Are you on a tight budget for hosting?
You are looking for a cheap hosting service with acceptable quality.
After testing Namecheap’s hosting value package , I found this package to be very suitable for you.
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Namecheap’s Hosting Value package price and parameters
Here are the parameters and price of the Value package on Namecheap’s shared host page:
So this package has the following parameters:
- Can host 3 websites
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 20 GB capacity and SSD use
- Price only $9.88 first year
- Get a free Positive SSL certificate worth $ 9 free for the first year, renew the next year and get a 50% discount as announced by Namecheap.
Now let’s see the parameters inside cPanel. For the convenience of evaluation, I will compare with the Primary package of HawkHost, a shared host service that is quite popular in Vietnam. This package of HawkHost costs about $ 2 / month (when registering for 2 years).
Parameters of Namecheap
HawkHost side:
Thus, compared to the Primary package of HawkHost Namecheap, it has twice the Number of Process index (200 vs. 100). Hard drive capacity is twice as much (20GB vs 10GB but file limit less (300,000 vs 500,000).
Speed rating
Disadvantages of Namecheap’s Value package:
It only has a location in the US. Therefore, theoretically, the access speed to Vietnam will be slow compared to hosting services with Asian locations. Of course, when the cable breaks, it is likely to be affected.
For your reference on the speed of this hosting package, I installed a WordPress website using the Ad-Sense demo theme.
Gtmetrix test results for US location. Not surprisingly, the speed is extremely good:
Switch to HongKong location near Vietnam. The speed will be slower but overall not too bad when the speed is still under 3s.
Evaluation of load test (load capacity)
Definitely you want to know the load capacity of this cheap package. I will use loader.io to evaluate the load capacity.
Test type: clients per second. Website test: WordPress website installs Ad-sense theme demo.
After many runs of the test, the results are:
This package withstands about 2800 clients per second for 1 minute.
This result is really impressive. This result is twice the load capacity of a website on the Primay HawkHost package, which also installs a MyThemeShop theme.
HawkHost load test results: (withstands 1400 clients per second for 1 minute, more than timeout).
Epilogue
Namecheap’s Value plan is worth using if you have a limited hosting budget.
Advantages:
- Very cheap $9.88 (price for first year only)
- Use an SDD hard drive with a comfortable capacity of 20 GB
- Free Positive SSL Certificate
- Host up to 3 websites
- Good load capacity
- Using standard cPanel is easy to use
- Uptime commits up to 100%. Looking through many reviews of many you see that NameCheap uptime hosting is very good.
Defect:
- There is no Asian location, so the optimal speed for Vietnamese websites is not reached
- Likely to be affected by cable breakage.
If you have any other opinions about Namecheap’s host value package, please leave a comment below.
