Bluehost Web Hosting Reviews

Bluehost Web Hosting Reviews

Bluehost PROS
-Wide range of Web hosting options. Excellent uptime in testing. Easy-to-use interface. Weebly site-building software.

Bluehost Bottom Line
-Boasting excellent uptime and intuitive website-building software, Bluehost makes it easy to create attractive, functional, and stable pages for your business. However, it lacks a few features found in rival hosting services. Getting started on a building your first business web site can be a daunting task. Sure, you could just communicate with your customers via Facebook or another social media platform, but if you're serious about doing business online, you'll want to take the plunge and sign up for a top-notch web hosting service. Bluehost does a good job of balancing price and features for businesses that need a bit of hand-holding, while also offering plenty of options to experienced administrators.

Bluehost Web Hosting
-sign up BlueHost Web Hosting for an annual plan for better rates. If you sign up for a two-year or three-year plan, you get discounts. If you commit to staying put for three years, the service's $3.95 per month rate is attractive. That said, those who don't want lengthy commitments will probably prefer HostGator's month-to-month options.

Bluehost's offerings are identical to HostMonster's, right down to the names of its shared web hosting plans. Of course, the fact that Bluehost and HostMonster have the same parent company—Endurance International Group—may have something to do with that. Endurance International also owns FastDomain and iPage.

VPS Web Hosting
-If you need more power, expect high volumes of traffic, or have specific compliance requirements that prevent you from using shared servers, Bluehost's virtual private server (or VPS) options are worth considering. Bluehost offers three tiers of Linux-based VPS hosting, ranging from the $29.99 per month Standard (30GB of solid-state storage, 2GB of memory, and unlimited monthly data transfers) to the $119.99 per month Ultimate (120GB of SSD storage, 8GB of memory, and unlimited monthly data transfers). As with the shared web hosting plans, VPS hosting plans include discounts for longer-term contracts.

Dedicated Web Hosting
-Bluehost has many dedicated server configurations, too. The servers start at $109 per month and can be outfitted with a Linux operating system and up to 1TB of hard drive space, 16GB of RAM, and 15TB of data transfers per month—the same specs as HostMonster.

WordPress Web Hosting
-If you're looking to create a WordPress-powered website, consider Bluehost's four Linux-based packages: WP Standard ($39.99 per month with a one-year contract), WP Enhanced ($59.99 per month with a one-year contract), Wp Premium ($89.99 per month with a one-year contract), and WP Ultimate ($129 per month with a one-year contract). These plans are of the managed WordPress variety, which means that Bluehost performs automatic site backups and caching, and protects your installation with WordPress-specifc security. Bluehost doesn't require you to install the content management system, as it comes preinstalled. Once you're logged into WordPress, you can create posts, pages, and galleries as you would with any other self-hosted WordPress site. Bluehost caps your site's traffic based on the number of visitors, but the caps are removed if you sign up for the high-end Enterprise plan. The web host's storage starts at 30GB and tops out at 240GB.
-Bluehost also lets you set up non-managed WordPress sites. When you click the control panel's WordPress icon, you're taken to the Mojo Marketplace, from which you can install the WordPress app. Like iPage, Bluehost lets you set up a fresh WordPress installation or directly import an existing one. Installation is straightforward, and you can browse through the marketplace for additional themes and applications.

Cloud Hosting
-Bluehost, like the many other web hosts, also offers cloud hosting. With cloud hosting, the resources that your site needs to operate are shared across multiple servers. The benefits? You can scale resources in real time, as your site isn't limited to physical server constraints.

Site Creation
-Bluehost has a lot of tools for building sites, filtering spam, managing email, collecting site statistics, and managing domains. You can also go to the Mojo Marketplace to download other content-management systems or site builders. It's an entirely separate interface, but if you want to expand your site's capabilities, the marketplace is a good place to start. Using Bluehost's Mojo Marketplace is a similar to running sister-site iPage's marketplace.

E-Commerce
-You can grab email-marketing tools such as DaDa Mail (starting at $34.95 per year), software that lets you send email-based newsletters to a subscriber list. For an online store or the ability to accept payments, you can get e-commerce applications such as Magento, ShopSite (for shopping cart software), and TransFirst payment gateway. With Magento, I was able to create an attractive store by dragging and dropping website elements. Magento has more flexibility than ShopSite, but if you aren't looking for an elaborate online storefront, ShopSite's simpler interface may get you up and running faster. For small businesses, that time savings may be worth it. I also like the fact that Bluehost supports PostgreSQL along with the more popular MySQL. This means I'm not limited to installing software that runs only with MySQL.

Security Features
-Bluehost's security features are pleasantly surprising. It offers three antispam tools—Apache Spam Assassin, Spam Experts, and Spam Hammer—as well as hotlink protection. You can also create filters for email accounts and users, password-protect directories, create IP address blacklists, and manage private keys and digital certificates. I'm always pleased to see secure shell (SSH) access, because it means administrators have a secure way of accessing specific configuration files. I'm impressed that Bluehost offers CloudFlare, which enhances performance and security features. If you want SSL on your site, or you are worried about distributed denial of service attacks against your site, CloudFlare is worth considering.

Excellence Uptime
-Website uptime is a vital element of the web hosting experience. If your site goes down, clients or customers will be unable to find you or access your products or services. For this testing, I use a website monitoring tool to track my test sites' uptime over a 14-day period. Every 15 minutes, the tool pings each of my websites and sends me an email if it is unable to contact a site for at least one minute. The data revealed that Bluehost is incredibly stable. In fact, Bluehost didn't go down once in the two-week period.

Customer Service
-Bluehost offers 24/7 telephone support, online web chat, a ticket-based system, and a knowledgebase—another way Bluehost is similar to HostMonster. I tested Bluehost's web chat on a weekday afternoon to ask about the differences between regular Web hosting and optimized WordPress hosting. The rep quickly fielded my question. He stated that optimized WordPress web hosting has automated site backups and is designed for highly trafficked WordPress sites. I am satisfied with his response. I called the phone support system the next morning to ask a representative about how to import my WordPress.com setup into Bluehost. A person came to my assistance in just a few seconds, and the representative walked me through the steps. That's another win for Bluehost support.

Money-Back Guarantee
-Bluehost's hosting packages come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, which is standard fare in the web hosting space. That said, DreamHost bests it with an impressive 97-day money back guarantee.

A Capable Web Host
-Bluehost is a respectable and highly stable web host that makes setting up a website a breeze. The features and the user experience are very similar to stablemate HostMonster's, and the only reason I would suggest picking Bluehost over HostMonster is because of the former's array of security options.

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