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Justhost Unlimited Domain Web Hosting $2.95 a month reduced from $6.95 a month - save $4 a month

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It is voted number 1 web hosting company from most review websites.
The price was reduced from $6.95 to $2.95 a month now. Not sure how long it last. If you need to host your website act fast.

Here is the review:

Standout Features

Unlimited Storage Space, Bandwidth, Domain Hosting, Email Accounts and MySQL Databases
Free Site Builder
Free Domain for Life
Free Instant Setup
Anytime Money Back Guarantee

JustHost is a solid web hosting service with superior functionality and response times — both with the site we created and service and support. We were given a test account and we used it to setup a basic site with one of their hundreds of templates. In just under an hour, we went from no site at all to a professional-looking site with news, content, products, FAQs, and contact information. The process is simple and their servers handled updates quickly — after creating/editing content and saving it in their editor, it took less than 30 seconds for it to publish live to the test website.

When looking for a web host, each customer has unique needs: some need Linux servers, others Windows. For others Ecommerce hosting with Cube Cart or Zen Cart is a must. Email needs vary as well, and some web hosts offer unlimited email addresses and storage, like JustHost, and others limit both addresses and storage. The point to this is web hosting companies generally offer similar services, but can vary widely depending on a customer's specific needs. Anybody can get your site on the internet, but how they handle your particular hosting, platform, software and most importantly, support needs is what differentiates the good hosts from the mediocre or downright bad ones.

We liked JustHost, and used their service just like we would if we wanted to setup a basic small business site. We tested their various support options (phone, chat, FAQs, etc.) numerous times and found them helpful, fast and efficient.

JustHost account upgrades are also reasonable. While your first domain name registration is free, additional domains cost $x.xx each. Private domain registration means that your name, address, and contact information is not made public. A dedicated IP address is essential if you run a business-oriented website where you have a merchant account and accept credit card payments on your site. We didn't try that particular service out, but caution anybody against going with "instant" SEO services. There's plenty of free SEO advice and tips available if you but take the time to Google it.

JustHost will transfer or register one domain for free upon signing up. JustHost can register your domain privately if you don't want your personal information to appear in a WHOIS search on your domain name (in other words to everybody). Standard domain features include support for parked and add-on domains, subdomains and international domains.

JustHost provides the necessary tools to setup your own Ecommerce site. Keep in mind that while the shopping cart software and PayPal support is free, accepting credit card payments costs extra. Merchant accounts and credit card processing require you to have a SSL Secure Certificate, which costs an additional $69.95 per year. You also need a dedicated IP address, which costs pennies on the dollar at $1.66 per year. Not sure which you need? Check our Credit Card Processing Services reviews.

JustHost email includes webmail, unlimited storage, an unlimited number Pop3 or IMAP email addresses, and supports every standard email option available including SMTP email, aliases, forwarding, catch-all accounts, form mail scripts, mailing lists, auto responders and spam protection.

Ease of Use:
Our experience using JustHost’s services was seamless beyond our wildest dreams. We tried every feature over and over and found very few things that left us feeling confused. JustHost is dedicated to making their features user-friendly so their customers have as easy of an experience as possible using their service.

When we did have an issue, we just consulted the technical support section on their website. If their countless video tutorials and expansive knowledgebase didn’t answer our questions, we called their customer service numbers and had all of our inquiries answered in a timely manner.

Support and Service:
JustHost clearly post their toll-free support number and chat link on their site. They take calls, chats and email 24/7, and even include video tutorials and a large FAQ/Knowledgebase. We contacted JustHost support via chat and over the phone, and our longest wait time was 5 minutes during what JustHost mentioned was "peak time." Every support agent we spoke to/chatted with was courteous and helpful, and we never felt rushed. Their email support is outstanding. We sent them a few messages to test their response time. Within less than 12 hours, we got informative responses back.

During our research process, we read some negative reviews about their customer service. Based on our experience, we believe those reviews aren’t accurate.

Site Creation Tools:
Creating a complex website with JustHost is a quick and easy process. You can have a website started and finished in a little under an hour. This turnaround is helpful for businesses that want to hit the ground running when it comes to getting their brand out there.

Server Access:
JustHost offers unlimited additional FTP accounts, .htaccess support and anonymous FTP. You can create custom CronJobs using their tools as well.

Marketing Tools:
JustHost offers ad credits for MySpace, Google, Yahoo and Miva. Adding them all together gets you $125 in vouchers for all of these promotion sites. In addition to these options, you get free BidVertiser clicks.

Reporting and Statistics:
JustHost has a thorough statistical offering with the use of Webalizer, visitor reporting and sub-domain stats.

