Fatcow vs Bluehost 2021 Reviews & Comparison

BlueHost is a better web hosting choice than Fatcow compared the web hosting reputation, features, performance, reliability, technical support and price, based on our editors’ real hosting experience with both BlueHost and Fatcow for a whole year in 2011.

We have been monitoring our sites hosted with on the shared platform of the 2 companies for a long time. Besides, we have browsed a pile of customer reviews on the Internet to learn the real voice of other customers. See the ratings of their services in the following comparison table.

BlueHost Overall

BlueHost, has devoted into Linux-based web hosting service for personal and small businesses since 1996. As one of the largest and most historical web hosting companies, BlueHost created several business miracles in the industry. BlueHost is the only web hosting company that only offers a single all-in-one web hosting package named BlueHost Professional in the past 16 years, but has over 2 million existing customers and 3 dedicated data centers that invested with over 20 million USD from 2010 by themselves.

FatCow Overall

FatCow, founded in 1997, offers a budget single all-in-one web hosting package as BlueHost, but more focusing on providing a simple website build solution for their customers to quickly start websites over the Internet. With the narrow marketing positioning, FatCow didn’t grow as strong as BlueHost in the recent 10 years. Now FatCow is still a medium sized web hosting company serving for approximately 120,000 customers worldwide.

Industry Reputation

BlueHost is better well-known than Fatcow in the communities and web hosting marketplace. By the over 5 years’ consistent partnership with open source communities, today BlueHost has become one of the best web hosting choice for many open source projects. E.G. BlueHost is one of the Top 10 Web Hosting recommended for WordPress by WordPress.org, and the best choice for Drupal by Drupal.org.

Furthermore, BestHostingSearch.NET, the sister site of HostingReview360.com designed for web hosting ranking based on the verified customer reviews, has collected 139 reviews from the BlueHost verified customers. Based on the BlueHost review statistics, the 99.3% of customers were satisfied with the BlueHost overall web hosting service, the 99.3% were satisfied with the BlueHost web hosting performance & reliability, the 97.8% were satisfied with the BlueHost web hosting software & control panel, and the 97.1% were satisfied with the BlueHost technical support.

Essentially, BlueHost is the best customer satisfied web hosting company that our editors have reviewed so far.

BlueHost vs Fatcow > Features

As designed to help customers start websites by using their own website builder program, Fatcow actually doesn’t support the latest cutting-edge technology as well as BlueHost. Fatcow doesn’t support Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, Shell (SSH) Access, FastCGI, CronJobs, etc. Particularly, without CronJobs, almost all the popular content management systems cannot be driven successfully. Take an example. WordPress, Drupal and Joomla all need the support of CronJobs to create the sitemap schedularly.

With BlueHost offering a premium website builder recently, based on the following comparison for BlueHost VS Fatcow, it’s easy to know that BlueHost is much more rich-featured than Fatcow.

Besides, compared Fatcow offering most things in common, BlueHost is the only web hosting provider that customized Linux kernel for the reliable web hosting services. They invested over a million USD to develop out CPU Segregation Technology that can segregate CPU, memory and disk I/O of every shared server for every user for the guaranteed server resources. This significantly increases the reliability, performance and security of their customer sites and data. Watch the following video to learn more about the technology at BlueHost.

Technical Support

BlueHost and Fatcow offer 24×7 technical support via toll-free telephone, live chat and e-mail. Fatcow guarantees any support requests via phone or live chat can be answered in less than 2 minutes on average, but BlueHost guarantees with the holding times that average under 30 seconds and 100% on-site/in-house staff, the customer is assured to be helped with the people who know how to help.

Based on our editors’ true hosting experience with BlueHost and Fatcow in the recent year, the technical support were both responsive, but we thought BlueHost technical support is better helpful for the technical problems. Some Fatcow support staffs are lack of technical knowledge and more focusing on helping the users who are using their website builder program.

BlueHost VS Fatcow > Performance & Reliability

Fatcow web hosting has not so great performance for database based system such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. We had compared the server response speed of BlueHost and Fatcow for hosting the same WordPress site, and concluded that the WordPress site hosted with BlueHost was approximately 240% faster than Fatcow for either database queries, page generation and page loading.

Fatcow vs Bluehost > Price

As the different marketing positioning, Fatcow is cheaper than BlueHost. Fatcow web hosting is starting at $8.99/mo regularly, but usually they provide a huge discount for $3.67/mo for signup. BlueHost web hosting is starting at $6.95/mo regularly, but now they’re offering a special 44% discount for $3.95/mo for all visitors going through this BlueHost promotional link.

The trick of Fatcow pricing is that they attract customers by offering a huge discount for the first order, then charge the customers at an expensive price up to $8.99/mo for the renewal. At that time, as many customers using Fatcow website builder, they cannot transfer the sites elsewhere and they have to accept the unresonable price.

Compared to Fatcow, BlueHost charges renewal for $6.95/mo that is reasonable and affordable in the marketplace. In addition, the BlueHost offers much more options for users to build up their websites. If a customer cannot accept the more expensive renewal price, (s)he can choose to transfer elsewhere. BlueHost attracts their customers by the outstanding web hosting service truly.

BlueHost vs Fatcow > Conclusion

Fatcow is cheaper than BlueHost for the first order, but BlueHost is a much better choice that makes over 2 million customers happy today. If you’re looking for a trouble-free web hosting service, BlueHost is the best choice. With the BlueHost ANYTIME money back guarantee, your purchase with BlueHost is absolutely risk-free and worry-free.

To learn more information about BlueHost, visit http://www.bluehost.com/