General

Globat was founded in 2001. It is a privately owned company based in Los Angeles, CA. They have nearly 100,000 customers worldwide.

• CEO: Ben R. Neumann
• President: Chris L. Ueland
• COO: Louis J. Rio

User experience

Our Globat test site showed to be very responsive.

Follow up:

We were able to perform 10 simultaneous FTP transfers, which is outstanding and makes site maintenance extremely fast.

Globat uses their own proprietary control panel called “The Globat Command Console". This control panel has everything you need. Unfortunately it also has occasional upselling popups which is extremly annoying when you’re trying to get something done.

Database management with phpMyAdmin is available through the command console.

Customer satisfaction

Customer feedback tells us that the pricing is attractive but the support could be improved. “You get what you pay for” is being cited over and over again.

Customers have also complained about too many upselling messages.

Technical specs

• PHP version: 4.4.8 – Up to date but the default should be PHP5
• MySQL version: 4.1.7 – We would prefer MuSQL 5.
• GD library: 2.0.28 – ok.

Security

Globat uses mod_suPHP which effectively isolate their clients from each other and provides good security.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

	GX01
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	$7.95 Limited special: $4.44
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$6.95 $4.44 for 12 months
Monthly fee (× 36 mo)	$5.95 $4.44 for 12 months
Disk space	Unlimited
Transfer (monthly)	Unlimited
Included domain name	1
Domains per account	Unlimited
MySQL databases	25
b2evo auto install	yes

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