute beginners, yet with a few options for more experienced users.
The EasyWP plans are divided into three tiers, ranging from $3.58/mo (billed bi-annually, first years only) on the cheapest plan (if you sign up for a two-year contract) to $26.88/mo on the highest plan (if you pay for a single month).
The majority of the features across all three plans are similar, with the biggest differences being storage space capacity, monthly visitor allowances, and the inclusion of the Pro version of the Brizy Site Builder in the Turbo and Supersonic plans.
The highest-tier Supersonic plan is also advertised as having “priority support.” Still, in my direct experience, Namecheap’s support team is so responsive that I’m not sure how much of a marginal difference this actually makes.
| Features | EasyWP Starter | EasyWP Turbo | EasyWP Supersonic |
| Price | $9.88/mo | $18.88/mo | $26.88/mo |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.99% |
| Monthly visits | 50K | 200K | 500K |
| RAM | 512 MB | 768 MB | 1152 MB |
| CPU core | 0.5 | 0.75 | 1.125 |
| Storage | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB |
| Free domain for a year | No / starting at annual Turbo plan / on select TLDs only | Yes, on annual and bi-annual plans / on select TLDs only | Yes, on annual and bi-annual plans / on select TLDs only |
| Backup frequency | One-click manual | One-click manual | One-click manual |
| Learn more | View plan | View plan | View plan |
All three managed WordPress plans support a single website and offer unmetered bandwidth within fair use guidelines.
In terms of price-to-value ratio, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better deal with other hosting companies offering similar managed WordPress hosting services. Namecheap is very aware of this, to the point that they have an interactive comparison table on their site that lets you view the EasyWP plans side by side with popular alternatives:
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Every hosting provider has its own unique value proposition, but you’ll find that Namecheap generally gives you more bang for your buck when taking all the features of a managed WordPress plan into account.
Unless you need a plan for multiple websites or a feature unique to a competitor, you’re better off with Namecheap’s EasyWP plans.
When deciding which plan is right for your business, there are three main considerations:
If you already have a high-traffic website you plan to migrate to Namecheap, it makes sense to go with either the Turbo or Supersonic plan.
However, if you’re planning on launching a brand-new website and you’re (a) not famous and (b) not planning to spend a massive amount of money on advertising, then the Starter plan is all you’ll need. When your website gets more popular, you can upgrade to a higher plan, but there’s no point in buying a Ferrari to drive in a 20-mph school zone.
As for the Brizy Site Builder, it comes in a free version, so you don’t absolutely need the Pro option that comes with the Turbo and Supersonic plans — especially if you plan on building a relatively simple site.
As alluded to in the previous section, the main differences between Namecheap’s EasyWP plans are largely resource-based, meaning the features are mostly the same.
All plans offer:
Namecheap offers a variety of hosting types, including shared, managed WordPress, VPS, dedicated servers, and reseller hosting. The two that I have direct experience with are their Stellar Plus shared hosting, which I’ve used for my personal sites, and the Turbo EasyWP plan, which I tested to produce this Namecheap review you’re reading.
EasyWP does not include a native website builder (like Hostinger or GoDaddy) or any AI features. It offers the Pro version of the popular Brizy website builder plugin in the Turbo and Supersonic plans.
However, since it is a managed WordPress service, you can install any other popular website builder or block extension plugin to build your site. I’ve personally used the free version of Brizy to build a site before, but these days I prefer block extension plugins like Otter Blocks:
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The main difference between website builders and block extension plugins is that the latter have been built to work alongside the native WordPress block editor. In contrast, plugins like Brizy completely replace the native editor. That might not seem like a big deal, but it can cause unforeseen headaches later on (take my word for it).
As a managed WordPress service, EasyWP comes with WordPress pre-installed, and you can access your site at any time from the dashboard with just a single click. Automatic updates are also easily turned on with one tap. Plus, you can control which elements you’d like to update — themes, plugins, WordPress core files, or everything:
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When I first transferred my personal sites to Namecheap about two years ago, the customer support team handled everything and kept me updated via email. The whole process took about five hours from me initiating the request via live chat to them completing it:
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That was for shared hosting, but with EasyWP it’s even easier — you don’t need to contact customer support. You can initiate the migration process right at the beginning of the setup wizard:
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All Namecheap EasyWP plans also include a free CDN and a free SSL certificate, both of which you can install fairly quickly from the EasyWP dashboard. For SSL, you can activate it in just three clicks. The CDN takes slightly more effort, but it’s not incredibly difficult either:
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To get an idea of how well Namecheap’s servers handle traffic and how reliable they are, we ran a series of tests on our cookiebyte.store website. These were: a speed test, an uptime test, and a stress test. The site crushed all three of them.
Knowing how fast your website loads is crucial for many reasons, but they all ultimately lead back to user experience. If your website is too slow — even by a second — many users will simply leave.[2]
To check our cookiebyte.shop site, we ran it through a tri-location test using Dotcom Tools. Below are the results:
| Product | Performance score | FCP | LCP |
| Namecheap average | 99 / 100 | 0.7s | 0.7s |
As you can see, it did quite well. Anything that loads in under a second is generally ideal. We followed this up by manually browsing the site on both mobile and desktop devices, and the real-world experience matched the test results (give or take a tenth of a second).
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Uptime is simply a measure of reliability: Is your website going to be live and available when people go to it? Ideally, you want the answer to always be a resounding yes.
