Get Blown Away by FatCow
FatCow is prepared to blow you away with their exceptional hosting service. In addition to having almost a dozen years of experience and expertise under their hooves, FatCow claims to use 100% wind energy with their EPA certification of Renewable Energy Certificates (REC). With their RECs you can also promote your own “green” site with a FatCow Green Badge that announces to the world the use of wind energy for web hosting.
The Fat Features You Get
The FatCow web hosting plans are easy to use for anyone, from novice to experienced web geek. Their main product is the Original FatCow Plan, with plenty of features to build, transfer, maintain, and manage your website. The plan comes with unlimited disk space and email accounts. And although FatCow does say “unlimited” bandwidth or data transfer with their plan, they do state that their definition remains within reasonable usage by a personal or small business website. Additional bandwidth can be purchased, however, for a nominal fee each month.
Along with the FatCow Plan you also get a free site builder to help you construct the most professional-looking website for your business. You get one free domain registration, and unlimited domain hosting per each account. If you plan to conduct transactions via your website, you’ll also get free shopping cart and e-commerce software as well.
There is FTP access for file transfer, and Microsoft FrontPage extensions are accepted. Plenty of scripts are available such as Python, PHP 4 and 5, Joomla, and unlimited MySQL databases are permitted so you can make a custom-built website with all the bells and whistles.
Along with your unlimited email accounts you can set up a host of email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, FoxMail, and Mac OSX mail. Keep your email filtered from SPAM with the FatCow tools provided. And you can also use the newsletter management tool to stay in touch with your subscribers.
The FatCow Price
The Original FatCow Plan is regularly $88 per year ($7.33 per month), but they do run specials for up to 50 percent off the regular price ($4.67 per month). If you want to simply park a domain for a time, you can purchase the “MiniMoo Plan” for only $5 per year.
What Else You Get
Along with your Original FatCow Plan you also get a host of additional and bonus features, including:
• Marketing Tools – Each account gets a $50 credit to use toward Google Adwords, and a $25 credit for use with Yahoo! Search Marketing. Also, you get $50 toward social networking advertising. This bonus feature is a great way to jump start advertising for your new website.
• E-Commerce – Prepare to do business with your new website with the help of e-commerce features. They use ShopSite online store to accept all major credit cards, and use PowerPay and PayPal shopping cart integration. If you sell many products you can buy up to ShopSite Manger or ShopSite Pro.
• Site Building Tools – A new website owner does not need to worry about getting a great-looking site up right away with the help of Website Builder tools.
• Wizard Tools – Add on open-source apps with the help of FatCow wizards. Add a WordPress account manager to your site. Or even picture galleries, polls, and surveys.
The FatCow Service
FatCow has plenty of ways to help you when you have a problem or question. Their customer support via phone, email, or chat is open 24 hours a day. They provide a substantial FAQ library to help you with the most common problems quickly. And they have step-by-step tutorials to help you make your website the best it can be.
FatCow pledges to your satisfaction with their “HeiferCratic Oath.” They resolve to answer every call within 2 minutes, fix issues at the time of a call or fix a set deadline, and call new customers within 7 days of signup. If any customer does not have a completely satisfactory service experience, they will provide one free month of hosting for your trouble.
On the Technical Side
As mentioned, FatCow powers its platform with 100% certified “green” wind energy. Their servers are load balanced with multi-GB connections. Servers are backed up daily, and backup generators are in place and ready to go in case of power-outage. All facilities are monitored 24/7 with tight security.
And to provide customers with additional file backup, all customers receive one full year of free automated Carbonite file backup for up to 2 GB of file storage.
Partner with FatCow
FatCow encourages users to help them get the word out about their services. FatCow offers affiliates $100 for every new customer they refer. Non-affiliates can receive a $10 credit for every new customer referred. Or you could even set up to become a reseller of FatCow web hosting under your own brand and receive 50% recurring commissions.
Rating:
Price – 4 out of 5 stars
Customer service – 5 out of 5 stars
Technical support – 4 out of 5 stars
Features – 5 out of 5 stars
Reliability/Uptime – 4 out of 5 stars
Overall user-friendliness – 5 out of 5 stars
Visit http://www.FatCow.com for more information.