FastComet

FastComet is a cloud hosting provider founded in 2013, with a co-founder team bringing nearly a decade of experience in the web hosting industry. The company is registered as FastComet Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware, USA (1007 North Orange Street, 4th Floor #255), with an additional presence in San Francisco, California. FastComet is an independent, privately funded company, with no outside investors or venture capital.

From 4 founders in 2013, the company grows to 15 employees in 2015, doubles the team and customer base in 2016, reaches 70 employees and 50,000 active customers in 2018, and now has over 100 employees serving more than 750,000 personal and small-business website owners.

FastComet infrastructure includes 12 data centers across 4 continents: in North America — Dallas TX, Newark NJ, Fremont CA, and Toronto (Canada); in Europe — London UK (since 2014, the largest facility with 10,000+ servers), Frankfurt (Germany), and Milan (Italy, since 2024); in Asia-Pacific — Singapore, Tokyo (Japan), Mumbai (India), and Sydney (Australia); in South America — São Paulo (Brazil, since 2024).

The tech stack runs on LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server (claimed to be 12x faster than Nginx and 84x faster than Apache for WordPress), NVMe SSD storage (7x faster than standard SSD), AMD EPYC CPUs, MariaDB, PHP with OPcache, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 with QUIC, and Brotli compression. The OS is AlmaLinux (since 2021), with CloudLinux for account isolation.

Security is implemented on multiple layers: Imunify360 (full platform with a global defense network), Monarx, ModSecurity WAF (protection against SQL injection, XSS, and zero-day exploits), CloudLinux isolation, SpamExperts email filtering (99,98% accuracy), and machine-learning DDoS protection at L3/L4/L7. All plans include free Let's Encrypt SSL (including Wildcard).

The backup system is distributed offsite, with up to 30 daily copies stored in geographically separate data centers. Full backups cover files, databases, emails, and cron jobs, with incremental restore available. Restores are free and unlimited on shared hosting plans.

The service lineup includes: shared hosting (from $1,79/month promo), WordPress hosting with WordPress Toolkit, managed cloud VPS (from $53,87/month), dedicated servers (from $107,06/month), email hosting (from $2,39/month), domain registration, and SSL. The control panel is cPanel/WHM with 450+ one-click install apps via Softaculous.

Technical support is available 24/7/365 via live chat, phone (US & UK toll-free), and email/tickets. FastComet reports an 83% first-contact resolution rate across 10,000+ requests, with an average response time under 15 minutes. The company is rated 4.9/5 on TrustPilot and ranked #1 on HostAdvice out of 4,250 providers.

FastComet offers a 99.9% uptime SLA guarantee for server availability and 100% for the public network (excluding scheduled maintenance), with 10% credit from the monthly fee for each hour of downtime, up to 100% of the monthly fee. The money-back guarantee is 45 days for shared hosting and 7 days for VPS/dedicated.

The company follows eight core principles: People, Integrity, Respect, Antifragility, Knowledge Sharing, High Standards, Fiscal Responsibility, and Independence. Being privately owned, with no outside investors, lets it stay focused on customer needs. The Cloudflare CDN with 200+ global access points rounds out the infrastructure.