Comments on: FatCow vs Just Host

By: Julie Lake

Julie Lake — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:37:49 +0000

Steve, I’d think hard about this if I was you. Don’t know about Fat Cow but JustHost support is pretty negligible unless you opt for their higher rate. In my experience web hosts rarely deliver what they promise – mind you, no web organisation is as bad as Google when it comes to taking customers money and refusing to communicate with them thereafter! And anyone else reading this – if you are into Movies, be very wary of Vuze! They took my money and definitely didn’t deliver! And when I asked for my money back within the stated 30 days, guess what! They never replied!

By: Steve Jarvis

Steve Jarvis — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:33:32 +0000

Fat Cow is extremely slow outside of the US, they are terrible. I am in the process of moving to Just host, Fat Cow is really that bad

By: Julie Lake

Julie Lake — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:56:43 +0000

I last posted in 2009. At that time we narrowed things down to Fat Cow and JustHost and finally went with the latter. They did a good enough job for us, especially at the price, and their setting-up process was easy for a beginner to navigate. We did find their support was not all that great, though, and were not encouraged to upgrade. Now the many difficulties of trying to publish and sell ebooks using this system (webHost and ebook software) has made us drop the whole process and put our books on to the Amazon platform. So much more user-friendly and sure, you pay them but at least you have a better chance of getting SOMETHING for your books.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:00:02 +0000

The first webhost I tried is JustHost. I never thought they were anything special until I get my second webhost (for a few freelance project I made for some small companies) at Fatcow just to have a comparison. Boy I regretted everyday of my life. Their servers are down more frequently, no cpanel (very not user friendly, I had to go through all the pain to learn how to do something while I can do it in 5 mins with Justhost), plus their customer service is light years away from JustHost. Now I’m going through the painful process of migrating all the domains and sites from Fatcow to my JustHost account because Fatcow decided to DOUBLE my web hosting annual fee this year because of ‘rising maintenance cost’ while Justhost charges the same every year without repeatingly annoy me! I’m really pissed off by Fatcow. Please stay away from it. Fatcow is just a money sucking company that doesn’t care about their customers. End of story.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:52:52 +0000

@Julie : After verification, it seems that Just Host’s support is based in the UK.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:20:04 +0000

Just Host does cost $2.95 per month if you use a coupon code and sign up for 36 months.That said, I'd strongly recommend you get a business web host. I personnally never even hosted any of my critical websites on a shared web host. I always used a managed VPS from FutureHosting.comThis way, I've always got someone monitoring my servers and support is based in the U.S.But if you don't want to spend as much, go for InMotion Hosting. I've sent a couple of friends who work online there and they're very satisfied so far.Web.com is also very good but a bit expensive.

By: Julie Lake

Julie Lake — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:03:59 +0000

Yes, well that’s a fair comment I suppose. But JustHost (which costs us more than $2.95 a month by the way!) DOES promise to deliver for very modest start-up businesses like ours and offers a more expensive business plan also. Which we’d consider upgrading to if our experience with the basic model was more positive. But perhaps you’re right and we should switch to InMotion or similar….

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:40:16 +0000

By the way, I just want to say that if you’re running a business, then get a “Business Hosting” plan. I mean, how much do you expect a business to work for you for $2.95 per month?

InMotion Hosting provides great business hosting. If you’re serious about your business, pay for a hosting package that’s meant for businesses.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:33:46 +0000

Hi Julie,

Your previous post wasn’t modified except for the link to VodaHost which was made active for users to click on.

Let me know what kind of issue you had with Just Host. I’ll see what I can do. Give me as much details as possible.

If you don’t feel comfortable posting it here, you can send me an email at info@thewebhostinghero.com

Best regards,

Stephane

By: Julie Lake

Julie Lake — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:39:16 +0000

My previous post appears to have been tampered with! I certainly did NOT endorse JustHost which continues to give us so much trouble that we’re considering changing. Am looking at FatCow but also favour Blue Voda. JustHost customer support is just about non-existent and rarely addresses the problem. If you’re running a serious business avoid JustHost!