Managed WordPress hosting for sites leaving Namecheap and EasyWP.
Namecheap sells two different things under one login: ordinary cPanel hosting, and EasyWP, which has no cPanel at all. Which one you are on changes the entire export.
Establish which Namecheap you are on first.
Everything below depends on that answer, and the two products have almost nothing in common beyond the billing page.
EasyWP is not cPanel hosting
It is a separate managed product with its own dashboard, no cPanel, and file access that varies by tier. The familiar “download a cPanel backup” route does not exist.
Exporting without a panel archive
On EasyWP the export is assembled from whatever access the plan gives — its own backup feature, SFTP where available, or a migration plugin run from inside WordPress.
The domain does not have to move
Namecheap is a registrar first. The domain can stay registered there while the site is hosted here; only the DNS records change, which is the smaller and safer half.
DNS records beyond the website
A registrar account usually holds mail, verification and subdomain records alongside the A record. Those are copied before anything is repointed, not after.
Private email on the same account
Namecheap sells mailboxes too. Moving the site does not move them, and closing the hosting plan afterwards is what actually breaks them.
Identify the product, then plan the DNS.
A Namecheap move goes wrong in one of two ways: assuming cPanel exists when the site is on EasyWP, or repointing DNS without having copied the records that had nothing to do with the website.
- Hosting product confirmed before the export
- Full DNS record set captured
- Domain registration left where it is
- Mailboxes identified and left alone
A stack you can actually see into.
EasyWP is quick for the price and deliberately opaque. What changes here is that the object cache, the edge and the PHP limits are yours to inspect.
What we change when a site arrives from Namecheap
The work splits cleanly between the platform you are leaving and the domain you are keeping.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Product identification | EasyWP or cPanel hosting established before any export is attempted | The two share a login and nothing else — EasyWP has no cPanel, so a migration planned around a panel archive stalls at the first step. |
| Export route | Assembled from the plan's own backup, SFTP or an in-WordPress migration plugin | EasyWP restricts file access by tier, so the route has to be chosen from what that specific plan exposes rather than assumed. |
| Domain registration | Left with Namecheap; only DNS records change | Registration and hosting are separate purchases, and moving the registration during a hosting migration adds a transfer lock and a waiting period to a job that needed neither. |
| DNS record set | Every record copied before the A record is repointed | A registrar's DNS zone carries mail, domain verification and subdomains that have nothing to do with the website, and repointing without them takes those down too. |
| Mailboxes | Private Email subscriptions identified and left running | Namecheap sells mail as its own product on the same account, so cancelling the hosting plan after a successful move is what actually deletes the inboxes. |
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
- 1 WordPress site
- 10 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Support tickets
- 5 WordPress sites
- 50 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Priority support tickets
- 20 WordPress sites
- 200 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Dedicated support
Questions, answered.
I am on EasyWP. Is that the same as your cPanel guide?
Do I have to transfer my domain away from Namecheap?
Will my Namecheap email keep working?
What happens to DNS records I forgot about?
Can I keep using Namecheap DNS after moving?
Keep the domain, move the site.
Free migration, the whole DNS zone copied first, and nothing cancelled until you confirm.