FatCow Bio:
- Established: 1998
- Sites Hosted: 180,000+
- Location: Boston, MA
- Host Award: "Most Unique"
- Featured Package Price:
$3.15
/month- Storage Space:Unlimited
- Transfer/Bandwidth:Unlimited
- Setup Fee:Free
- Domain Name:1 Free
- Money-Back Guarantee:Anytime
- Uptime Guarantee:99.9%
- Free Website Builder:Yes
- Multiple Domains:Unlimited
- E-mail Accounts:Unlimited
- MySQL Databases:Unlimited
- Control Panel:VDeck
- Operating System:Linux
- Server Backups:Daily
- 24/7 Monitoring:Yes
- Wordpress
- Joomla
- Drupal
- Mambo
- b2 Evolution
- Coppermine
- osCommerce
- phpbb
- Ruby on Rails
- PHPMyAdmin
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- Technical Support
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- Ease of Use
- Server Speed
- Overall Score:
90%
- Our Total Rating:
- Number of User Reviews:
103
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Our Review of: FatCow
Overview:
"Udderly Fantastic", are the words to describe web hosting services at our #6 rated host, FatCow! FatCow, originated in New Mexico in 1998, currently with thousands of customers and growing strong, they offer a unique, but outstanding web hosting package. From their "Moo Crew" support, to "udderly fantastic" prices, quotas and features, FatCow is a dominating presence in the hosting arena. But don't let their "moo" slogans lead you to believe that their hosting services are any less than cutting-edge, which simply isn't the case.
Their 50,000+ customers are proof that FatCow will try their best to make you a satisfied customer and their "anytime" money-back guarantee proves this! Another plus these days, is FatCow recently went totally "green" in July 2009. All their servers are powered totally by wind energy, generated from windmills, creating no harmful emissions...
Pros:
- Unique but very knowledgeable hosting company.
- Powered totally by wind energy, making them 100% green.
- One of the cheapest hosting providers out there.
Cons:
- A little light on scripts active for each account.
Features & Specials:
FatCow believes in keeping things simple. That said, they offer a one stop hosting package, sure to cater to almost any web site owner and at a price that is "udderly" unbelievable! Their plan offers unlimited disk space and unlimited transfer allowances, free domain name for life, free setup, the ability to host unlimited domains per account, just to start!
They also offer unlimited e-mail accounts, unlimited domain pointing, free comprehensive site builder, web traffic analytics and a whole plethora of scripting resources. Some notable resources not offered with other competing plans, are MySQL, PHP, full CGI directory, Ruby-on-Rails and Python.
Now, for a limited time, they offer free marketing credits at Google and Yahoo! Search Marketing, to get your site noticed. They also offer unbeatable free support, by e-mail, toll-free phone, and live chat.
- Unlimited Domain Pointing.
- Frequently offer out heard of limited time pricing specials.
- Google and Yahoo! advertising credits with each new account.
Reliability & Speed:
With a 99% uptime guarantee, FatCow's reliability is second to none! They're connected via dual OC-48 connections to the world-wide web, ensuring lightning speed service for your web site and e-mail.
They also offer load balancing on all servers, which in short, minimizes site downtime by keeping a copy of your web site on an alternate live server, in the possibility of your main server outage. In addition to this, they also offer daily server backups, making the possibility of losing data almost non-existent. Rest assured the FatCow will keep on trucking, no matter what they throw at it.
Reliability & Speed Factors:
99.9%
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Summary: Utilizes a unique load-balanced architecture, with failover protections. Very good Internet backbone connections help deliver fast loading pages. |
Support:
FatCow isn't bull when it comes to technical support and customer service! They offer all the bells and whistles of other major hosts and then some. Such as free toll-free phone support, which is US based (english speaking), free live chat and e-mail support and a comprehensive knowledge base, containing the most frequently asked support topics.
FatCow also pledges their own unique "HeiferCratic Oath" of customer service, which further distinguishes them from the rest of the pack in providing the utmost in customer support. A couple notable rules of the "Oath" are to call and welcome each new hosting customer within the first seven days of signing up and to answer any tech suppport calls in less than 2 minutes on average, among many other techniques to keep their customers happy and satisfied.
Average Support Wait Times:
5 seconds
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Control Panel:
FatCow users can maintain their hosting accounts with software from H-Sphere. H-Sphere is a newer, comprehensive web site management tool that allows almost any modifications to your web site with ease. A few notable features of H-Sphere, are the ability to setup e-mail accounts, website statistics, manage databases, domains and employ and automate many different scripts. We also wanted to add that H-Sphere is tweaked up nicely by FatCow, which makes this control panel even easier to operate than usual.
Control Panel ScreenshotWhat sets them apart?
"Great Web Hosting, No Bull." - FatCow |
Their "udderly" low prices and unlimited storage/transfer allowances. |
Their "HeiferCratic Oath", which is FatCow's pledge of great customer support and satisfaction. |
Totally "green" web hosting. Their servers are powered totally by wind energy! |
Summary:
FatCow as chosen as our #6 rated web host, because of their no bull, simple policy to making web hosting fun and easy. We also rated them top "Unique" host on the list, due to their environmental awareness and comical "moo" slogans. Too often these days, Internet companies seem to forget about the footprint they place on the environment, but not FatCow, with their totally green web hosting, powered by wind energy.
Not to forget however, their great prices and huge account feature list, that are sure to convince you that FatCow is the "udderly" irresistible host for you. Check them out today and tell them we said "howdy"!
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FatCow User Reviews
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The cow
Review by: Jerry, from Chicago, Ill.
They are great for small sites who need a reliable, trustworthy host. I had to contact support and had someone on chat within seconds for help. Nice!
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Fine so far!
Review by: www.mysite.com, from Newark, NJ
After trying a couple other cheap hosts, I signed up with them. They are great so far. Just my two cents.
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Review by: Adrian, from Newark
Go for it! 1 month with them and no problems.
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Very good...
Review by: Sammy, from Los Angeles
I wanted to echo the below reviews that FCow as been great for us. For the 3 months we have been with them, our site hasn't been down once. Keep up the good work!
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Easily one of the top cheap hosts out there
Review by: Rex, from Omaha, NE
You really can't find a much cheaper web hosting company out there that offers what Fatcow does for much less money. Sure, they exist, but there are a number of factors that could make them inferior. Such as datacenter details, connectivity, tech support (do they speak english), etc...
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Too slow and if your site is your income...
Review by: Donderalisimo, from Houston
It is better than some, but if your income is your site, slow or down is no good. However upon writing this review, I was upset to see my email and site down and their site up and running. This should tell you something. I sent a ticket via their sit 2 hours ago and nothing so far.
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Cannot be fussy
Review by: Ethan, from Detroit
For the price they charge, they offer a plenty in return. I've seen alot of much much higher price hosting and they are among the cheapest out there. Reliable also...
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Our site hasn't been left in the dark...
Review by: Carl, from Bronx, NY
Since we have been with fatcow the site has been up with no interruptions that I know of. Being that we run an e-commerce site, uptime is crucial. They also offer plenty of scripting programs. I will post back if things change...
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They offer about everything...
Review by: Gavin, from Fairfax, VA
Have used the "cow" for a about a month now. They have been a above par host, with all the features you could ask for. They also do really own their datacenter, as best I can tell and from what I've been told.
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Good host!
Review by: Stephen, from Miami, FL.
Fatcow has been fine for my site. Instant setup and free domain are a few perks also. But, as with the other hosts, they simply can't offer "unlimited" storage and transfer... It just isn't possible. Also, they offer a couple things extra per month, that other hosts offer free, but all in all, recommended.