Web Hosting blog from Just Host

Just Host takes another award from FindMyHost.com for February’s Top cPanel Hosting. cPanel is the most widely used web hosting control panel in the industry with thanks to its functionality, usability and performance.

cPanel also comes with a wide range of extras which of course are free to all our customers such as Fantastico, complete with over 32+ self installing scripts and applications such as blogs, forums, chat rooms and more.

We receive a huge amount of feedback from our customers each day and the control panel is always a topic which is praised time and time again. It is therefore a much welcomed award from FindMyHost who have awarded Just Host with more than 10 awards in the last 2 years!

FindMyHost.com was first launched in 2003 and has always been the number one web hosting directory on the internet. FindMyHost.com backs every visitor with their guaranteed hosts, seal of a approval. This means is designed to protect you after you buy hosting from a provider on their site. Should you run into any problems with ANY of the hosts listed on the site, FindMyHost will be there to help.

Luke Kendall / Affiliate Manager

It is a proud moment when you can say that the company you work for has been named as one of the largest in its industry in the country. I am thrilled to announce that not only has Just Host risen to join the top 10 largest web hosts in the UK, but we are an amazing fourth largest in the country! (webhosting.info) We are also showing no sign of stopping as we are the fastest growing web host in the UK today. (webhosting.info)

In the two years I have been working for Just Host I have seen us grow at a record rate and take the industry by storm. The commitment and support from our customers has ultimately got us to this proud point and we’d all like to say a big thank you to each and every one of you who has your site hosted with us.

I can’t ignore the hard work from our ever increasing team either. Everyone has consistently worked hard to achieve each milestone and there’s no chance of the enthusiasm waning just yet, we have our eyes set on that number one spot and won’t rest until we get there. Well done to every team member whether you work in sales, support, development, it’s the fact that everyone pulls together that makes us such a success.

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

After recent surveys it appears that over 25% of Just Host’s customers are now enjoying the benefits of some extra cash each month thanks to our in-house affiliate program. By recommending their friends and relatives to use Just Host’s services, our customers are able to earn $60 for every sale made on their recommendation.

Just Host’s affiliate program has been running for over 12 months now and we are seeing over 1400 new affiliate sign up each month to the incentive scheme. We have made the program as simple as possible to use so it is a great place for people new to online marketing to start. To refer a friend to Just Host is very simple, you just need to add the unique affiliate URL in your account to your website. You can choose one of the many eye-catching banners available in your affiliate control panel or just add the link as a hyper link in a piece of text.

If you have any questions about our affiliate program please email our affiliate team at affiliates[at]justhost.com and they will be more than happy to assist you. You can sign up to be a Just Host affiliate yourself at http://www.justhost.com/affiliates

Sophy / Marketing Manager

January is off to a good start for at Just Host having just been presented with our first 3 awards for 2010. We have been presented with an award for our customer services as well as an editor’s choice award for web hosting over-all. The third and final award we have been presented with is again another Editor’s Choice award, this time congratulating our reseller web hosting service.

As I am sure you are aware, Just Host started offering reseller web hosting in 2009 – we have received a tremendous amount of feedback from our customers in such a short time and have been working with you improve and perfect our reseller services. I think this award confirms that our reseller services now meet the requirements having been voted editor’s choice from such a reputed web hosting directory.

On behalf of Just Host I would like to thank every one of our customers who vote for our services and spread the good word!

Luke Kendall / Affiliate Manager

Luke and I are heading off to the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas on Saturday to meet with old friends and new contacts to talk about new marketing opportunities for Just Host. The Affiliate Summit is one of the largest and most recognized affiliate conferences around today and it comprises of networking events, a huge exhibition and key note speakers which all help to make them one of the most useful and productive events around for marketers like us.

If anyone is interested in speaking to Just Host at the summit, maybe you think you have the ideal site to promote us or are a network dying to get involved with one the fastest growing web hosts in the world, please email me at sophy [at] justhost.com and we’ll arrange a meeting.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

This last year has been an amazing one for Just Host and we’d like to thank everyone that has helped us along the way to make it all possible. Back in December 2008 if I had been told in 12 months time Just Host will be hosting over 200,000 sites I wouldn’t have believed it for a second. It really has been a year to remember and I’d like to thank the whole Just Host team for all the hard work they’ve put in which has helped us achieve so much.

2010 will be a very exciting year for Just Host as we are putting every effort into expanding our services into new ventures like our Reseller Program. We are also constantly looking at new ways to improve our hosting for our existing customers so expect to see many new additions to our service in regards to features and support.

From everyone here at Just Host we’d like to wish all of our customers Happy Holidays and a very happy new year for 2010.

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

Downtime can be frustrating enough for any webmaster let alone when the source of the problem is unknown. Hopefully your website won’t experience much downtime but in preparation of a worst case scenario, we have compiled a list of some of the most common error codes along with their meaning so you can find a solution to the problem and get your website back online in no time.

Client Error Codes:

400 Bad Request

The HTTP request was rejected due to a syntax error within the request.

403 Forbidden

The server was unable to serve the requested data.

404 Not Found

The page you are trying to access no longer exists or never has existed.

408 Request Timeout

Communications between the server and client were taking too long so the server closed the socket. This could be due to load or bandwidth issues with the server.

Server Error Codes:

500 Internal Server Error

The server has been misconfigured in some way that prevents it from responding correctly.

502 Bad Gateway

The page requested is stored on a third party server and has issued an error preventing the server from accessing it.

This is just a select few error codes that most webmasters will stumble upon in their life time. Error codes can be even more complicated and aren’t always easy to diagnose. If you are ever unsure as to what is the cause of the problem, our friendly 24/7 support team will be able to help in no time. Feel free to get in touch by phone, email or live chat.

For a more complete and detailed list, visit Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

Luke / Affiliate Manager

December sees Just Host receive two more awards to add to our trophy cupboard. Our first from WebHostingClue.com who explain they are, “glad to give [their] yearly “Best Web Hosting” award to Just Host. This award is only granted to the web hosting companies who have consistently proven themselves with the reliable affordable product and professional customer support. Just Host impressed our review board for their excellent performance in all above areas, and become the winner of 2009.”

We are also thrilled to be awarded FindMyHost.com’s Editors Choice Award for cPanel Hosting. This is the second time this year Just Host have been placed top of this category and is our seventh award overall in 2009 from this web hosting review site. As cPanel is the most widely used control panel by web hosts it’s a real achievement to be named the best. We have put a lot of time and thought into the layout of our control panel over the last few months and put every effort into making sure our customers can easily navigate the features.

Sophy / Marketing Manager