Bluehost is a great host, I've been with them for a couple of years. There offers are great, aswell as their friendly support. I've told all my friends about them, and family. It is a very stable host for practically anything, their prices fit all boxes and suite all needs. I shall continue using bluehost forever.

I've been with Bluehost for over a year now. I've enjoyed every second of it. Everything about Bluehost is brilliant. It's unlimited everything. It's fast, reliable servers. It's friendly support staff. I would recommend Bluehost to anybody who needs serious hosting.

Bluehost sucks..my first experience. I bought shared hosting with price more than market price, everything was fine for two weeks. Installing applications, configuration all just like a breeze.. But when my ste started getting visitors.. I started getting 1000 to 2000 visitors pr day, 20 to 30 online simultaneusly, thats where bluehost failed.. They have special CPU throattling feature, which makes down a site with lot of traffic. And my site was throttled for average 2 hours a day. My visitors started loosing and one fine morning, without any warning, Bluehost suspended my account just by saying my application has performance issues. Eventhough only on site has more traffic, I had 3 sites on the same account. All got suspended and I moved to InMotion hosting within 6 hours. After that my site was never down a single second. During days with Bluehost, site was down for 2 hours day. Eventhough I did not complete even one month, they rejected my claim for moneyback guarantee and refunded money for rest 11 months - the domain registration charges.
Check the site monitor report here for yourself.
http://sysojo.com/stats/11794
After suspended from Bluehost on April 7, 2011, I moved to InMotion hosting same day and you can see the site was never down for even a single second.
From March 19 to April 7, ste was down many times in day, the maximum being 4 hours in a day and minimum is 10 minutes.
site url: http://www.kochituskers.in

So think yourself, if your webiste is hosted to attract visitors, Bluehost will suspend your account for traffic.. Just for your hobby, if you have a webiste, Bluehost is good especially the simple scripts one click install

Vinod

Hi,
My name is Luka, I come from Croatia

I was using bluehost for one year, I bought that hosting for my own script..some portal
Billing step for amazing fast, in one day it was finished,
then I uploaded my script, everything worked, I had a lot of traffic in start, but my database wasn't optimized for lot of trafic and lot of accounts.. then came the magic od bluehost,

I wasnt asking for any help, they contacted me on mail, that my script is badly programed, and they helped me to optimize my database, and sql queries..
I didnt belived..
They offered their time to help me..

After some time (4,6 months) i turned off the portal, becouse less of time..my account ended, but in the future, I will allways use their hosting..

Support is fantastic, probles resolved in minutes, as I know there hasnt been any system failures..

I would recomend bluehost to everyone, their support in first place!

form 1 to 5 to grade: straight 5 :=)

cheirs!!

When I read about Bluehost, a lot of the reviews about it, I didn't think it was anything special. Looking at their prices, for $6.95 per month for virtually unlimited hosting, I simply thought it was a lie. It wasn't. When I signed up for Bluehost, and got activated, almost instantly, I was surprised at how quick the set up was. Just a few minutes later, after installing Wordpress to test out my new hosting, I was amazed at how fast the systems ran. Soon after, I purchased a dedicated IP, so I could run a piece of software on the server. After about ten seconds after opening a live support chat, a friendly operator accepted my live support chat, and opened a port on the server for me, which took less than two minutes.
Once or twice there was a little bit of downtime, but this was clearly stated on their site, as it was for maintenance purposes. It lasted slightly less than ten minutes.

There is nothing that I did not find in Bluehost hosting. They give you everything. Unlike other webhosts, the web site configuration is very easy. The hosting is loaded with options. The best thing is unlimited hosting space and unlimited domain names.

Support is always very helpful and quick to answer. They answer queries very professionally whether over the phone or online chat.

I never had any big problems with them. The only problem I had was mySQL connect error, which they responded to very quickly and tackled in 5 minutes.

being a pleased customer, I have mentioned and recommended Bluehost in many of forums I visit.

The one thing I noticed is that when you sign up for first year they charge you $6.95 a year. But you should know that this is discounted price only for one year. From second year onwards, the cost would be a little higher. But then you wont have to pay for the domain registration ever in life!

The cost of Bluehost webhosting is a little higher compared to other ones but it is something you can depend upon.

I have been with Bluehost for nearly 8 months. Generally speaking, this hosting is considered to be an awesome hosting. High as its price is, the performance is exciting. Here I will make a comprehensive evaluation of Bluehost.

Fame

It is generally acknowledged that bluehost is a superb hosting provider, which is recommended by wordpress.org. Established in 1996, its experience and reputation are much superior to other hosting providers, which is a crucial reason for me to choose Bluehost.

Customer Service

Live chat, ticket and telephone consist of 24/7 customer service. The problem can be solved rapidly by means of live chat. And you will get a reply in ten minutes if submit a ticket.

