FatCow is a web hosting company that is very economical for a small or medium level business and really exerts the effort to give good service to the small company. They are excellent in customer service according to reviews at ReviewIt Online and NewsMonster.org, though upperhost reviews their technical support as hard to contact.
Currently, they have an offer to create your site and pay only $5.50 each month. FatCow have a limited time offer for a free domain name, which doesn’t compare well with other webhosting sites that offer free domain names on a regular basis. These are some of the free things you get with a FatCow account: fifty dollars in Google AdWords credits, Google webmaster tools, search credits worth $25,00 for Yahoo, a ShopSite shopping cart, guestbook, WordPress, phpBB, and RatePoint.
For the price of $66.00 per year you get unlimited disk space, POP mailboxes, ftp users and subusers, and bandwidth, free script barn, free domain name (but it is a limited time offer), site builder, store tools, 24/7 customer support, blogs, seventy-five dollars in search engine credits, photo galleries, 30-day money back guarantee, and your server is SSL secure. There aren’t any setup fees and your account is immediately activated.
FatCow provides a complete hosting solution, their site building tools are point and click, their install wizards for various applications are easy to use and give explicit instructions. FatCow offers different selling tools like credit card acceptance, integration with PayPal, coupons, and catalogs. The tutorials cover: account management, domain registration and services, e-commerce, e-mail and regular mail, management of e-mail, Microsoft exchange, resellers, scripting, management of site, and add-ons.
The FatCow other resources are: downloads that include six web authoring tools, two file transfer tools, four links that help you with searching domain names, give you a good well developer’s resource, a platform that is free and helps you test your web design for different browsers. In their tips they offer links to Perl tutorials, Visualware, and tutorials for FrontPage.
The website management help gives instruction concerning configuring using Website Creator, statistics, troubleshooting, how-to configure ShopSite and other information. To help with all aspects of e-mail there is a knowledgebase, tutorials, and mail related information that helps you get started. There are tutorials and knowledgebase for help with domains. You can get help by submitting a ticket if you can’t find your answers otherwise. The FatCow Web Concierge Service cost $99.95 a month and this service helps the client to manage their FatCow account and spend up any support tickets. You can also call sale or support and use live chat to answer your questions.
The marketing services at FatCow include: SEO, e-mail marketing, a FatCow Community Directory, and many other options like LogoMaker, other directories, voiceover services and so on. They also offer iYogis subscriptions for $119.99 for yearly subscriptions. These techies are experts in language, have great listening skills, and they have excellent technical expertise. They are required to have Microsoft certification.