OMG; What a hosting package

[Super Wolves]

$18.95/month
5000 GB (5 TB) of Disk Space
2000 GB (2 TB) of Data Transfer/Month

This site is just too funny... If this is true I think they can host Google very easly.

[Keagle]

Why is the disk space higher than the bandwith? Crazy...

And 5TB enough to host Google? I think not =) I know their pages are tiny, far less than a few kb's...but think of the uniques they get per day :)

[Decker]

Er! Where, there's no link to this mystical package???

[Super Wolves]

http://www.globat.com/products/index.htm :lol:

[kjavia795]

Yes the plan is ridiculous but their support and professinalism (is this a real word?) is great.

They also allow file hosting and downloading in their plans, which really makes me think if their servers will really be able to maintain it.

[Darknight]

lol

That 6.99 Plan could backup all my sites!

[XeonGX]

i'll sign up and tell you guys how are they, i'll upload my whole harddrive
then u guys test

lol

[RavenServers]

Lol I sometimes see people on these forums with almost as bad overselling as well.

[raversworld]

one word w-o-w this is ridiculous when i start getting more traffic to my site and more hosting accounts i will definitly upgrade to this!

[Paul]

24-7 Live support, Just see if its online when you open it up?, not for me

[goblin77]

I should say it all looks very odd.

[ganesh.rao]

Can I host both my servers and VPSs on that plan? Will save me nearly $300/month! :D

[utcrazy]

Yeah, not big enough for Google, when you have over a billion pages, it gets kind of big, besides, they use hundreds of servers worldwide.

[sdwebcommunity]

These people will spoil this business . dont yu thinnk so?

How can they manage such cheap rates .. i think they may be owning datacenters of their own..

[Dan]

They are just out to make a quick buck and forget about the value of the clients.

[raversworld]

do they have cpanel/whm?

[Dan]

LOL. Read this. I just chatted with a sales Rep who is probably 12


You are now chatting with 'Brian'
Dan: Hi Brian
Brian: Welcome to Globat Sales Chat! How may I assist you today?
Brian: Dan
Brian: how can i assist
Dan: Just wondering how it is possible for you to offer 5tb of Space and 2TB of transfer on a shared hosting account?
Brian: yes
Brian: let me verify
Brian: just want to make sure its there for you
Brian: one sec
Dan: Sure. I am just wondering really.
Brian: one sec
Brian: dan
Dan: Yup
Brian: the max = 5 terabyte
Brian: on the XS
Brian: TERABYTE XS
Brian: 5 Terabytes Disk Space
Brian: 2 Terabyte Bandwidth
Brian: Terabyte XS= $19.95x12 Months =$239.40=1 year hosting or
Brian: 2 years/$454.80
Brian: 3 years/$646.20
Brian: 100 domains/websites/or TLD /First 10 Free
Brian: New Domain registration Free on Primary Hosting
Brian: Also included...Free Subdomains and Shopsite Ultra 100 Shopping cart
Brian: ....................................................
Brian: 1 Free Months with all new orders....delete contents in Coupon Box and retype
Brian: brian1 and also Get Instant Activation!!! .....................................................
Brian:
Dan: So it's 19.95 per month for 5TB of space?
Brian: yes...big
Brian: when you decide
Brian: let me know
Brian: 1...use the brian1 coupon for 1 free auto month and + instant activation
Brian: 2...email me your www...i will verify and add 5 more...total 6 to your order
Dan: Yes it is big. Just wondering also how it can be defined to offer more space than transfer. Just doesn't make sense, especially for such a small price.
Brian: give you more value that way
Brian: a...webhosting competitive
Brian: b...as time goes on...disk space expense less....but bandwidth higher
Brian: c...many of our big customers have no probs
Brian: 3...my email address....billingdesk@globat.com....ATTN: brian1
Brian: suggest you copy this chat and remind me in the email
Dan: I was on Freewebspace.net and saw a post about your offers so just wanted to check it out. They are all getting a great kick out of it over there. lol
Brian: no jokes
Brian: its real
Brian: we even give 100% hosting fee refunds in 30 dayz of cancel
Dan: And how many servers does that plan span across?
Brian: and even prorate refunds up to 1 year
Brian: what do you mean
Dan: Like, you guys must have either very large servers or you own your own DC.
Dan: You see, I own DeiseHost.Com and for me to offer such a plan would leave me broke in 56 months
Dan: *5 or 6 months
Brian: try us
Brian: you saw the risk free option
Brian: Are you ready to get started today?
Dan: No. I was just checking you out. I own a hosting business so I don't need hosting. How big are your servers?
Brian: http://www.globat.com/about_us/our_network/index.htm

