Fatcow RSS feed customers and users reviews at web-hosting-top.com http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com Sat, 26 May 2012 22:19:01 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/layout/wht/images/web-hosting-top-header.jpg http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com Feed provided by http://www.web-hosting-top.com/ en-us (c) 2002 - 2012 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/ Sun, 27 May 2012 07:00:00 +0100 Web Hosting Reviews http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/19789 (1) when you purchased any domain with them and use your credit card to pay. Fatcow releases your information ( fullname and address and teletphone no ) / sell it to other search website. They do this so that they can sell you the ...]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 12:46:21 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/19789 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/19767 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:21:54 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/19767 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/18616
They told me to give them another chance a week ago.
I went for it, got a new plan... they said they improved.
My plan was not set up within one day - I still have limitations (10 MB hdd space and 0.5 GB/month bandwidth) - the offer was all unlimited. Live chat and ticket submitted about this.
Two days after, another chat, they told me a ticket takes 24-48 hours to ...]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:18:23 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/18616 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/17998
PATHETIC! Avoid at all costs.

I've been with these FATCOWS for about 3 months now, and I'm running a very very basic blog with NO vids, NO flash animation, hardly any pictures at all, and yet my page takes up to 15 seconds to appear. I submitted a ticket with them, guess what their response was: NOTHING's ...]]> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:38:54 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/17998 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/15277 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:16:26 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/15277 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14937 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:04:09 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14937 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14813
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS WEB HOST TO ANYONE WITH ANY BRAINS! They rip people off!]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:22:52 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14813 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14729 Worpress is a breeze ...]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:24:38 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14729 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14541 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:36:44 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/14541 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/13851
I have many experience in all kind of hostings , howewer some hosting can be better than others it´s clear for me , but my experience with fatcow it´s ververy bad , terrible

I can agree provider of hosting can be bad , poor , verybad , servers load low , etc okok it´s the hosting and one hosting it´s ok and other hosting better

But in Fatcow lie customers , when i purchase i pay more or less i ...]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:18:24 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/13851 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/13500
The price is pretty ok. I never had to call the support team, so I have no experince regarding that. The uptime is arround 97.8%, not 99.99..]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:51:43 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/13500 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12707
The beginning was smooth when I didn't have any obvious issues. But then I started having issues such as I uploaded a CSS file but it was not updated on the server. It appeared to be updated on www.mysite.com, and then not on http://mysite.com or vice versa. It was confusing and frustrating. So I called up tech support, and found out that their tech support ...]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:46:23 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12707 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12346
After reading through their own tutorials on this issues, and Googling for an hour, I ...]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:12:51 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12346 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12191
"Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later."

I have reinstalled simple machines 5 times. I contacted there support and they told me to use there single click installer. I did that and it still failed. My ...]]> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:04:08 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/12191 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11956 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:38:30 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11956 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11936 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:51:21 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11936 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11836 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:52:48 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11836 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11822 First thing, the only pages on my website that work at all are html based. I spent the first 3 days agonizing over what I thought were improperly installed databases, so I called in some help from my brother in law. Finally after several chats with tech support and a total database and file manager wipe we managed to produce 3 working installed databases (beware files in the file manager like to hang on and ...]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:42:50 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11822 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11599 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:28:53 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11599 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11354 I am PHP-MySQL developer. fatcow.com here PHP session problem, it can solve your self by php,ini

Also session string problem(id).

If you have this problem I can solve it "proglibux[at]gmail.com"]]> Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:36:44 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11354 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11263
I have been talking to support staff throughout the last two weeks trying to resolve the issue and NOTHING has been done.. they have "escalated" the issue to a senior specialist or something of the ...]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:35:14 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11263 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11112
1 year later, I get an invoice from fatcow, and after investigating why, it turns out they had been helping themselves to my credit card!!!

