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JustHost now also runs its own affiliate program:

http://www.justhost.com/affiliate-program

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Just Host is proud to announce that we are now a member of Commission Junction’s Affiliate Network. We’ve worked hard over the last few weeks to ensure our affiliate program is one of the most competitive and the best for web hosting around. Publishers can earn up to $120 per sale and if you’re lucky and send us over 10 sales in a month you’ll receive a further $100 bonus!

Commission Junction is one of the largest affiliate network’s around and have a wide range of publishers as members who we are sure will find Just Host’s offers rewarding. Just Host would like to say a big thank you to the CJ team for all their help setting up our account, especially to Matthew and Antonello.

To review our program please visit our CJ Sign Up Page and either create your own CJ publisher account or if you’re an existing member simply log in and sign up, you’ll find us in the Web Hosting/Servers category. If you have any questions about our affiliate program please don’t hesitate to contact us via our Contact Us page.

We look forward to working with you all to help Just Host grow into one of the biggest hosting companies around.

Sophy / Marketing Manager Just Host

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JustHost now also runs its own affiliate program: http://www.justhost.com/affiliate-program

As you may be able to tell from the lack of a blog last week, Just Host is keeping me very busy with new orders and signing up with affiliates and advertisers. Then suddenly we decide to attend Hosting Con in Chicago at the end of the month!

So for the first time Just Host is heading overseas to the windy city to mingle with fellow hosts, see what’s new in the industry and essentially how to provide the best service to our customers. I will be attending with my colleague Luke from Just Uptime – our server and website monitoring service – and we will be meeting with many hosting websites to discuss Just Host and attending networking events such as the Networking Reception on the Monday night.

If anyone would like to arrange a meeting with Just Host please let us know by visiting our Contact Us page or email me on sales[at]justhost.com. If you have already arranged a meeting or are attending, see you there!

Sophy / Marketing Manager Just Host

It may sound like a rather simple question, but for the less technical minded of us it’s actually a valid one. Web hosting has been in existence pretty much since the explosion of the internet and has rapidly grown as an industry in its own right in recent years. In essence web hosting is the renting of space on a web server for your website to be stored on. So why can’t you do this yourself with your own server? Why do we have to pay a middleman to host our own sites?

A web server basically does its job by being connected to the internet all the time. For security reasons, this means they will usually be stored in secure surroundings and in a climate controlled environment to receive the best possible performance. When you sign up with a host provider, as well as paying for this set up, you will also be paying for specialist software and their technical expertise, which comes at an unrealistic cost for most website owners.

This all points to the simple answer that it’s much easier to let your host provider bother with all the above particulars than having to worry about it yourself. The cost of a yearly subscription to a host provider is at an all time low and whether you are an individual or a business the benefits clearly outweigh the cost.

We hope this helps all you budding website owners out there and may have even convinced a few of you to take the big step to setting up your own site. Good luck!

Sophy / Marketing Manager Just Host