Namecheap
Very cheap cPanel shared hosting from a large domain registrar.
Namecheap is best known as a domain registrar and sells cPanel shared hosting under the Stellar name, plus EasyWP for WordPress, VPS and dedicated servers. Stellar plans can be tried free for 30 days and are billed monthly, yearly or every two years. Renewal prices rose on 19 May 2026 and are published in Namecheap's knowledge base.
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What comes with the flat
- Stellar costs $2.28 a month in the first year, $4.66 a month on renewal
- 30-day free trial and 30-day money-back guarantee
- cPanel with Softaculous one-click installs
- Backups twice a week, plus AutoBackup on higher plans
- Data centers in the US, UK, EU and Singapore
The small print
- Speed in third-party tests is average
- Support by live chat and tickets, no phone
- Stellar limited to 3 websites and 20 GB
- Trustpilot score mixes domain and hosting customers
Floor plans
Stellar
Stellar Plus
Stellar Business
Read on 2026-10-14 on Namecheap's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
22,069 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
Namecheap suits beginners and small blogs that want the lowest three-year cost and cPanel. Busy sites and shops will want faster hosting with more resources. Independent tests show average speed, and the Stellar plan's renewal of $55.88 a year is more than double the intro rate.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- shared, wordpress, vps, reseller, dedicated, email
- Control panel
- cPanel
- Backups
- Twice a week, AutoBackup added on Stellar Plus and Business
- Support
- 24/7 live chat and tickets
- Moving in
- Free website migration
- Free domain
- yes, first year on yearly plans
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- Phoenix, USA, Farnborough, United Kingdom, EU (city not named), Singapore
Sources
- Namecheap shared hosting: Yearly intro prices, specs, backups, data center options, guarantee, free domain, support, panel, promotion banner (read in a browser)
- Namecheap, Shared Hosting pricing changes May 2026: Renewal prices per plan and billing cycle
- WHTop, Namecheap: Data center cities Phoenix and Farnborough, uptime guarantee terms
- Kripesh Adwani, Namecheap hosting review: Rated 3.5, suited to beginners on a budget (July 2026)
- Trustpilot, Namecheap: Score 4.2, 22,069 reviews, complaints about renewal charges and account checks
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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