hosting BlueHost

General

BlueHost is an indepentently owned and operated hosting company based in Orem, Utah.

BlueHost has been providing hosting services since 1996 and is well established as a serious hosting company.

User experience

Our BlueHost test site showed good response and uptimes.

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We were able to perform 6 simultaneous FTP transfers, which makes upload very fast.

• Control panel: reskinned cPanel 11 - Up to date
• Application installers:
• Simple Scripts - Excellent availability of recent apps!
• Fantastico Deluxe - Up to date

HostMonster's skinning is light enough not to get in the way. A handful of promotional items at the top tend to be annoying at first but can be collapsed.

Their proprietary Simple Scripts application installer is currently the best in the industry.

Customer satisfaction

Like any other hosting company who's been around for over 10 years, there have been occasional technical problems but they have always been solved in reasonable delays.

Long time customers tend to agree that their overall experience with BlueHost has been highly above average.

BlueHost is also known to have extremely good response times, both by email and by phone.

Technical specs

• MySQL 5.0.45 - Up to date
• PHP 5.2.45 - Up to date
• UTF-8 and mbstring: supported

Overall, the platform is state of the art.

Section updated April 30th, 2008.

Security

HostMonster is running suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts. (FastCGI is also available)

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

BlueHost offers a single hosting plan:

	Professional
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	$9.95 $6.95 promo
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$6.95
Monthly fee (× 36 mo)	$6.95
Disk space	Unlimited
Transfer	Unlimited
Included domain name	free
Domains per account	Unlimited
MySQL databases	100
b2evo auto install	yes (Fantastico)

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5 comments

Comment from: Bill [Visitor]

I've been with them for more than 2 years now.
I like BlueHost. Good phone support service.

05/18/08 @ 15:50

Comment from: David [Visitor]

I'm located in Australia and I moved to Bluehost to host a couple of Australian domains a little over 2 years ago. Their support in the setup phase was outstanding. I have never had my site go down. Site response times are fast. Compared to Australian hosts, they offer amazing value and superb service.

11/15/08 @ 01:29

Comment from: Tim [Visitor]

I hosted with BlueHost for 5 years, their service was very good though I rarely had to contact their tech support. My one compliant: they didn't always respond immediately, but service was always good and problems resolved.

01/02/10 @ 10:30

Comment from: blind-eddie [Visitor]

I have been with BH for almost 6 years.
I was new to the web when I contacted BH for domain space.
At first, there were issues exceeding php limits, maxing out storage limit.
But, they evolved as I evolved.
I have never had any issues with support.
Domain was only down due to a transformer
getting struck by lightning.
Any time I have called them for what ever reason I called them, I was never on hold for more then 2 min. Their staff is top notch & address any issue in a timely manner.

I host 15 sites on BH, 12 with databases & loaded with mods. NO issues, nice and smooth.
I would never leave BH & highly recommend anyone looking for a hosting company to give BH a try....You will be very happy!

02/02/10 @ 07:21

Comment from: julio [Visitor]

they are great!!! the email limit is per hour it was 150 for me but i went to their website to chat with them to ask how many where the limitation and the agent raised to 750 righ away and i don't even ask him to doit it took like 30 seconds ... the bandwith is very fast all the sites i have has very good performance