BlueHost Review Summary
With excellent performance in both speed and uptime, BlueHost already has two key aspects of great hosting going for it. It also has great scalability and a knowledge base that is hard to beat. It is also recommended by WordPress.org and as many great features to recommend it.
https://www.bluehost.com/BlueHost Pros
- Recommended by WordPress.org
- Powerful and easy-to-navigate knowledge base
- Daily backup and easy restore
- Powerful custom control center
- Good range of plans for scaling
- Cloudflare access is built into control panel
- Add VPS storage space on your own
- $100 Free ad credits with all plans
BlueHost Cons
- Renewal fees can be significantly higher
- Many upsells on additional features
- Add-ons can get expensive
- No free site migration
Editor's Review & Recommendation
As a top-tier service provider, I find that BlueHost has relatively competitive pricing. It offers steep sign-on discounts that allow you to reduce your initial investment in hosting and only ups the rate when you need to renew your plan.
Strong performance in terms of both speed and uptime make them a solid choice in a variety of use cases. This is supported by an overall extremely scalable platform that you can grow with. New site owners can start out with very basic shared hosting at a cheaper price and from there, the sky is the limit.
Impressively, BlueHost also offers some very nice extras for all its customers, such as free SSL and domain name. These are given irrespective of plan chosen, so even their most basic plans come with these useful benefits.
For Newbies and Individual Bloggers
Bloggers can feel right at home with BlueHost for several reasons. There is the capacity to scale up, cheap starter plans, WordPress hosting plans and best of all a very comprehensive and useful knowledge base.
Key features which make BlueHost the web hosting choice for bloggers include daily site backup, $100 in free ad credits, spam experts and domain privacy protection. More is available, but mostly as add-ons you need to pay extra for.
Review by Jerry Low
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Marquita Herald
"Bluehost has been a great home for my Wordpress blog!"
Bluehost is the third web hosting company I’ve worked with and the clear advantage is reliability. It really is a case of out of sight, out of mind because I haven’t had to worry about outages other kinds of problems that plagued me with the other companies I tried.
I will say that when I first made the switch over I heard all kinds of stories about how awful the customer service is, and the few times I had to contact them I found that to be true. However, recently I had had some technical issues I needed help with and I was really pleased with the change in service – truly night and day level difference. So with that, I can honestly say that I am happy to recommend Bluehost.
Marina Barayeva
"Great solution for blogs and company sites"
Easy to use hosting even if you’re not very technical. It’s recommended by WordPress and they have special features for WordPress users such as more detailed analytics, themes, and a tutorial series to help you to set up everything.
Also, one of the useful tools is a daily backup. It saved my site another day when I installed a plugin that wasn’t compatible with some existing plugins and the site stopped working. I didn’t have a backup but could restore everything with the help of customer service. A few years ago they had problems with customer support and it took time to get any replies. But looks like they improved their service.