lol

[Decker]

Seems like their serious :angel: silly but serious, banking on no one eve using it.

PS imagine drawing attention to another host and (OP) offer $5.00 - 300GB BW & 15GB DS in your sig :lol: (no offence Super Wolves :classic2: )

Various levels of overselling :confused4 but some do go to extremes :evilb:

[[ih]Demetris]

I dont know looks like they have been around for quite sometime. And they are also apart of the BBB which brings some comfort as well

http://www.bbbonline.org/cks.asp?id=1060915164330

[websolutions]

Wow a huge plan, they probably own a datacenter. But still, more b/w than space is weird as space costs more. I bet I know whats next, 10 tb of space and 5 tb of b/w reseller XD

[Dan]

Wow a huge plan, they probably own a datacenter. But still, more b/w than space is weird as space costs more. I bet I know whats next, 10 tb of space and 5 tb of b/w reseller XD

Other way around. Bandwidth costs more than space

[Trance ADdix]

$18.95/month
5000 GB (5 TB) of Disk Space
2000 GB (2 TB) of Data Transfer/Month

This site is just too funny... If this is true I think they can host Google very easly.

google isnt 5tb lmfao, its alot bigger, it is the internet pretty much, i would say google is in the multi million TB, dont even want to try and guess

[AvailNetworks]

anyone happen to notice their storage array is only 2tb? click on their network simulation to see.


Offering 5tb space is really no different than offering 50+gb storage that many people offer here, if a few people used that on their dedicated celeron unit or fancy ebay reseller account they would be ruined. Most people on average use about 10-20mb storage and 1-2gb transfer per site.

They are attracting the 'less educated' hosting crowd who associate massive space and bandwidth with a big booming business and a speedy service.

Not to mention they require people to pay annually and a good portion of those users will abandon their plans and not even use their account, also it leaves them only paying merchant fees once and not recurring each month.

The people that want to stuff their 5tb account with all they can will just be killed off via a TOS violation by consuming 'excess space' these are the select few that keep bouncing from these type of hosts all the time and wonder why they never get good service.

[striker]

If anyone took any time to read their TOS:



10.2 - To avoid unfair resource distribution at no time shall Customer use more than 15 simultaneous processes by and with any of Customer's applications and not upload any file larger than 10 megabyte. All images in a Customer's hosting account must be linked to from pages within the Customer's hosting account. It is a violation of this agreement if Customer uses this account as merely an image, sound or file library. Binary files such as images, video and sound (i.e MP3, WAV, RA, GIF, JPG but not limited to those file extensions) may only account for a maximum of 50% of Customer's total bandwidth usage before customer must upgrade to a higher performance solution.


Glob@t are the DIRTIEST of the oversellers, I remember back when they had that damn clock on there site, that said this offer ends in ___hours, buy now!. I did "buy now" not reading the TOS or anything (I was a newbie back then and there weren't many oversellers so I didn't know OK!) and the next day after I read those horrific rules. I will give them one thing though, they honored their 30-day guarantee at least.

[Adam]

I'd like to know what their allowed CPU usage per account is. A plan like that would go like hot cakes as far as greedy newbies are concerned. They'd more than likely be booted for hogging cpu resources before they reach 1/10 of the allotted storage and bandwidth

Edit: I see striker answered my question while I was posting. Anyways their TOS confirms you may as well not waste your time setting up a large download site which I'm guessing they're relying on greedy newbies to do.

[cvibaks]

looks like they can remove any file any time . Nice TOS :(