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Bluehost


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99%

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Review Summary

Important Update: Bluehost is currently running a special $3.95 promo which you can only get from a few select places and we were lucky enough to be chosen! If you've been wanting to go with one of the fastest growing, best featured host out there this is the time. We like these guys so much we host this site on their servers!

Bluehost is an inexpensive, reliable hosting solution with lots of options and quality customer support. Of all the hosts we've tried out they seem to be constantly pushing their service with new features. We also found that their techs were very knowledgeable and able to resolve our concerns quickly. Our biggest complaint with Bluehost is that we have experienced some more sluggish moments but to be fair there are few hosts that don't have some issues on shared hosting.

Cost/Value: With their special promo price of $3.95 Bluehost is now our top deal again. With a solid lineup of features, awesome tech support, and a constant drive to make things better you can't really beat Bluehost.

Storage/Bandwidth: You can't get much more than unlimited. In our tests Bluehost really allowed us to move a lot of data. If there is a hidden cap of sorts it seems you have to do a lot of data transfer to hit it.

Features: Bluehost remains one of the more feature-rich hosts that we've used. Everything they don't have there seems to be a plan to add in the future.

Reliability: We didn't experience any outages during our tests with Bluehost. There were a few times where it seemed more responsive than others but this is to be expected with shared hosting. Overall performance was good.

Support: We really like the support team for Bluehost. Each of our test calls was promptly answered and the techs were knowledgeable. It is always nice when the support team can answer your questions promptly and you know they aren't having to refer to some sort of manual or script for the answers you need. We also found their web chat to be a really nice option though it appeared to be a bit slower than over the phone. This is probably due to the web help managing more than one person at a time.

Money Back: 30 Days.

Quick Overview

General Impression: 98%
Cost/Value: 98%
Storage/Bandwidth: 100%
Features: 99%
Reliability: 97%
Support: 100%



Web Space: Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth: Unlimited
Max Domains: Unlimited
POP3 Email: 2,500
Subdomains: Unlimited
FTP Accounts: Yes
MySQL Databases: Yes
Yahoo Marketing Credit: $50
Site Builder: Yes
Money Back: 30 Days
Support: 24/7 toll free

Features

DOMAIN FEATURES
Free Domain Name: Yes
Add-on Domains: Unlimited
Parked Domains: Unlimited
Subdomains :Unlimited
Max Domains: Unlimited
Support International Domain Names: Yes

SCRIPTING/DATABASES/TOOLS
Site Builder: Yes
Web File Manager: Yes
FTP Access:Yes
Additional FTP Accounts: 1,000
Anonymous FTP: Yes
Shell Access (SSH): Yes
Account "Control Panel": Cpanel
MySQL Databases: 100
PostgreSQL Databases: 100
CGI-BIN: Yes
CGI Library: Yes
Custom Cronjobs: Yes
Hotlink Protection: Yes
Fantastico Script Support: Yes
Scripting: CGI, PHP 5, Perl 5, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Support For Custom PHP.INI Files
Databases: MySQL 5 Database Server, PostgreSQL Database Server
Javascript/DHTML: Yes
Flash/Shockwave: Yes
Log Files + Site Stats: Yes
Customizable Error Pages: Yes
Override .htaccess Support: Yes
Server Side Includes: Yes
Frontpage 2000/2002 Extensions: Yes

EMAIL FEATURES
POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support: 2,500
IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support: 2,500
Webmail Solutions: 3
Forwarding Email Accounts: Unlimited
Email Autoresponder: Unlimited
Spam Assassin Protection: Yes

Awards

Best Customer Service 2008

Best Support 2008

Best Customer Server and #2 Overall Host

Best Customer Service 2006 Hosting Review

Best Customer Service 2006

BEST Web Hosting Award 2006 - 10 Cheap Web Hosting

2005 Web Host of the Year - 100 Best Web Hosting

Best Support 2004 - 100 Best Web Hosting

#1 Rated Web Host 2006

#1 Value Rated Web Host - The Host Planet

#1 Rated Web Host - Hosts 2002

#1 Value Rated Web Host - First Web Hosting

#1 Ranked Web Host - HostCritique - Web Hosting Reviews

#1 Rated Web Host - Web Hosting Review

#1 Ranked Host 2005 - Hosting Report

Most Popular Host 2005 - Hosting Comparison

Best Overall Host 2005 - Webhosting Jungle

Best New Host 2003 - 100 Best Web Hosting

Ranked #2 Great Prices, Great Support - Web Hosting Top


USER REVIEWS

Kenneth Brantley

Overall: 5
User-friendliness: 5
Price: 5
Space: 5
Reliability and Uptime: 4
Speed: 4
Features: 5
Customer Support: 5
Tech Support: 5

Message: Thanks for this recommendation - I used a discount code on another blog - http://www.bestofthewebhosts.com/blog/?p=52 - and am loving my new site. I did have a hiccup on my site but I called their tech support and apparently some guy was pushing up huge hd video clips and was peaking the server so they shut him down. Since then it's been solid. They also mentioned that there's a bandwidth upgrade on the way which shoudl further reduce any slowdowns for people. Thanks for that link - money is definitely tight these days.


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