FatCow vs JustHost

There are many companies in the web hosting industry but there are always seems to be a few hosts that stand out from the crowd. In this concern, some that come into our mind are FatCow and JustHost. When we consider these two hosts both the companies offer highly valuable services at very affordable prices. So making a decision is a quite difficult, any ways let us try to understand who is best from the below comparison.

Pricing:

As it is mentioned above both the companies are well known for its affordable prices. To be honest, there are not many companies with can match up with the price of FatCow’s $4.83/mo. hosting package, where as the price of JustHost is $3.45/mo, though there is a slight difference between these hosts, the solutions are nearly identical in terms of value and power.

Products and Services:

Choosing a hosing plan is very easy but it depends on what we have chosen, sometimes both the hosts confuses with their same simple straightforward solutions. When we look into FatCow and JustHost, FatCow takes care of personal or business needs with its industry renowned original Fat Cow plan while JustHost has two packages to choose from, the biggest difference in this area is FatCow’s additional services such as domain registration, website design and scripting add-ons which you don’t have with JustHost.

FatCow Hosting includes Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Free Domain Name, Simple-to-use site builders, Easy Online store tools, Blogs, photo galleries, legendary support, and apart from all these things an exclusive thing is their “Green Hosting”. JustHost Hosting includes Unlimited GB’s of space, Unlimited GB’s of Transfer, Unlimited Domain Hosting, Unlimited E-Mail Accounts, Unlimited MySQL Databases, Free Site Builder and Domain for life, the major difference comes here is JustHost is not Green Hosting where as FatCow is Green.

Win a Car with FatCow – Exclusive!!

This is an another exclusive offer provided by FatCow for their customers, if you sign up with FatCow then we will automatically enter you into our “Host Smart, Drive Smart”, not only you will make a smart choice in web hosting you could also drive away with a smart prize. Such offers are not available with JustHost; you can have this chance to win only with FatCow.

FatCows’ Robust:

FatCows’ Robust – all in one hosting solution includes everything you need to put your business or personal site online and to manage it for years to come. Robust is the quality of being able to withstand stresses, pressures or changes in procedure or circumstance. A system, organism or design may be said to be “robust” if it is capable of coping well with variations in its operating environment with minimal damage, alteration or loss of functionality. This procedure is not followed in JustHost.

Web Hosting Features:
Here comes the most vital part of our comparison: the features. You can get all the high features when you sign up with FatCow or JustHost. This includes Free Site Builders (this gives you a chance to test your net writing skills, one of the best things about this is in a few clicks of the mouse, you can easily change the appearance of the site – the templates, colors, fonts, etc., without ever having to retype the information, this is an extremely easy to use online website builder for creating small sites), FrontPage support (A simple tool that allows non-technical users to specify and run acceptance tests for software systems, it is designed to hide the details of pages’ HTML code from the user, making it possible for beginners to easily create web pages and sites), Unlimited MySQL Databases (It is a relational database management system that runs as a server which provides multi-user access to a number of databases and several high traffic websites use this for data storage and logging of user data) and server side scripting languages such as PHP (It is a widely used general purpose scripting language which is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML) , Perl (It is a highly capable, feature-rich dynamic programming language and facilitates easy manipulation of text files which is also used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the web) and Ruby on Rails (It is an open source web application framework which is used by wed developers for rapid development). Some features which are missing in JustHost side are a 60-day free trial subscription to the RatePoint Service (Captures, manages and promotes real customer feedback and reviews, and stay connected with customers) and most notably Google webmaster tools (Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility in Google).

100% Wind Powered Web Hosting – FatCow

Both the offices and data centers are all 100% powered by wind energy. You can be proud that the machines hosting your websites are fully eco-friendly, you will not get this pride in JustHost, as they follow a normal web hosting.

Customer Service:

We strongly give high priority to customer support and we think you should too. As you have read in the web, many horror stories which tells about the customer’s feedback who are dealing with less than desirable support team. Despite the company’s guarantees some do not offer what they advertised but with FatCow and JustHost you will not come across such problems. You will definitely not experience such horrible problems as we deliver excellent support from multiple angles. When things get rough you can still get assistance by toll-free phone, email or support ticket. We also provide you with FAQs, knowledge bases and video tutorials so that you can find your own way. In FatCow they follow Heifercratic Oath which means when you have a question or technical issue,

• Call you within first seven days.
• Answer your call in less than two minutes, on average, each day.
• Provide phone support based exclusively in North America.
• Resolve your issue when you first contact us or set a firm deadline to follow up with you.
• Maintain a pleasant support experience by remaining friendly at all times.
• Adhere to the highest training standards.
• Continually review and improve our support experience by sending you a follow-up survey.

If you feel that you have not satisfied we will provide you with an account credit equal to one month of hosting.

Control Panel of FatCow and JustHost:

FatCow uses vDeck and JustHost uses cPanel both control panel have their group of users and they are very royal to it. We thought that cPanel provides all the necessary features until we found vDeck control panel. With the latest vDeck 4.0, it is more impressive and it is clearly stated that its website control panel is more user friendly which is very interesting to use which is packed with all the features that you need and it comes with free tools which you will find useful for your website. And yes, vDeck is already improving the version 4.0 and it has become the favorite control panel.

Google Custom Search Engine in FatCow:

It helps the website visitors to find what they are looking for by adding search capabilities to your site. You need not to be a programmer to create a search engine – all you need to do is simply leverage Google’s technology! You can also set Custom Search which makes the visitors to stay on your website as we can custom to search your site only. Adding Google Customer Search to your site is a quick and easy and it is now free with FatCow. Using this you can automatically generate a search engine for your website or blog, tailor the search engine to fit your needs, customize the search results pages with your logo and your website’s look and feel, earn money by participating in Google’s AdSense program. This feature is not available in FatCow.

Carbonite Online Backup in FatCow: This service is available to both Windows and Mac users that provide unlimited backup space to consumers and small business.

Load Balanced Platforms: Load balancing technology means balancing a workload amongst multiple computer devices. It is technique to distribute workload evenly across two or more computers in order to get an optimal resource utilization to maximize throughput and to minimize the response time so that it will avoid the overload.

Conclusion: On the whole when we look into the features of FatCow and JustHost, FatCow serves best in everything. JustHost has started very recently and it cannot beat the experience of FatCow in any way and yes the experience speaks greater than anything. Hence we would strongly recommend FatCow.