FatCow vs iPage

The best way to choose hosting company is by doing comparison to achieve perfect hosting provider for the website. Let us now compare FatCow with iPage and understand in what ways FatCow is better than iPage. To know the answer let us look into this interesting topic.

Background:

FatCow has managed to stay strong as a company; they now serve as host to more than 300,000 websites from around the world. FatCow offers shared web hosting which is suitable for small to medium sized business owners. If you are looking for an affordable shared web hosting package and you would like to take advantage of company which is considered to be “Green” in the web hosting industry with good quality support and technology then you will never go wrong when choosing the services offered by FatCow. FatCow started way back in 1998 and the company is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before venturing into this business, FatCow analyzed the current web hosting packages in various aspects and found that many hosting companies are using offers in order to encourage the public to sign up for their service, the worst thing is they do provide what they say, some companies have bad customer support. So FatCow decided to make a huge impression in the web hosting industry by developing a simple approach along with a quality offering and friendly customer service and yes, it was done in a good way.

iPage is also in the business since 1998 and has hosted over one million sites but FatCow has consistent rating and has won several industry awards.

Hosting Plan:

FatCow offers one package with unlimited disk space, domains, emails and bandwidth. They also have a MiniMoo plan for domain parking. Domain Parking is the registration of domain name without using it for services such as e-mail or website. This is done to reserve the domain name for future development with the belief that it will give profit.

iPage also provides hosting plan with unlimited disk space, domains and bandwidth but it is not offering domain parking which is a drawback in iPage.

Basic Features:

In addition to the unlimited disk space and bandwidth FatCow includes tools to help build the website. They also have wizards to add open source applications and easy to install forums and blogs. Apart from this they also have great features for e-commerce sites including E-Store Builder and Free Google and Yahoo! Credits.

iPage also have tools for site building, wizards, features for e-commerce and ad credits but these are not much effective than FatCow.

Pricing:

FatCow is one of the best values at $3.67/mo. (which you can get through the discount link) for the main plan and $5/year for domain parking where as iPage offers the plan at the rate of $3.50/mo. FatCow offers a good service time when compared to iPage, so it is sure that the cost is little bit more in FatCow than iPage. Also you have lucky chance to win a car if you sign up with FatCow which is not possible with iPage. Both the providers are of Green Hosting.

DataCenter Facilities:

FatCows’ datacenter is considered to be the best as it has very high quality datacenter that combines with several features. FatCow has Dual Routers which supports the hosting plan with great redundancy. For security they have top line Cisco PIX firewall. For improved reliability they have NetApp storage clusters. To enhance performance they have a new gigabit network connection. Together makes the FatCow an extremely secure and reliable web hosting provider. They have high quality data centers with 24/7 facility monitoring.

iPages’ datacenter uses a pooled server environment so that any server on their network will have the ability to access website files when requested. They use AT&T and Global Crossing IP backbones.

Server:

Both the hosting providers uses vDeck control panel except the fact iPage uses vDeck 3.0 where as FatCow uses the latest version vDeck 4.0, by this time you would have concluded that latest version always comes with advanced technologies when compared to old, and so FatCow control panel works good than iPage. FatCow uses Linux servers and has daily backups and  load balancing platforms.

Customer Support:

In FatCow the customers has several ways to contact the support team which includes 24/7 toll free, email and live chat. They also have FAQ library, knowledge base section and tutorials where as iPage also supports their customers through phone, live chat, email and ticker systems. The best thing in FatCow is they promise with the Heitercratic Oath which says, call back in seven days, call answering in two minutes, phone support exclusives in North America, resolve the issue or set a deadline; if they fail in their deadline then they will provide you with an account credit equal to one month of hosting. We cannot expect this type of guarantee from iPage, so FatCow has high quality customer support than iPage.

Top 10 Reasons of why should you choose FatCow instead of iPage:

Website Hosting: FatCow uses robust technology which includes everything you need to put your personal or business site online and you can manage it for years to come.

100% Wind-Powered Web Hosting: Offices and data centers are all 100% powered by wind energy, and the users can be proud of the machines hosting their website and email which are fully eco-friendly!

Point & Click Site Building Tools: You don’t want to have a programming or HTML experience; you can create a professional looking decent website with just a few clicks using the variety of themes and templates we provide.

Integrated Google Webmasters Tools: This tool gives you a detailed description of your pages’ visibility on Google which comes under FatCow plan!

Application Installation Wizards: You can add variety of applications to your site with our simple to use installation wizards.

Online Store and Selling Tools: These tools helps you to sell online shopping carts, catalogs with coupon and sales options, PayPal integration, you can even accept credit cards online.

Email: You can increase your professional image by customizing your email address, plus you can check your mail from anywhere.

Free Advertising: FatCow gives $125 in free advertising in major search engines such as Google and Yahoo!, and for the popular social networking site, Facebook.

Friendly Moo Crew Support: Moo Crew is available 24/7 via phone, email and online chat plus we back our promises with the Heifercratic Oath.

By keeping all the above points in mind we can come to a conclusion that FatCow is better than iPage in all ways.