WebHostingTop » Providers » Globat Review » User Reviews » Rating #6947 Globat got a positive review from Michael ( data_ds@y... ) on Oct 01, 2009
I went with Globat on the recommendation of a friend. I did take issue with the "auto upgrade" charges but figured out how to opt out of them and I haven't been bothered with them since.
You get what you pay for. Globat is cheap therefore you are not going to get platnium service. They have been a decent service, but not spectacular. They changed control panel back in May and while I am able to follow it, the average non-techie person would have difficulties. The web space and quantities of emails are very good, however! You can also set variable sizes on each mailbox and chose how you want spam handled.
Recent Service Issues:
I tried to send a webmail to a friend and they refused to send it because I used a word that their filter didn't think was suitable. They shouldn't be filtering email.
They changed servers in May 2009 and I had some major issues trying to get my domain switched over and had problems with my email and web pages. That did get resolved thru the live chat after contacting them 3 times over about 2 weeks.
Email/webpages went down today (October 1) and has been out for at least 4. When I used their chat support they couldn't estimate when the service would be back up. They should have a backup to access email or reroute it automatically. Their webmail access is down as well.
Based on my experiences I would say Globat is a suitable service for personal use, but if I owned a business I would probably use someone else that had a backup plan for website and email access when they have a failure. What good do size, features and unlimited emails do you if they don't provide you a backup to get to these in an outage lasting more than an hour?
|
