Bluehost Review
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Bluehost has been in business since 1996 and they are consistently rated as one of the top 10 hosts by review sites and customers from around the world. They currently host more than 1 million domains and are widely regarded as one of the best cPanel hosts online. They are also know as the best host for Wordpress blogs (recommended by Wordpress themselves) and they have received various awards for customer support and reliability.
In terms of feature set and functionality Bluehost is right up there with the best of the best. The standard Bluehost package offers a leading feature set that caters for most of the popular needs a customer may have and more. An intuitive website builder is included, together with a free site promotion package and easy installation scripts for all the popular applications like Wordpress blogging, phpBB forums and various others.
The Bluehost homepage may seem less flashy and colorful as some of their competitors, but don’t let this lack of hype put you off. They have a straightforward, professional approach to web hosting and have earned their position as one of the top 5 web hosts by consistently providing a reliable service with excellent customer support.
Value For Money
For $6.95 per month you get one of the leading feature sets in the industry, combined with unlimited disk & bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domains and more importantly a free domain name for life. The free domain alone saves you approximately $10 per year, so this is a very good deal compared to hosts that charge $6.95 without a free domain.
Reliability
All Bluehost servers are hosted in state-of-the-art data centers that are equiped with redundant power sources, multiple backbone providers and all the other features that we expect from a leading web host. Perhaps the most important testimony to Bluehost’s reliability is the fact that they are consistently rated by customers as one of the most reliable hosts online.
Customer Support
Bluehost offers 24×7 phone support via a tollfree number, as well as live chat and a web ticketing system. They also offer a comprehensive help center full of video tutorials, self help wizards and a knowledgebase of frequently asked questions. A user forum is provided for connecting with other website owners and webmasters.
Control Panel
All Bluehost customers get the industry standard control panel, cPanel. cPanel is the leader in the industry because of its user friendly interface, easy navigation and impressive list of capabilities. Managing you website, databases and email accounts are easy with the intuitive cPanel interface and more than 50 free applications can be installed with the click of a button via the Fantastico plugin.
Environment
Apart form the use of energy efficient servers, Bluehost does not currently have any active green initiatives.