Today we will talk about Fast Comet Detailed Review and whether it can be an alternative of Siteground
Fastcomet is a hosting company that is getting popular day by day
It wasn’t popular previously but nowadays it is grabbing some attention for good reasons
Today we will do a detailed review A to Z and see whether it is worth it or not
We will also see the plans and the discounts on them
Let’s start with the company, it started in 2013 and there are 70+ employees
There are 50,000 personal and small business website owners employees
It is a relatively new company
They have invested and have done expenses in infrastructure and hosting
If you go to their About Us page, you will see their management team
We can know who all are there in the management and customer support team
I am happy to see their about us page
So when you will log in, this page will open up and here is the dashboard
Below is the overview and you can see the active products
The two hosting plans are Fast Cloud+ and Fast Cloud Extra
You can see as I have taken this plan
6 April is the due date for renewing it on 2021
I will click on CPanel and enter my password and I will do my entries
Likewise, you have CPanel and Sitebuilder
The good thing is the view resource usage
Here you can see how much resource has been used and what all are empty
This will help you to make a decision to upgrade
You can see there are no resources used
So it is a good dashboard, according to me it can be simplified further
So the 2 websites that I have hosted 1st one on Fast Comet+
and 2nd one on Fast Comet Extra
These two websites are hosted on Mumbai’s Data Center
Now I will talk about Server Response Time
I have seen a good speed in Bangalore 2ms and Singapore has 0.59ms
London has 1.25ms and overall it has A+ Performance
I have seen this performance in Fast Cloud Extra
So both of them have a good server response time
Talking about its speed, I have done 2 different tests
I have done one test by Cache Plugin which is by W3Total Cache
And another test is without Cache Plugin
When I used it with Cache Plugin, the speed I have got in Plus was 940ms
The Speed in extra was 798ms which was good
When I removed the Cache Plugin, the speed in the plus plan was 2.3s and Extra Plan had 1.6s
Speed is good, I have no complaints regarding it
If I talk about its uptime, the FastComet+ I have seen downtime of 1 minute in the last 30-40dyas
If I talk about FastComet Extra I have not seen any downtime till now, there has been 100% uptime
So I have seen good uptime here
Cache Manager would be available in their premium shared hosting plans which come in the name of Fast Comet Extra
So here is the Varnish, OPCache and all other plans are available in the premium plans of Fast Cloud Extra
Now coming onto its Load Test
I have kept 2 scenarios: One with Cache plugin and other without a Cache plugin
When I used the CachePlugin so I sent the traffic to FastComet+
50 active users went and it handled correctly
It handled requests well, the blue line is almost the same,
The average response time is 15ms which is very good,
So performance-wise load test is 10/10, I have no problem in it
Likewise when I tested on FastComet Extra, so I have got a good performance
The average response time is a bit less
There were no HTTP failures, they have attended all my requests
The average response time was 11.32ms
When I did the same test without the Cache Plugin, so I got to see the results here
This is the Fast Comet+ dashboard
As you can see when I sent the 30 virtual users, the response time spiked suddenly
It went to 7ms and then it came down suddenly
And you can see there were some HTTP Failures
So when I did the same test on the Fast Comet extra plan,
You can see many fluctuations in the blue lines
But iI don’t have any problem as there is no sudden increase
It is under 1s, the average response time is 182ms and there are no HTTP Failures
So through the load test, we are able to find out that the Fast Comet Extra Plan is able to handle more load
There are more resources allocated to handle the traffic spike
If I talk about its Data Centers, there are 11 Data Centers in UK, USA, Japan, and Europe
In India, it has its Data Center in Mumbai, which is a good thing
Backups are available for 7 days in Plus Plan
Extra Plan provides 30 days backup
Both are off-server offsite backups
The restoration process is one kick
But you will have to restore file system and database separately
According to me, this should have been combined, that in one click, both the file system and database must have been restored
So there is a minor scope of improvement
Inode count in Plus Plan is 3.5 lakh
Extra Plan has 5 lakh inode, which is decent for a shared hosting
You get Free SSL in both of the plans for unlimited websites
