When a hosting company calls itself Namecheap you can be sure it’ll lead on price, and the headline on the website doesn’t disappoint: “Secure and reliable high-performance hosting from just $10 (£8) per year.”
Check out the small print and it’s not quite that simple. Namecheap’s first year prices include a discount of around 75%, and the renewal prices are much closer to the budget competition.
The baseline Value plan is £8 ($10) for year one, £31 ($39) a year afterwards. That gets you 20GB of hard drive space, unlimited bandwidth, and notably up to three websites and fifty subdomains (many budget accounts limit you to one). You also get fifty MySQL databases and one-click install of WordPress plus many other applications. There are ‘only’ 50 email accounts but that’ll still be enough for most users. You get a free .name domain but anything else is extra.
The Professional plan is £16 ($20) for the first year, £63 ($79) a year afterwards. It lifts storage space to 50GB, supports up to 10 websites and 100 MySQL databases, and adds PostgreSQL support as well. Unfortunately, it only supports 100 email accounts, and if you’re sharing those across all 10 websites it could get …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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