Does anyone else happen to use globat.com for web hosting? I noticed they were having some issues yesterday, and they've been down for at least 5 hours today. Looks like all of their hosting IP's as well as their DNS servers are all down. I've been trying the only phone number I could find for tech support, and it's been busy all morning. Just curious to know if anyone else happens to use them at all.

Yeah, apparently everything with their company seems to be down. Not quite sure what the deal is.

In any case, can anyone recommend a hosting company? Not looking for anything business critical, just to host some low-traffic personal sites w/o ads.

I'll take a look at it... when it's up It can't be a good sign that their main site is currently down right now

I've heard of HostGator before, and they looked pretty good. I'll have to take a look at them again as well.

Thanks for the info.

Well I'm glad you're understanding. I am not. If this was expected downtime, they should advise clients that the systems will be down. In addition, why would it be done during the day and not durring off-peak hours? I don't think that it has anything to do with upgrades. I think something happened and everything crashed.

In any event, I have already moved my domains and signed up with a new web host. I'm now paying less and receiving more. For those interested, I have moved over to Host Department.com for $5.95/mo and pretty much unlimited everything (space, bandwidth, databases, domains, sub-domains, mailboxes, etc). Not a bad deal at all.

It's actually very easy to navigate, I'm pretty happy with it.

I don't like to revive old topics, but I wanted to provide an update on this one.

HostDepartment.com is no good. My first 30 days is almost up and I'll be cancelling soon in order to receive my refund.

I had multiple problems with getting scripts to work correctly with their server configuration. To this day, when sending out email using their SMTP server, other ISPs seem to be blocking email. Their reliability is absolutely horrible. I can't even count how many times my websites have been unavailable.

You know that when you login to the control panel, click the 'cancel account' area, and see "common reasons for terminations" listed (along with what they will do to try and help keep you), it's a bad thing. I'd imagine many people experience the same issues.

Anyway, I'm checking out the other options, but thought I'd pass along my review of HostDepartment.