Domain Name / Hosting

[Keith Smith]

How is site performance at NameCheap?  Do you have ssh access?


On 2016-03-23 16:01, David Schwartz wrote:
> After some outfit named RegisterFly or something like that got
> “acquired” by GD, I began using NameCheap as my main registrar.
> They offer 1 year of privacy for free, then it’s a few bucks a year
> after that.
> 
> When NameSilo came along, they posted something here to get people to
> try them out, and I liked what they offered. So I migrated my domains
> over there.
> 
> As for hosting, I had my own machine at a co-lo in town for several
> years. After the HD died for the 3rd time, I decided it would be
> cheaper to just get reseller hosting somewhere. So I got a reseller
> account at HostGator.
> 
> I was getting fed up with the declining quality of support at
> HostGator, and last fall I was doing something where it was
> recommended to get a VPS.
> 
> So after many years with HG, I moved my reseller account over to a
> VPS. Most of it was Wordpress sites. I typically set up one mailbox
> per domain with a bunch of forwarders (to avoid a wildcard on the main
> mailbox).
> 
> Unfortunately, I discovered that there’s a downside to having a VPS:
> shared server hosts implement lots of anti-hacker stuff that keeps out
> a LARGE amount of riffraff.
> 
> Over six months, every one of my WP sites got hacked. The hackers are
> merciless in their onslaught. At one point my VPS locked up because it
> was “out of disk space”. WTF? When I transferred everything over,
> there was only 12 GB of disk used. After a month, it maxed-out at
> 25GB. This was just a handful of WP sites with very little activity!
> It seems spammers got into my email on several sites and started
> pumping out spam emails. And for whatever reason, they didn’t get
> sent, or deleted. So the VPS basically developed a bad case of
> constipation due to overload of outbound email queues! About half a
> million of them, according to my admin. Sheesh.
> 
> In January, my VPS host shut down my email entirely because he said it
> was exceeding email bounce rates and was putting the IP and some other
> stuff at risk of getting blacklisted.
> 
> That was it. I’d had enough.
> 
> So I looked around and decided to move everything to a reseller
> account at NameCheap. They’ve been in the hosting game for a while,
> and they offer standard cPanel hosting among other options. I put in a
> ticket and they moved everything over from the VPS to their server in
> a few hours. Everything seems to have worked very smoothly.
> 
> ———————————
> 
> Overall, I mainly to use my hosting for two things: WordPress and
> email.
> 
> So much is shifting over to hosted platforms that I’m finding less
> and less need for my own hosting.
> 
> I’ve got a few domains that I use for my main email, but over a
> dozen that have email configured. I think they’re all just one
> mailbox plus a bunch of forwarders.
> 
> For many years, I’ve used a 3rd-party SMTP host for all outgoing
> emails, which I started doing when I had my box on co-lo in order to
> stop the hackers from using my machine to send out spam. (I disabled
> the outgoing email.)
> 
> I used DNSMadeEasy’s SMTP service for years. It started out at $8/yr
> or so, and is now $29 or so. It’s limited to 500 outgoing emails per
> day.
> 
> But I recently found SendGrid, which is free for up to 12,000 emails
> per month. So I switched over to that.
> 
> I’d like to be able to ditch the hosting entirely, but as others
> have pointed out, getting just standalone email support can cost more
> than full hosting!
> 
> (I have a small WHM reseller account on NameCheap that costs me
> $16.95/mo for 25 cPanel accounts.)
> 
> ————————————
> 
> Just today, NameCheap announced that they’re going into beta with a
> Managed WordPress hosting that’s free for now.
> 
> You can get into their beta by visiting: EasyWP.com
> 
> They’re looking for feedback from people, and said they’ll offer a
> lifetime subscription when it launches to people who participate in
> their beta program.
> 
> I dunno what that means in $$ terms, but hopefully it’ll be cheaper
> than the other managed WP hosting solutions that are out there.
> 
> BTW, NameCheap has 88-cent domains for a dozen popular TLDs right now,
> and nice discounts on some others.
> 
> -David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz
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Keith Smith