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FatCow Web Hosting Review by Shawn Hawkes
Shawn Hawkes' Rating of FatCow: Great
Shawn Hawkes wrote us a positive review of FatCow.
Shawn's Review was posted on: 01/04/2012
Here is his FatCow shared hosting review:
I am running 5 sites on FatCow hosting. Actual page serving time is ok. Not great. You getunlimited bandwidth, disk space, and email addresses which is great.
However, you get what you pay for I guess. It's a 50% chance some days that my MySQL database connections will fail. I have a tester script set up to test the DB connections every 5 minutes. I get at least 5 emails a day about it failing. That is not a good thing.
And, if you open a support ticket with them, you'll get someone who has no idea what they are talking about. My primary site which is a wiki, just got converted over to PmWiki, which uses no database. Now, I get decent performance and couldn't be happier with FatCow.
Two other sites have forums (PHPBB3 and SMF), and I am always getting at least one email a day from each telling me they have database connection issues. Tech support says to check my passwords and user names, even after telling them I changed nothing.
So, if you are technically savvy, and don't need a Database? FatCow should be fine. Do you need a database for your site, and need a bit of technical hand-holding? Find someone else.
Biggest Pro: Lot's of bandwidth, great static page performance.
Biggest Con: MySQL is not reliable.
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