JustHost Hosting Review

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Price: $3.45

About Just Host


Recently founded in 2008, Just Host provides affordable, reliable web hosting services with a 99.9% up time guarantee as well as money back guarantee, which means they will refund you the remainder of the term if you are not satisfied with their service. Just Host has offices in the UK along with a  head office, headquarters in the US and an office in Australia.

Awards

Just Host have won a collection of awards including best features and Editors Choice Awards.


Just Host Hosting Plans


Two hosting plans - JustPlan and JustPlan Premium. Both offer unlimited storage space, email accounts, domains, bandwidth, SQL databases, 24/7 support, free site builder, SSL, FTP and stats etc.
The regular JustHost plan (JustPlan) is 4.95 per month and includes 1 free domain for life. The premium (JustPlan Premium) is $8.95 a month and includes 3 free dominas for life. Visit Just Host for a complete list of JustPlan's hosting features


Joomla Hosting Features


Every JustHost plan includes free installations of Joomla! as well as wordpress since they support CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP and MySQL.


Customer Support


Friendly and helpful 24/7 customer support through email which can be submitted without logging into your account or by phone. They also have a separate email contact for billing inquiries. In addition to customer support, Just Host has a knowledge base of articles regarding billing, domains, email assistance, databases, wordpress help as well as video tutorials. A live chat is also available if you have any questions or need assistance.

Visit: http://www.justhost.com for more details.

Editor review

Very Helpful Hosting Company

Overall rating: 
 
9.0
Price:
 
10.0
Support:
 
8.0
Features:
 
9.0
Uptime:
 
9.0
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Reviewed by Steven Johnson
March 11, 2009
 
Last updated: June 22, 2009
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Just Host is a great hosting company. Fast Servers, Excellent support, plenty of options, green hosting, dedicated IP addresses, the list goes on. We have hosted a Joomla site with them since the beginning of the year and the service is excellent.

Sign Up
The sign up process was quick and easy. The sign up form is one page and new accounts are activated instantly. During the sign up you are given several options for upgrades including daily backups, dedicated IP address, and priority support. We only opted for the dedicated IP address.

Support
Signing into the billing or support control panel is very simple, go to the JustHost homepage and look in the upper right corner. At other hosting companies it can be a real pain finding the control panel sign ins. JustHost gets this right.

All the tickets we logged with support were all answered in a very timely and professional manner. JustHost has the option to purchase priority support if needed. All of our support requests were answered very quickly so we had no need for priority support.

In some cases we had to know which questions to ask in order to get the problem solved. I could see how some less experienced users could be frustrated with JustHost support.


Joomla
Just Host runs an excellent cPanel set up, so installing and managing Joomla is easy. We installed Joomla using the standard Joomla install script without any issues. For those of you who like an automatic install, JustHost has all of the deluxe fantastico scripts available. This allows for a one click install of Joomla.

Server Uptime and Speed
We used an uptime monitor, checking every minute, to inform us about JustHost's server uptime and speed. We are pleased to report that our website had over 99.5% uptime and the website speed was consistently fast.

Summary
JustHost is a great hosting company that provides great servers, many features, and excellent support for your Joomla site. Their control panels, website and staff are very user friendly and helpful. They also provide an anytime moneyback guarantee which is nice but we have not needed to use. Just Host is one of the hosting companies that is worth checking out.

Pros and Cons

Pros Easy Fast Sign Up
Easy to Use Interface
cPanel for the Control Panel
 
 


User reviews

Average user rating from: 4 user(s)

Overall rating: 
 
5.8
Price:
 
7.8   (4)
Support:
 
4.8   (4)
Features:
 
6.8   (4)
Uptime:
 
4.0   (4)
 
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Overall rating: 
 
9.0
Price:
 
10.0
Support:
 
9.0
Features:
 
9.0
Uptime:
 
8.0
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Reviewed by Paul Cowley
March 14, 2009
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

They have done a good job so far. The set up went well and the site runs fast.

Think I am finally with a good hosting company!

Pros and Cons

Pros Fast Signup
Lots of extra features
Cons None so far
 

Poor uptime - barely adequate support

Overall rating: 
 
6.8
Price:
 
10.0
Support:
 
5.0
Features:
 
8.0
Uptime:
 
4.0
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Reviewed by Chris
April 09, 2009
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

I have now had several incidents where either my email server is down or my sites in general are down... or both! Contacted the support over the phone and they told me I needed to send an email... why can't you help me over the phone. Or, at least explain the problem to me. Also, customer support doesn't have the greatest English, which is important to me. Honestly, I wish I would have gone with BlueHost.

Pros and Cons

Pros Good price / options. Looks good on paper.
Cons Support. Uptime
 

Justhost are just rubbish

Overall rating: 
 
5.5
Price:
 
8.0
Support:
 
3.0
Features:
 
8.0
Uptime:
 
3.0
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Reviewed by Cheryl
September 17, 2009
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

I will never recommend justhost unless the service improves greatly. Avoid them and go else where. I have given them many MANY complaints and they have never attempted to solve this issues.

Justhost also host there very own host review site and they rate themselves as the best hosing company! I think this tactic is unfair and very devious.

Beware of justhost.com

Pros and Cons

Pros Good features, quick set up and free domain renewal. C-panel,
Cons Very bad at sorting out problems. Shared hosting is packed. My site shares with 270 of sites! My site is always slowing down or offline. When I contact just host they say "I have checked and your site is running fine" Totally unable to help me. When my site goes down Its impossible to log in to my just host c-panel?
 

Justhost.com hosting plans such a negative experience!!!

Overall rating: 
 
2.0
Price:
 
3.0
Support:
 
2.0
Features:
 
2.0
Uptime:
 
1.0
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Reviewed by mario
October 19, 2009
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

In 2 months of web hosting I got loads of issues: ftp troubles, email downtime, 505 and 404 errors, amazing slowness on page loading.
Ticket support will take so long delay that your ticket will pass from a staff to another and every time you need to explain your problem from the beginning (best case) or each of them will give you a different answer that does not help you to sort out the problem (worse case).
A complete failure.
I did wait a reasonable number of issues before asking a refund but billing support did not reply to my email (fortunately I signed for 6 months only so I cannot see the day where I'll leave Justhost.com)
For such a personal bad experience I cannot recommend Justhost.com hosting plans at all.

Pros and Cons

Pros Friendly communications
Cons overcrowded servers, uneffective support, poor service
 
 

Visit: http://www.justhost.com to learn more.

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