JustHost vs iPage

Comparison would be the best way to know about the highlights and lowlights of two hosting providers. Only by comparing we can come to a conclusion of which hosting to choose because by comparing we would better know about the features provided by both the companies so we can then make our choice according to our website need. In this competitive world many new providers are popping up every now and then, so it has become a bit challenging to make our decision.

In this blooming industry, to service provider have caught our attention one is JustHost and the other is iPage.

Foundation:

When we take JustHost – it is a well known hosting provider which has offices in UK and the data centers in the US. It has been founded in 2008, within a short span of time it is well developed. It have over 150,000 customers worldwide.

On the other hand when we take iPage – it was in the business since 1998 but it is just as of lately that they were being recognized. It has also several websites.

Products and Services:

Both the web hosting providers specialize in shared web hosting with unlimited disk space and bandwidth.

When we look technically both follow same standard of features which includes Linux web servers, PHP, Perl, CGI and MySQL support. Just Host includes Ruby on Rails and Python where as iPage does not have these options.

Control Panel:

Apart from the shared features and offers, the major technical difference you will find is to be their control panel.

JustHost offers cPanel which is a leading industry control panel widely used by popular web hosting companies around the world. The cPanel is user friendly as we will find easy to manage. Its graphical user interface is intuitive and very easy to use. cPanel is feature rich and we can perfrom all management task from creating email accounts and MySQL databases to protecting directories and making backups.

Fantastico – JustHost cPanel uses Fantastico which can automatically install any of the long lists of leading scripts for you which includes WordPress, osCommerce, phpBB and Joomla. This feature is not available in iPage.

iPage on the other hand offers vDeck, vDeck offers the same set of features as cPanel except for CRON tasks, this is a scheduled task which allows you to automate the execution of scripts following a given schedule. They are not only useful but also essential in some cases. Whereas iPage do not support these feature.

An Extra Ad Credit in JustHost to increase visitors which is not available in iPage:

Both the providers offers Free Ad Credits which includes Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc., apart from this JustHost offer intellichat – $200 worth Automated Sales Agent Credits, which is the ultimate sales saving tool.

• intellichat converts the leaving visitors to customers
• Increases sales by as much as 25% instantly
• 100% pay per performance.

This feature rich tool is offered by JustHost to increase your customers which is not available in iPage.

eCommerce Features:

SSL: When we take the ecommerce features JustHost uses SSL Secure server. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. First let us learn what is SSL, it is protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the internet. It uses a cryptographic system that uses tow keys to encrypt data – a public key known to everyone and a private key known only to the recipient of the message. This is used to obtain confidential user information such as credit card numbers. So SSL secure server creates a secure connection between the client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely and it is designed to transmit individual messages securely.

Just Host offers Private SSL on request.This feature is not available in iPage.com because iPage uses Shared SSL.

Security:

Password Protected Directories: In JustHost you have Password Protected Directories where in you can create your folders and give a password for protection so that it cannot be opened by others. You even have HotLink Protect and Leech Protect in JustHost.

Hotlink Protect: If you fine lots of traffic all of a sudden and you are running out of your traffic quota then you may be a victim of hotlinking or bandwidth theft. Hotlinking also refers to direct linking to a websites files from someone else’s site, this will use your traffic resources and make you pay for extra traffic quota, automatically your site will be down and you will lose your business. So to avoid this JustHost offers Hotlink Protection to prevent other sites from stealing from your pre-paid quota.

Leech Protect: Leeching occurs when users publicly post their username and password to a restricted area of your site, allowing other visitors to use the login information. As JustHost uses cPanel, this can be handled by redirecting and potentially suspending the user. The protection function works by setting the maximum login occurs in a time limit, and if that exceeds then the user is presumed to be allowing their visitors to use his or her login information.

IP Deny Manager: Another security system available in JustHost but nor in iPage is IP Deny Manager. The IP Deny Manager enables you to block access to your site from specific IP addresses. This is very useful to remove any nuisance surfers who use a large amount of bandwidth. This will also prevent hotlinking.

SSL/TLS Manager: This feature available in JustHost to make your website more secure. This will generate and manage SSL certificates, signing requests and keys. This is very useful for websites which will use logins and credit card numbers since the information will be sent to and from your website over the internet as encrypted data making it difficult for malicious users to intercept communications between visitors and your website.

These security systems are not available with iPage as it uses vDeck which do not support these services, although it uses SiteLock it is not more secured when compared to JustHost security system.

Quad Processor Server of JustHost performs high:

JustHost uses Quad Processor Server for its hosting. The Quad Processor Servers provide more virtual machine headroom with double the processing cores and double the memory capacity  of previous generation. It has large memory footprints and scalability to empower the customers with greater productivity.

Hence the efficiency of JustHost.com is greater than that of iPage server.

Advanced Statistics in JustHost:

JustHost uses advanced tools for statistics such as

Latest Visitors: It provides the statistics of latest visitors

Bandwidth: It provides the statistics of how much bandwidth used by each

Webalizer: It provider the statistics of how many visitors visited, at what time, how long, ect.,

Webalizer FTP: This provides the statistics regarding the use of the FTP site. This information is displayed in bar graphs relating to a key below the graph, the data is divided into monthly and daily averages.

Raw Access Logs: This allows us to see who has accessed the site without the use of graphs, charts or other graphics instead we can see the logs menu in a zipped version. This can be very useful as it provides the details of who is accessing the site quickly.

Error Log: This log file records any errors that the server encounters in processing requests when the site is not able to respond, this contains the exact detail of what exactly went wrong so it is very useful to fix it immediately.

Awstats: This is an open source web analytics reporting tool much suitable for analyzing data from internet services.

Hence we can see the statistic method used by JustHost which are very useful to know what is going around which in turn we can fix immediately when something goes wrong. Even iPage follows some statistics which is not powerful like JustHost.

Bonus Feature PHP 5 in JustHost:

Here in JustHost PHP 5 is a bonus feature. PHP 5 is very special for its quality performance. It authenticates users in a remote server. It also manages accounts of users of multiples sites and many more.

Dedicated IP in JustHost:

Dedicated IP means that a website has its own IP address, whether you can type in your URL or the numeric form of its IP address, both will bring the same domain. In JustHost control panel you have “Go Dedicated” where you can change quickly. With JustHosts’ special Dedicated IP you have access to your website, like SSL or anonymous FTP.

iPage uses Shared IP which means multiple websites share the same address. Web servers can determine by the domain entered in a user’s browser which website is being requested. Typing in the IP address will bring you some kind of generic page instead of the specific site you want. This is the difference between Dedicated and Shared.

We can conclude that if the special requirements are must then you must need Dedicated IP else you can go for Shared IP.

Final Verdict:

When we look into the above topic we can be clear that JustHost offers better than iPage. iPage also provides some offers which is less compared to JustHost. So I would like to give advantage to JustHost because it is simpler, reliable and also more secured when compared with iPage. Otherwise both are good.