Bluehost Review
Hosting Features
Bluehost is another excellent WordPress host and is home to over 1 million domains.
They have a long history of excellent service and support for open-source projects. Read our full Bluehost WordPress Hosting Review
Other Benefits:
- One full featured plan
- Responsive Tech Support
- Excellent WordPress Host and Open source supporter
It is worth learning more and considering Bluehost and reading our reviews. http://www.bluehost.com
Bluehost, established in 1996, has been providing top-class web hosting solutions. Based in Utah, with their great servers and excellent customer service make this a popular choice among hosting clients. They own and operate their own datacenters. For businesses that seek smooth and quality web hosting, BlueHost has become a solid choice.
WordPress Expert Bluehost Review
Bluehost is pretty much a house hold name in the world of web hosting. Any webmaster worth their HTML has heard of them. There is a reason for this, they provide a great service at a great price and have been in the business for over 15 years.
Ability to host WordPress
Bluehost is ideal for individuals, community groups and small to medium sized businesses. The servers run cPanel. If you do not know what this means, just know this is one of the most common control panels and most web developers are familiar with how it works. Which means most WordPress plugins will work with out any customization.
While most hosting companies only offer fantastico for one click installs Bluehost offers SimpleScripts. Simplescripts is an open source one click installer for over 70 of the web's top applications. Bluehost was the developer behind SimpleScripts, and several other hosting companies have started to use it.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Competitive Prices
- cPanel based servers
- Reasonably fast servers
- 1 Click Installs
Cons
- No VPS or Dedicated Servers
Server Speed and Uptime
Their servers are fast and reliable but from time to time I have seen Bluehost hosted sites run slow. Generally you will be in a fast server but from time to time some servers will run slow. It is Bluehost's policy not to switch sites to different servers if the sever is running slow. We know this from first hand experience when one of our Bluehost hosted sites started to run slow and nothing had changed on our end.
If you have enterprise hosting requirements like a dedicated server then Bluehost may not be the best fit, the sweet spot of Bluehost's services is shared hosting.
With both of the two above negatives being said, Bluehost still provides excellent servers with great uptime.
cPanel
Since blue host uses cPanel based servers the move was straight forward with no surprises. This is one of the advantages of using a cPanel hosting company every thing is familiar and all of the technology works great with WordPress.
Customer Support
We have been very pleased with our blue host experience. Tech support was available when we needed them (phone, chat, email), WordPress runs great, no permission or software compatibility issues. Everything has worked just like it should. For those who are interested all tech support is US based.
Plans & Prices
Price is also in-line with many of the other shared hosting companies. Bluehost keeps the plans simple and you can really save some money if you sign up for 3 years. I would recommend going for either 1 year or 3 years. They do offer an anytime money back guarantee so if you select and pay for 3 years and then need to cancel. I have not heard any complaints of Bluehost not refunding any money
Review Conclusion
Bluehost's hosting plan is simple and offers everything you will need for a WordPress site. They are a well established company with 24/7 US based tech support which is responsive and helpful..
If you are new to web hosting or looking to switch hosting companies, Bluehost is worth checking out.
Bluehost Features & Detailed Information
Hosting Plans
BlueHost offers a comprehensive shared hosting plan for Linux systems. As a global web hosting provider, they provide a competitive, highly functional and attractively priced package. This includes unlimited bandwidth and storage, 1 free domain, 100 MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, 2500 email accounts and a free site builder. All this is available for just $7.95 per month.
BlueHost Technical and WordPress Features
Features like 99.54% uptime, free scripts and e-commerce tools, unlimited storage and bandwidth and advanced server support make BlueHost web hosting highly attractive and effective. Support for scripts like PHP 4 or 5, PERL 5, Python and Ruby on Rails is also provided. The ecommerce and web blogs tools are easy to use and help you make a WordPress blog within no time. Shopping carts, streaming audio and video, live chat software and SSL certificates are other impressive features of BlueHost packages.
Visit BlueHost http://www.bluehost.com
Editor review
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User reviews
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looking back I feel relieved that I made a good choice with them. I only had their shared server ($6.95) plan and it supported over a 25,000+ visitors a month in 2009 for me personally.Â
The WordPress feature is what I have mainly used with them. Unfortunately the first time I set it up WordPress manually, then I found simple scripts, and that saved me some trouble. I have set up several blogs with them and it’s been easy as pie.Â
Last note, their tech support when I started with them was pretty good. But over the past few years they’ve gotten way better. I call them before I install blogs or if I’ve screwed something up. They are super nice and work well with you.Â
Great features. haven’t used them all, but it seems like they have a lot. I recommend!
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They are one of the bigger hosting companies out there but they still do a good job with the attention to customer service detail.Â
I have a small wordpress blog (100 to 150 visits/day) and it runs just fine on a shared account. If you have a very large site with thousands of visitors you may want to look at another host that provides dedicated or virtual private servers. Pretty sure Bluehost does not offer these services.Â
I signed up for the annual billing, not sure if you can do monthly. It is a good service so I would rather pay once than have to see the charge every month.
