Any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tester1121@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I used to have a really cheap domain from Namecheap before, and my only issue with them was that there was no free SSL (ie: Let’s Encrypt), but I just used Cloudflare as my DNS. I’m going to by a new domain, and Spaceship seems to be the cheapest registrar for my domain right now (I’m only buying for one year), however they seem really new. Are there any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship, and should I use one over the other?

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Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve preferred namecheap for years for their charity fundraising for the EFF and general no-nonsense takes on various Internet related political issues that have come up over the years.

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7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I am pretty sure that Spaceship is a new endeavor by Namecheap themselves. With this as reasoning I’ve seen people advise to keep a distance from Spaceship, because it’s somewhat expected to have the same (bad) customer service.

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- SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Huh, so it is. Right at the bottom of the main page, “built with [heart] by Namecheap”.
  
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_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use namecheap for a ton of my domains, but I use them only as a registrar. All of my hosting is done on other providers (aws, digitalocean, linode, etc.).

This means I’ve got access to my hosts’ machines via command line, and so can setup up certbot really easily. Though going with a self-managed host also means you’ll need to have some technical proficiency to take care of things yourself. But to me, that’s part of the fun.

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Domain registration doesn’t handle SSL, that’s done on your host side with letsencrypt.

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- tester1121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I know, I’m just wondering about the differences between the two registrars. I edited the post to make it less confusing.
  
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  - tun@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You should have striken out the part you didn’t want. So the person reading the comments know the changes.
    
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StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So having used many, many registrars both personally and for businesses, I would recommend the first year on namecheap, get that cheap price, before final 60 days are up, migrate it to cloudflare; only pay $10 in this case and they extend your remaining time over on them so you don’t lose out on any cost you already paid to previous registrar. It’s a no brainer. You pay at cost for domains at Cloudflare, but no cheap introductory price.

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