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Kenny is owner of webhostpark and has been working in hosting industry since 2006. We provide unbiased hosting reviews and release the latest promo news. Follow me on Google plus

Why JustHost Blog Hosting is The Best?

why justhost blog hosting is the best

Blog is the fastest way to get online appearance. Depspite any free blog platform, have our own domain name with root control over site content is critial in case of any system failure. To make your blog experience simple and excellent, we highly recommend JustHost(www.justhost.com) based 3 years' editorial experience with it. To dig out more, we briefly introduce the justhost blog platform advantages in following categories

Simple but Powerful Hosting Plan

Justhost provides a simple shared hosting plan but provides all popular features such as CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL and software installer. Almost all crucial features are unlimited. Technically, you can use the justhost service for any linux web project because of its powerful setup.

What more is about its simplity. We can complete website setup automatically in control panel center. We have multiple options to setup blog site, either by sitebuilder wizard or scripts installer or upload our existing project, the process is pretty streight and hassle free. We also have option to use weebly service plan here. Means if we have been used to this platform, it's also available here with justhost. The thing is everything will be hosted under our hosting account for full management.

Worry about quick website growth? Justhost provides two upgrade options for shared plan and 4 cloud VPS server plans for instant provisioning! It's crucial feature as you don't have to wait for server setup when you need urgent migration.

install blog with justhost

No Trick Lowest Price

As low as $2.95 per month, we always enjoy this price or even less during holiday promotion. You don't need any coupon code or secret link like before, everything is clear as it is. If you have been looking for any promo code and found some, unfrtunately, none will work because the justhost team actually has deactivated all codes except the default one!

How to save money with justhost? Please be noted, the lowest price offer is only effective for 36 months registration and there will be different prices for 24 or 12 months. We highly recommend to go with 36 months directly for best price value. In case you don't really need that long time service, just submit cancellation request for money back of rest months and no reasons to be asked!

Clean Revised cpanel

Justhost provides revised control panel based cPanel technologies. Comparing to cpanel, the justhost control panel is more clean with better navigation. Those frequently used options are well categorized on top and could be customized with our needs. No matter if are novice or professional web master, this control panel be able to make your work more easy!

Check out justhost control panel demo @ http://www.justhost.com/cgi/demo

CloudFlare Plan

Cloudflare is mostly recognized cloud drive for website. The company provides multiple plans to support our individual needs. Other than register separately on cloudflare site, the integration is added to justhost control panel for central management.

Need more features? Sign up now and found more surprises! http://www.justhost.com

5 Names Can Be Trusted Under EIG

Endurance international group

No matter how we do researches about web hosting suggestion, most people would say go away from EIG (endurance International Group). But if we do further research about this company, we can conclude that lots of popular hosting brands are actually managed by their people. Regardless of those names we're not familiar with, who to go if we have to choose from EIG? Following names are recommended via our continuous monitoring

BlueHost(www.bluehost.com)

The most reputable name for personal to medium size business over a decade. Although their founder sold the business, he's still supporting BH because the bluehost management system is different from any available ones. Their cloud platform is 100% created by their own based their more than 10 years' experience.

A new spotlight at bluehost is choice of server location. They have not announced any new data center plan from other points on the planet, but we do have opportunity to host in USA, Europe, India and China for the moment. Our analysis told us it should be a kind of resource sharing.. Since the endurance group purchased business from different continents, it's possible they share available resources together.

The most important reason of recommendation is there has been no real negative events happened so far, bluehost is still bluehost as it has been. No real change because of the owner transfer.

HostGator(www.hostgator.com)

The biggest purchasing by EIG for now. Similar to bluehost but mostly featured for its industry standards reputation. For very a long time, hostgator has been recognized the standard of cpanel hosting service. Being the rule maker, hostgator did prove their capacity of high quality hosting offering. Either shared or VPS or Dedicated server plan, client always be able to find a suitable solution for their business.

With hostgator, we can sign up through three channels: Hostgator US, Hostgator India & Hostgator China. Each tunnel is supported by local team for easier and more professional communication.

No serious issues reported yet after business transfer, hostgator is still the industry leader no matter how people say.

JustHost(www.justhost.com)

To justhost, things are just better and better than before. While everything remains the simplity as before, improvements are never stopped. We got VPS and cloud server solutions at very good prices. They provides us the best price directly for shared hosting while we can only get it by special coupon code before. No secret link or any other tricks to play anymore!

Moreover, Justhost provides a revised cpanel control panel which only keeps useful items by default. Some frequently used options are well categorized on top so we don't need to find with any effort. Especially when we need to host a basic website and keep everything simple, justhost is absolutely the NO.1 choice!

justhost control panel demo

iPage(www.ipage.com)

Make hosting service cheaper! If you have tired of dealing with problems from other cheap or free hosting service, try ipage and you will get fresh air. iPage was cheap and cheaper now, no coupon required, no special tricks to play with. We always enjoy the best price as it shows.

