To be honest I signed up with them because they were offering cheap hosting for a small price. However, my site was often down and slow. They did however improve on this but the prices went up. They forced me into unnecessary upgrades all the time.

I stayed with them because my website was so big and I didn’t want the hassle of moving it again.

The turning point for me was the new database I installed. They kept complaining that there were too many queries in my database. I thought this was very strange because my forum wasn’t very popular so I investigated. I found out that they were lying to me. When I presented my case to them they closed the claim. This made me really angry so I decided to move to a new host. I noticed my billing date was in 20 days time so I thought that maybe they will try and charge me more and complain later down the line. I didn’t want to take any chances.

The cost of my account renewal this year was billed to be $107.00. I didn’t have anything extra added either. Beware of the charges after a year, they get higher all the time. Also if you want extra domains in the account they charge you $12 a year for each extra domain. The above price does not reflect this as I was billed at different times in the year for each additional domain name.

I wouldn’t recommend this service to anyone. They are highly overpriced and their servers are slow. If you ping other sites in comparison you will see the differences.

If you are going to install a mysql database then stay away. They monitor the queries. Most hosting places do not monitor this!!

And most importantly, they can’t be trusted. They are liars.

Oh and another thing, if you ever want a refund they take away $35.00 as administration costs!

The best thing I ever did was move my websites.

Firstly, our websites started to get hacked regularly…like every 4 days. I spent hours having to either remove the malicious script or reload the whole site again, and then change the password..and then within a week it would be hacked again, so Globat obviously had a security issue. Their technical support on the matter was almost non-existent. I did manage to be contacted by Tom Cox, their CEO, who assured me they were working on it, however it never happened, and to this day, the few sites I still have on their servers still get hacked.

I have also requested that these sites not be auto-renewed, but they do still, so I have asked for a refund for a large number of the sites. They were to pay me by January this year. Still waiting, and they won’t respond to my emails. I am now seeking my lawyer to contact them and hopefully can finalize the matter. So I do not recommend them of you are looking for good hosting!!!!

1. “3.2 – This agreement may be terminated by either party at the renewal/anniversary date by giving the other party notice at least 30 days prior to the renewal/anniversary date of the Term (Customers hereby agrees and understands that they must follow the instructions provided at http://www.globat.com/cancel.htm in order to effective terminate services as described herein), or by Globat in the event of nonpayment by Customer or by Globat, at any time, without notice, if in Globat’s sole judgment Customer has in any way breached this Agreement (Termination for Cause). ”

2. “All sales are final except for a cancellation within the first thirty (30) days after Customer purchases and pays for the service (Limited Money-Back Guarantee) and as stated below with reference to domain registration and promotional domain registration.” Hey Kyle read again!!!!!!!! you say, “The lowest available billing cycle that Globat offers is 12 months. Therefore if a customer were to cancel after the 30 day money back guarantee they would be losing the rest of their year worth of hosting that they were forced to pay up front.” not true.

3. You say “Not only that, but they will also be charged a hefty $150 “Breach-of-Contract” fee, which by industry standards is absolutely ridiculous.” You again did not read…. it states “Globat terminates the Agreement due to Customer’s breach of the Globat User Agreement or Acceptable Usage Policy, Customer will be charged a US$150.00 Breach-Of-Contract fee per domain package and per hosting account as liquidated damages.”

See the words “due to Customer’s breach of the Globat User Agreement or Acceptable Usage Policy”.

Unless you read their e-mail notification and click on the opt-out link, you’ll find your credit card whacked for $29.99, $39.99 or $49.99.

(I clicked on the link and got whacked anyway because I had to do a separate opt-out for each domain that I had at Globat.)

I had to threaten court action to get them to reverse the charge, and I reported them to American Express.

Globat are weasels.