Start
US$3.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$30.00/yr billed yearly
1 site · 5 mailboxes · 10 GB storage
InternationalTheir prices read 2026-09-29
Namecheap vs KapsuleHost
Namecheap publish Stellar at US$2.28/mo on a yearly plan, and their own notice says it renews at US$5.88/mo on monthly billing, or US$55.88/yr on yearly billing, on renewal invoices issued on or after 19 May 2026. Web Hosting Start is US$3.00/mo in your own currency, with privacy on every extension that allows it, an SSL certificate, email and backups all included.
NamecheapStellar
- Entry price
- US$2.28/mo
- Renewal
- US$5.88/mo
3-year costUS$139.12
Web Hosting Start- Entry price
- US$3.00/mo
- Renewal
- US$3.00/moPrice Lock Promise
3-year costUS$90.00
Five things you get by moving from Namecheap.
01Your price is locked while you stay on the plan
Our Price Lock Promise holds your renewal price at whatever you signed up for, for as long as you stay on the plan. It is written into the contract you can read before you spend anything.
02SSL, mailboxes, backups, and privacy where the extension allows, all free
Privacy on every extension that allows it, your SSL certificate, mailboxes on your own domain and nightly backups are all free on Web Hosting Start at US$3.00/mo. The table below sets each of them beside Namecheap's entry plan.
03One price, in your own currency
You are billed in your own currency, not converted from another one at a rate you did not choose. Each currency has its own catalogue price, and that is the price the charge is built from.
04Kora answers straight away, at any hour
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
05Free tools move you here
The tools bring your site, your database, your mailboxes and your DNS across on every plan, at any size, and Kora runs them with you while you watch. For a bigger or more delicate move, one of our engineers does the whole thing for a published price.
What comes with your plan.
This is what the plan price buys, line by line.
NamecheapOpening priceUS$3.00/moUS$2.28/mo
What you pay when you renewUS$3.00/moUS$5.88/mo; US$55.88/yr; US$102.88 per 2 years (about US$51.44 a year)
SSL certificate on the entry planIncludedFree for the first year, for each domain on the plan (up to 50)
Your details kept privateIncluded, on every extension that allows itFree domain privacy with every Namecheap domain registration, where the extension allows it
Nightly backupsThirty nightsAutoBackup (6 daily, 3 weekly and 5 monthly copies) is listed for Stellar Plus and Stellar Business, not for Stellar
Mailboxes on the entry planFive included30 mailboxes
The tools that move you here from Namecheap are free.
Moving from Namecheap is free. We bring your files, your database and your email across, and your domain too if you want everything in one place. A domain move takes about a week and the switch itself takes a day. Kora will run it with you, and for a complicated or sensitive move a person can do the whole thing for a published price.
Start on Web Hosting Start.
US$3.00/mo, held at that price for as long as you stay on the plan. A free SSL certificate, nightly backups kept thirty nights and mailboxes on your own domain come with it, and the free migration tools bring you here from Namecheap.
Pro
US$9.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$84.00/yr billed yearly
10 sites · 25 mailboxes · 50 GB storage
Scale
US$21.00/mo
Same price while you stay on your planor US$204.00/yr billed yearly
25 sites · 100 mailboxes · 200 GB storage
What buyers ask us about Namecheap.
These are the questions buyers send us while they are deciding between Namecheap and us, answered the way one of our own engineers would answer them.
Ways To Reach UsThe table above shows Namecheap's own published price for year one and for renewal, read on 2026-09-29, or says plainly where their page does not list a figure. Check their current rate before you decide. Ours comes from our catalogue as the page loads, and it renews at the same price, on the same plan (Terms 7.5).
The website and mailbox migration tools are free on every hosting plan, and Kora runs them with you. For a big or a delicate setup, one of our engineers can carry the whole move out for you at a price you agree first. A person from our team makes first contact within 2 New Zealand business hours of your order, and the work is finished in one to two business days. Moving your domain registration is separate. For most extensions, a transfer costs one year's renewal and adds that year to your domain. Transfers of .nz, .co.nz and .uk domains are free.
No. We build your site here on an address of its own while the one you have on Namecheap carries on exactly as it is, and your domain points here only on the day you decide. For seven days after your site goes live here, one click takes you back to your old host, or shows exactly what to restore if your DNS is at your own registrar.
Yes. You can leave the registration where it is and point the domain here by changing its nameservers, or move the registration to us too. For most domains a transfer takes five to seven days; a .nz domain usually moves the same day, often within hours.
The certificate, nightly backups with thirty nights kept, mailboxes on your own domain, the migration tools and the CDN, on every Web Hosting plan; the size of the plan is the only thing that changes.
Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
Yes. If you are a new customer and not satisfied with the Services, you may request a full refund of your first hosting Plan payment by cancelling and submitting a refund request within thirty (30) days of the date of your first paid invoice for that Plan. The guarantee applies to monthly and annual subscriptions to Start, Pro, Scale and Cloud Power. It does not apply to renewal payments, or to Customers who have previously had a KapsuleHost Account or received a refund; clause 1.3 lists every exclusion.
Kapsule Group Limited, a New Zealand company. Kora answers straight away, at any hour. When you need a person, our team picks it up.
Yes. Namecheap's own notice says its shared hosting renewal prices increased on renewal invoices issued on or after 19 May 2026, and that Stellar renews at US$5.88/mo on monthly billing, or US$55.88/yr on yearly billing (read 2026-09-29). Its first year is US$2.28/mo on a yearly plan. Here, your plan renews at the same price, on the same plan (Terms 7.5).
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