Bluehost

A review of the hosting company Bluehost.

About Bluehost

BlueHost has been in business since 1996 and offers some of the best value in the hosting world today. They have a cheap plan ($6.95/month), with a lot of bandwidth and transfer, great features, good support, and it comes with the ability to host up to 6 domains on one account.

Bluehost is pioneering the new revolution in web hosting by allowing you to host multiple domains and subdomains within 1 account. Whether you are looking to host a personal hobby site or multiple, high-traffic, large eCommerce based storefront sites, Bluehost is currently the best value available.

Price & Capacity

Their only shared hosting plan offers some of the best value in the hosting business. It is $6.95 per month for a 1-year deal and offers you 200 GB of diskspace and 2,000 GB transfer (both were recently upgraded). But the kicker is that you can host up to 6 domains on 1 account. You also get a free domain name with your hosting purchase. With your plan you get 50 MySQL databases, 1,000 FTP Accounts, 20 subdomains, 20 parked domans, and 5 add-on domains.

Features

Bluehost uses cPanel, the most popular web hosting control panel. It provides for all the typical hosting management needs. As far as free software they offer bulletin boards (phpB and more), form-mail scripts, PHP Nuke/post Nuke, guestbooks, blogs (Wordpress), image galleries (Coppermine and more), poll and survey software, Moodle, Tiwiki, Mambo, and Joomla. For languages and databases they offer: MySQL 4.1, Ruby / Ruby On Rails, Python, Perl 5, PHP Version 4 or 5 (Your Choice), Fantastico Script Support, Spam Assassin Protection, Custom Cronjobs, custom error pages, Log Files + Site Stats, webstats, Anonymous FTP, Shell Access (SSH), .htaccess, Shockwave and Flash support, Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions, and CGI-bin. They offer some free basic marketing features like Search Engine Submission, Search Keyword Analyzer, and a Search Engine Position, 2,500 POP3 mail accounts with unlimited forwarding accounts, and 3 different web-based email programs.

For ecommerce they offer SSL Secure Server, OS Commerce Shopping Cart, Agora Shopping Cart, Cube Cart Shopping Cart, Zen Cart Shopping Cart, Free Generated Certificate, Password Protected Directories, and OpenPGP / GPG Encryption.

Reliability and Support

Bluehost is one of the few companies that has great high-quality support. They recently extended their phone hours to Monday 6 AM - Saturday 10 PM (MST). They also offer live chat, troubleticket system, and knowledgebase, and a 30-day money back guarantee.

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Bluehost Ratings

Price:	10 / 10
Features:	9 / 10
Reliability:	8 / 10
Service:	8 / 10

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