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BlueHost Professional Web Hosting Review

4.97 out of5
Customer Rating: Overall Customer Rating 4.97    Customer Reviews: 350    Editorial Rating: Overall Editorial Rating 5    Discounted Price: $3.95
BlueHost Website: www.bluehost.com, Since 1996
Location: 1215 N Research Way, Orem, UT, US, 84097
Telephone: +1 801 765 9400         Email:
BlueHost professional hosting is the best all-in-one hosting package considering BlueHost reputation in the market and its rich features. It's perfectly designed for personal and small businesses, helping BlueHost accumulate millions of customers from scratch in past 15 years.

BlueHost professional hosting is built on their own customized Linux kernel, offering unlimited domain hosting, web space, monthly data transfer, and email accounts. It includes 1 free domain for life with the plan, $75 FREE Google AdWords voucher, and a premium website builder with thousands of templates and themes.

BlueHost professional hosting is the only hosting package from the famous web hosting companies that supports almost all cutting-edge technology under Linux platform, such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, Zend Optimizer, Secure Shell (SSH) Access, SSL, FTP, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. And it allows users to override .htaccess and customize PHP.INI files.

BlueHost Overall Editorial Review Editorial Overall Rating: 5.05.0 of 5

With everything required for building a website in one package, millions of the existing customers as witnesses, and the terrific reputation since 1996, BlueHost professional hosting is highly recommended by our editors for personal and small businesses who are looking for a reliable web hosting for their sites.

As we reviewed over a hundred web hosts, there is no one elsewhere having so good reputation as BlueHost in the community, but offering the shared web hosting plan at an affordable price $3.95/month.

Unlike some web hosts only accept payment from credit card and offer only 30 days money back guarantee, BlueHost supports the payment via both credit card & PayPal, and provides ANYTIME money back guarantee. In this case, you don't need to worry about that your privacy data may be leaked, your money may be stolen illegally, and your purchase may not be valued. Choosing BlueHost is a right choice to put your money and website in safe.

BlueHost Reliability Editorial Review Editorial Reliability Rating: 5.05.0 of 5

BlueHost commits a 99.9% hosting uptime in practice, by their customized Linux kernel and own managed data center, besides powerful web servers.

BlueHost customized Linux kernel by themselves for better running shared web hosting businesses than their peers. Their Linux platform allows to segregate CPU, Disk I/O and memory used by all clients hosted on one server. So as a user, you don't worry about that your system resources may be stolen by some bad neighbors and your website data may be leaked in the shared web hosting environment.

BlueHost is the only shared web hosting company owns the data center by themselves, invested about 10 millions US dollars in 2010. That allows them to be more flexible on offering the timely customer support, and taking care of the hosting environment. BlueHost data center utilizes 4 separate physical fiber lines brought directly into building through two diverse entrances with access to all major IP/transit providers. Their internet connection is auto adaptable and verbose for any unpredictable interruptions.

BlueHost ControlPanel Editorial Review Editorial ControlPanel Rating: 5.05.0 of 5

BlueHost offers easy-to-use, time-tested, and approved cPanel control panel, which comes loaded with many excellent features on the user interface. The navigation menus are easy for any sorts of new users to get started; the icons are created for each feature in the control panel; the help documentation is easily accessible next to each feature.

Compared to other web hosts, BlueHost has customized cPanel by integrating with the billing account system, SimpleScripts, and CPU throttling feature. It's very convenient for users to manage all the things about web hosting with single account.
  • SimpleScripts is an application installer software developed by BlueHost founder Matt Heaton, which is designed to help users quickly and simply install web application to their websites. It's similar to Fantastico of cPanel used by some web hosts, but it's better on user experience and UI design rather than the latter one.
  • CPU throttling is the feature allows users to see the system resources used by their websites. It comes from the BlueHost Linux kernel customization on protecting system resources of each customer by segregating CPU, Disk I/O and memory used by all clients hosted on one server.

BlueHost Support Editorial Review Editorial Support Rating: 5.05.0 of 5

BlueHost customer service is unmatched to the fee they charged. At only $3.95/month, BlueHost offers 24/7 US based toll-free telephone, live chat, email and ticket system support. BlueHost has over 400 employees on supporting shared web hosting clients only. All of their staffs are well trained, experienced and knowledgeable in this area.

