Fat cow hosting specialise in hosting services for individuals and small businesses. They have been in business since 1998, so they are a stable company, and currently have well over 100,000 customers. They focus on a simpler, customer friendly approach to web hosting. In today’s video Steve from hosting review provides an in-depth review.
The first thing that hits you when you visit their website is the price; $66 a year for shared hosting. That is cheap. They also claim to be a ‘green’ provider too (if this is what you are looking for). They offer 2 plans. The mini-moo and the original fat cow hosting plan. Mini-moo allows you to dip your toe. It’s a very low cost start at $5 a year; you get a domain name, email address and just the minimum you need to set up a very simple website.
The fat cow plan is a lot more comprehensive and costs $66 a year. You get one free domain name and unlimited disk space, bandwidth, domains and email addresses. Unlimited is really a marketing trick. There is no such thing as unlimited disk space and bandwidth for every customer on a fixed size server and fixed speed internet link! But all the web hosts offer it. The fat cow plan also offers design and build tools with the addition of google webmaster tools. You get google search and google’s excellent tracking tools integrated into your account. Very useful. You also get shopping cart scripts for ecommerce, blogs, polls, surveys and backup for your site.
In the video Steve tests their support. A very important feature of any hosting plan. He checks out internet chat, he calls them to ask questions, and he gets a good response. If you search for opinions on fat cow support you will see they are well regarded. They also have a trouble ticket system and tutorials.
All-in-all, fat cow is a good choice for individuals and small business
