Globat offers an outstanding service and gives you the most for your money. New this year: Unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer and the ability to host unlimited additional domains.

This web hosting service makes it easy to set up websites for personal use or even start an ecommerce business. They provide all the tools and support needed—this comes FREE with all hosting plans. Some of these tools include GloBuild that will help anyone to build a site and a shopping cart and merchant account for Internet entrepreneurs.

Globat is known for the great savings they pass on to their customers. And, for a limited time, through online retailer Herman Street you can get an even better deal — Get the first year for FREE after a mail-in rebate. It doesn't get any better than that. This is a $53.28 value. Plus, Globat offers a 1-year money back guarantee. Just click on the Order button from Herman Street, sign-up with the annual Globat GX01 Plan ($4.44/Month hosting), then fill out a Herman Street mail-in book order form to get your rebate.

Standout Features

• Several free tools
• Excellent 24/7 Customer Support
• 30-day money back guarantee
• Mambo Content Management

Hosting Package:

Registering or transferring one domain is free on Globat, and additional domains cost $14.95 per domain per year. If you need a SSL Secure Certificate for your Ecommerce site, it is available for a fee. Contact Globat for details. We were a little disappointed that Globat does not offer a dedicated IP address, even at an additional charge.  However, you get private domain registration, daily backups, and search engine optimization (SEO) service for free, something other web hosts don't offer or charge extra for.

Globat is strictly a Linux hosting company and they offer a 30-day money back guarantee.

With Globat's GX01 plan, you receive unlimited disk storage, unlimited Pop3 email addresses and unlimited bandwidth. Compare: Most websites use less than 50 MB of disk storage, 10 email addresses and 1 Gigabyte of bandwidth. This host can meet the needs of your basic website quite affordably but allows virtually unlimited room for growth.  You also get site traffic stats, and a convenient site builder. Globat also uses Fantastico scripts that enable 1-click installation of blogs, photo galleries, forums, and more with no programming experience necessary.

Globat has domain search, registration, and transfer available. You can also have parked domains, subdomains, add-on domains, and domain privacy for free. Globat does not search for or register/transfer international domains.

With Ecommerce hosting, you need 4 critical components: a method of protecting customer data, the ability to password protect directories, a way to process customers' credit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout info, and a shopping cart.

Every good host provides these services, though some cost extra.  Protecting customer data is obviously a huge issue, and to do so you need a SSL Secure Certificate, which Globat provides for an additional fee.  Password protection is free with them.  Credit card processing can be arranged through e-onlinedata, whom Globat is partnered with, and costs extra as well.

Globat has two options for shopping cart software: OS Commerce Cart is free with the basic membership, but to get the ShopSite cart you have to upgrade to a more expensive plan. Whether one is better than the other is a personal preference.  They give you an unlimited number of Pop3 email addresses, provides SMTP email, webmail, and 100MB of storage for each account. Additional email features include forwarding, aliases, catch-all email, auto responders, and spam protection at no extra charge.

Globat servers support CGI, Perl, PHP, Python, MySQL, and Frontpage extensions. Globat does not allow Server Side Includes (SSI), nor do their servers support Ruby on Rails (RoR).

Multimedia options include support for Flash/Shockwave, QuickTime video streaming, and Real Audio/Video streaming. Other formats are not supported.