BlueHost Review

About BlueHost

Founded in 1996 and based in Utah, United States, BlueHost is among the most reliable and trusted of veteran web hosting providers in the business. Year-on-year, the company has performed creditably and consistently, giving high quality with a low price tag. BlueHost has evolved along with rapid innovation in internet technology, and capitalised on these advances. The business model of a solid network infrastructure, maintaining low prices with growing subscriber numbers while others increased their charges, and professional customer response support, all add up to a global client base of almost a million domains.

Products and Services

BlueHost offers Shared Hosting for everyone’s needs. From an individual wanting to create a personal website or start an online business, to growing corporate enterprises, the company has four hosting plans. The Basic, one-size-fits-all, plan is impressive – but different customers need different solutions, so perhaps to serve an even wider range Reseller or Dedicated hosting should be on the cards?

Benefits of BlueHost

To build a small business, BlueHost offers free domain registration, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, a platform secured for e-commerce, and free search engine submission. Comprehensive web development tools simplify maintaining a site. The Basic plan is generous, with many features in higher-priced plans of competitors, and BlueHost are keeping their customers happy with their Business, Commerce and Enterprise plans. These have everything needed – depending on how much you pay – to meet all website requirements. Features include Multimedia, Data Base and E-commerce Support, MySQL database, secure server (SSL), and Shopping Cart programs.

Reliability and Performance

BlueHost customers can relax, knowing the level of service and support is there. The company uses the best equipment available in dual-processor Xeon servers, a 100base fully-redundant network, and redundant Raid Array storage. Their network backbone consists of the high-speed OC-48 connection – among the fastest fibre optic data connections – for their servers, and these are checked and maintained continuously by a team of professionals and technicians. While BlueHost has no uptime guarantee, they regularly achieve 99.9%, ensuring your site is always running. The system is backed by uninterruptible power supplies and diesel generators.

Customer Service and Support

A key factor in BlueHost’s long reign at the top is its excellent customer support – all sourced in the US. Support is available via free phone, email, a ticket system, and live chat. BlueHost’s help centre has masses of resources, offering loads of documents on the most vital features of your web hosting account. BlueHost’s office hours are 6am-10pm midweek, with limited support on Saturdays, 8am-5pm.

Web Hosting Features

BlueHost perks include one domain name, unlimited hosting space and monthly transfer. Many more extra features include 2,500 POP3 web-based emails, five add-on domains, and CGI to name but a few. The user-friendly and fully-featured cPanel control panel is easy to administer your hosting account, and comes with the Fantastico script installer for many add-on programmes. BlueHost gives a 30-day money-back guarantee, and advertising vouchers for Google Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing.