Review of Fat Cow: Hosting on a Budget

Fat Cow is fast becoming a very popular web host. In recent years they have grown quickly, and some growing pains remain. All in all they provide a good value. Here’s the lo-down:

	New kid on the block – hungry for success
	Feature packed
	Unlimited pretty much everything
	Fast
	Some growing pains, as evidenced by user reviews
	True limits of “unlimited” use vaguely expressed

Summary

Fat Cow is becoming a very popular host. Their brand is great, funny and appealing, but it is worth checking out what’s behind the scenes. Fat Cow is a decent host for reasonably small sites for a very good price. If you expect your site to get more traffic, or gain in size HostGator is the way to go.

Price:	96
Features:	96
Speed:	93
Uptime:	92
Reliability:	92
Customer support:	92
Customer experience:	90
TOTAL:	93

Detailed overview

Unlimited Stuff	Disk Space Hosted Domains Bandwidth Email accounts Subdomains MySQL Databases
True Limits	Not allowed to use disk space for online backups (for files unrelated to the website) Like many other budget hosts, Fat Cow is evasive in defining what exactly their “unlimited” policy means. Even after grilling the pre-sales support, they would not tell me what would be considered outside “normal” use.
Free Stuff	Free domain name Free 2GB Carbonite desktop backup for 1 year $25 Yahoo Sponsored Search Credits $50 Google AdWords Credits Free Submitnet basic plan
Hosting platforms	Linux
Control panel	Custom control panel
Technical support	24/7 Phone, Email and Live
Contract term	12 months / $5.50 / month = $66 / year
Customer experience roundup	FatCow has copped some flak in many user reviews. Some users seem to be plagued by service interruptions, and receive poor or no technical support. Remember, however, that Fat Cow is geared towards small and medium sized sites, and you pay next to nothing for it. It is a good choice for your first web host.
Uptime	Claim: no claim True: 99.252%
Features	Very extensive selection of features. You will most likely find anything you could ever need here.
Plans	Fat Cow only offers one true hosting plan at a flat price of $66 a year.
Price	$5.50 / month / 12 months
Guarantees	30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Technical quality	Very Good
Email services	Webmail, POP3/IMAP
Warnings	Vague limitations of overuse in TOS Some customer problems reported in review On checkout they will try to up-sell you some features that should be standard No backup, unless you pay for it No monthly plan Linux hosting only

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