Comparing to any cheap hosting service plan, either for price or quality, hard to find a competitor. If we have experienced a lot of bad because of endurance migration issue, ipage is probably the only good thing from the company. Just one buck a month, we get everything needed to setup a full functional site with a bunch of promotion tools.

Arvixe(www.arvixe.com)

Our main hosting partner since 2010. Arvixe is in our top list as always, although we're doing complete new evaluation because of the business transfer. Arvixe is a hot word in lots of community forums at the moment. Regardless any backend affairs, the real front service is still on same level.

Personally, it's hurricane after we confirmed the truth of EIG purchasing over arvixe. We worked with a very good hosting company before and its reputation got destroyed because of EIG "platform transission", clients lost data and business because website is not working on new server. Fortunately, there's no such trouble from coming purchases over big companies like Hostgator. Some research says EIG is trying to keep cpanel services no change and manage them together. If it's true, that's probably how there's no issue because of business transission.

Despite who owns arvixe, the company is actually doing perfect for both linux and windows hosting. Their affordable and excellent service is powering more than one million domain names. There're individual plans for personal and business sites to support different business perfectly. That's how we're still with them instead migrating away.

How Do We Think About EIG Hosting Service?

Nowadays, big companies are eating up small competitors to become stronger. Companies like endurance will just become more and more huge no matter if we like it or not. They truth is they're now managing the biggest part hosting service on the planet and it's hard to escape their ecosphere for better solution. Instead to avoid, we need to evaluate our real hosting needs then pick up the suitable provider. Sometimes we don't really have to read people's bad experience, as long as we think it's good from overall evaluation then its good to go.

Ways of Website Attacking & Protection

ways of website attacking & protection

Finally we have setup a website and made it online after hard working. We keep working hard to promote it to get more business opportunities. But one day, the website is suddenly down because of attacking. No need to mention how terrible it is because our daily work is all about it. Here we concluded following ways of attacking with according solutions based our editorial experience.

NO.1 Injection

Hackers scan our website files then insert trojan codes from backend. The entire site might be revised. Especially when our website is created from those CMS softwares and we don't apply hot fixes in time after official announcement.

Result: Website content is changed which brings no trusts to visitors. Search engines and other security platform will detect the trojans and put notice from search result. Navigation to website will be blocked.

Solution: After learnt the real problem we can apply following fixes

  1. Restore from latest backup.
  2. Apply official hot fixes or switch to another website platform.
  3. Apply strict file permissions.

NO.2 Bandwidth Attack

Like CC or DDOS, attackers send out numorous requests to website and overload the router, firewall and server.

Result: Such attacking will simply bring down the entire hosting server. Because of this, website can not be opened, search engine spider can not get in either. If the problem persists for some time, data will be cleared from search results.

Solution:

  1. Choose a reputable hosting service with good firewall protection.
  2. Monitor website via third party services to detect any doubtable visits.
  3. Use CDN, CDN can greatly filter those attacks based their powerful hardware setup.

NO. 3 Database attack

SQL injection is another popular name for this attack. Attackers insert harmful sql commands by web forms.

Result: Database is compromised for data leaking. Nowadays over 99% websites are database powered, thus hackers got all web data access and be able to change everything on site.

Solution:

  1. Add authentication to web forms on website, such as captcha.
  2. Add database firewall
  3. Switch to a more secure hosting provider

NO. 4 Deliberate scanning

Hackers use scanning tools to scan website bugs for attacking

Result: preparition of next attack

Solution:

  1. Use a secure hosting provider.
  2. Close dangerous ports and change some default ports.

NO. 5 Domain attack

There will be following cases for domain attacking

  • Domain stealing – Domain ownership is changed and transfered to another registrar.
  • DNS hajack – Use spoof DNS server and forward domain to this address.
  • Wildcard domain DNS – Create lots of sub domains to point to hackers' website.

Result: Domain control is lost, sub domains are forwarded to hacker sites and domain authority is downgraded. Search engine will not trust our site and remove from search results.

Solution

  1. Choose a reputable domain registrar with real contact information, lock domain and prohibit domain transfer.
  2. Ensure the safety of contact email account.
  3. Use a good and reliable DNS service and lock our settings.

Guides on How to Build Unique WordPress Layout

unique wordpress page layout

Once a new wordpress theme installed, there're always some sections we want to edit to fulfill our needs. Especially front page layouts, we always have to work with code behind or pay some professionals for assistance. But not anymore! In this article we introduce two great wordpress plugins to help design your wordpress page layout in few minutes, no coding skills required!

Plugin: Page Builder by SiteOrigin

Page Builder completely changed our mind of website design by wordpress. Instead to change code behind, we can easily manage site layout by drag & drop options which is exact the same way of sitebuilder wizard. The best thing is page builder is compatible with any theme and it will not change anything to existing theme design! It makes it easy to create responsive column based content, using the widgets you know and love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is mobile-ready.

