Price & Cost Effectiveness
Globat's pricing structure is very similar to other web hosting companies. Their pricing starts at $7.95 a month and they offer only UNIX web hosting. Even with that, they were still able to offer free setup with a annual purchase of their web hosting accounts. Besides the low price, you get over 10,000 MB of storage space and 300 GB of web traffic. Some of the highlights of their hosting plan are unlimited quota size and quantity for MySQL Databases and they are able to accept payment via paypal.
Reliability
All of Globat's servers are on at least a dual Intel Pentium 3 1 GHZ System. In other words, you will never be on a server slower than a 2 ghz machine. Furthermore, each machine has at least 3 - 4 GB of random access memory. While other web hosting companies may put several thousand users onto one server, Globat puts several hundred users per server. At the moment, they are directly connected to the Level 3 network, which is one of the fastest and most reliable network worldwide.
Data Center
Globat current utilitize a OC-12 connection to the internet and is located in Los Angeles. Their data center currenty holds over 50 servers and they have a fully redundant power supply. They also host customers on a fully redundant, state-of-the-art infrastructure of brand name equipment such as Cisco Systems, Network Appliances, Foundry and Sun Microsystems.
Customer Service
Globat offers support not only via telephone, but also live chat through its control panel interface. It seems that the only way of getting a hold of them was through email and trouble tickets. On a positive note, they responded to trouble tickets quickly and activation time for account was less than 5 minutes, which is a big plus. Out of the all the web hosting companies, they provided one of the most comprehensive online help documentations. Their FAQ's, online web tutorials, online ticket system are of top notch quality.
Control Panel
Globat is using a newer version of Plesk. Plesk is one of the most stable control panel software out there. Even though, it lacks icons for functionality, it offers basically the same features as other control panels such as modifcation of e-mail forwarding, and modifying and changing password. Plesk control panel also allows you to modify MX records.
Overall
In general, Globat offers one of the most appealing web hosting packages out there on the web. For only $7.95 a month with free setup, their outstanding performance on their servers and comprehensive list of features make this host a superior candidate for your hosting needs.
The following plans are available at Globat Web Hosting
Terabyte Package(TO1) - $4.95
Terabyte Package(TO2) - $10.95
Terabyte Package(TO3) - $15.95
Domain Name Registration - Free - $2.95 |