Customer Support is 24×7 Live Chat Support, which is fast right now
But I think that as users will increase, it may slow down
At present, it is very fast, I got a reply within 5 minutes
They are technically sound, as they responded to my technical questions very well
The customer support is technically sound, it has live chat and it is very fast,
You dont get any phone option
Talking about the pricing, they come with 3 plans
They are talking about shared hosting
But there are Fast Cloud, Fast Cloud+ and Fast Cloud Extra, all these are by Fast Comet
As you can see
There is a special offer due to COVID-19, you won’t see this offer again
This is available for $1 per month, so if you need this for testing then it is a good plan
It is not very costly
There are Fast Cloud+ and Fast Cloud Extra
You can see both have a good performance
If you use them with Cacheplugin you will get a good speed
So the best value for money plan is both the plans: Fast Cloud+ and Fast Cloud Extra
If you have more traffic, you can go to Fast Cloud Extra
Both have backups, for 7 and for 30 days
There is one point related to pricing, and that is, you are getting a 70% discount
This discount is not for 3 years
This discount applies each year: 1st year 70% off, 2nd year 70% off and so on
Refund policy is for 45 days
It is usually for 30 days in other hosting but here you will find it for 45 days
For payment, you will have to use PayPal or Credit Card
Talking about the renewal price, you will have to pay 70% extra
It usually happens in other hostings, where renewal price is extra
So here you will have to pay more, so try to take plans for the long term, the max you can take for 3 years
In domains, you get free domain transfer
Which is not very much useful, you can keep it where it is
There is no free domain
Previously they used to give lifetime domains until you keep their domains but now it is not like that
So be careful, don’t be confused, you won’t get any free domain
You get to see a free temporary domain which is forever until you keep the hosting
Migration has one plus point, that they provide free migration
But compared with other hostings where only 1 migration is allowed, they give 3 migrations
In software, you get the support of the latest CPanel, PHP 7.4, Perl, Python, NodeJs Larvel
There are developer tools like GIT, Bash, WP-CLI, so it is developer-friendly and it supports many languages
Sitebuilder is okayish
Talking about its security, they take any extra steps and their hosting is not hacked till now
Emails have unlimited Hosting
If I compare it with Siteground, if I think of it as an alternative to it
I think it is the best option against Siteground
FastComet is a new company
It doesn’t have customers compared to Sitegorund
It is a relatively small company when compared to Siteground
But at present, it is giving a tough competition
Apart from all the hostings I have seen, this is the first hosting which has come close in terms of customer care and support and in terms of hosting also
If I compare its pricing with Sitegrond,
Siteground has Growbig Plan which you can get for 25k, which is $6 per month
If I compare with $4.5 plan where they are giving a limit of 50k unique visitors per month
Fastcomet has better pricing and they are giving more features
If I talk about the renewal pricing they have a 70% increase
If you will go to GoGeek Plan which is providing 1lakh monthly visits
The renewal price is of $35
Whereas in $20 you will find the price of Fast Cloud Extra
So Fast Cloud is cheap compared to Siteground and it provides more resources
So if in future, the Fast Comet easily handles their new customers, if they have good customer support
I think it can be a good competitor to Siteground
I am watching over a website and I think there is a close competition among them
But at present, this is the leading competitor against Siteground
Talking about its pros, there is a good speed, good uptime, good customer care support and they easily handle the load on the website
Talking about the cons, you get less space
If I come onto the plus plan, I get only 25GB SSD Space
In Fast Cloud Extra, only 36GB SSD Space is available
So it is a bit less if you have a heavy website,
If you have video or image websites, so this can be the space limit
Same limitations would be there in Siteground
Now jumping onto the bottom line
I think Fast Comet is a relatively small company if we compare it with Site ground or A2 Hosting
But the investment they have done on their infrastructure and customer is very good
And I think they are trying to provide the best value for money option to us
If you are searching for an alternative to Siteground, then this is the good one
It will provide more features and more resources with less price
So Fast Comet is a good option
That will be all for this one