By amlow on

Hey,

Any recommendation on Justhost.com ?
I'm a siteground.com customer and I'm not really happy with the downtime, and performance.

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vm commented

Drupal 7.x shouldn't be used in a production environement but to use it you will need to make sure your host is MySQL 5 and PHP 5 ready.

Try not to clutter the forums with comments like: http://drupal.org/node/360310#comment-1227049 which doesn't even fit the question being asked in that thread. As such I've unpublished your comment.

may want to read: http://drupal.org/node/317873

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lionheart8 commented

I recently signed up for an account at justhost.com & I am hosting 2 sites there, one a drupal based community site nearing completion.
So far, I have not experienced any problems & their support has been relatively fast, especially by live chat.
On some host review sites, it got the best or very good reviews, but that does not at times mean much.

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silverwing commented

I've never heard of them (there are so many out there...).

But I'm sure you know that when a host offers 'Unlimited' bandwidth and storage, that it's not true.

As with all hosts, check out their terms and conditions or resource usage policy. JustHost is here: http://www.justhost.com/terms-and-conditions It looks pretty standard for a shared hosting company. (50,000 seems to be on the higher end of things when hosts limit files. And no database size restrictions that i could find.)

~silverwing

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Kaumil commented

Siteground is a shared web hosting provider and so is Justhost, both of them primarily in the same budget market. I don't think your performace issues are going to go away just by changing providers.

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seanray commented

Both Justhost and Siteground are at the same share marketing sector. Usually you should use VPS hosting for a drupal site, but as a beginner, I would like suggest bluehost, hostmonster, anhosting, they are pretty good share hosting with low cost, and what's more good is that their MySQL works very fast.

But keep in mind, all shared web hosting will limit the cpu/memory resource you can use, so, when you successfully attract 300 traffic per day, you will have to migrate your site to a VPS hosting.

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ascii0027 commented

I used justhost and am moving my site elsewhere. Performance was sporadic and, at its worst, made the site unusable. Support said it was a problem on my end with my ISP which, btw, is a major research university where I get ~80mb down and ~75mb up. So, after exhausting my options with their support, I am moving my site one week before launch! My guess is that my hideous and unpredictable performance is due to the fact that it is a shared server environment and my site is image rich and I am using some large drupal modules which, I imagine, works the DB and server.

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seanray commented

Share hosting could be used for learning, developing a Drupal site, if it goes production, then VPS will be a better option especially when you have many modules installed and it's image rich.

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granticusiv commented

We've just received an email from Justhost, complaining that we're using too much of their system resources. They want us to delete tables from the Drupal databases. Well, we've only got 5 Drupal sites hosted on the account. 5! This is a reseller account. I should be able to host 20-30 sites on there without any issues. Can't say much for their support either. I've spent many hours waiting for Live Chat support. I've spent up to 2 hours waiting, on multiple occasions.

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vm commented

20 - 30 sites? the only way you can run that many database driven sites on a shared host / re seller account is if they are static HTML. Scrap the re seller account and get a VPS with a reputable host where you can grow with the needs of the sites.

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whcomplete commented

Hi,

There is a detail report on Justhost loading time at http://webhostingcomplete.com/justhost-review/ where you can able to find some sample report about JustHost server.

From my experience JustHost is Good. Regarding server slow,might be sometime due to dns resolving issues. And you are fro university which sometimes have filters to check all dns call.

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cardiffsteve commented

I have used various ones, but Just Host is my preferred option for Drupal.
I have never experienced memory limit problems with them.
Load times are very good.
Excellent quick and very knowledgable support.
Very reasonable prices
You dont have to mess around with the .htaccess file (rewrite rules).
Never had migration problems.
Save yourself a load of heartache and stress and just go with this Host.

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TagGit commented

Justhost now is using the same data center of Bluehost, which should be a good choice when hosting drupal.

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alaa.ayyad commented

I just completed my first year with justhost and it was fine. I useually pay much attention to performance, Drupal 7 sites run very good on this host.

A simple list of things i found good and competitive comparing to other services:
- Configurable PHP version, you can select from 5.2 up to 5.4 (engine or single php.ini),
- Database import size: 50 mb,
- Installabe OAuth and Imagik,
- Infinite everything including bandwidth, subdomains, and databases,
- Price is still better than most famous hosting service,
- Basic memory of 128mb.

Once, i uploaded a Drupal 7 site on both BlueHost and JustHost, JustHost was much better in page loading speed.