Web Host review: Fatcow
Fatcow Introduction
With the hosting market being as competitive as it is at the moment, it is a rare find indeed to find a company pulling all the stops to stay
streaks ahead of the competition!
Fat Cow was founded in New Mexico over a decade ago and has been growing by leaps and bounds. They make look cute from the outside, with the Moo Crew support, and their iconic cow, but beneath this exterior lies one of the most solid web hosting companies that are pushing to break all frontiers in web hosting, from technical support to reliability.
Their 50,000+ customer base which is rapidly growing is proof that their clients are happy, especially when you take into account they can leave at anytime with their
anytime money back guarantee!
Fat Cow is listed number one on our list as we know without a doubt it's the best package out there, no matter what you looking for!
Fatcow's Key Features
- Unlimited
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- 99.9%
About Fatcow
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| Rating | No. 2 | |||||||||
| Monthly Price | $ 3.67 | |||||||||
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| Monthly Price | $ 3.67 | |||||||||
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| Normal Price | 7.33 | |||||||||
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| Host Domains | Unlimited | |||||||||
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| Guarantee | 30 Days | |||||||||
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| Rated | Best Value | |||||||||
| Setup | Free | |||||||||
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| Uptime | 99.9% | |||||||||
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Specials
One of FatCow's rules is keeping things simple, and judging from our experience with them, they have certainly stuck to it without compromising any flexibility! They have created their hosting plan as a one size fits all solution, and by that we mean this plan will cater for anybody all at an unbelievable price. Judging from other hosts, you really are getting more than what paying for. They over unlimited disk space and bandwidth for your website, and unlike other hosts who offer the same there are no artificial limits! You will never have to ask them to increase your data and bandwidth allowance. Included in their plan is your free domain for life, free setup and you can host as many websites as you want on one account! Other features not commonly offered are unlimited MySQL databases, a full CGI directory bin, and you can easily integrate Ruby on Rails and Django which have recently become the de facto in rapidly building websites.
Reliability
99% guarantee is a given with most hosts, but most hosts don't include hardware and software maintenance as part of this figure. With FatCow, you are guaranteed your site will be up 99.9% of the time, if not all the time. Our test website has been up an unbelievable 100% for the past two and a half years with them, even with our dodgy recursive database queries! (This is a completely anonymous account, they have no idea who we are!) FatCow can achieve this with their state-of-the-art load balancing technology, and their extremely redundant multi gigabyte connection to the internet, thus making their hosting completely rock solid! As an extra measure they also on a daily basis do server backups, making data loss almost null and void! You can rest assured, FatCow will keep at it come hail or snow, in our years of research we haven't come across a more reliable host.
Customer Support
We have really thrown everything we can at FatCow, and yet they just keep on shining. Their customer care department doesn't lose any of the sparkle either, they have employed some of the most dedicated staff we have come across, none of whom are outsourced! Every query we have put through to them, they've answered in an extremely informed manner making sure our problem was sorted out extremely quickly. We have never been left Waiting on the phone. FatCow offers toll-free technical support, live chat, email and a comprehensive knowledge base, so you will always be on top of things should they go away.
Control Panel
FatCow utilizes H-Sphere for administrating their accounts. H-Sphere is the most popular choice in this department, and compared to other hosts it is extremely fast and nippy on FatCows servers, making some of those tedious tasks a pleasure to perform. H-Sphere, allows you to control every aspect of your website, and allows you to perform modifications with ease.
Summary
We have chosen FatCow as our number one host, as we have been blown away by their excellence in every single department. We have tried extremely hard to find fault with them, but they always keep turning out tops. Even Adalrich our hardware technician who had a rather bad childhood experience with a cow agrees full heartedly that FatCow is miles ahead of the rest! With their great prices, and anytime money-back guarantee there's absolutely nothing you can lose by giving them a try.
