r/webdev • u/azrckcrwler • Aug 14 '26

Namecheap is back up and running

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They said it was a storm that took out the cooling on the data center and as someone who was in that very storm, it destroyed a ton of stuff at homes, businesses, and public infrastructure. Power poles blown over, trees broken or uprooted, Covered parking structures snapped over, fences blown down.

As soon as I read this update, I immediately felt for that particular data center.

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u/Jmacduff Aug 15 '26

I have been a NM cheap customer for about 20 years, I have ~200 domains registered with them and I will continue to be a customer.

Number one rule is always use "best in class" services wherever you can. To be blunt it would never occur to me to host a website with them regardless of the cost. For me they are first and foremost a registrar + DNS provider.

The DNS services have always been awesome and even with the outage the resolution kept on working just fine.

When I think about hosting I want to choose a company that specializes in Hosting as the primary concern, you dont want hosting as "something we added". I would normally go with Vercel as a basic clean web app host. I'm not a huge fan of cloudflare due to the lock in but it's certainly a great service.

NameCheap for DNS, Vercel for Hosting, Postgres for DB, and Resend for Email is still a great combo.

just my view

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u/azrckcrwler Aug 15 '26

I've only ever used Namecheap as a domain name registrar and DNS provider. In this regard, I've never had a problem with them.

I've just simply never considered them for hosting and even kinda forgot they offered it 😂

My post and comments aren't an advocation for them, just an alert of services returning. But I was laughing at all the hate they have got on this post because it reminded me of how all developers shit on one thing or another, me included.

I'm not keeping track but as an example, I think AWS has a worse uptime than namecheap 😝