So I canceled the ...]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:36:55 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/11112 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10585 ==========================
Hello,

as I continue to have an unreachable or broken joomla site, I proceed with further details on actions taken from my side:
1) error opening: www.mysite.com
2) I successfuly changed ns1, ns2 at the registrar
3) I went to Control panel -> Domain Pointing Manager: mysite.com subdirectory points to /dira/ or /dirb/ depending on which site I ...]]> Wed, 12 May 2010 18:40:25 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10585 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10462 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:28:31 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10462 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10283 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:23:23 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10283 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10112 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:05:07 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/10112 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9561
Within days of getting my site up and running, I was having problems. Email has been in and out close to weekly. In the almost 3 months I've been a customer, my site has been down at least half that time for no apparent ...]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:47:01 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9561 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9355
Fat Cow has a money back guarantee but I warn you they do NOT stand behind it. They advertise a 99% up time and that isn't true. My partner and I also noticed that when the site ...]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:35:03 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9355 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9199 Once upon a time i used fatcow.com and it was bad really bad.

a.) MYSQL:
-> database errors
-> slow connection
-> server is unavailable or not reachable

b.) server doesn't support resuming

c.) Important: verify the billing console!


d.) Support "LiveChat" is useless! Callcenter without any knowledge.

Everytime the same bla bla bla.
"We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you."

e.) Make a backup of your database: i lost my 4times in 1week !! ...]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:37:16 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9199 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9135 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:42:50 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/9135 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7939
The default e-mail client is AtMail but FatCow is using an extremely outdated version. FatCow ...]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:03:10 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7939 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7936 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:31:18 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7936 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7877 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:11:26 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7877 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7818
UPDATE 11:55 EST

Our Network operations team was able to identify and resolve the conflict causing this problem. Going forward, we may need to restart some of the SQL servers to completely resolve this issue, but that should only cause a brief period of time when your site cannot connect to your database. Thank you for your patience as we work to fully restore service.


We are currently aware of an issue affecting database connectivity. If you use ...]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:15:09 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7818 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7748
NOW - this is the biggest, fraud and scam webHosting site on the market.

Do NOT store your credit card info on their site, I have caught several of their employees using my credit card info, and they go after your CC details very aggresively, presume this is India doing this aspect, as the CC info is quickly sold.

TECH SUPPORT - useless
BILLING - never understands the billing aspect
SALES - will sale you ...]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:37:49 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7748 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7552 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:50:12 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7552 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7465 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:20:58 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7465 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7287 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:51:49 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7287 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7045
Hello,

Thank you for your recent purchase from FatCow.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We have tightened our security measures for credit card processing. Unfortunately, this means that sometimes legitimate credit cards get caught by one of our security checks. Hence, you were unable to activate your account. Please fax ...]]> Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:40:23 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7045 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7041 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:55:21 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/7041 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6851
I feel like they are running a dishonest operation and that they are ...]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:33:21 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6851 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6828
I'm gonna stop uploading my sites right now and stay with my ...]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:12:23 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6828 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6765 On the first month you'll get a very fast query respond but after that you'll need to wait longer, 20 - 35 minutes to reach the tech team.

How have FatCow.com handled any problems?
Not sure, my problems aren't solved yet. I have no visitor but my website is down due to mysql open connection problem.

What kind of customer is this host suitable for?
For dummies

Would you recommend FatCow.com to friends?
NEVER!!!

For those who are trying ...]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:10 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6765 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6081
I found their advertising misleading with regards to "domain for life" feature. Also, the free website creator (CM4all - limited version) had features (such as a media page) missing but this is not clear when you sign up for the deal. CM4all is billed as very user friendly but there ...]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:26:16 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/6081 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5581 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:52:51 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5581 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5292
Tech support denies there is a problem and refused to fix anything.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON ...]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:58:13 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5292 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5249
What a mistake. It seems I'm going to be leaving them soon.]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:00:14 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5249 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5247 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:15:39 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/5247 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/4958 Fri, 15 May 2009 12:46:07 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/4958 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/4666 Citing... Refunds made for a thirty (30) day money-back guarantee will not include domain registration fees or setup fees, nor will they include any fees for additional ...]]> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:15:53 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/4666 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/3831
Setting up MySQL connectivity to the site is impossible - I spent countless hours trying to tinker with the PHP settings and on the phone/chat/email with customer support to find out why I could not access my databases from my website. The customer support was awful and marked my issue as "resolved" without having fixed a thing. I ended up ...]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:10:20 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/3831 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/3471
They have turned into SCAM ARTISTS.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:35:03 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/3471 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2929 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:21:36 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2929 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2199 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:02 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2199 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2108 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:36:08 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/2108 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/1887 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:52:17 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/1887 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/1836 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:17:09 +0100 http://www.web-hosting-top.com/reviews/fatcow.com/1836