Justhost vs Bluehost: Are you making the wrong choice?
Jun 22, 2009 Author: dina | Filed under: Website HostingQuestion: Justhost versus Bluehost
I am having a tough decision to pick between Justhost and Bluehost web hosting and a major part of my business is delayed. I need an independent review to compare their support, billing, control panel, coupon code etc. Which is recommended over the other? Is JustHost Web Hosting any good, or Bluehost Web Hosting has problems that I need to know? Would you trust any Justhost review out there? I already went to the web domain registration company and registered a few domains so now I need a web hosting service which allows unlimited domain hosting quite urgently. The only thing I found is that they both seems to be providing what we need and they are two of the best cheap web hosting around.
Answer: We recommend Bluehost because of 3 main reasons
- Bluehost was established much earlier thus has more experience in the hosting industry
- Bluehost has been said to have better customer support than Justhost
- Bluehost is recommended by Wordpress.org as the best hosting for the Wordpress install
You know how certain wrong decision can be detrimental to your business. Choosing the right web host is one of them. According to a web hosting comparison site, Justhost scored very close to Bluehost. The difference in their scores are not significant. They both are rate about 7 out of score of 10 even though Bluehost scored better in terms of popularity in this research carried out by webhostcomparison.org. It is also worth noting that, comparing the positive/negative reviews or comments about Bluehost and Justhost are not exactly comparing apple to apple because Bluehost has been in the web hosting market much longer and thus have more customers. Bluehost has more than 10 times more clients, satisfied or even dissatisfied ones. Another Blue host review was also impressed with customer satisfaction record of Bluehost so far.
So, now that you have the answer, you just have to keep on with your business and try Bluehost for yourself. At the price of $6.95 a month which is lesser than the cost of your lunch, you should be able to get another hosting account as backup soon or use the spare change for domain names registration.
For more info about how Justhost scored against Bluehost, visit this Justhost VS Bluehost side-by-side comparison page or click here to visit Bluehost and get this low cost hosting now.
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One Response for "Justhost vs Bluehost: Are you making the wrong choice?"
I was a member of bluehost and had to switch for one reason. They do not support wildcard SSL. When you have many subdomains and want to secure all of them you have no options with bluehost and they wont allow you to setup a third party wildcard SSL also. So, I had to cancel my service and the cancellation was quite easy. I could call the billing and they were more than happy to refund my money.
I switched to justhost and realized that they are not as great as bluehost. Justhost service and all is great but they just cant match bluehost. Also, their control panel is slow and I have heard complains on other forums which said their servers are generally slow and down for long periods of time but I did not see that yet. The control panel does not have as many options as bluehost. They do not have webdisk and secure webdisk options which bluehost offers. Justhost offers FTP for file transfer which is not secure. If you want to use SFTP you need to activate SSH which is $20/year. Bluehost offers this for free. The price for dedicated IP is the same for both the companies. But if you want a SSL certificate bluehost offers Comodo CA for 45$/year while justhost offers rapidssl for 65$/year. One last thing – Although Justhost claims unlimited everything, if you read the terms of Justhost they have a clause
“We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server’s CPU.”
http://www.justhost.com/terms-and-conditions?hidenav
I checked the same and bluehost’s terms and conditions seem more friendly
http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/info/terms.html
Although both these companies are on the top, I would say bluehost is better than justhost. I still did not see a reason for justhost to be awarded “Best of the year”.
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