West.cn (Xinnet/West Digital) review

A .com registration is CNY 35 at the outset and CNY 77 when you renew it. Treat the opening figure as the entry cost and the renewal figure as the running cost, since a domain you keep pays that rate every year.

Hosting opens at CNY 38 and renews at CNY 68. The pair sets the shape of the bill, because the opening term is promotional and the later one costs more. If the site will still be running next year, budget from the renewal figure.

Data centres cover China mainland, Hong Kong and United States, which suits a business serving China mainland visitors and an international audience from a single account. A mainland site and a United States or Hong Kong site can sit with the same provider.

The range runs to shared hosting, cloud servers and VPS. A single website per account is the default, with more sites only on multi-site plans, so a brochure site and a multi-brand operation are priced differently. A website builder sits alongside the server plans.

Backups, a content delivery network and email are listed with the hosting: backups, cdn and email. Email is what most buyers notice, since business mailboxes and the domain then sit with one provider. Check the individual plan for which of these apply.

Support runs on phone, chat and email, so you can pick the channel that suits the problem instead of waiting on one queue. Email suits a written record, chat suits quick edits, and phone suits anything urgent. The company has traded since 2002.

The model is free trial, so there is a trial to weigh before a longer commitment. The domain figures stay the same either way: CNY 35 at the outset and CNY 77 to renew. Compare the renewal against how long you plan to keep the name.

The stated audience is beginners, small business and enterprise. In practice that reads as a provider for a small business wanting a domain, a website and business email in the same place. Buyers who need only a name and nothing else may find the range wider than required.