Fat Cow Web Hosting Review

FatCow offers a straightforward one host plan for small and medium sized businesses looking for affordable web hosting. FatCow takes a simpler, more customer friendly approach and focuses on delivering the best value and customer service experience in web hosting to the small business user.

To simplify getting your personal or small business web site up on the net, FatCow created and pioneered a one plan one price philosophy. The FatCow $88 web hosting plan has everything you need to stake out your piece of the internet.

$7.33 per month with no set up fees. FatCow also offers a 30 day money back guarantee. At FatCow, you pay for reliability, ease of mind and simplicity which is perfect for small and medium sized internet site owners who do not want to waste their time, knee dip in technical problems.

The plan has strong features including 300GB of disk storage, 3000 GB of monthly data transfer, an online control panel and site creation tools. Its features ensure that you will not be left wanting in any aspect of your site.

FatCow offers all standard email features including SMTP e-mail, POP3/IMAP mail, Webmail, unlimited forwarding, unlimited aliasing, autoresponder and catch all-email. Its Spam protection is very effective with feedback saying that FatCow reduces spam by 150 FEWER a day. Further its web based e-mail system is very user friendly and functional allowing web-based e-mail access from anywhere in the world.

The software and script features are solid without being extraordinary. It offers CGI Directory, 5 MySQL databases, PHP, Python, Frontpage Extension support and scripts for image galleries, e-commerce, blogs, content management, discussion boards, customer service and guest books. Its e-commerce capabilities are good with ShopSite Starter, Shopping Cart Wizard and SSL encryption. The site has an excellent tutorial on how to set up your online store using the tools on FatCow.

FatCow offers an extremely user friendly customer support network. They offer phone support, online library and help desk covering most topics related with web hosting and getting your site running. They offer web support/technical Support 24/7 through the FatCow Control Panel. The big advantage of FatCow is that it caters to its audience - its customer service team know how to explain things in plain English. You will not be exposed to a wall of technical jargon that only the most proficient web designers understand. FatCow reaches every level, from beginners to advanced!

Out of all the sites we have seen, we saw the best compliment by a use for FatCow. The customer said that FatCow would pre-empt his site problems - the FatCow customer support team would be on the phone to customer telling them to change aspects of their site, otherwise they would encounter problems. That is pretty good service which is hard to beat. Further, FatCow is renowned for being cheap and fair. It has a great records with its customers and most come away with not just a web hosting provider, but a partner in their site.