See this official video to learn more

All page builder advantages could be concluded to following

  • Compatible to any theme and makes no change to theme files
  • No coding skill required, sitebuilder like operation
  • Live editing, see changes at real time
  • History browser, can roll back to old changes with no content breaking
  • FREE! 100% open sourced with active development & support

Download plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/

Plugin: Visual Composer

A commercial wordpress plugin coded by CodeCanyon. Recognized a premium rrontend and backend page builder plugin, visual composer lets you build any layout with drag and drop page builder plugin – no programming knowledge required.

Visual Composer unbeatable features include

  • Build your content on the go, no need admin panel, what you see is what you get!
  • Work with any wordpress theme, and actually you don't need to purchase extra theme because you can already make changes as you like.
  • 40+ content elements available to build any complex layout
  • Built in skin builder to create your personal theme style.
  • Responsive Design, Mobile Ready Layouts.
  • Professional and dedicated support team.

Buy plugin at official site codecanyon.net

Tips of WordPress Page Structure Design

wordpress structure design

Content is the most important part for any site. For wordpress blog, high quality writing with proper structures can encourage visitors' reading greatly. Those advanced wordpress themes are already optimized on each side, but definitely there're more to do if we need better effects. Following are some skills & plugins based our editorial experience.

Suggestion NO.1: Be simple

Some sites use multiple fonts on single page which is pretty confusing. Normally we only need two fonts on same page – one for title and one for content. Serif & Sans Serif fonts are most popular choice on many wordpress sites. Typical usage is to take Sans Serif for title and Serif for content, the vice versa.

Suggestion NO.2: Suitable colors

When we structure our wordpress site, be sure to apply suitable colors, no colorful no plain. Many blog sites could be more attractive at a better color design. Colors to avoid for background & content: White/black, grey/dark grey or any other colors hard to balance with.

Suggestion NO.3: Sense of hierarchy on titles

This is not only good for site structure but also good for SEO, readers can quickly understand the content by titles.

Recommended WordPress Plugins for Structure Design

Google Typography – Let users to change word fonts easily, even be able to replace existing fonts on theme. There're over 300 fonts in gallery. Users can select font, color, size, line spacing & word spacing with no technical skills requirement. Google Typography is by far the most powerful font management tool.

Simple Pull Quote – provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes into your posts and pages. It adds an easy-to-use "Pullquote" button to both the HTML and TinyMCE editors. Check out this youtube tutorials http://youtu.be/JGudI9gr9iE

Hyphenator – Hyphenator automatically inserts separators in the content, so that at the end of line the text is wrapped with a dash if applicable.

WP Code Highlight – WP Code Highlight provides clean syntax highlighting. It also provides a code button(HTML editor) to help you insert code in articles easily. You don't need to specify the language since WP Code Highlight will guess, all languages are supported.

Godaddy Domain Registeration Payment Error Solution

Being the largest domain provider, godaddy is doing heavy email marketing with non-rejectabl offers. However, after we got a nice price and try to check out, the system does not accept and produce out this error

godaddy domain purchase error

Because the code we applied provides us 35% discount and can only be processed by credit card, so I guess it should be problem from my credit card provider. However our cc provider confirmed everything is working good on their side. So finally I have to contact godaddy support for solution. Here're our communication with their support staff

You're chatting with Brandi.
Brandi
Hello and thank you for contacting Chat. My name is Brandi. How can I help you today?
Kenny –
Hello. I'm ordering domain name and got error msg during check out:
Kenny –
There was a problem processing your transaction. Please verify your payment information or use an alternate form of payment.
Kenny –
I'm using credit card
Brandi
Ok let me take a look
Brandi
Upon review of your message it sounds as though you are attempting to place an order online but are receiving an error message. The error you are receiving indicates that the promotional code you are trying to use is not eligible at this time. We are unable to process orders including this promotional code on your behalf, as the codes are for use online only. Most codes have various usage restrictions and as such we suggest reviewing the email or marketing notice you received announcing the code to determine the code's eligibility. You can try to clear the shopping cart, clear the cache in your browser and place the domain name again. Or let me know and I can reload your shopping cart again with this domain name.
Brandi
Kenny –
I'm ordering xxxxx.com this domain..
Kenny –
for 5 years
Kenny –
could you help with this issue?
Brandi
Yes I can process the 5 year domain here for $60.86
Kenny –
I'm redirected by this code "CJCRMN99U" which gives me $41.85 in total
Kenny –
can it be done?
Brandi
That code shows as invalid
Kenny –
Anyway, it's your offer.. could you apply a good code for better price? I'm trying to register because of the offer
Brandi
The regular pricing is $70.85 and I can do it here for $60.86
Kenny –
no better one?
Brandi
Unfortunately no
Kenny –
can I pay via paypal on file?
Brandi
Yes I can process that here with the PayPal on file
Brandi
In order to process the order please type "I agree" to the following: 1) The Universal Terms of Service Agreement. 2) The Domain registration  Agreement. 3) The Charge of $60.86 on the PayPal
Kenny –
yes
Brandi
Ok that has been processed for you Kenny!

So we see.. we're trying to get some discount with their code, but can't pay it although their system does generated a good price. After a bit research online, we found many people faced similar problems. Sometimes their support can help process it directly with that price but sometimes no like us.