How reliable is Fatcow web hosting?

Fatcow guarantees 99.9% uptime, which equates to 43 minutes of total downtime in a given month is the maximum they’ll be down before they issue you a refund for your monthly subscription cost. In practice, there’s no scientific way to tell whether they are really this reliable, but based on customer reports, forum feedback and our own experience, our reports indicate that Fatcow is in practice one of the most reliable web hosting companies in the market. Based on our own experience and informal research through surveys on our Facebook page as well as culling through forums, we’ve compiled the following breakdown of overall reliability of Fatcow vs. other leading web hosting companies, including IX Web Hosting, iPower, Blue Host and iPage.

How fast are page load times using Fatcow hosting services?

The following chart shows a comparison of average page load times for websites hosted on Fatcow’s shared hosting service vs. major competitors. This data is from our own website hosting experience with these companies, taken across a period of 4 weeks, with daily data taken three times per day.

What is the speed and page load performance for Fatcow’s shared web hosting services?

We compared Fatcow’s page load times for a WordPress based site against its main shared web hosting competitors. The following graph shows how fast pages on Fatcow-hosted sites load vs. JustHost, BlueHost and iPage.

What panel management software does Fatcow offer?

Fatcow offers cPanel management software as its default panel management option, but also offers leading alternatives as well.

How reliable are Fatcow’s servers? How much annual downtime does Fatcow suffer on average?

Fatcow guarantees 99.99% uptime, which is among the highest guaranteed uptimes in the industry. We have seen Fatcow go down in isolated cases, but its very rare. Our last outage with them was over 18 months ago, and in that outage they restored service quickly, within 30 minutes.

Does Fatcow over-provision its shared hosting servers? How fast and reliable is Fatcow’s shared hosting on average?

Fatcow is definitely one of the best companies in terms of provisioning their servers intelligently and with a focus on guaranteeing server speed, throughput and uptime. Many competitive hosting companies over-provision their servers with tons of hosting customers – this is how they can offer super low prices. Fatcow chooses to price at the mid range of the market and provision conservatively, so you will almost always have great response time on your server.

How often does Fatcow go down or have outages?

The last incident we’ve had with Fatcow going down was 18 months ago, and we have not had any incidents since then. We host over 30 sites across multiple dedicated, VPS, and shared accounts with Fatcow, and are very pleased with their uptime and reliability.

What kinds of servers does Fatcow provision for its customers?

Fatcow uses state of the art Intel Xeon / DELL servers.