Summary:
JustHost is a relatively young web hosting service, but they seem to have already learned valuable lessons from previous experience and other hosting companies. They're young and responsive, and just might lure customers away from larger hosts that have forgotten what support is all about.

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  • Is the $2.95/month on going or until they choose to raise prices again? Anyone had any experienced with JustHost? Sounds too good to be true almost

  • I do hosting with them now, I'm testing everything and its fine. Check out my website: I used the website builder for http://www.accountingfaculty.com . phpBB for http://www.money.co.ee . and oscommerce shopping cart for http://www.australiaonlinestore.com

  • From what I have heard they are good for small, low traffic sites but if you expecting to grow they may suspend your account at anytime citing excessive cpu usage.

  • Maybe use dedicated account or reseller account for high traffic website

  • not a deal, they always have deals like this available. certainly a company to stay away from, only had bad experience (too much downtime, very very slow, bad customer service…)
    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/23993

  • so which one you recommend? seems like no one is good.
    I did hosting with them for 2 months till now. support is fast, and no down time till now, hope it will be continue.

    • +1

      changed to ventraip recently, very affordable australian based hosting.

      • +1

        I second VentraIP, just joined up for 2 years for $24 AUD and found their support excellent. They always get back to me in less than an hour and are very friendly and sort out any issues I have.

    • +1

      2 months without downtime means nothing.

  • -2

    Site Information for ventraip.com.au Alexa Traffic Rank: 128,182 Traffic Rank in AU: 1,249 Sites Linking In: No Data
    Registrar: DISTRIBUTE IT PTY LTD
    Whois Server: whois.distributeit.com.au
    Referral URL: http://www.distributeit.com.au
    Name Server: NS1.VENTRAIP.NET.AU
    Name Server: NS2.VENTRAIP.NET.AU
    Name Server: NS3.VENTRAIP.NET.AU
    Status: ok
    Updated Date: 25-mar-2010
    Creation Date: 17-jan-2010
    Expiration Date: 17-jan-2011

    It is new company

    • +1

      used to be cove.com.au

      • +1

        yup they changed there name from cove.com.au to ventraip.com.au

        awesome provider!, justhost = slow

  • Where does it say $2.95/mth? Justhost's website shows $3.45/mth - and to get that, you need to sign up to a 48mth plan. Am i missing something??

  • click the link above and it shown $2.95, and yes to get that you need to sign up 48mth plan. I just found
    JustHost Uptime for February 2010 is 100%
    JustHost Uptime for January 2010 is 99.728%.
    JustHost Uptime for December 2009 is 100%.

    • not true. was with them back in december and had nothing but downtime.

  • +1

    Can't stand these "unlimited" plans, but I won't neg it. The only way that offering these plans are fiscally viable is by overselling - a lot. Start to eat up too many resources in contrast to the others on your server and you're out.

    "While our shared services are suitable for the bulk of our customers, there comes a time for some websites when they are better suited for a larger plan, which allows for more dedicated CPU and memory resources. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server's CPU"

    The good old arbitrary termination clause. Just remember that there is no such thing as unlimited.

  • Yes all shared hosting are the same. From their Terms: If Just Host fails to provide the promised 99.9% uptime, we will credit your account with a months hosting costs. For our full guarantee details please see our Terms & Conditions agreement.

  • kevinpentium, you seem to know a lot about JustHost - care to disclose any vested interest?

  • I been their customer for 2 months.

  • Justhost sucks. Don't do it. Read the terms and conditions they really suck. Also the site posted by kevinpentium http://web-hosting-review.toptenreviews.com/ fake. It says OS is Windows…WRONG! It also says dedicated IP address….WRONG. So I wonder what else isn't right on that site, maybe as extras that you have to pay more for. Also after I signed up with them I started to get spam in my account, so they either run insecure systems or they sold it to spammers.

    • Which particular part of their T&C's don't you like? They're very similar to most (if not all) other shared hosts. The only thing that "really suck[s]" is the excerpt I've posted above.

  • i can recommend chombo, been with them for about 2 months now also, great company , got no problems with their service

  • oscur are you cove.com.au / ventraip stuff? I got no spam

  • Only if you sign up for a 48 month plan

  • I too would say don't touch this company, service is appalling. They lost ALL my files/databases and left me with 3 days downtime. After which they finally got back to me to tell me they had a Hard drive failure but that they would be uploading a backup……it turns out the last backup they had was from 3/4 months prior, luckily I had fairly recent backups of everything myself.

    I ended up losing a few days trying to get everything back up and running, no thanks to their shoddy customer support.

    Stay far far away, unless you don't care about your websites.

    A few (non-fake) reviews can be found here:

    http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/web-hosting-top.j…

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