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FAT COW HOSTING REVIEW
In 1998 this Albuquerque, New Mexico-based web host was created with the aim of bringing web hosting down to earth. Observing how web hosts today seemed rife with dizzying pricing structures, over-your-head geek speak, and a striking lack of quality customer support, the folks at Fat Cow aimed to make having a web site simple, and something anyone who wants one can create, publish, and manage easily.
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FatCow hosts a scaled-down service called MiniMoo for people and businesses ready for an internet presence, but not quite yet ready for a full-fledged web site. With MiniMoo, you can get a domain name and email, along with just enough web hosting space to be able to post a contact page or an under construction page. |
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| Visit Fat Cow Hosting |
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Price Value |
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FatCow Hosting is a one-plan-fits-all web host, eschewing multiple-tiered hosting plans for a singular plan that aims to fill all user needs. For a $4.83 per month (that works out to $57.96/year), you get unlimited gigs of disk space per month, unlimited gigs of data transfer per month, plus a free web site. builder, e-store builder, blogs, forums, hit counters, surveys and polls, and user-friendly wizards for adding on useful open source applications for making your site even more feature-filled and interactive.
All customers get a free domain with their hosting package and have the ability to host unlimited domains under one account, as well as unlimited email accounts. Also included with the FatCow Hosting plan are web analytics and site diagnostics tools, FTP access, support for Microsoft FrontPage extensions, ecommerce tools, programming script support (incl. PHP, CGI, MySQL, Python, and more), and online advertising credits and marketing tools like RatePoint Feedback Service and HubSport's Web Site Grader.
And if you're looking for a little more oomph from your web host or web hosting plan, Fat Cow offers numerous add-on services, from web site. management to email to ecommerce to programming scripting to web site. marketing, and more. |
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Reliability |
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FatCow customers enjoy multi-gigabit connections on a load-balanced platform with data loss protection provided by server backups performed daily. Uninterrupted power is ensured with backup generator system, and the data center facilities and all system hardware and software is monitored 24/7. FatCow Hosting service is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. |
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Control Panel |
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| FatCow provides its own proprietary control panels for its customers to use in managing all their web site.'s needs. This control panel breaks all web site. creation, management, and administrative duties down into the bare essentials, with all tasks intuitively categorized and listed alongside a color-coded button indicating whether or not each item is currently enabled. Alongside the top of the control panel is a convenient shortcuts menu, and a handy sidebar reveals useful web site. and web hosting stats (such as disk space, bandwidth, and mailboxes used and available). |
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Customer Service |
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FatCow Hosting staffs a 1-888 number for toll-free telephone support, as well as a live web chat support service. There's email help too, for those not-so-urgent queries. The FatCow HelpDesk also features a bevy of self-help options, such as a Knowledgebase, an FAQ library, tutorials, and more. |
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HOST RATINGS |
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| Price |
9.5/10 |
| Performance |
9.5/10 |
| Reliability |
9.5/10 |
| Support |
9.5/10 |
| Control Panel |
8.5/10 |
| User Feedback |
9.5/10 |
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| TOTAL SCORE |
94.0 |
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