Namecheap Alternative: With Email And Backups Included
If you are looking for a Namecheap alternative, EasyWP is genuinely cheap and the things it leaves out are worth knowing precisely. It does not host email at all. Its Starter plan has no backups you can restore yourself and a 50,000 visit monthly ceiling. None of that is hidden, but none of it is on the advert either.
Three Things EasyWP Leaves For You To Buy
Email on your domain, in the price
EasyWP does not host email. Mailboxes mean buying Namecheap Private Email or going to Google Workspace. Ours are set up from the panel and included.
Backups you can actually restore
Daily on every plan, restorable by you from the panel or by us on request. The EasyWP Starter plan has no user-accessible backups at all.
Nobody counts your visitors
Bandwidth and NVMe storage set the tier. EasyWP Starter stops at 50,000 visits a month, which a single good week can reach.
FastCow Beside EasyWP, Feature For Feature
A cheap plan with specific gaps. Two rows here go to Namecheap.
How this was put together. The FastCow column is ours to defend. The Namecheap column comes from their EasyWP product pages and plan comparison, including the rows they win. Sources: namecheap.com and their EasyWP pages. Last reviewed August 2026. Spot a figure that has moved? Let us know and it gets corrected. Our other comparisons follow the same rules.
The Gaps Are Small, And They Are Specific
EasyWP is not badly built and it is not overpriced. The issue is where the missing pieces sit: no email at all, and on the cheapest plan no backup you can restore yourself. Those are the two things you need most on the day something goes wrong.
Email on your domain, in the price
Mailboxes set up from the panel, on every plan. Not a second product with a second renewal date attached to it.
Backups you can roll back yourself
Daily on every plan including the cheapest, restorable in one click, with hourly available at $20 a month per site.
Updates run by us, and fixed by us
Automatic updates are easy. Dealing with the plugin conflict an update caused is the part worth paying for.
Malware cleaned up, not just detected
Daily scanning, automatic cleanup and an engineer who works through the install with you afterwards.
Every one of those is on the entry plan. More on how we handle security and what the platform runs.
Three Times EasyWP Is The Right Buy
They are far cheaper than us and they are not pretending otherwise.
The budget is the budget
EasyWP Starter on an annual term works out under $3 a month. Nothing we sell gets near that, and for a first project that is a perfectly sensible place to start.
Your domains are already there
If you have thirty domains at Namecheap, keeping the hosting alongside them is one login and one invoice. That convenience is worth something real.
You want a 99.99% uptime SLA on paper
Their Supersonic tier publishes a 99.99% SLA against our 99.9%. If your procurement process wants the higher number in writing, they have it.
Moving Off EasyWP Without Losing Your Mail
The wrinkle here is email, because yours is somewhere else entirely. We set the mailboxes up on your domain first, so nothing bounces on the day you switch.
Send The EasyWP Login
And tell us where your mail currently lives. We audit the site and plan the mail move at the same time, then come back to you with both.
Test The Site, Then Send Yourself An Email
A private URL for the site and working mailboxes on your domain. Check both before anything at all changes.
Switch The Records Together
One list covering the site and the mail. Nothing bounces, nothing goes dark, and EasyWP keeps serving until propagation finishes.
Cheap Is A Strategy. So Is This.
Namecheap built a very large business on volume and low prices, and it works. Our model is the opposite end: fewer customers, more included, and a price that does not need to be subsidised by anything you buy later.
Nothing sold back to you afterwards
Email, backups, CDN, migrations and security are in the price. There is no second product waiting once you discover the first one does not cover it.
Privately owned and self-funded
No investors, no board, and no growth target that has to be met by moving people up a tier.
Revenue, not funding rounds
Things ship when they are ready. There is no quarter that needs to look busy.
Not for sale
Built to keep rather than to flip, which is easier to promise when nobody is owed a return.
Email, backups, CDN and security all sit inside the one price. FastCow Hosting Limited, 39 C/O FastCow Hosting, Jefferson Close, London, England, IG2 6RZ. No investors, so nothing has to be sold back to you later. Who we are and why it is built this way.
See What Is Missing From Your Current Plan
Tell us what you are paying at Namecheap and where your email lives. If EasyWP Starter is doing the job and your mail is elsewhere, we will say so.
Namecheap Alternatives, Answered Plainly
Not sure what your EasyWP plan actually includes? Tell us the tier and we will check.
Talk to us →No. EasyWP does not host email at all. Mailboxes on your domain mean buying Namecheap Private Email separately, or using Google Workspace, Zoho Mail or Cloudflare Email Routing. FastCow includes email on your own domain on every plan, set up from the panel.
Not ones you can reach. Automatic, user-accessible backups appear on the higher EasyWP tiers rather than on Starter, so on the cheapest plan there is nothing for you to restore from. Every FastCow plan takes daily backups you can roll back yourself, with hourly available at $20 a month per site.
The Starter plan is sold with 50,000 visitors a month and 10GB of storage, and the allowance rises with the tier. FastCow sizes plans on bandwidth and NVMe storage instead, so there is no visitor number to stay under.
No. EasyWP Starter on an annual term is a few dollars a month against our $25, and that gap is real. What the $25 buys is email, restorable daily backups, no visitor ceiling, and a WordPress engineer who will fix the site rather than the server.
No. EasyWP keeps serving while we rebuild on a private address. You test the copy, and the switch is a DNS change made when you are ready. If you are moving email across too, we set the mailboxes up before you change anything.
Yes, and plenty of people do. You point the nameservers or the A record at us and leave the domain registered where it is. Nothing about the domain has to move for the hosting to.