# FastComet > cPanel shared and WordPress hosting with first-term discounts FastComet is an independent host established in 2013 that sells shared cPanel hosting, managed WordPress hosting on the same plans, cloud VPS and dedicated servers from 11 data centers. Plans run on LiteSpeed Enterprise with Imunify360 security, a malware scanner, daily backups and a WordPress toolkit with staging. Every term has a lower first-term price, after which the plan renews at the regular monthly rate. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** FastComet Inc. (since 2013) - **Website:** https://www.fastcomet.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing FastComet is a paid product, starting at $9.95 per month at renewal (Starter), after a first year at $1.99 a month. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter, 1 month | $9.95 per month at renewal, after a first month at $6.99 | 1 website, 10 GB NVMe, about 10,000 visits a month, 5 email accounts and 7 daily backups kept. | | Starter, 1 year | $9.95 per month at renewal, after a first year at $1.99 a month | The same Starter plan. The first year costs $23.88, paid upfront, then the regular $9.95 a month. | | Starter, 2 years | $9.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 2 years | The same Starter plan. The first 2 years cost $107.77 ($4.49 a month), paid upfront, then $9.95 a month. | | Starter, 3 years | $9.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 3 years | The same Starter plan. The first 3 years cost $118.46 ($3.29 a month), paid upfront, then $9.95 a month. | | Essential, 3 years | $12.95 per month at renewal, after a first term of 3 years | 1 website, 20 GB, about 25,000 visits and 25 email accounts. $161.68 for 3 years ($4.49 a month); a 1-year term is $2.99 a month. | | Extra | $24.95 per month at renewal, after a first term from $5.49 a month | Unlimited websites, 40 GB, about 100,000 visits and 30 daily backups. Plus, below it, is from $3.99 a month, then $17.95. | Read from https://www.fastcomet.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with FastComet before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **First year of Starter for $1.99 a month** (Other savings): Starter's first year is $23.88 ($1.99 a month), 2 years $107.77, 3 years $118.46 or the first month $6.99; then it renews at $9.95 a month. Source: https://www.fastcomet.com/pricing ## Key features - **LiteSpeed and layered caching:** Servers run LiteSpeed Enterprise with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, Memcached, OPcache and Cloudflare CDN caching. - **Imunify360 and malware scanning:** Every plan includes a web application firewall, brute-force protection, Imunify360, malware scans with reports and recovery help for hacked sites. - **WordPress toolkit and staging:** Sites can be cloned to a staging copy on its own database and synced back, and Softaculous keeps installed apps updated automatically. - **Daily backups and Restore Manager:** Daily backups are kept for 7 days on Starter, Essential and Plus and 30 days on Extra, with one-click restores from the Restore Manager. - **Free transfers and setup:** Sites are moved from another host free (one on Starter, up to three on Extra), and support sets up a new website at no charge. - **Choice of data center:** Hosting can be placed in locations including Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai at checkout. ## Good for - Small sites and blogs that want cPanel and LiteSpeed on a budget - Buyers who would rather prepay one year than three for the lowest first-term price - Sites that want hosting close to visitors in Asia or Australia ## Worth knowing - First-term prices end after the term: Starter renews at $9.95 a month, Essential at $12.95, Plus at $17.95 and Extra at $24.95. - Starter and Essential host a single website and cap email at 5 and 25 accounts; unlimited sites start with Plus. - Visits are given as an estimate per plan (about 10,000 a month on Starter), backed by fixed CPU and RAM limits. - Fully managed cloud VPS starts at $53.87 a month for the first term, against a regular $76.95. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. FastComet is straightforward cPanel hosting on LiteSpeed, with daily backups, staging and Imunify360 on every plan, and 11 data centres from Dallas to Mumbai. Two years of Starter cost $107.77 upfront. It then renews at $9.95 a month, and Starter is a single site with 5 email accounts. - **Value for money: A.** Starter's 2-year term is $107.77 upfront, so two years cost about $4.49 a month, under the $5.97 an A needs. It then renews at $9.95. One year at $23.88 plus a year at $9.95 a month would be $143.28. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. The cheapest way in is a first month at $6.99, which isn't free. - **Features: B.** LiteSpeed Enterprise, Imunify360 with malware scans, staging, daily backups with one-click restores, free transfers and setup, and 11 data centres to pick from. Starter's limits are tight, but nothing in the core job is missing. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Support sets up a new site for free, but it's cPanel, so there's still a domain and email to sort. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web panel only. Cloudflare, Imunify360, Softaculous and the apps it installs are named, but no API is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from FastComet's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - FastComet's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 16 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $1.99 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 1 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace FastComet you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.2 is higher than 15 of the 21 other web hosts we grade. It costs $23.88 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and cPanel among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce, cPanel, Softaculous, LiteSpeed Cache, Cloudflare, Imunify360, Magento **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [ChemiCloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chemicloud): Shared cPanel hosting and managed WordPress on LiteSpeed servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chemicloud-vs-fastcomet) - [hosting.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/a2-hosting): Shared hosting from the former A2 Hosting, with an API and MCP server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-fastcomet) - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fastcomet-vs-hostinger) - [SiteGround](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground): Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools. 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