Uptime

Hardly am I satisfied with the network uptime of Bluehost, which scarcely reach 99.9% that they guarantee. It is always down couples of times every month. According to the statistics from jiankongbao.com, there is only one month in which the network uptime percentage is more than 99.9%(January, 2011, 99.97%, down only 1 minute). Accordingly, fortune, to a large extent, is a significantly indispensable factor when you purchase a web hosting.

Value

Numerous hosting provider maintain a policy that paying a little money for first purchase, but considerably higher price when you renew it. Bluehost is not a exception. From promotion link, it only costs $59.4 every year($4.95 per month). Nevertheless, when you want to renew it, you will find that it cost $107.4 per year($8.95 per month) for one-year-duration. But it is worthy to buy it.

Features

SimpleScripts, one-click script installs, is a not only excellent but also convenient tool to install trementous quantities of scripts. Free shared SSL can be used by small commercial websites.

Conclusion

As far as I am concerned, Bluehost is the best web hosting I have used, which performed exceedingly well.

I would like to point our the likes and dislikes one by one

Likes

1)ease of use
2)support
3)uptime
4)backend interface
5)help resource
6)support forum
7)price
8)Problem solving
9)least chance of errors

Dislikes

1)primary domain being auto renewing(this can be made manual by putting a support ticket)
2) response time for a support ticket ( may go upto 4hrs)
3)live chat support(at times shows some error)

I've been with them for more then 5years, and have had a great experience so far. Not perfect but pretty close for shared hosting.

They do regular maintenance yearly around Aug/Sept or so which causes an outage of a couple of hours in the wee morning hours.

Good central location of Ormen UT means low latency

The lack of VPS makes it a pain if you need to upgrade your service to the next level.

Great Support very understanding and helpful.

I have been with Bluehost/Hostmonster for nearly 4+ years now, and will continue to extend my subscriptions as long as they provided the same service! and the service, which is keeping me with them.

in terms of uptime, in past 4 years, I only experienced for 25 seconds - and thats about it, may be other customers might have other thoughts, but I have told you my experience.

Technically, this is not a UNLIMITED file service, as there is a limit of 50,000 files, but for people not using the service for Torrents sites etc, this is a very good service.

Speed has always been good enough, infact I found it better than YouTube as when streaming media content off the BlueHost/HostMonster servers.

In terms of Help/Support, they really make you feel like you are the only one being dealt with, and it shows in the output as well, in my time with them, I think I have to contact them 4-6 times, and my query was answered/solved within minutes (Maximum time I experienced was 3 minutes)

In terms of value, the simple script installer comes with Loads of scripts (some free, some premium), and I dont think I will be able to even use 10% of them in my lifetime, from e-commerce, e-eduation, blogging, forums, you can find ANYTHING there (constantly updated), Thanks for simple scripts (against Fantastico, as their scripts takes ages to upgrade).

recently they introduced a proprietry CPU Status, which to many is a pain in the neck, but to me, something really essential, as you'll know if your website scripts needs working, you can see your CPU log, as well, on other hand, its shared service, so someone else's script putting loading on CPU (without them knowing about it) wont kill your site's performance.

concluding, if you are looking for decent host for small to medium hosting requirements in long run, Bluehost/hostmonster is the one to go for PERIOD. once your requirement increases in terms of files, performance, you can always look for dedicated/Virtual options.

in the end, things that I would like them to have, was options of Virtual or dedicated hostings, its a bit downside, all they do is shared hosting.

Bluehost is one of the most reliable and affordable solutions on the global market.
Their features are suitable for both professionals and newbies. The Cpanel administration is running very effectively, almost any updates/requests/changes are applying immediately. No need for waiting on cron jobs. Its almost like you have a VPS, but without the hassle of maintaining and updating the envoriment.
The only bad thing about BH is the CPU throttling. Its a holistic thing which only BH's engineers know deeply, and it is poorly documented and monitored. You have no control on you CPU usage, you can't manage your cycle times or limits. For an avarage user this means unbalanced response times and site load times. After you run out of your CPU throttling limit, your site becomes slower and slower. And there's no upgrade option, only if you move to a VPS of an other provider.
So in a few words: if you have a site with not too much traffic, this provider is highly recommended, but if you need real performance, you must move on to preferably some cloud based solution.

These guys are awesome, i've had them for three years and they are always up and running (unless you download and install the wrong plug-in for your wordpress site)... but you can call their customer support and within minutes, they'll have you up and running and excluding my plug-in error, the server has been up 100% of the time (and i have about 30 domains with full sites... they're not pointed or parked)... definitely get them!!1

They are very professional and i would highly recommend them. Specially i love their control panel since its user friendly. In the last 3 years my sites went down only couple of times and that too only for a very short period.

