The verdict
FastComet operates 11 data center regions across four continents, giving customers the ability to host close to their audience. It includes free daily backups, a custom dashboard, and 45-day money-back guarantee across all shared and cloud plans.
The full picture
FastComet is a Bulgarian-founded, San Francisco-registered host that competes on two unusual promises. The first is a price-lock: the rate you sign up at is the rate you renew at, for as long as you stay, which removes the single most common complaint about the entire shared hosting industry. The second is geography: eleven data centre locations spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, which is far more than any competitor at its price.
The stack is cPanel on SSD with a free Cloudflare CDN, free daily and weekly backups retained for 7 to 30 days, free domain transfer for life on annual plans, and free migrations. On the cloud VPS side, FastComet sells managed instances with the same panel and support model, which makes upgrading from shared straightforward.
The catch is resource limits. Entry plans cap concurrent connections, processes and inodes tightly, and FastComet enforces those limits rather than quietly overselling. That honesty is good practice and means a busy site needs a higher tier sooner than the marketing implies.
What you get
- 11 global data centers
- Free daily backups
- Free CDN via Cloudflare
- cPanel included
- 45-day money-back
Every hosting type it sells
| Product | From | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Shared hosting | $2.19/mo | FastCloud, FastCloud Plus and FastCloud Extra on cPanel. |
| WordPress hosting | $2.19/mo | Same plans preconfigured with WordPress and caching. |
| Cloud VPS | $59.95/mo | Managed VPS with cPanel, dedicated resources and root access. |
| Dedicated CPU servers | $111/mo | Fully managed dedicated resources across the same regions. |
Plans & pricing
- 1 Website
- 15 GB SSD
- Unlimited Websites
- 25 GB SSD
What the price actually costs you
- The price-lock guarantee means no renewal increase, which is genuinely rare.
- Longer terms still carry a discount, but the renewal rate matches the signup rate.
- Resource limits on the entry tier are enforced rather than oversold.
- A 45-day money-back guarantee applies, longer than the sector norm.
Technical specification
| Control panel | cPanel |
|---|---|
| Web server | Apache with NGINX reverse proxy and caching |
| Storage | SSD on shared, NVMe on current cloud VPS |
| PHP versions | PHP 5.6 through 8.x for legacy compatibility |
| Backups | Free daily and weekly backups, 7 to 30 day retention |
| CDN | Free Cloudflare CDN on every plan |
| SSH access | Yes, on all shared plans |
| Free migration | Free unlimited website transfers, handled by the team |
| Domain | Free domain transfer for life on annual plans |
| Locations | 11 data centres across 4 continents |
| Price lock | Renewal at the signup rate, guaranteed |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% with credits |
Performance in practice
The multi-region footprint is the performance advantage. Putting a shared hosting origin in Tokyo, Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Dallas, Chicago or Newark, and layering a free Cloudflare CDN on top, means visitors almost anywhere get a short round trip. The stack itself is Apache with NGINX caching rather than LiteSpeed, so raw benchmarks are good rather than exceptional, and the tight resource caps on the entry plan are the practical ceiling.
Infrastructure & support
Support channels
- 24/7 live chat
- 24/7 ticket system
- Phone support (business hours)
Data centers
- United States (4 regions)
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- Japan
- India
- Australia
- Canada
Security & compliance
- Free SSL on all domains with automatic renewal
- Free daily and weekly backups with self-service restore
- Multi-layer firewall with real-time malware scanning
- Free Cloudflare integration for DDoS mitigation
- Account isolation between shared hosting tenants
- Two-factor authentication on the client portal
Moving a site in
Free unlimited migrations on every plan, handled by the support team including cPanel and non-cPanel sources. This is one of the more generous migration policies in shared hosting, matched only by Verpex and ChemiCloud.
The trade-off
In its favour
- Wide choice of data center regions
- Free daily backups included
- Responsive live chat support
Worth knowing
- Renewal pricing increases
- Higher tiers needed for real scale
Who should look elsewhere
- High-traffic sites that will hit concurrent-process limits quickly
- Buyers who want LiteSpeed-level shared hosting benchmarks
- Anyone needing a large managed WordPress feature set with staging and Git
- Cloud VPS shoppers on a budget — the VPS range starts high
The company behind it
| Ownership | Privately held, independent |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, with engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Scale | Tens of thousands of customers across 11 global data centres |
| Notable | Price-lock guarantee — no renewal increase, ever |
How it got here
- 2013 Founded with a global multi-region shared hosting model.
- 2016 Introduces the price-lock guarantee on renewals.
- 2018 Expands to data centres in Asia and Australia.
- 2020 Adds free daily backups and a free Cloudflare CDN to all plans.
- 2022 Refreshes the cloud VPS range with NVMe storage.
Common questions
Can I choose my data center location?
Yes, customers can pick from 11 global regions at signup.
The bottom line
The price-lock and the eleven-region footprint together make FastComet one of the most honest offers in shared hosting, especially for audiences outside North America and Europe. Size the plan for your actual traffic rather than the headline rate, because the resource limits are real.