EasyWP Review 2024 – Nothing Good Except Support!

EasyWP is a managed WordPress hosting service that promises to make setting up and managing a WordPress site easy. In this EasyWP review, we’ll look closely at the features EasyWP offers and see if it lives up to its promises.

In this EasyWP Review, I shared about

• EasyWP Platform Details
• Uptime & Response Time
• EasyWP Pricing
• Pros & Cons

Let’s get started with EasyWP Review now.

Overall suggestion: Apart from the above cons, several issues occur frequently. I struggled a lot while configuring the domain name with their sub-domain, and CDN configuration also caused a lot of pain (though I would like to appreciate the customer support here; they connected with me in 2 minutes and helped me on this)

I respect NameCheap’s motivation to build a low-cost Managed WordPress hosting service. However, the top players like Cloudways, WP Engine, or Kinsta don’t have such cons. They offer free SSL & CDN, automated backups, better performance, and uptime. One can read my pros and cons before deciding whether to use EasyWP.

NameCheap EasyWP Overview

EasyWP is the Managed WordPress Hosting platform from NameCheap. Its interface is easy to use, and plans start at $6.88 per month and go up to $19.88 per month.

EasyWP Performance

1. Server Response time

A good hosting service should have high performance, and performance has many aspects. At Hostingstep.com, I did the highest number of performance tests on EasyWP. 

I checked the server response time, often called TTFB (Time to First Byte). I hosted a site on the EasyWP platform and monitored it using the Pingdom tool.

Based on 12 months data, the EasyWP site averages 383 ms in the Server Response time test. 

Are they faster? No.

Nearly 7-10 hosts are faster than EasyWP; check those fastest hosting lists here. To give you an idea, I’ve compared this host’s performance with other similar-priced hosts. Note that the lower the TTFB, the faster your performance is.

• EasyWP: 384ms (tested with Turbo plan of $8.88/month)
• Cloudways: 303ms (tested with a $10/month plan)
• GreenGeeks: 309ms (tested with $2.45/mo plan)
• A2 Hosting: 328ms (tested with $2/99/mo plan)
• FastComet: 332ms (tested with $2.45/mo plan)

In terms of TTFB, EasyWP doesn’t perform well.

2. Uptime

Next, I proceeded with the uptime check, and we are all pretty much aware of what a crucial factor uptime is.

I have constantly been testing my EasyWP site’s uptime, and as per my last test report, my EasyWP had an uptime of 99.96%, which is quite average.

Again, I am comparing the uptime of similar-priced hosts here.

• EasyWP: 99.96% (tested with Turbo plan of $8.88/month)
• Cloudways: 99.98% (tested with $10/month plan)
• GreenGeeks: 99.98% (tested with $2.45/mo plan)
• A2 Hosting: 99.98% (tested with $2/99/mo plan)
• FastComet: 99.99% (tested with $2.45/mo plan)

Again, the cheap-priced hosts efficiently perform better than EasyWP here.

3. Load Testing

How well is EasyWP at handling high traffic? To find out, I performed load testing by sending 1000 concurrent traffic to the site and monitoring the hosting service’s load-handling ability. 

I have to be honest, and I wasn’t impressed with the Load Testing results since it recorded 839 ms in the 1000 Clients in a 1-minute test. I wouldn’t recommend anyone rely on EasyWP for sites with unexpected traffic spikes. 

I made this test on a $7.88/month Turbo plan, and let’s compare the results with other hosts. The GreenGeeks, priced at $2.49/month, took just 25 ms to handle the same 1000 users.

Many hosts like A2 Hosting are cheaply priced yet handle load tests better than EasyWP.

4. Global TTFB

I have consistently tested the Global TTFB of the hosting services that I keep track of by pinging my sites hosted with these services from as many as ten global locations. As far as the Global TTFB of my EasyWP goes, I found it pretty impressive everywhere. 

In the latest test, the site had the lowest TTFB of 73.93 ms in San Francisco and recorded the highest TTFB of 651.71 ms.

Compare it with the results from a similar priced hosting service (Cloudways) and you can see EasyWP clearly lacks the desired performance for global locations.

Pros of using EasyWP

1. Beginner Friendly User Interface

Setting up WordPress sites has never been this easy and quick. With EasyWP, it hardly takes 90 seconds.  

EasyWP includes a one-click setup, using which customers can create and launch a custom WordPress site in just two minutes without dealing with the cPanel technicalities.