The support from BlueHost is extensive in it's existing forum based information and tutorials. I have never had to actively contact BlueHost as their existing information is excellent. The have both forum based information and video help.

The technical expertise needed to use BlueHost are simple (depending on what you want to do). I sub host a domain on my account and installed a WordPress blog on this - the WordPress integration is excellent. No fuss and very simple!

I would, without hesitations recommend BlueHost. Their administration panel is intuitively set out and their low monthly costs make it a great hosting solution.

Switched from Yahoo hosting to Bluehost years ago as my hosting needs became more demanding. Was and still is the best or among the best in terms of price per month and the number of features you get for the price. I now have 3 separate accounts, hosting over 15 sites and am very happy. Have only ever had to call customer support once and it was handled more than satisfactorily.

Anyone who is brand new to hosting may require a bit of guidance when starting out with thier Bluehost account, but anyone with basic Cpanel experience up to professionals should be able to accomplish everything they need with Bluehost. Have and continue to reccomend this to friends.

Bluehost Rocks!! Never faced any problems since i am hosted with them. They have always handeled my quries very professionally and quickly.

Their just one plan is very cheap and flexible for everyone looking out for hosting.

Their User- Freindly Cpanel is very simple, powerful and easy to use and configure its like administration made easy.

I loved the Fantastico Installer which install scripts very easily.

Bandwith is so much that you will never run out of it.

I have used many hosting since years but had some or the other problem every month. But i must say Bluehost is just like hosting heaven.

So don't just sit and think. Just go for it !!

I wanted to had a hosting service because i wanted to give my girlfriend a surprise, a fully working website that showed every moment of our relationship, photos videos, texts, everything that i could upload, but i got dissapointed at the uploading limit that the sited supported at that time, got no response from customer service or helpdesk about that, other thing i keep receiving was the 500 internal server error and that was making me angry, because the website needed a lot of security.. and it was imposible for me to work on it because that error, i wasnt happy, something really and for some reason the cache wasn't updating right for me, i was really dissapointed but since a friend pay it for me i wasnt mad...

I dont want to say its a horrible hosting, just that it didnt worked for me, this friend has a website with them and he's going great, so in the last years they might have come up with somehting better.

The good:

Bluehost is great for your first hosting experience. It is very easy to set up a site with them. Their prices are very cheap, and they don't bury you with tons of different hosting plans. In fact there is just one! They offer most of the basics for getting your site up like Cpannel with Fantastico.

The not so good:

Just because they plaster the words "unlimited" all over their front page, do not be fooled! They cap almost everything to ensure you don't use too many resources. They cap how much CPU you can use, how many processes you use. They limit the emails you can send out to only 50. They limit the number and size of files you can store on the server. And they will not let you store any files that are not related to your websites (ie. you cannot use Bluehost as online storage)

Their online support is not very good. However the quickest way to get in contact with Bluehost is through the Live chat feature on their front page. Once connected, they handle basic questions very well, but ask a more complicated question that requires work on their part and suddenly you realize how competent their support staff is. Their email/ticket based support is a joke. Don't expect to get an answer anytime soon using this method.

In conclusion:

Bluehost is great if you have a small scale site that does not require many server resources and you don't require any special configuration on the server. Also, Bluehost is great if you are looking for a cheap hosting solution.

Bluehost is not so great if you want good or even mediocre support, or if your site consumes even a fair amount of server CPU/resources.

I recently created my site at bluehost. I have now been here for a week or so, and must say that I am pleased more than I ever hoped to have been. Their sales staff was great at helping me get things ready to go. And their tech support has been amazing at helping to make sure everything is just perfect. My website run without a hitch, the stats and features you offer are beyond value, especially for the price you charge. Their cpanel is so easy to use and they have simple scripts which ready to go for peoples, who don't know lot about technical stuff. I just wanted to take a moment to thank bluehost and make sure bluehost are aware of the great work your staff is doing. I will be hosting my site with bluehost for many years to come. And will be recommending it to others."

I was a costumer of hostgator before i go to bluehost, I really dont liked its costumer service and the uptime was very poor so, for my needs, and bad experiences with some other hostings, i finally take a advice from one friend and i move to bluehost. In my experience with Blue Host, It is a good hosting service provider in my opinion cause it has a very good prices for the services that they offer and i like their features like its tweaked cpanel that allow all kind of users manage it without know some of the technical issues, i like too the fast way to buy domains and add ons domains in the cpanel. Other good thing is the ftp speed. Respect to the Uptime of my website, i think that it isnt in 99% but its near to 97%. I dont know how the support service works cause i really havent ever needed it. I think that in my country (colombia) the charge of my websites hosted in bluehost are a little slow. Finally, i think that bluehost is up to average webhosting services and in my little expertise, i can say that they are very professionals with their bussiness and i recommend this to all people that need a basic and intermediate web hosting service that have a good uptime service and that they live near where the datacenters of bluehost are located( i really dont know where :P ) for a good (but not cheap) cost.

