Rocket.net Alternative: With Email And Hardware We Own
If you are looking for a Rocket.net alternative, the comparison is genuinely close and worth doing carefully. Rocket.net puts Cloudflare Enterprise in front of every site, which is a real advantage. Against that: their Starter plan is $30 a month unless you commit to a year, they do not do email at all, and the machines your site sits on are not theirs.
Three Things We Do That Rocket.net Does Not
$25 a month, without the annual tie
Rocket.net Starter is $30 month to month, and $25 only if you pay for a year up front. Ours is $25 either way, so you keep the option to leave.
Email on your own domain
Mailboxes set up from the FastCow panel on every plan. Rocket.net states plainly that it does not offer an email service, so that is a separate subscription somewhere else.
Hardware we own, in places we name
Dallas and the UK, on our own machines. The person replying to your ticket can get into the box your site is running on.
FastCow And Rocket.net, $25 Against $30
Five dollars a month apart, and one row where they beat us outright.
How this was put together. The FastCow column is what we sell. The Rocket.net column is taken from their own pricing page, including the line about email and the row they win. Sources: rocket.net and their pricing page. Last reviewed August 2026. If something here has changed, send it over and we will amend it. Our full set of comparisons is written to the same rules.
A Fast Edge Does Not Update Your Plugins
Cloudflare Enterprise at the bottom of their range is a genuinely strong offer and this page has already said so twice. It also does nothing at all about the work that actually eats an afternoon, which happens at the origin and inside WordPress.
Core, plugin and theme updates
Ours to run and ours to fix. The single most common way a WordPress site breaks is an update nobody was watching.
A plugin took the site down
That is a WordPress fault rather than a hosting fault, and most platforms will say so. It is the middle of our job description.
A vulnerable plugin got you hacked
Daily scanning, automatic cleanup, and someone who goes through the install with you afterwards so it does not happen twice.
Email on your domain, included
Set up from the panel in a couple of minutes. Rocket.net does not offer it at all, so that is one fewer subscription and one fewer login.
None of it is a tier and none of it needs an annual commitment. It is what the entry plan does on day one. More on Guru Support and managed WordPress hosting.
Three Reasons To Pick Rocket.net Over Us
Their edge network beats ours. Three times that is worth more than the price gap.
You want Cloudflare Enterprise included
Three hundred and thirty edge locations with enterprise features, at the bottom of their range, is a genuinely strong offer. Our own network is 119+ PoPs. If edge footprint decides it, they win and the five pounds a month is neither here nor there.
Your audience is spread across Asia and Europe
Ten regions against our two. If your traffic is thin and global rather than concentrated in the UK and US, that matters more than anything else on this page.
You already have email sorted elsewhere
If your mail is on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 and staying there, the email row above is worth nothing to you and you should ignore it.
Coming Over From Rocket.net, Mail And All
The extra step here is email, because you are probably running it somewhere else. We set your mailboxes up as part of the move.
Send The Login
We take it from there. The audit comes back to you with anything worth knowing before a single file is copied.
Check The Copy, And The Mailboxes
A private URL with the site on it, plus your email on your own domain ready to test. Send yourself something before you commit.
Move The Records
DNS for the site and the mail, both given to you in one list. SSL issues itself and nothing goes dark in between.
Our Own Machines, And Our Own Company
Owning the hardware and owning the company are the same argument made twice. Both are about how many other people have to agree before something gets fixed, and both are the reason a small host can answer a question a large one has to escalate.
The hardware is ours
Dallas and the UK, on machines FastCow bought and runs. Nothing is rented from a platform whose roadmap we do not control.
The company is ours
Privately owned, self-funded, no VC board and no outside shareholders steering anything.
No funding round, no timetable
Nobody is waiting on a return with a date attached, so there is nothing to service and no reason to hurry a price rise.
Not for sale
Built to keep, not to flip. What you sign up on is what you renew on.
Every item there is on the entry plan, with no annual term to unlock it. FastCow Hosting Limited, 39 C/O FastCow Hosting, Jefferson Close, London, England, IG2 6RZ. One company, one product, one place to complain. About FastCow and why that matters.
See What $25 A Month Buys You Here
Tell us where your visitors are and what your mail is on. If your traffic is genuinely global and your email is already sorted elsewhere, we will tell you they are the better fit and that the five dollars is not worth moving for.
Rocket.net Alternatives, Answered Fairly
Weighing edge network against email and support? Tell us the site and we will help.
Talk to us →No. Their pricing page states directly that they do not offer an email service with their hosting, so mailboxes on your domain need a separate provider such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. FastCow includes email on every plan, set up from the panel.
Month to month, yes. Rocket.net Starter is $30 a month at the standard rate and $25 only if you pay for a year up front. FastCow is $25 either way, so the saving is five dollars a month and the freedom to leave whenever you like. On an annual commitment the two are level, and the comparison comes down to what is in the box rather than the price.
At the edge, for a globally spread audience, probably. Cloudflare Enterprise across 330 locations is a wider network than our 119+ PoPs and we are not going to argue with the arithmetic. For UK and US traffic the practical difference is much smaller than the numbers suggest.
No. Our engineers copy the site across and hand you a temporary URL to check it on. Your live site keeps serving from Rocket.net the whole time, and you only change DNS once you have signed the copy off.
Three things. Email on your own domain, included. Hardware we own in named locations rather than rented capacity. And the WordPress work itself: updates, plugin conflicts and hacked installs handled by us rather than left with you on a fast platform.