In this article I will write about Namecheap VPS vs Digital Ocean VPC. It will help you to Choose between Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Namecheap is a web hosting company. It was founded all the way back in 2000. They have a long-range of names for new domains. And you can also choose from some existing domain names as well, prices are reasonable too. As a result, one might think of Namecheap as a domain provider service, but as I mentioned it’s a web hosting company so they also offer web hosting services and they are in this business for a long time. As of right now, they have over 3 million consumers. And the company manages over 11 million domains. Namecheap also sells SSL certificates, privacy protection services, and many other services. They provide affordable access to everything you need to run a website.
Digital Ocean is a cloud computing vendor that provides developers with cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers. The Company headquarter is in New York but they provide their cloud infrastructure worldwide. It has data centers all over the world. DigitalOcean is very popular with open source developers and competes with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Compute Engine.
Features:
Some of the features Digital ocean VPC and Namecheap VPS provide are given below.
Namecheap VPS:
- 20 GB SSD/ Unmetered SSD/ 50 GB SSD
- Domain Name
- Unlimited Websites
- Auto Backup
- Cloud Storage
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Free website builder
- Privacy protection
- Free automatic SSL installation
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Domain Contacts
- 100% uptime
- Free migration of sites
Digital Ocean VPC:
- Solid-State Drives (SSD)
- DNS Management
- Multiple Datacenter Locations
- KVM Virtualization
- Powerful Hex Core machines
- 55 Second Provisioning
- Floating IPs
- Private Networking
- Multiple Datacenter Locations
- Global Image Transfer
- Easily Scaling Through Versatile API
- Simple Control Panel
- Tier-1 Bandwidth
- Team Accounts
- 99.99% Uptime SLA
Pros & Cons:
Namecheap VPS:
Pros:
- Budget-friendly shared hosting plans
- Excellent domain name prices
- Free domain name and privacy protection
- Free site migration
- Unlimited email accounts
- Perl, Ruby, and Python support
- Unmetered bandwidth on all plans
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Dedicated IP for just $2 per month
- 24/7 Live chat support
- Choice of VPS server management levels
- Full root access on VPS plans
Cons:
- Limited VPS plans
- Only US and UK-based servers
Digital Ocean VPC:
Pros:
- Server quality is great
- Cost to value ratio is good
- Deployment is easy
- Fantastic “Average” Uptime of 99.99%
- Security is great
- Regular Backups
- Pricing can be customized
- The ecosystem is user friendly
- Loading time is so fast
Cons:
- Can be a little complicated for beginners
- The server setup is a lengthy process
- Built for professional users
- Pricing is a bit over the top
- cPanel is complex
- The customer Support period is not too long
- Lacks some Basic Features
Pricing:
Namecheap:
Namecheap Shared Hosting:
Stellar account is priced at $1.44 per month
- 3 domains
- 20 GB SSD storage
- Unlimited data transfer
- Twice a week backup
- $2/month – dedicated IP
Stellar Plus is priced at $1.88 per month
- Unlimited domains
- Unlimited SSD storage
- Unlimited data transfer
- AutoBackup tool
- $2/month – dedicated IP
Stellar Business account is priced at $4.44 per month
- Unlimited domains
- 50 GB SSD storage
- Unlimited data transfer
- AutoBackup tool
- $2/month – dedicated IP
- Cloud storage
- eAccelerator / xCache
- Priority support
Namecheap VPS/Cloud Hosting:
Pulsar account is priced at $11.88 per month
- 2 CPU cores
- 2 GB memory
- 40 GB SSD
- 1 TB data transfer
- 1 IP address
- Fixed-price renewals
Quasar account is priced at $19.88
- 4 CPU cores
- 6 GB memory
- 120 GB SSD
- 3 TB data transfer
- 2 IP addresses
- Fixed-price renewals
Digital Ocean:
For $5 per month you will get:
- 512MBMemory
- 1 Core Processor
- 20GB SSD
- 1TB Data Transfer
For $10 per month you will get;
- 1GBMemory
- 1 Core Processor
- 30GB SSD
- 2TB DataTransfer
For $20 per month you will get:
- 2GBMemory
- 2 Core Processor
- 40GB SSD
- 3TB DataTransfer
For $40 per month you will get:
- 4GBMemory
- 2 Core Processor
- 60GB SSD
- 4TB Data Transfer
Between Namecheap VPS & Digital Ocean VPC, Which is the better choice for beginners?
Namecheap VPS has budget-friendly shared hosting plans. Prices for domain names are very reasonable. you could also get free domain names and privacy protection. If you use Namecheap you can implement unlimited email addresses. As for programming language support, there are three options and they are Perl, Ruby, and Python. No matter what pans you choose you will get unmetered bandwidth. And if you don’t like it you can always get your money (it’s a 30-day offer). dedicated IP is very cheap. In addition, you will get full root access on VPS panels but Namecheap has limited VPS panels. And it has servers only in the UK and in the US. whereas Digital Ocean has servers all over the world.
DigitalOcean’s main website is decently above average, it takes about 5 seconds to fully load the site. Including all other hosting providers, they take about an average of 88 requests but here is the thing, Digital Ocean took about a hundred requests. GTmetrix does not usually see this. As a result, the cloud service we are talking about scored higher compared to many other hosting providers. Server quality is very good. Especially pretty much every advanced are going to like it, It can be tricky sometimes if you are a beginner. Deployment is very easy but it takes a lot of time to set up the server. As for security, Digital Ocean provides a very secure server but pricing could be a little less. CPanel is complicated, but that’s okay because you are getting a very good service and great security. It offers 99.99% uptime for all services and it’s guaranteed.
Cloud hosting provides you great server power and flexibility. VPS hosting is less efficient and limited in its level of resources available. SO, both VPS hosting a cloud has its advantages and disadvantages. But for a beginner, I think VPS is the right choice.