Once installed, you can get the site login details from the dashboard and publish posts in minutes.

2. Cheap Price

Pricing is undoubtedly another essential aspect to cover in this EasyWP review. It is pretty reasonable and affordable. Customers can start for as low as $6.88; resources-wise, it offers good value for money on all plans.

EasyWP plans (with their monthly visitors and monthly pricing):

• EasyWP Starter: 10GB SSD storage, 50,000 visitors, $6.88
• EasyWP Turbo: 50GB SSD storage, 200,000 visitors, $12.88
• EasyWP Supersonic: 100GB SSD storage, 500,000 visitors, $19.88.

Note: Prices have been increased up to $2 per month on all plans. Please check the official site for the latest pricing. Again, there will be a price increase in September 2022. Please check the updated prices.

All plans have a 30-day Money-Back Guarantee. However, pricing is per site, and you can’t host another site in the same account.

3. EasyWP has 24×7 support

Nothing works without good customer support these days, and the managed WordPress hosting certainly has one of the finest and quickest comprehensive 24×7 support with the NameCheap team through live chat at every stage. 

The NameCheap support team is comprised of executives with deep knowledge of WordPress and other hosting technicalities. The support has largely proved this point over the years by their dedicated role in assisting the customers.

4. Free SSL / CDN on Top Tier Plans

EasyWP offers customers a Free CDN on the Turbo and Supersonic plans. A free content delivery network would help users deliver their content to their target audience in any world region at the best speeds by choosing the closest server location. 

The company also offers Free PostiveSSL on its higher plans to add encryption, validation, and trustworthiness to your site. 

Cons of EasyWP

1. No CDN & SSL On Starter Plan

You are wrong if you think EasyWP is the cheapest way to start a blog. While the starter plan is priced at $3.88/month, it doesn’t include SSL & CDN. Considering you can buy the cheapest SSL from NameCheap for $5.88/year and use a free Cloudflare CDN, the total hosting cost will be around $4.37/month.

Is the pricing affordable? No. Many similar hosts like FastComet start from $2.95/month, with free SSL & CDN available monthly billing. Not only that, but FastComet also offers faster performance than EasyWP.

2. CDN works only with Namecheap Domains

I don’t know whether it’s a beta stage limitation; you can’t use Namecheap CDN when your domains are hosted elsewhere.

3. No Automatic Backups

EasyWP feels like it is in beta. For example, I started using them on June 21st, but the backups haven’t been generated even after ten days, and it seems the backups need to be generated manually.

Update: I learned that EasyWP doesn’t offer automatic backups, which is not mentioned anywhere on the site.

4. Limitations of WordPress Plugins

It’s a tradition that Managed WordPress hosting companies restrict a set of plugins, but NameCheap EasyWP has a long list of banned plugins.

While the EasyWP performance is similar to NameCheap’s shared host, you can use their shared host and use any plugins of your own choice.

Is EasyWP Worth it?

EasyWP impressed me in several aspects, like

• The fastest way to launch a site
• Good support etc

However, the platform has several limitations, which are essential for production sites. For example, there are no automatic backups. Almost 99% of hosts offer free daily and weekly backups, but EasyWP only offers manual backups.

NameCheap advertises its plan as low-cost managed WordPress hosting. However, EasyWP’s starter plan has many limitations and requires many upsells.

The supersonic plan promises to handle 500,000 visits per month at just $11.88/month, which is excellent, considering no shared host can handle such traffic.

At the same time, Cloudways DigitalOcean plan of $11/month can handle similar traffic, and what’s more, you even host an unlimited number of sites in the same plan.

I tried EasyWP first in 2019 & again in 2020 and 2021. There were improvements, and let’s see how EasyWP grows in the coming months. However, I can’t recommend them for serious business as they lack the essential features called “Managed WordPress Hosting.” Even considering the cost, there are better alternatives you can put your trust in.

EasyWP Alternatives

FastComet: Get started for $3.45/month and just pay monthly; no upfront billing is required. FastComet offers a faster response time and handles load better than EasyWP. You will also get automatic backups and restore. There is also free SSL and CDN included in the basic plan.

Cloudways: For $10/month, you can host unlimited sites and have no traffic limits. Cloudways’ user interface is similar to EasyWP yet advanced. Cloudways was first launched in 2011 and has become a stable product compared to EasyWP, which was founded in 2018. Use code “BIO25” to get 25% OFF on the first billing.