FatCow Review

"Fat Cow Technical Support rivals any other form of Technical Support anywhere! I mean anywhere! Support members are easy to understand (their native language is english) and I have never found anyone more helpful."

cstruthers.com, Chris Struthers

Total score: 93%
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Exclusive Offer $3.67/Month Save $91.00 / 24 months plan

Basic Specs & Features

  • Sub Domain unlim.
  • Monthly Transfer (GB) unlim.
  • Email Accounts unlim.
  • Diskspace (GB) unlim.
  • Add-on domains unlim.

Included Features

  • Anytime Money-Back Guarantee
  • Web Site Building Tools
  • $50 Google Credit
  • SSL Secure Server
  • Google custom search

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Advanced features

Control Panel
  • vDeck
Databases
  • MySQL
Dedicated Server Features
  • KVM over IP
Easy-install Blog Scripts
  • WordPress
Ecommerce Features
  • SSL
  • Shopsite-
  • Shared SSL--
  • osCommerce-
  • Ecommerce Scripts
  • Agora Shopping Cart-
Email Features
  • Webmail Interface
  • SMTP-authentication
  • Secure SMTP
  • POP3
  • IMAP
  • Exchange
  • Email Forwarders
  • Auto Responders
  • Anti-Spam
On-site Site Building
  • SiteBuilder
  • FrontPage Extensions
Photo Gallery
  • Coppermine
Platform
  • Unix
  • Linux
Server Side Scripts
  • SSI
  • PHP
  • CGI
Support
  • Ticket-based Support
  • Phone Support
  • Email Support
  • Available 24 hours
  • Available
  • Av
Web Statistics
  • Webalizer
  • Referrer Logs
  • Raw Log Manager
  • Error Logs
  • AWStats
Top Domains
  • org
  • net
  • name
  • mobi
  • info
  • com
  • biz

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FatCow Information

United States Flag

  • Country United States
  • State Massachusetts
  • Founded 1998
  • Hosted site
  • Support phone +1 888 278 9780

Address
70 Blanchard Road

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FatCow Profile

Established in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1998 FatCow web hosting company is a hosting provider with over 10 year history of good customer relations.

FatCow takes a more traditional approach when it comes to service and customer care. The customer always comes first and their satisfaction is Fat Cow's #1 priority. With over a decade in the web hosting industry, FatCow prides itself on being the hosting op for the little man. No tech babble. No confusing pricing schemes. And with a broad clientele of personal and small business customers, this hosting provider focuses on data center reliability as well as flexible customer services.

Included in their original plan are site building tools,a dedicated support team and a user interface fit for any level of hosting experience.

If you sign up via WebHostingSearch.com you can save $30 per year. This means you pay only $4.83 a month compared to $7.33.

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Ratings & reviews of FatCow

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Average rating based on Editorial and User Reviews

Reliability
7/10
Support - Knowledge
6/10
Support - Speed
7/10
Control Panel Interface
7/10
Overall Rating
6/10
Recommended by:
4 of 6 users

Pros:

  • 24x7 Phone, Chat, Email Customer Support
  • Lightening Fast Servers Speeds
  • Anytime Money-Back Guarantee

Cons:

  • Has Linux servers only

FatCow Editorial Ratings and Reviews

WebHostingSearch.com recommends FatCow

Reliability
8/10
Support - Knowledge
8/10
Support - Speed
9/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
8/10
Total score:
8.2 /10

Ok, let's begin with mentioning that FatCow's support promises to answer your calls within a mere 2 minutes and that FatCow as a company has an "anytime money-back guarantee". As you probably understand this is not anything they would be able to do if they weren't sure that you, as the customer, would be pleased. Let's at least say that we are more than impressed with their services.

With FatCow you get quite much more than just a few nice quality-features. Some of these features are unlimited disk-space, unlimited bandwidth, free domain name, free WordPress tools, $50 Google Adwords credit and 2GB Carbonite desktop back up. Pretty good for a few bucks a month if you ask us.

FatCow Reviews

Justin recommends FatCow

Reliability
8/10
Support - Knowledge
8/10
Support - Speed
8/10
Control Panel Interface
9/10
Overall Rating
8/10
Total score:
8.2/10

I've been with FatCow a couple of months now I find them to be a pretty darn good provider. Everything has worked out pretty much as I expected it to do. I've been in contact with their support a couple of times and after a little wait they were able to assist me. If I were to say something negative about FatCow it would be that the page load can be a bit slow at times…


HRH does not recommend FatCow

Reliability
7/10
Support - Knowledge
5/10
Support - Speed
5/10
Control Panel Interface
5/10
Overall Rating
1/10
Total score:
4.6/10

Absolutely the worst customer service ever! Don't believe anything FatCow says. They absolutely LIE to their customers and the supervisors are perfectly OK with that. They refuse to give any executive or higher up manager info. Very, very poor. SAVE your $. ABF - ANYBODY BUT FATCOW!


Bill DeFelice does not recommend FatCow

Reliability
1/10
Support - Knowledge
1/10
Support - Speed
4/10
Control Panel Interface
3/10
Overall Rating
2/10
Total score:
2.2/10

This provider has really started to suck ever since they were sold in June of 2005. I have fallen victim to constant outages with both web hosting and email handling. I am up to the point where I can’t trust that any outbound email has actually been sent due to their poor performance. I have enough service tracking numbers to support my claims. They are nowhere near 99% uptime! I would save your money and find another web host. I plan on switching service to a new provider as soon as my contract with them is up.


Jack Lee recommends FatCow

Reliability
8/10
Support - Knowledge
6/10
Support - Speed
8/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
9/10
Total score:
7.8/10

Our overall experince is good. Uptime good, Support good and Hosting in general. good. Recommended!


George S. recommends FatCow

Reliability
9/10
Support - Knowledge
9/10
Support - Speed
7/10
Control Panel Interface
8/10
Overall Rating
8/10
Total score:
8.2/10

Fatcow, fatcow, fatcow... What can I say about this web host? Is the hosting strong and reliable? Well, I have to say yes. Have I experienced any downtime? Yes, but not much. Is the customer support any good? They've been very friendly and helful. Would I recommend this host? Yes I would!


Customer Testimonials

I have been a fatcow customer for about 8 years and they're deals and customer service has just gotten better as they have grown! I regretted trying another company for a new website (godaddy.com) who does nothing but try to upsell you on everything, and godaddy's control panel etc is almost impossible to get to and work with. All my hosting needs go to fatcow! You guys udderly rock!
lasvegasacts.com , Larry Jones

I have been moving people to my site for over 5 + years and have never had a client say my site was down. The daily stats help me with tracking customers. When I need a real person to answer questions I know I can get some one on the phone without the 15 minutes of phone button pushing, something you don't find in business these days. I will always be a cow customer for life and will be adding more domain names and site in the future. I don't know how I would do business without Fatcow.
lightboximages.com, Thomas Cooper

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