FastHosts Review

Fasthosts has been in the business since 1999 and boasts of a proven track record that includes 1 million domains running smoothly and over 42 million emails are delivered safely on a daily basis. Located in the United Kingdom, FastHosts plays a critical role in pushing British businesses to success with its fast and secure hosting services powered by five data centers and around 70,000 servers. Fasthosts is also one of the largest web hosting providers in the world.

The experienced hosting provider is described as the next-generation cloud platform that lets users build attractive websites and e-shops with their preferred domains, and have those hosted with unparalleled reliability and scalabilty. Fasthosts specializes in cloud servers, web hosting, and dedicated hosting packages, but will also supply interested users with a wide choice of email services (standard email, exchange essentials, Office 365). The company prides itself with one of the best control panels in the industry from where users can manage with ease all of their products and services. To protect your data, Fasthosts enables Private Networks, Firewalls, VPNs, SSL certificates and full server backups; as well as 24/7 monitoring and agent support. Pricing is very affordable, with plans starting at only £2.50 per month.

FastHosts promises to deliver 99.99% availability and uptime to all its sites. The company employs superior hardware and advanced technology to provide users with fast and secure hosting services, including the advanced Ruby on Rails (mod_rails interface) and Python using Phusion Passenger (Web Server Gateway Interface).

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FastHosts offers cPanel and WHM web management tools for fast and easy management and administration of several aspects such content, website and server stats, emails, and files.

Pros

• Impressive pricing plans
• Fast and easy setup

Cons

• Complicated and vague pricing details
• Difficult to cancel hosting subscriptions
• Downtime issues
• Tech Support takes a long time to provide solutions

FastHosts offers UK-based support for their clients. Support channels include telephone lines for sales and support inquiries, email, social media, and traditional post. FastHosts also provides a knowledgebase, PDF guides, and webinars for training. An online community of FastHosts clients is also a good source of information and support.