CrazyDomains.com review

First impression

Crazydomains.com has made a name for itself by offering cheap domain name registration services. They even claim to be the leading provider of cheap domain name registration in regions like Australia, the Middle East, Philippines, India and Europe.

Crazy Domains hosts the websites of over 1.5 million customers, with a network of servers and data centers in the southern hemisphere. But unless you’re willing to sign up for ten years at a time, it’s not the cheapest host in the world.

Their target audience is any company or individual looking forward to registering their domain, renewing or transferring the domain, hosting or building a website, email hosting, or other solutions.

Trial period

Unfortunately, they don’t offer a Free Trial on any of their hosting services, domains or website builder tools, though they do have a 60 Days Money Back Guaranteed. 

They are 100% dedicated to providing the very best in Web Hosting and stand by in their commitment with a 60 day Money Back Guarantee. If you aren't completely satisfied with your Web Hosting within the first 60 days you will be given a full refund of the remaining period.

Billing cycle

Crazy Domains features a wide range of pricing plans. Many of them are quite affordable, but not all of the options make a great deal of sense.

For instance, you may purchase hosting services for periods of one year, two years, three years or 10 years. The first three options seem reasonable. However, if you're just starting out with a new website, the 10-year option seems excessive.

They do accept direct Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express payments as well as PayPal, using which you can pay with most credit cards.

Control panel

Everyone who chooses Linux hosting gets some of the same basic features like access to the cPanel, unlimited data, DDos Protection, multi-code support, FTP & SSH access and file backups.

Crazydomains users have the ability to manage their websites or projects completely from creating databases, email addresses, connect domain names, install wordpress websites, install SSL certificates or even stored any kinds of files.

Managing files also through the File Manager option is very easy and the dashboard is very user friendly and easy to understand.

Limits

The WordPress plans vary according to the storage space and the number of websites you can host. The Economy plan is limited to one site, but it gives you 10GB disk space, which is enough for thousands of images.

And if you choose the Ultimate plan, you can host up to 5 domains or 5 websites, 50GB SSD storage, and an Unlimited data transfer.

What's included on their Wordpress hosting plans are the DDos Protection, WP-CLI Enabled, SSH & SFTP Access, Temporary domain name, Autoupdates, 24/7 Tech support, 24/7 Site monitoring etc.

Security

Crazy Domains SSL Certificates provide the highest levels of industry standard security to conduct safe, secure eCommerce transactions, protect passwords, credit card numbers and most importantly, to secure your customer's information. Site Protection identifies malware and security holes on your site that could allow a hacker to steal information, vandalize your site, infect your customers or be blacklisted with Google.

Crazy Domains takes backups weekly. Now, I’d prefer to see daily backups, but on cheap plans, daily backups are rare.

There’s also a backup wizard that you can use to create a backup on demand, or restore a backup. This is really easy to use, and you have the option of downloading the backup to your computer if you want to archive it locally. There is also a one-click restore feature that makes it easy to restore a file you’ve trashed by accident.

Crazy Domains says it’ll monitor your website 24/7 for any security issues, and it also has a plugin, WP Fort Knox, that detects malware.

OS

Their hosting services offer Linux, Windows, and MAC operating service servers.

Support

On its website, Crazy Domains boasts about its 24/7 customer care, which they say provides "expert advice" and "friendly tech support." The company further claims that you can contact them via phone, live chat or email.

I tested Crazy Domains’ support thoroughly so you can judge the quality for yourself. Overall, I was impressed with the response times, and everyone I contacted was very happy to help, although the agents did make a few mistakes.

Unfortunately, the answers I got were not entirely accurate.

First, I contacted the sales chat team to ask if I could have a free hosting trial. The operator should have asked me which plan I wanted. Instead, they offered me a trial of the website builder.

The website builder plan is the only one with a free trial, but it isn’t a ‘true’ hosting plan. It’s also more expensive than the ‘true’ hosting plans. This was not the answer I was hoping to see; it could have resulted in me signing up for the wrong package.

Accidentally selling the wrong product is certainly one way to make a first impression.

Conclusion

Crazy Domains has been a trusted name in the industry for over a decade now.

Crazy Domains’ web hosting gave me amazing page loading times. That’s the most important take-away. While it’s costly on a short contract, you might be willing to pay the premium to get those quick loading times. There are also some pretty good WordPress features, like auto-updates and a staging server.