Fat Cow Web Hosting
Review
Fat Cow Web Hosting is one of the most well-known Internet companies in the
world. FatCow was born in 1998 in Albuquerque, NM. FatCow hosting company has an unusual name, but what they offer is fairly typical when compared to the other web hosts we've reviewed. Fat Cow representatives pride themselves on straightforward service without the techno-talk and complicated service plans.
Price Value
Fat Cow Web Hosting offers to new customers a fee of $78/year, no hidde fees, which comes down to 6.5/month for each additional month after that. There is no
one-time setup fee either.
FatCow has tried to take the confusion out of web hosting offering only one generous hosting plan that is ecommerce ready. For small to medium-sized businesses and individuals looking for an affordable web hosting option, this plan offers 15 GB of disk storage, 150 GB of monthly data transfer, 1500 email account, limited email forwarding, an auto responder, catch all email, spam protection, SMTP email, POP3/IMAP, web mail, CGI Directory, PHP 4, a shopping cart that holds up to 1000 products, a public SSL certificate, Pay Pal integration, Front Page extensions, Website statistics and unlimited FTP updates..
Server Reliability
Fat Web Hosting's supported by consistently high-quality performing server with a
99.9% uptime guarantee. Provides server backups of websites in
different geographic locations in case of emergencies. .
Control Panel
Fat Cow Web Hosting has never been easier. A specified checklist allows new user through
online site building — no downloads or special software is needed.
Fat Cow Web Hosting provides support for Flash, Shockwave, most FTP accounts, as well as
blogging options for users of all types, from beginners and
professionals, with Fat Cow!! WordPress, and Movable Type.
Additional site enhancements offered are guestbooks, PayPal payment,
Fat Cow! Maps, site search, phpBB bulletin boards, and PHP-Nuke content
management.
Other features include support for third-party
tools like FrontPage 2000/2002 and Dreamweaver, PHP version 4.3.11 and
support for hundreds of PHP functions, MySQL 4.1 with unlimited
databases, and Perl version 5.8.7 and support for the standard library.
Customer Service
Fat Cow Web Hosting is an authority on customer satisfaction.
Along with a 24/7 online support forum,Fat Cow supplies reliable and frequent phone services
for your utmost convenience. The hosting company also maintains daily server backups to ensure that data can be restored in the event that data is lost - which is not often seen in budget hosting. It goes one step further by providing a backup generator system to ensure that data is not lost in the first place. Fatcow maintains a round-the-clock monitoring system to ensure that its servers and infrastructure are running a peak performance and server contents can be reliably accessed 24 hours a day.
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Fat Cow Web Hosting has the quality customer care that you deserve. No question is too
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minute IT knowledge,
Fat Cow Web Hosting houses quality
assistance for everyone.
To work with a company so widely recognized as superior is to
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Consumer Reviews
Thanks for this tool. It helped me create and publish a simple website
for my consulting business. It was quite easy to use and I appreciated
the ability to create, review, proof and finally publish with little
effort.
Dennis Anderson Banning, CA
