Web Hosting blog from Just Host

We know how quick some web hosts are to make claims about certain aspects of their service, free domain, free setup, free this, free that, but how many of them actually follow through with their claims? From the start, Just Host have been committed to providing a service that stands above all others and we have always gone that extra mile with our hosting plan’s features to ensure that our customers get the most for their money.

We are one of the very few top hosts to offer a true anytime money back guarantee which really is as good as it sounds. Like with most web hosts we offer great discounted prices on our longer term plans such as 36 and 48 months. Understandably, some people aren’t sure of the lifespan of their website so signing up for say a 36 month plan could seem daunting. That’s where our anytime money back guarantee comes to the rescue, because if after 24 months you decide to close your website you can receive a pro-rata refund on the remaining term on your hosting plan so you’ve had the benefit of the great price and haven’t ended up paying for anything you aren’t using.

The majority of hosts only offer a 30 day money back guarantee which will leave most people having to choose between the best price and the possibility that they may not need to host their site for x amount of months. By hosting you site with Just Host this dilemma is completely eliminated as we allow you to take advantage of the best price available and still get your money back at any time if you plans change.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

Here at Just Host we have always been very committed to helping our customers make the absolute most of their site in every way. Whether it’s providing them with the best script library around, a mass of free quality website templates to choose from or tools to help them effectively market their site.

Our newest service is a library of Marketing eBooks which focus on a wide variety of marketing strategies and techniques suited to all levels of marketing knowledge. Areas covered include search engine marketing on sites such as Google and Yahoo, offline marketing and driving traffic to your site from various mediums. Each of the ten eBooks are available as PDFs that can be easily printed so they can be read at your leisure.

So much of Just Host’s success is down to many of the marketing practices discussed in these eBooks so we have 100% confidence in the tips and advice given. We will always be adding such services to our control panel for our customers because we understand the importance of each customer’s site and that its success is vital to so many of you. If you ever have any suggestions on areas you’d like us to cover please email us as we always welcome service suggestions.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

I’m proud to announce the launch of Just Host’s professional reseller hosting services. After a record breaking year in the shared web hosting market, we have now moved into reseller hosting and have launched with a bang as we’ve set our pricing and specifications to compete with all the current major reseller hosts.

We are renown for offering affordable shared web hosting with superb uptime and support and we hope to carry this forward with their new reseller hosting plans. Reseller hosting is the obvious move for any shared web host who has built up a name for themselves as a reliable host. People buying reseller services are very much in the know about web hosting and their success is in our hands they are relying on our infrastructure to provide a first class service to their customers. With this in mind we are confident that Just Host can become a major force in the reseller hosting market”

The reseller plans we’ve chosen have a vast list of features that are sure to impress new and existing customers, these features included a free eNom domain reseller account, a choice of free billing systems, WHM for full account management and unlimited free cPanel accounts. All of these tools will be vital to resellers looking to set up their own web hosting business.

Just Host’s reseller program consists of four plans, each with four term options to suit all budgets. The plans start from as little as $19.95 per month for an impressive 75GB of disk space and the top end of the scale they offer unlimited space and bandwidth plans for $89.95 per month. All of their plans come with the well know WHM and cPanel control panels and a wealth of extra features for both the reseller and their hosting customers. We’ve also chose to include extra features such as a free domain with each account, the ability to host unlimited sites in each control panel and private nameservers for each reseller which places us in a very competitive position when it comes to reseller hosting.

For further information on our reseller plans please visit: http://www.justhost.com/reseller

Sophy / Marketing Manager

Just Host is really proud to announce that all of our web hosting accounts now come with an amazing $50 worth of MySpace Ad credits. The best news about these ad credits is that they are totally FREE! Just Host is the first and only web host to be offering these advertising credits which highlights our dedication to providing our customers with relevant and exclusive features as part of their hosting package.

MySpace offer a great platform for advertising your site or products as they ensure all adverts are targeted to the relevant audience. This means you can be totally sure your adverts are only being placed in front of people that will be interested in them and are sure to provide a great return on your investment.

The type of advertising MySpace offers is banner advertising and their price deals are hard to beat. You could advertise on the top banner of the site for as little as $5 per day! Just Host is always on the look out for great offers such as this one and we are currently in talks with some huge names that we’ll be announcing soon, so watch this space!

Sophy / Marketing Manager

Just Host is really proud to announce its partnership with Design Fusions, one of the latest offering from the JDI Group. Design Fusions is a web design company specifically catered for people new to the web and having their own website. The company was created with many of Just Host’s customers in mind and a feature that sets them apart from many other web design companies out there is their three packages, Home, Business and Business Pro.

As Just Hosts customer base widely varies between home users to large businesses, Design Fusions wanted to cater for every customer and to make sure they only paid for exactly what they need. Design Fusions has launched with three packages, each including features such as Professional Markup, XHTML/CSS Valid Markup and Bespoke Pages. The Business Package caters for Blogs and eCommmerce sites while the Business Pro also includes Custom Branding.

It’s easy to see the talents of the Design Fusions team from viewing the case studies on the site. The previous sites created look professional and easy to navigate and an added bonus is every package is fully customizable so if you need something specific on your site such as an image gallery, Design Fusions can handle it! Getting a quote for your site couldn’t be easier, just visit http://designfusions.com choose your package and then ask for your quote!