As you may learn from the fact that BlueHost is the only shared web hosting company which can customize and develop solutions to their clients, from the Linux kernel, SimpleScripts, to the control panel. BlueHost is not only a web hosting provider, but it's a web hosting technical company.

Choosing a web host with 15 years' industry experience like BlueHost, you don't need to worry about the customer service. They are very careful about their reputation in the community.

Basic Specification

  • Free Domains:
    1
  • Hosting Domains:
    Unlimited
  • Full Money Back Guarantee:
    Any time days
  • Uptime:
    99.9%
  • Free Dedicated IPs:
    None
  • Control Panel:
    cPanel
  • FTP Access:
    Yes

Email

  • Accounts:
    Unlimited
  • Storage:
    Unlimited
  • Protocol:
    IMAP, POP3, SMTP
  • Webmail:
    Yes
  • Security:
    Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus

Application Features

  • Shopping Cart:
    OSCommerce Shopping Cart, Agora Shopping Cart, Cube Cart Shopping Cart, Zen Cart Shopping Cart
  • Blog:
    WordPress, b2evolution, Nucleus, Textpattern
  • CMS:
    phpNuke, Drupal, Joomla, phpWCMS
  • Forum:
    phpBB, XMB eXtreme, SMF Forum
  • Photo Sharing:
    phpBB, XMB eXtreme, AEF, Vanilla Forum
  • Community:
    Elgg, BoonEx Dolphin

Server Configuration

  • Memory Limitation ():
    256MB
  • Hosting Accounts ():
    By Usage
  • Disk Space:
    Unlimited
  • Monthly Data Transfer:
    Unlimited
  • Apache Web Server:
    Yes
  • Addon Features:
    phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin, SSL, Shared SSL

Technology Support

  • Scripts:
    PHP 4/5, Perl, Python, Ruby On Rails, Zend Optimizer, ionCube PHP Loader
  • Database:
    MySQL 4/5, PostgreSQL
  • Frontpage Extensions:
    Yes
  • Dreamweaver Compatible:
    Yes
  • Adobe GoLive Compatible:
    Yes
  • File MIME Types:
    Yes
  • Custom Error Pages:
    Yes

Free Advertising Budget

  • Google Adwords:
    100 credits
  • Facebook Advertising:
    50 credits
  • Total Budget:
    $150

Rating 4.97 of 5 from 350 Customer Reviews

  • Hillard from Daun, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany posted on Dec 14, 2011
    Website: http://www.marinelocus.com
    Reliability & Uptime 5
    Control Panel & Software 5
    Technical Support 5
    BlueHost Overall 5
    RECOMMEND
    BlueHost works very well for me as its good reputation in the community. I never had any troubles with them. My website loading speed is much more consistent than any before, including hosting with webhostingpad.com and godaddy. Recently, I was building a forum for my website using phpBB. I sent them several tickets about the compatibility of phpBB on their web host, I was very happy that I could always got the quick and exact answers. BlueHost really values every my penny.
  • Aurelie Philips from United States posted on Oct 18, 2011
    Website: http://www.stayspun.com
    Reliability & Uptime 5
    Control Panel & Software 5
    Technical Support 5
    BlueHost Overall 5
    RECOMMEND
    My website runs very fast consistently with bluehost by their powerful web server and experienced web hosting operation. I chose BlueHost in 2007 as I read a lot of technical marterials written by their founder Matt Heaton, about Linux kernel optimization and website hosting staff in a technical community. From that time, I trusted BlueHost is not only a company renting servers and reselling them, but they're developing the best web hosting solutions for their clients. 5 years past, Matt signed off in 2011, but BlueHost is still outstanding on web hosting service!
  • Phaedra Crocker from Syracuse, New York, United States posted on Sep 14, 2011
    Website: http://www.quantumtones.com
    Reliability & Uptime 5
    Control Panel & Software 5
    Technical Support 5
    BlueHost Overall 5
    RECOMMEND
    I hosted with BlueHost in 2009 and 2010. I moved from BlueHost because of no discount in the renewal. Now I'm regretted on the decision for saving a little money at that moment. I'm recalling the trouble-free experience with BlueHost, and considering to move back in this week. Now I'm hosted with Micfo, a cheap web hosting provider, but surely getting the CHEAPER services. My site was interrupted in every week in the past month. Now I still don't get a satisfied answer and resolution. My organic traffic had been dropped by 40%.
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