We can host static websites on one of our normal servers and support quite a large number of hits, but sometimes you may need VERY high availability service.

Examples of this include:

• Informational sites with links to many downloadable files requiring high bandwidth
• A “micro site” that is being sent out to a large number of people simultaneously requiring a large number of concurrent connections.
• Static file hosting, such as images.  For example, if you have a blog with a lot of images, you can host the main site on a normal PHP server and the images on a high power system.

This is where Amazon S3 Static website hosting comes in handy.

You simply create a “bucket” in S3, create the website endpoint, choose the “index” file such as “index.html”, upload your static website and add a CNAME pointing to the URL that is given to you in the S3 control panel.

Although it’s not too hard to set up this service, we can provide assistance in establishing the initial site and helping you setup a client to upload files into the web space.

One advantage we can offer is the ability to host your static website on Amazon and still have some dynamic capabilities such as email forms, entering form data into a MySQL database, etc.

Contact us for more information and a quote on setting it up.

The reasons I didn’t like it was that the control panel was clunky and it was hard to find addons and stuff you wanted to install, such as an additional sub-domain.

After going to the site and choosing cancel, it stated I had to call an 800 number to cancel only during business hours (9-5). This was a little hard and I had to use up part of my lunch break at work. The number didn’t even ring through to a person, it just gave me a recorded message and hung up. I tried again, same thing.

I called the main customer support line and waited for 15 minutes to get through to a customer service rep, once connected, they said they’d forward me to cancellations, 5 more minutes and the line disconnected. I went ahead and put in a ticket and after a little while got back a cancellation notice.

I checked my credit card just to see how much I was originally billed (95.40) and figured I’d ask how long it would take to credit back to me.

Thank you for contacting Globat.com.

Please be advised that your refund has already been scheduled on the second half of November.

The 2nd half of November!? WTF!

They decide that they are going to hold my refund for 3 months! I searched through the cancellation policy and Terms of Service and found nothing saying that they would hold my money for 3 MONTHS!

I’m getting frustrated, so I called customer service and ask to be connected to a billing representative. No go… The rep, whom could barely understand through his THICK Indian accent, either couldn’t or refused to put me through. He kept asking for specific information, but never told me exactly what he wanted… I hung up.

I tried again… Got another Indian, with not as bad of an accent, and he told me that billing doesn’t have direct lines. Great… So I get into chat, and they said they’d forward my “expedited refund request” onto the billing managers…

That’s where I am as of now.

I will NEVER, EVER use Globat again, Their support sucks and they LOVE your money, so much so that they shack up with it for 3 MONTHS after you cancel your service.

Unacceptable!

Other links to complaints:

1. http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/213/RipOff0213086.htm
2. http://www.planetfeedback.com/globat+llc/billing/payment/credit+card+fraud–multiple+cases/attempts/299623
3. http://blog.lifebeyondcode.com/2008/02/11/from-globat-with-love-automatic-upgrade/