{"id":26526,"date":"2019-12-24T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=26526"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:07:48","slug":"bluehost-vs-namecheap-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/bluehost-vs-namecheap-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Namecheap vs Bluehost: Which Company Is Better for WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you currently use WordPress or are planning to launch a new site with WordPress and you’re debating on going with either Namecheap or Bluehost for your hosting provider, then you probably want some information about them. Preferably, you want that information to be firsthand, from someone who has experience using them<\/strong>. Well, you’re in luck, because I am that someone. 😏<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In this comparison, I’m going to dig into the WordPress plans<\/strong> that both hosts offer. I’ll also take you through their user interface<\/strong> – including real screenshots from inside my own Namecheap account and our company Bluehost account. In addition, I’ll share my experience with their customer service teams<\/strong>. If you stick around until the end, you’ll also get the results of our ongoing performance tests<\/strong> that we run on both companies. Let’s get started with a high-level overview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/th>Namecheap<\/th>Bluehost<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Entry-level promo price<\/strong><\/td>$3.24<\/td>$1.99<\/td><\/tr>
Full 5 year cost<\/strong><\/td>$213.12<\/td>$417.96<\/td><\/tr>
Full 10 year cost<\/strong><\/td>$457.32<\/td>$1,041.36<\/td><\/tr>
Storage<\/strong><\/td>20 GB<\/strong> SSD<\/td>10 GB<\/strong> NVMe storage<\/td><\/tr>
Free domain name<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span>This is only for the first year, which is the typical length of this promotion across the industry. In your second year you will need to pay the normal rate for your domain. Those normal rates are generally cheaper with Namecheap.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>✅<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Free domains are limited to the following TLDs - .fun, .host, .online, .site, .press, .store, .space, .pw, .tech, .website, .agency, .center, .digital, .live, .studio, .cloud, .shop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>*<\/strong><\/td>✅<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Free domains are limited to the following TLDs - .biz, .info, .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .us, .co, .space, .website, .blog, .online, .site, .store, .tech.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>*<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Email hosting included<\/strong><\/td>✅ \/ ❌<\/span><\/span>The entry-level shared hosting plan gives you 30 mailboxes. The higher level plans have unlimited mailboxes. However, the managed WordPress hosting plans do not include email. You can purchase it separately.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>*<\/td>✅<\/span><\/span>Bluehost offers a free 3-month trial to a Pro Email plan, but their customer support informed me that all shared hosting accounts also come with standard email hosting. The entry-level plan supports up to 5 email accounts with 100 MB of storage per account. The other plans offer unlimited accounts with unlimited storage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td><\/tr>
Free SSL certificate<\/strong><\/td>✅<\/strong><\/span><\/span>On shared hosting plans, Namecheap gives you a free SSL only in your first year. Afterwards you have to pay to renew it. On the managed WordPress plans it's free forever.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>*<\/strong><\/td>✅<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Load time (US)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>We have accounts with both Namecheap and Bluehost and we run our own monthly tests on them. We update the values you see here via a shortcode mechanism. In other words, this is how fast our demo sites loaded from this server location in the most recent tests.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>0.73s<\/td>0.49s<\/td><\/tr>
Load time (EU)<\/strong><\/td>1.62s<\/td>0.63s<\/td><\/tr>
Uptime<\/strong><\/span><\/span>We continuously monitor the uptime of both Namecheap and Bluehost. The values you see here are the average uptime from the previous month.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>97.78%<\/td>100%<\/td><\/tr>
Customer Support<\/strong><\/td>24\/7 Chat<\/td>24\/7 Chat<\/span><\/span>All plans higher than the entry-level plan also offer phone support.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>*<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n
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<\/span>💡 My quickie recommendations<\/strong>: <\/div>
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