A complete managed hosting service
February 27, 2019
A complete managed hosting service
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Bluehost
BlueHost is a well-known web host widely awarded on many review sites and by industry insiders as a top choice for web hosting, although it typically is not our first choice. Bluehost currently hosts over 2 million websites globally and provides a wide variety of web server hardware options running primarily on a custom software stack based on cPanel & CentOS. Internally, Bluehost uses OpenStack & KVM virtualization for data center networking at scale. Many web designers and developers prefer Bluehost because of their strong dedication to the open source community. Bluehost is a decent choice for WordPress because of its Optimized Hosting for WordPress (OHWP) platform. Bluehost also provides various options for Shared, Cloud, VPS, and Dedicated web hosting plans for their customers.
- Heavy focus on WordPress, with WordPress installed by default on all new accounts.
- Custom-branded cPanel with all of the industry standard features.
- Affordable cloud hosting with solid performance/reliability.
- Optimized plans specifically for WordPress and WooCommerce.
- Free & paid integrated SSL certificates for eCommerce websites.
- Personal & direct customer phone support based in the US.
- Numerous add-ons available, such as G Suite, Spam Experts, SiteLock, etc.
- The basic hosting plan only allows you to host 1 website.
- Charges $149 for migrating your existing website over to them.
- No pro-rated refund after 30 days.
- Account creation is extremely fast – anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes (case by case of course).
- cPanel + CentOS is an industry standard for a web server and domain administration, making it easy to manage settings for web development.
- All shared plans come with SSDs in a RAID 10 configuration.