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FastComet More Than Fastest Web Hosting : Features & Cons Review

A Little Background From FastComet

Was founded in 2013.

Official page: www.fastcomet.com

Starting with just four members, they have experienced significant growth until their team has grown to more than 100 people in 2019.

Not only that, in 2019 they also managed to gather at least 100,000+ active customers and already have 11 data centers spread around the world.
 
Image from fastcomet data center

And now we can compare Fastcomet with siteground.

So that everything is clearer, here we submit the review.



FastComet Pro

FastComet is known for having almost all types of hosting services you need.

There are special options for WordPress, Joomla and many more, all offered for the same price as standard shared hosting services.

But for those who are just looking for a standard hosting solution for their website of any size, FastComet offers the "big three" services you can use: shared, VPS and dedicated hosting.

This review is based on the data we collected from our test site which is hosted using FastComet's services. Here we will look at the benefits of FastComet:


    1. Fast Support (Rate: 9/10)

FastComet is very confident in the quality of the support they have.

They say support is one of the main reasons customers rate FastCloud as the best hosting provider.

For information, FastCloud has 3 levels of support, starting with level 1, level 2 and level 3 (senior support). They will make sure you are served by the right person based on the competence of the problem you are having.

And they also claim that out of 10,000 media, 85% can be completed in less than 15 minutes.

Pretty promising, right?

You must know that FastComet has also received several awards for best customer service in 2019 from HostAdvice.

To see what FastComet support looks like, we tested support via live chat and tickets.

Through the live chat, Vasil T. replied to our message in less than 3 minutes. I only asked basic questions on how to create subdomains. He quickly answered my questions, also addressed to the relevant guides. 

You need to know, FastComet support is always free, this is their initial commitment. Support is provided even more than hosting providers in general.

They made the comparison in a table:

Table of support services from fastcomet



    2. Fast Average Load Time

 Average load time FastComet is reliable - the test site uptime was over 99.99% in the last six months. The image below shows our test site's 30-day uptime record for January / February 2020.
 
FastComet Uptime January / February 2020: 100%
 

How does FastComet ensure the stability of its servers? well, FastComet guarantees a minimum uptime of 99.9% and checks the status of all servers every 60 seconds.



UptimeTo ensure that every user has access to the provided CPU and RAM, FastComet applies resource quotas to the shared hosting plan.

Average speed over the past 12 months:


For example, limitation on FastCloud plan:
  • DB request execution time: Up to 1 second
  • Concurrent connection: 20
  • Bandwidth usage per month: 2042 MB - 30720 MB Interval
  • minimum cron job: 30 minutes
  • Average CPU usage per day: 40%
  • Number of processes: 40
  • Script execution: 1K / hour, 10K / day, 300K / month
  • Database table size: 125 MB
  • Inode: 350,000
  • Database size: 350 MB

 FastComet Host Monitoring: Observer Tools


System Observer Monitoringprovides comprehensive information about your hosting account resources. For example, you can check your bandwidth and inode as well as script execution per month in "Observer" (Go to Dashboard> Observer)

    3. Choice of eleven server locations

FastComet has worldwide data centers and allows all users to select their server location during subscription.

Not many hosting providers offering a choice of as many FastComet-owned server locations.

They have 11 data centers around the world.

In 2019, FastComet added 2 server locations (to 9 existing) to make it 11 server locations in total. The 2 new locations added are Toronto (USA) and Mumbai (IN).



    4. Up to 45 days Guarantee

FastComet is one of the few hosting providers that offers a longer warranty period, similar to hosting companies such as InMotion Hosting and Hostgator.

The money back guarantee trial period is 45 days, which is much longer than the average 30 day trial period offered by most hosting companies around the world.

Get a 45-day money back guarantee on the shared hosting plan with no cancellation fees.

 
Try FastComet risk-free for the first 45 days!



5. Free daily backup daily backup

You will surely have problems with the site that threaten to undermine all the hard work you have done. Even if you've been playing for a while, it will happen to everyone.

But it doesn't matter if you use FastComet.

  • First, they offer free daily backups. This is almost unheard of on budget "value" packages.
  • Second, they'll keep this backup for you, offsite securely for up to 30 full days.
  • third : they will help you restore an old version of your site with one click (if needed).

You can get this service in all FastComet hosting packages, even if you only buy a standard hosting service. It's a great service to us when there is a problem with your web data, so you don't have to be afraid when the problem occurs.

The last 1 week daily backup

However, there are slight differences in backups for each package, where FastCloud and FastCloud Plus packages can only access backup files in the past 7 days, while FastCloud Extra is up to 30 days ago.


    6. Reliable security

FastComet pays close attention to the security system of its customers' websites.

They protect their servers with a variety of tools to keep your website safe even in the event of malicious hacker attacks.

How do you know that on shared hosting your website will be placed on other websites on the same server, which means your website will share hosting or resources with other websites (unless you are using a VPS hosting service).

The worst possibility is that when another website gets "infected" with malware, your website is very likely to get infected with malware as well.

However, to best keep your website safe, FastComet will isolate your website from other websites, such as hosting your website on a VPS, so when another website is 'infected', the your website will not be affected or will remain secure.

These are the other security features of FastComet.


    7. Free one year renewal on domain name

Yes, you read that correctly.

Register for a domain name through FastComet and you will have it forever .

We looked at over thirty other hosts and this is the only time we remember seeing these benefits.

Of course, most other hosting companies will happily sell you a domain name. They might even throw in the first year for free or shell out some cash to sweeten the deal.

So what happens?

After the first year is over, they give you a renewal fee. You obviously won't get a new domain name after that, right?

So they took advantage of it. The first year can cost just a few dollars, but subsequent years can cost 3-5 times the introductory price.

This is an example of FastComet's honest and transparent pricing transparency.


    8. Free Cloudflare CDN

FastComet will also include the free Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) in their base plan.

The Content Delivery Network will host your data on all servers around the world, so it will be uploaded almost instantly for anyone, anywhere.

Most cloud hosting dellebasecompanies don't even offer this service in their plans. And if so, you'll have to pay a few extra bucks like an expensive upsell.

But not at FastComet, They will give it for free or for free.

In addition to being open source friendly with over 150 applications, FastComet is one of the best options for new businesses to get started as fast as possible.


    9. Internal site builder with more than 40 ready-made widgets and more than 350 themes

With the FastComet website service, you can easily create professional looking websites; is a great drag and drop tool thatuse anyone can even without technical skills.

There are more than 350 templates and 40 widgets to choose from to get your creativity started.


Theme ready-madein FastComet Site Builder. Note that most of these are modern themes that you will actually use for your website.


Conclusions:



Try FastComet risk-free for the first 45 days!


Cons of FastComet

Actually FastComet is a great hosting option.

However, I found that they haven't had a stable server in the 3 months of monitoring I did.

    1. Overall average uptime is good, it's just a few months of instability.



Do we recommend FastComet?

FastComet surprised us with several factors besides its relatively low price, which we clearly recommend.

Uptime is one of the strongest we've found. Customer service is friendly and fast. with an additional free domain option.

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