Sophy / Marketing Manager

At Just Host we understand the different needs of our clients and how everyone has different priorities for their website. One of the many options we offer our customers is to Go Green with their site. This special upgrade gives our clients the chance to run a totally environmentally friendly site by moving to one of our 100% energy efficient servers.

The Go Green upgrade gives each user a green badge for their site to display their commitment to the environment and their site then becomes Just Green eCertified. The importance of taking care of the environment is so high on people’s agendas in the current climate and this has had an effect on the way web hosting companies run their businesses and products.

Just Host’s Go green feature is 100% carbon neutral friendly and gives the client the reassurance that they are hosting with a company who is thinking about the future and wants to help preserve the environment. The Go Green upgrade can be added when you sign up for your Just Host account, just click to Go Green and Just Host will handle the rest!

Click here to get your green site hosted with Just Host

Sophy / Marketing Manager

One of the many features that are included in all Just Host web hosting accounts is FREE Google Adwords Credits. It’s easy to get confused with such offers and to be unsure of how relevant each of these are to you and your website. I wanted to personally highlight how affective this feature can be and can open up a whole new world when it comes to marketing your site.

Google Adwords are an essential marketing tool for a massive number of businesses nowadays. Not only do they allow you to advertise on the most widely used search engine on the web, but they can be 100% tailored to your business so that you are only advertising to your target audience. You will find the ads at the top of each Google search and down the right hand side. For competitive terms such as ‘web hosting’ the number of companies fighting for the top spots is very high, but on more specific terms you’ll see only carefully targeted adverts.

Just Host has teamed up with Google so that we can offer you free credits so you can give the adverts a try and see the affect they have on your business. The cost of the adverts is on a cost per click basis so you only pay when someone clicks on your ad and the cost of the click is based on the key words that you are bidding on. For small businesses in niche markets Google Adwords is an ideal tool to put your business right in front of your target audience for a few cents and can be much more effective than big scale print ads.

If you’re already a Just Host customer and have not set up your Adword account yet you just need to login to your control panel and you’ll find your free $25 credits waiting for you.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

1) Use a spam filter!

It sounds obvious but it is surprising how many people do not use spam filters to protect their inbox from spam and phishing email. Here at Just Host we offer all our customers an open source solution called Spam Assassin that requires no installation on your part and most importantly it won’t cost you an arm and a leg!

2) Keep your email address private.

Don’t publish your email address ANYWHERE on the web, if your email address is posted on a public guestbook, blog or forum your inbox could very soon be cluttered with junk email. Automated bots crawl the web collecting these addresses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

3) Create a spare email address.

Treat your spare email address as your public one, use it online in forums, chat rooms and when subscribing to mailing lists and promotions. Remember your spare email address is a temporary one, don’t be afraid to change it often. And remember, if you are already a Just Host customer you can create an unlimited number of email addresses so you can change your email address as often as you like.

4) Handle with care.

You should never respond to any email address that you believe to be spam, this just tells the spammers that you are there and that their email addresses are reaching your inbox! You should also consider turning read receipts off, these are often used to determine whether the emails are reaching a live inbox. Finally, NEVER use the unsubscribe link unless you actually remember signing up to receive mail from the sender originally. This again is just another way for spammers to determine which emails are reaching the sender.

5) Use disposable mail.

If you are forced to enter an email address somewhere on the web where the authenticity of the website is questionable, use a temporary email address! A service like 10minutemail.com will give you access to a working email address so that you do not have to risk using your personal address on a web site you do not trust. Once you have finished, simply exit the website and you can leave knowing you will never receive any unwanted mail as a result of it.

The fight against spam has been ongoing since the first recorded incident in 1978, this affected 393 individuals. More than 30 years later and spam is on a whole new level reaching billions of internet users worldwide. It may not be possible to completely eliminate spam but we can all do our bit to reduce the impact it has on our inbox. Just be vigilant online and treat your email address like your house number and zip code, you wouldn’t post that everywhere would you?

Luke Kendall / Affiliate Manager

As well as the massive increase in staff, Just Host’s office has also seen some further new additions that have dramatically helped us improve customer service. A screen has been implemented in the Billing Office that lists the number of emails in each support queue along with the average response time and the average wait time. This not only helps our managers keep on top of their teams performance, but also motivates the billing reps to constantly be bringing the response times down to improve customer service.

The Order Team also has a new feature in their office in the form of six clocks. The times shown are spread across the world and include New York, London, Sydney and Beijing as these are some of our main customer bases. As the Order Team now work well into the night these clocks will help them keep aware of the times around the world so at 9am they can be straight on a call to the relevant countries.

After having reached 100,000 customers, 108,009 now to be exact, Just Host is truly focused on constantly improving our customer service for our impressive customer base. We will be continuously making improvements like this, both within our office and in our control panel to ensure our customers are getting the best web hosting service possible.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

At Just Host, we are always keen to spread our wings into new realms of the web hosting industry and are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for people to order web hosting from us. One of the newest additions to our hosting service is the introduction of three new currencies to our order form which will make it much easier for customers to order their website from us. The three new currencies that customers can now buy web hosting in are Canadian Dollars, Euros and Singapore Dollars.

Just Host was already receiving a large number of orders from Canada, Singapore and a wide number of European countries and we saw the potential each of them had to grow with the addition of their own currency. We have seen really impressive sales figures almost instantly from all three currencies which means we will continue to add new currencies when the demand is there. We welcome any suggestions on currencies people would like to see us offer and any general feedback as always on the features we offer as one of the leading web hosts.

Sophy / Marketing Manager