Web Hosting blog from Just Host

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

In the last few weeks Just Host has seen its billing support team more than double in size to accommodate the huge increase in Just Host customers. Our billing team now operates 24 hours a day like our technical support team, so that our customers can get even quicker replies to their emails.

Only a few weeks ago we were celebrating hosting over 50,000 websites and today we have just hit the 65,000 mark! That just shows the incredible rate that Just Host is growing and further cements our place among the top web hosts. With such a large customer base, we will be continuously adding to our hosting support teams who are available by email, phone and live chat, to ensure our clients can get instant answers to any website queries they have.

We have also recently expanded our sales team by opening a new branch in our UK billing office which is open from 9am until 5pm CST. The extra hands on the phones have made a big difference to our potential clients as orders can now be placed direct with the team over the phone. We hope that these additions will reinforce our dedication to customer satisfaction and also helps us gain more feedback regarding our web hosting services.

Sophy / Marketing Manager

We pride ourselves in always having our customers best interests in mind at all times and are constantly on the lookout for feedback, suggestions and ideas on what we can do to improve our service. After a few emails that mentioned more choice in our site builder templates would be appreciated, we looked into our options and have now added a further 240 new fantastic templates to our existing library!

This means our customers now can choose from over 400 templates, so for even the most choosey of people we guarantee you will be able to find the right template for your site. You can view all the new templates by visiting: http://sitebuilder.justhost.com/wizard.php

Along with our Template Store: www.justhost.com/website-templates here at Just Host we are now fully equipped to provide our customers with the biggest choice for their website’s template. Whether it’s a blog for your mates, your company’s first website, an online store or a gallery we have a massive choice for you, the only problem is which one are you going to decide on!

Sophy / Marketing Manager

At Just Host, we understand that not all of us are whizz’s in the design department and we can’t all afford to pay for a web designer to create our website for us. This is where website templates come in, ready-made designs, suited to your type of site, that take all the hassle out of getting your website up and running. To increase the service that we offer to our customers we have now added our own Template Store to our impressive list of services.

Our Template Store is the place to go if you want to build your website in a matter of minutes. It’s also a great solution for you if you think your website needs a fresh and professional look. Our massive database features templates ideal for any kind of business and they have been categorized to allow you to choose the one that suits your needs in the best way. Each and every template can be easily customized in order to correspond with the brand of your company.

Please visit http://www.justhost.com/website-templates/ to check out the store to see if there’s anything that takes your fancy!

Sophy / Marketing Manager