It's good to be their customer and I sometimes think why I didn't purchased their hosting account from the beginning when I started building websites and purchasing hosting with some other companies.
Their support is quite okay. Not very good but reliable and knowledgeable technicians are always online to help me whenever I need them.
Bluehost have always handled my issues very carefully and helped me out in every way but in one thing they are not helping at all which is when my site got hacked, they simply said to check the logs yourself and didn't checked even once!

I would recommend every webmaster and have recommended already to my friends to buy hosting from them as they are very reliable and supportive and make sure your online business is not too big as they offer only shared hosting plan. Bluehost is the best I have seen. It's a great value for your money and I personally got them many other clients by recommending them.

Overall BlueHost rocks!

Well, I started venturing into this website tings by May 2008 and realized after a few months that I need a paid hosting to get started. Free ones won't do for my big ambitions. But I was not ready to spend out huge bucks. So, after doing a lot of research when I was getting more and more confused I stumbled on to Bluehost. And believe me I am so happy I did.

Cost- Though normally it costs 6.95$/month, I signed up through an offer from some site for 2 years at 3.95$/month. Very cheap in my opinion.

Flavors- Unlike other hosts, Bluehost only has a single offer and gives almost everything you can ask in a shared hosting in it. What I got at 3.95$/month would have cost me 10$ at other hosts for sure.

Features- You can host unlimited domains and get unlimited disc space and bandwidth. Surprised? No, they don't mean limited, its really unlimited. Fair Usage Policy states that there is a limit on CPU usage at a time but bandwidth and disc space is really unlimited without any fineprints. You get all you need- Fanastico, Simplescripts, PHP, Perl, 50$ Adwords voucher, 25$ YSM and Miva each and more. Comes with the latest CPanel too.
The only little concern is that your MySQL is limited to 100 but who uses so much in a shared account anyway?

Performance- Bluehost is fantastic in performance, Period. Never had any issues upto now. Good page load speed, fast script installations. I never got any downtime. A++

Support- Just needed to contact support twice and they were very knowledgeable and prompt. Answered my queries instantaneously and were infact eager to help. Got my identity confirmed for Adwords code in minutes.

Value- When I get features and performance of 10$/month host at 3.95$ you know its a steal. Even if I had bought it for 6.95$ it would have been a steal for that sum.

Conclusion- If you are in need of a shared host with top notch performance, this is the one. Don't think about anything else. You can search about its flaw. I guarantee you won't find any.

P.S.- They also have a great affiliate system.

BlueHost is what I would call an All-Start website host. With a nice low fee, a great uptime, and the features of the major hosts; what more can you get from a website host? BlueHost may put you on a shared server but having a OS-48 BackBone server an almost 100% uptime, and a low amount of users on each shared server you almost forget your on a shared server after purchasing your account.

Support Wise, BlueHost has been known for having one of the biggest and fastest customer support times in the industry with their sister site HostMonster. For live support time I usually do not have to wait more than 10 minutes, phone wise the longest hold time I have received was three minutes. The way they handle your problems, issues, or concerns are one of a real host that will be here for years; they are no doubt the A+ on the hosting test for myself. Problems are fixed at max within 24 hours and they usually have an answer for everything; no more hosting with lies.

BlueHost and HostMonster are really for customers with a little more than higher knowledge of how to upload, update, and edit using FTP and the program cPanel. Accessing and editing your site is instant; no delay factors at all from purchasing to starting your website. I just recommend you understand FTP and cPanel; this is not the host if your looking for a website editing program like FreeWeb's because you will not receive it.

The only one problem I have received with BlueHost would have too be one server offline charted; and it was for 5 minutes, no biggie. BlueHost is a host I would no doubt reccomend to friends, family, enemies, anyone I come in contact with looking for a website host. Not only are they affordable as stated above the features are just great. The only problem you may have is SSH/Shell Access is NOT instant; you will need to fax them your photo ID in order to activate this feature. On a scale of 1 to 10 to rate this host to rap up; I would rate it a 105 without hesitation.

I've been with Bluehost over a year and if you have a website that relies on MYSQL never go with them because your actual uptime will be less then 70%!

My error logs are filled with Connecting to database, Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). Without it having to do anything with your own database / website. This happens EVERY week.

Also they have a very strange limit on simultaneous downloads. I have a site with working hotlink protection and +/- 500 unique visitors a day and they SHUT DOWN my whole website without notice because according to them 1 file was being download to many times simultaneous. After asking they couldn't tell me how many it was.

Have had contact with support SO many times but error keeps coming back.

Would NOT recommend Bluehost for any serious webmaster!

BlueHost is great, great in value, great in services, great in support.