Bluehost reviewed - is it a good host
Bluehost is a web hosting company founded by Matt Heaton and it is based in Provo, Utah. They run large data center which is based in Orem but their offices have moved south a mile to Provo. Bluehost has grown rapidly and is now one of the biggest providers of shared web hosting. They have a no frills one plan fits all offering. Bluehost is just about shared hosting as Matt Heaton has often explained. They want to just focus on this one offering and do that well. Depending on the period for which you decide to order web hosting from Bluehost you pay between 9.95 monthly or 6.95 depending on the ordering cycle you enter. The longer the duration of your hosting contract the cheaper the monthly rate you have to pay. The standard shared hosting package comes with all the features you would expect from such a plan including cpanel. You can login easily into your cpanel from the bluehost main page and start your web venture from scratch in there. If you are familiar with this control panel it is no different from other hosts although Bluehost does allow a more liberal scripting environment. For instance you can edit your php.ini at the account level and they also support more programming languages than other shared web hosting plans like Python and Ruby on Rails. Installing new scripts is no problem because their cpanel features the fantastico script installer package and it is by and large pretty up to date with the latest versions. Some of the most popular scripts in this package include wordpress, phpbb, phplist, drupal, and joomla. Support at Bluehost is provided via phone, email and live chat. The two I have relied on were email and live chat. With both live chat and email if you bump into a level 1 technician it may be wise if he can’t resolve your query straight away to try again and get a higher level engineer as they are usually very good. All in all Bluehost is a host that provides a very good shared hosting package at a fair price and offers good support.
Bluehost is a web hosting company founded by Matt Heaton and it is based in Provo, Utah. They run large data center which is based in Orem but their offices have moved south a mile to Provo. Bluehost has grown rapidly and is now one of the biggest providers of shared web hosting. They have a no frills one plan fits all offering. Bluehost is just about shared hosting as Matt Heaton has often explained. They want to just focus on this one offering and do that well. Depending on the period for which you decide to order web hosting from Bluehost you pay between 9.95 monthly or 6.95 depending on the ordering cycle you enter. The longer the duration of your hosting contract the cheaper the monthly rate you have to pay.
The standard shared hosting package comes with all the features you would expect from such a plan including cpanel. You can login easily into your cpanel from the bluehost main page and start your web venture from scratch in there. If you are familiar with this control panel it is no different from other hosts although Bluehost does allow a more liberal scripting environment. For instance you can edit your php.ini at the account level and they also support more programming languages than other shared web hosting plans like Python and Ruby on Rails.
Installing new scripts is no problem because their cpanel features the fantastico script installer package and it is by and large pretty up to date with the latest versions. Some of the most popular scripts in this package include wordpress, phpbb, phplist, drupal, and joomla.
Support at Bluehost is provided via phone, email and live chat. The two I have relied on were email and live chat. With both live chat and email if you bump into a level 1 technician it may be wise if he can’t resolve your query straight away to try again and get a higher level engineer as they are usually very good. All in all Bluehost is a host that provides a very good shared hosting package at a fair price and offers good support.
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