To measure this, we used a service called Uptime Robot and set it to check the site every 5 minutes for 3 consecutive days. The site maintained 100% uptime throughout testing and stayed true to Namecheap’s marketing, which promises 99.9% uptime.
| Product | Uptime | Average response time | Minimum response time | Maximum response time |
| Namecheap | 100% | 150ms | 126ms | 173ms |
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For the third and final performance metric, we conducted a stress test with Loader. There are multiple reasons to run stress tests, but the main idea is to overload the site with an unnatural number of visitors to gauge how well it performs under pressure.
For brand-new sites with relatively low traffic, this isn’t a huge concern, but as your site grows in popularity, you’ll want to ensure it can handle a large volume of users.
We decided to send 250 visitors to our test site in 1 minute, which is easily way above what a new, unknown website would get. Although it reached a peak response time of 4.625 seconds at maximum overload, the average response time remained under 1 second. The average response time was also much closer to the minimum of 0.078 seconds, indicating that, overall, Namecheap’s servers handled the surge of traffic well.
| Product | Visitors in 1 minute | Average response time | Minimum response time | Maximum response time |
| Namecheap | 250 | 777ms | 78ms | 4625ms |
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Web hosting security has always been important, but with unethical hackers leveraging AI tools in increasingly more sophisticated attacks, it has become even more important. Although Namecheap has had a few instances in the past where its security was breached, it responded quickly to mitigate them.[3][4][5] Overall, Namecheap’s security is decent, but it could benefit from adding additional features like bot management control.
On an individual site level, Namecheap equips you with three security tools:
| Support type | Namecheap Help Center |
| Email or live chat | Both (support@namecheap.com) |
| Phone | |
| Online guides or forums |
As I mentioned in the introduction, I’ve been a Namecheap customer for several years, and over that time, I’ve reached out to their support team numerous times. I don’t recall a single time when I did not receive prompt service — even when I wasn’t logged into my account. The support team helped me migrate several WordPress sites with no hassle and has always been very friendly.
I’ve also used the knowledge base in the past and have generally found the articles easy to follow. Namecheap offers a library of how-to videos as well, though I’ve never personally watched them, because I either found my answer in the knowledge base or the support team helped me directly.
When combing through online forums and review sites, we found that Namecheap has mostly positive reviews, with some customers even boasting about being with them for more than a decade.
With that said, some of the reviews might be fake. For instance, on Trustpilot, two back-to-back reviews are identical:
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Suspicious reviews aside, there are plenty of others that both praise and criticize Namecheap’s managed WordPress hosting. The overriding assessment leans toward our own opinion, which is that Namecheap is an ideal choice for beginners who may not be very tech-savvy but want a frictionless website-building option.
Namecheap is obviously not the only host in town. There are dozens of web hosting companies out there, including ones that offer managed WordPress hosting plans. Three popular ones that I’ve also tested in the past are Bluehost, Hostinger, and IONOS. Let’s see how Namecheap stacks up against them:
Bluehost’s managed WordPress hosting has at least four distinct advantages over Namecheap: It uses modern NVMe storage (versus the older SSD storage offered by Namecheap); it has more in-house tools, including an AI website builder; you can contact customer support by phone; and you can build more than one website on even the cheapest plan.
Learn more in our Bluehost review.
Hostinger’s managed WordPress plans are somewhere in between Namecheap’s and Bluehost’s. For example, Hostinger provides NVMe storage only on the tier two plan. Tier one subscribers get the same standard SSD that comes with Namecheap.
Beyond that, Hostinger offers much larger site limits than Namecheap, starting at 25 websites on the cheapest plan, and comes with an array of AI tools to help you build and grow your site.
Learn more in our Hostinger review.
IONOS has the same one website per plan limitation that Namecheap does. And, like Namecheap, it also uses older SSD storage. However, where it really shines is in its AI tool offerings. Even the entry-level plan comes with an AI website creation tool and an AI chatbot, while higher plans include an AI content creator. The promotional pricing is also unbeatable, with the mid-tier plan costing only $6 for the first six months!
The answer is yes. Between the easy setup wizard, intuitive dashboard, and included features like a free CDN and free SSL, Namecheap’s EasyWP plans are among the best managed WordPress packages on the market. Beginners will feel right at home with it.
At the same time, what makes it so accessible could also be a drawback to power users and developers who might want more granular control and advanced features.
Overall, if you’re looking for an underpriced managed WordPress host that requires minimal effort to get a website launched from start to finish, then Namecheap’s EasyWP plans should absolutely be on your shortlist.
Yes, Namecheap.com is a legitimate domain that represents a legitimate business with over 2,600 employees across 18 countries. It is the second-largest domain registrar in the world, having been in business for over 25 years.
The main disadvantage of using Namecheap is that many of its plans lag competitors in terms of modern hardware and features. This includes relying on older SSD storage (instead of NVMe), a lack of AI tools, and an overreliance on third-party solutions to solve issues.
Namecheap is a better overall value, given how much plans cost and what services are offered. GoDaddy has much more aggressive renewal price hikes across the board and practices a lot of piecemeal pricing (à la airlines) for features that Namecheap gives you for free. GoDaddy also asks for exorbitant sums of money for simple tasks like installing an SSL certificate, which is priced at $99.99.
Crushed all performance tests with 100% uptime and 0.7s load times
Intuitive setup process takes minutes to launch a new site
Exceptional customer support with fast response times
[2] App and Mobile Page Load Time Statistics
[3] Namecheap email system hacked, used for phishing campaign
[4] Fake free DNS used to redirect traffic to malicious sites
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