The Shared Web Hosting services market is one of the Internet's most competitive. They all want your business, and the plans they offer get more 'all-inclusive' on an almost weekly basis. The best web site hosting companies are the ones that offer the three most important hosting features that you need as a new domain owner, ease of use, reliability, and customer support!

Internet management, and data storage technology have advanced and improved so much that what used to be complicated and expensive is now simplified and much less costly. In the 'old days' bandwidth, (access usage) was metered like liquid gold, and data storage was priced in megabytes instead of the gigabytes, (or even terabytes). What used to be the most major considerations for your site are now almost standardized across all service providers.

What this boils down to is that almost all service providers will be able to service your domain's website needs, it just a matter of which company packages their services in a plan that suits your needs best. And all plans can be upgraded depending on your expanding needs.

So first you have to decide what you need now, and pick a plan that includes solutions for these needs. Chances are most of the companies will have hosting plans that will work for you. So now we get to the real point. If most companies can provide the specifics of your hosting needs, how do you pick one to host your domain?

By choosing ones that meet the really important needs;

Reliability, Ease of Use, and Customer Support

Here is a shot of the company's hosting plan overview to give you the general idea of how complete their plan is, you can go to their website for the technical plan details and additional features. (yes, there are more features)

Think about it. What good is a great hosting plan, or the lowest price, if the hosting company's servers are frequently 'down' and nobody can get to your website? Or you signed up for a great deal, but you need to go to school to learn how to use the company's programs, Or you have a problem or question and have to wait 3 days for a 'canned' email reply because no humans really work at the company. (or so it seems)

Reliability:

justHost.com has a reliability rating of 99.9%. This means that justHost.com servers are online and providing access to your website 99.9% of the time. Since no company can honestly claim 100% 'up-time' ratings, justHost.com is sitting at the top!

(The dependability rating is the important fact, but here is the technical stuff)

They achieve this superior rating by; using their own unique 'load balancing' technology, super high-speed 'backbone' connections for their servers, and using multiple servers to guarantee that if one server does go down, another back-up server is already online to continue providing access to your website. And as a plug to one of the industry's best equipment providers, justHost.com uses top-quality Dell servers, which lead the industry in speed and processing abilities. They also use the latest and most secure 'state-of-the-art' firewalls and multi-layer security systems. It is this double strength combination of software and hardware components that allow justHost.com to have the reliability of 99.99% infrastructure viability.

Of course that's the company's line, the important bottom line is you can rely on them to keep your website up and running, and available to those visitors you are working so hard to get.

Tools: justhost.com includes all the tools you will need to build your site just the way you want it. Forms, modules, images, these are all handled with 'point & click' ease of use for you to get just the look and layout you want.

javascripts: most of those cool function gadgets that allow you to give your visitors the special features that make your site standout are usually java script code, and inserting these scripts in an html, or CSS html web page can sometimes cause major problems, but using the industry standard Fantastico script handler makes setting them up in your website a snap.

cPanel web site control panel: Using another industry standard user interface, cPanel, you will be able to easily, (again, point & click), administer, control, and change your website in almost any way you want. You can check out the power of this easy to use control panel on justHost.com's website

This is the biggie! Customer service!

All the bells & whistles, and the cheapest price on the 'net', won't matter at all if you can't get customer support! Think about it! It's your site, you pay a company to perform a service for you, you have a problem, (or maybe just a question), and... nobody's home! or you get 'canned' email responses that don't help! Where are the real people?

justHost.com has 24/7 technical and customer support! Their phone number is right on their home web page, no searching for a 'real human' contact number. You can even do a 'live chat' online, and of course they also have email support.

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Be sure to look at he bottom of the page at justHost.com. There is a site link in the small print that says "secret link". It will give you a 20% discount on any hosting plan you pick.

When you are looking around at the other hosting companies, use justHost.com as the standard setter. Odds are good you will come back to it for your hosting needs.

• MySQL, and PostgreSQL Databases
• phpMyAdmin/Remote MySQL Access
• Self Signed SSL
• Agora Cart
• OS Commerce
• PayPal support
• Merchant Account support
• Free Generated Cert.
  

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and $75.00 free Merchants Credits

• POP3 or IMP Email access
• SMTP for outgoing mail
• Sendmail/Exim Access
• Auto-responders
• Forwarding addresses
• Spam Assassin
• Integrated Organiser/Address Book/Calendar