Just Host Review

Company Overview

Just Host is part of the Just Develop It group of internet-service related companies. Just Host was co-founded by Brooke Bryan and Nick Baker, and is operated out of its headquarters in England with satellite offices in the US and Australia. Just Host provides a range of web hosting packages and their platform is easy enough to use that even a complete technophobe will feel comfortable setting up and managing a site.

Products and Services

In order to meet the needs of their individual and small business clients, Just Host offers two levels of web hosting service. Both levels include unlimited disk space and bandwidth. The standard “Just Plan” package includes a free domain name, unlimited email accounts, and the ability to host unlimited domains, while the “Just Plan Premium” package includes these same features as well as three free domain names. Just Host also offers four different professional reseller hosting packages for clients who would like to establish their own web hosting company but don’t want to worry about servers, data-centers, or support. All of Just Host’s packages are backed by a 30 day money-back guarantee.

Benefits of using Just Host

There is a lot to be said for choosing Just Host to host your web site—ranging from superb reliability, very reasonable prices, massive free script library, and unlimited disk space and bandwidth with every account. But perhaps the best reason to choose Just Host is that they are committed to making your experience managing your web site as easy and trouble-free as possible. You can see this commitment in their clear and simple order forms, their extremely user-friendly control panel, their accessible and responsive support, and their automatic domain name renewal so that you never need to worry about losing the identity of your site.

Reliability and Performance

Just Host is able to provide the 99.9% uptime guarantee that its clients require by using industry leading technology in its safe and secure data center. Just Host runs customized Apache Web Servers arranged in a load balancing configuration so that your site is available from multiple servers, and the servers are connected to the Internet through OC-96 Backbone Connections giving Just Host a data-transfer speed of 400GB/second. The servers are monitored 24/7 by Just Uptime—part of the Just Develop It group of companies—to ensure that any issues are addressed immediately. The entire data center is served by redundant HVAC and power (with battery and diesel generator backup), it is protected against fire by an FM2000 fire suppression system, and it is kept secure against intrusion by a biometric security system and CCTV monitoring.

Customer Service & Support

Just Host wants to make sure that all of their clients get the most out of the product they have purchased, so they have put together a large library of video tutorials and an extensive set of articles in their online knowledgebase. These resources will help you discover the full potential of Just Host’s web hosting technology and show you how to put it to work. Should you have questions or need technical support, there are several options available. There is 24/7 live support available inside the control panel itself, and you can also reach help through email or a toll-free telephone number.

Web Hosting Features

Even if you are not an experienced webmaster, Just Host makes it quick and easy to get your site up and running. They provide a free site building tool, a user-friendly cPanel control panel, and instant activation. You can also draw on the massive library of free open source scripts available to customize your site with tools like WordPress, Joomla, and an e-commerce suite that includes multiple shopping cart options, PayPal support, and SSL Secure Serve. For more advanced users, services such as MySQL, CGI and PHP are also built-in. Your account also includes a generous package of site promotion vouchers including $20 worth of free BidVertiser clicks, $50 worth of MySpace ad credits, and $25 worth of ad credits with Google, Yahoo!, and Miva.