First time website hoster here. I just need a simple, cheap website and I stumbled upon namecheap and their shared hosting/website builder.

As far as I can tell from what I’ve seen they seem good, but is there something I should know about privacy-wise?

Sorry if this post is naive, I’m not really sure where I should be looking.

  • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Namecheap are fine in terms of registrar and offer DNS privacy (where your details won’t appear on a whois), though they will provide it to law enforcement if requested; I recommend hosting your DNS on CloudFlare if you want to do a LetsEncrypt DNS challenge though, Namecheap got too slow for that a while back.

    • kaliOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thanks for the info. I don’t plan on doing anything majorly illegal, just personal stuff. More interested for peace of mind, so the law enforcement compliance isn’t a problem.

      Sounds like I’ll probably stick with them for now, thought I may switch to CloudFlare in the future. Also do you know if Namecheap’s ‘premium DNS’ is fast enough for the DNS challenge? I don’t think it is, but just checking you weren’t referring to the free one.

    • kaliOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thanks, I don’t have any major concerns, just checking they aren’t like the Meta of shared hosting or whatever. Njalla is interesting, I might look into them for the sake of supporting something I believe in, not that I ‘need’ an overly private service.

  • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zipEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    The CloudFlare free DNS is a thing that you can easily do; the issue appears to be with the namecheap API. It successfully creates txt records but they take longer to replicate than LetsEncrypt challenges are valid