Comments on: Bluehost vs Justhost vs Fasthosts Review – Whos the top web host?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:39:14 +0000

Actually, Bluehost is registered and have a number, check this link out

http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/info/vat_information

Here is the part you should read:
In order to fulfill our EU VAT obligations, we have opted to register for VAT under the special scheme for non-EU suppliers of electronic services, also known as the one-stop scheme, in accordance with Article 357 to 369 of the above EC Directive rather than register for VAT in each EU member state individually. Our VAT identification number is EU826015180.

Just FYI

By: Mik

Mik — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:17:48 +0000

I am now with Justhost – They are very good, no problems at all since subscribing about 18 months ago.

I have never used bluehost.

I have used Fasthosts and they are by far the worst hosting company out there, AVOID!

By: jay

jay — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:22:08 +0000

BEWARE of Bluehost if you are an UK or EU customer, they will charge you VAT but will not provide your statutory consumer rights, and cannot provide and will not provide a VAT number as they are not VAT registered, hence not permitted to charge VAT as you need to be VAT registered to do so. i have been with bluehost for years with multiple accounts but BEWARE as to their new tactics.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:27:11 +0000

Justhost.com now has live chat/support that has responded in under a min everytime I have used it. There support, so far, has been great. Prices seem inline with the others.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:42:24 +0000

Yes I would have to agree with you although Bluehost had its share of server problems with me too. I cant say they were slow but did go down on a number of occassions with no warning.

Overall though I would say they are a good company with descent customer service.

But I would definitely recommend some smaller companies as they offer a more personal service.

Thanks for your detailed response William.

By: William Pitt

William Pitt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:54:28 +0000

I was a member of bluehost and had to switch for one reason. They do not support wildcard SSL. When you have many subdomains and want to secure all of them you have no options with bluehost and they wont allow you to setup a third party wildcard SSL also. So, I had to cancel my service and the cancellation was quite easy. I could call the billing and they were more than happy to refund my money.

I switched to justhost and realized that they are not as great as bluehost. Justhost service and all is great but they just cant match bluehost. Also, their control panel is slow and I have heard complains on other forums which said their servers are generally slow and down for long periods of time but I did not see that yet. The control panel does not have as many options as bluehost. They do not have webdisk and secure webdisk options which bluehost offers. Justhost offers FTP for file transfer which is not secure. If you want to use SFTP you need to activate SSH which is $20/year. Bluehost offers this for free. The price for dedicated IP is the same for both the companies. But if you want a SSL certificate bluehost offers Comodo CA for 45$/year while justhost offers rapidssl for 65$/year. One last thing – Although Justhost claims unlimited everything, if you read the terms of Justhost they have a clause

“We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to discontinue service to any customer with a website or other hosted data that takes up more than 10% of the server resources and/or 10% of the server’s CPU.”

http://www.justhost.com/terms-and-conditions?hidenav

I checked the same and bluehost’s terms and conditions seem more friendly

http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/info/terms.html

Although both these companies are on the top, I would say bluehost is better than justhost. I still did not see a reason for justhost to be awarded “Best of the year”.