Before signup any hosting plan, make sure you know what kind website control panel is used and checkout their demo control panel site as well. Justhost is using cPanel control panel and version running now is cPanel X. Within our cPanel account, we captured following screenshot that you can use as the Justhost cPanel demo and get a preview of what you will get and how it look like.

The Justhost cPanel looks great and nicely organized. With blue color banner at the top and follow by latest promotion and upgrade features. You can find some account add-on here at top row, including new domain ordering, daily backup service, contact support, domain privacy feature, order private SSL and dedicated IP address, and even upgrade to dedicated server. Next row is the free marketing credits from Google Adwords, Yahoo marketing, MSN search credits, and Miva ad credits. Also includes the “improve SEO” add-on that we will review in more details in future.

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Justhost is a complete web hosting plan that include backup restore service. They are offering tool for you to perform manual file backup and database backup at anytime. In their cPanel control panel, there is backup restore tool to perform this task manually.

If you want the task to be carried out automatically, this Justhost backup service subscription will carry out the task for your website, files, database and setting. This is a complete website backup service at one small cost $19.95 per year. This is a fully automated daily backup service for your website. This is the most sought after website backup service. Professional can’t run a website without it!

Right now, this this backups service is available at huge discount price. More than half price off regular price.

Justhost daily backup

Also check out this new Justhost site backups and restore PRO service. They are now with improved service at even lower price. Webmaster can use this tool to safeguard their site with automatic tool. Choose from daily, weekly and monthly job scheduling. This tool also provides version control and you can automatically restore lost files at selected restore point. Optionally you can get to download backup files to a .zip archive too. This addon service is now available for all customers.

Justhost site backups restore

Top web hosting company always implement the best measure to ensure the highest level of availability of their services. To prevent service failure or downtime, these top web hosts will implement various backup technologies to make this possible. For example here with Justhost web hosting, they have the following world class technology in place

• UPS power to make sure the server is up running even during power failure.
• Diesel generator backup power for powering the data centres and make sure there is hours of backup power in case of huge power failure.
• Courtesy site backups and server data protection.
• Backup and restore feature in user hand accessible from their cPanel control panel.

The backup technology includes the power, server and user-managed data backup. All these when put in right practice will guarantee the highest level of reliability and data safety too. For the best quality service, this is the most recommended web hosting company.

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Justhost web hosting comes with the security feature called hotlink protection. Hotlink Protection is one of the security tool that can protect and save you lots of bandwidth by preventing other sites from stealing and displaying your images. If you host a website, you have most likely been the victim of hot linking at one time or another. Your website’s information and images might be stolen by somebody and they use your images to display on their website by directly linking to your server. This means they get to display your files while your bandwidth is being used.

For example, once someone found a large image on your site that they thought would make a good image posting in their forum. They linked to your server for the image and use the bandwidth from your server. This will download hundred of Kilobytes off your server every time the image load. If this person posts your image in a heavily famous forum or blog, this will end up in thousand of request and loading per day on your server. It ended up using about 100MB a day of bandwidth, or about 3GB a month from your server, and it stress your web hosting account too.

How to stop this? Hotlink protection will helps you to stop hotlink while keeping your server running smoothly. To enable this feature, firstly you have to log-in to cPanel control panel, scroll down to the security section and click on the icon for Hotlink Protection. You should ensure that all sites that you wish to allow direct links from are in the list. This system attempts to add all sites it knows you own to the list, however you may need to add others. The interface is simple to use, after a quick glance, pressing the Enable button will activate Hotlink Protection. You can add hotlink protection to image files or video files.

Here is the cPanel looks like and they provides the Hotlink protection under the security tab

Beside Hotlink protection, their cPanel control panel also provide IP deny manager which block user by IPs. This feature allows you to block request from certain web server or web user, all by blocking the IP address. There are more security features provided too, includes the Leech protect and password protect directory. All these are the free security feature provided.

Justhost web hosting plan is with hotlink protection. And we hope this review will help you to know more about this tool and use it to protect your website bandwidth.

Along with designing, developing and maintaining a web site, keeping a good eye on the statistical information gathered by a website is also a good practice. Login to cPanel where you can find the feature of Webalizer to show you the web site statistics that can tell a web site owner what they are doing right and what they could improve upon, what is popular and not popular on the web site, and a huge amount of other data that can be used to ad or modify an existing web site.

Justhost web hosting plans provide variety of log programs and user can choose to activate or deactivate selected log program, here is the screenshot from our account that show Awstat and Webalizer

Webalizer is really a helpful tool that enables us to view where is the visitors come from, and the traffic to your website. We love this Webalizer feature as it is a widely-known web statistical analyzing programs where it included on Justhost web hosting plan. We find out Webalizer is great to improve our web performance in terms of web server logs specific information. The following is the screenshot of Webalizer indicates a usage summary by showing hits, files, page views, unique sites, and kilobytes sent in one graph and one chart. Web data is graphed by hour, month, a year, where an unlimited running history is kept. Two kinds of reports are generated by the Webalizer detailed monthly reports and a yearly summary report.

Besides using the provided Justhost Webalizer website statistic logging program, webmasters also can use some other third party tracking system. A good example will be the latest Google Analytics. It keeps track of traffic, its origin, and even keywords that send traffic to your website. All these stats help to measure website performance, marketing effort and ROI, user behavior and much more. With clear statistic data, it’s easier to fine tune your website content quality and to serve the web users even better.

Following is the Webalizer statistic report taken from our Justhost web hosting account.