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web hosting companies Bluehost Features & Control Panel Design

Bluehost utilizes the latest version of Cpanel in their web hosting with the plenty of software add-ons including Fantastico. This software is a graphical user interface tool that makes managing a website a piece of cake. They include a plethora of scripts from blog to chat to help desk, which can all be installed with a click of a button. The CPanel isn’t just the standard setup, but it is a fully loaded Cpanel with a lot of Add-on software. A value added feature is Telnet access, which is included free with their web hosting. A lot of business web hosting companies usually charge for this feature.



web hosting companies Bluehost Customer Relations

The customer service we have received from Bluehost has been exceptional. Whenever we called support whether it was at 3:00 AM at night or 12:00 PM in the afternoon, we were always able to get a hold of a technician while holding for less than a minute. The staffs were also very knowledgeable and they were always able to assist us from simple questions to high complex questions. They were very straight to the point. They even assisted us in setting up a Message Forums script when we had over fifteen questions on trying to install the software. Overall, we the company is very well managed considering the level of support we received for the little money that we paid monthly for their web hosting.

Pricing & Cost Effectiveness of web hosting companies Bluehost

Bluehost currently charges $4.95 per year for web hosting if you prepay for 2 years and $5.95 if you prepay for 1 year with free setup and domain name for a limited time. While other web hosting companies have lowered their pricing, Bluehost has always had the same price since they started as a web hosting company. It is how they are able to keep the quality of their hosting high, while other companies have lowered the quality of their web hosting because they rather focus on increasing the quantity of customers they have rather than on the quality of their web hosting. The pricing is very competitive in the industry because it covers the cost of the domain name and a lot of features are included such as the Fantastico suite and E-Commerce shopping cart and Blog software. The pricing also includes 24 hours technical support 7 days a week which is better than all of the hosts we have reviewed.




Bluehost is one of the internet’s most experienced personal and business web hosting companies. According to our latest survey and comments from our past readers, their web hosting offers the most consistent performance especially during peak time. While other web hosts that we reviewed are slower during the day, they are always consistent with their speed. Bluehost also has extremely knowledgeable and friendly staffs that are willing to assist you even if they are the simple problems. We called when we didn’t now how to use FrontPage to upload a site and when we linked the pictures using the wrong path name. While the other web hosting companies refused to help claiming it was too technical Bluehost assisted us. For the second year in the row, Bluehost has been recommended as our top choice for web hosting because of their commitment to quality support, superior uptime, fast performance, and massive features that comes preloaded into our accounts.



Conclusion - Editor's Choice for Web Hosting

All in All, Bluehost is the best choice web hosting for your business and your personal needs. They offer a plethora of software that makes building a website a cinch, plus their support staff is one of the most knowledgeable in the industry. They also have the highest reliability rating of any web host, and their web hosting performance is top notch. For the second year in a row, Bluehost reigns over the competition and received the highest recommendation of a web hosting service.



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hosting reviews BlueHost Customer Support
BlueHost is superb when it comes to the quality of support offered. You can submit a question to their help desk via their online form, visit the extensive FAQ section of their website, or call their toll-free support desk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Staff are knowledgable and friendly and available around the clock.

BlueHost uses the Cpanel control panel, which comes loaded with many excellent features on its user interface. The navigation menus are easy to understand and use. Icons are created for each feature in the control panel and help information is easily accessible next to each feature. They have also integrated a number of billing features to make management of your account very simple and easy to configure.

When something goes wrong, people tend to let you know. We have not received many notices about BlueHost, which is a good thing. Their quad processor Opteron servers are not only much faster than most competitors' servers, they are also extremely reliable. BlueHost provides standard uptime gurantees - no issues here.

When doing our BlueHost review, we found that they offer a high quality hosting plan for a great price. Their single coverage plan provides you with unlimited disk space and bandwidth. This is excellent coverage compared to most web hosting firms and provides good value to the consumer. You also receive many added features, including a domain name free of charge, 2500 POP3 web-based e-mail accounts, unlimited add-on domains, FTP, PHP, CGI, cPanel, Fantastico scripts, 50 MySQL databases, Agora Shopping Cart, PageBuilder drag-and-drop site builder, support for Ruby on Rails, and more. This is a very comprehensive feature package compared to most web hosting firms, and BlueHost is committed to continually finding new ways to make it even better.

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affordable web hosting bluehost FEATURES AND PRICING
The features BlueHost provides seem pretty standard (nothing lacking) with all of the expected features of a web host such as cPanel, multiple database support, FTP, email, etc. BlueHost’s one (the only one I could find, at least) package features unlimited diskspace, and unlimited bandwidth. There’s a limited number of databases (50 each for MySQL and Postgre) and more FTP and email accounts than you could ever use (1,000 and 2500, respectively). Unlimited numbers of addon domains, parked domains, and subdomains are given. Pricing varies depending how long you sign up for:
3 Months: $9.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
6 Months: $8.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)
12 Months: $7.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
24 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)
I have never been a big fan of a minimum of three months contract, and you do have to click around (to the second step in their order process, actually) just to find out the price. Ignoring the minimum contract length, pricing is quite competitive.

affordable web hosting bluehost CPANEL CONTROL PANEL

Two clicks later, I was into my control panel. If you know about cPanel, you can probably skip this paragraph. It’s all very standard. You have the same SQL, subdomain, email, etc. features as every other cPanel. There’s a few nice addons such as a domain manager, a sitebuilder, and some options to manage your account (basically, it just logs you into their billing system, but still convenient). BlueHost has Fantastico, which from what I saw, was up-to-date with the latest stable versions of all of the scripts. The cPanel went very fast and did everything it was supposed to do.



affordable web hosting bluehost TERMS OF SERVICE

BlueHost has a very unique Terms of Service - there’s no legal jargon at all. It’s just some bullet points on a page with the major points included in most Terms of Service agreements. The shady point is "All activities may be monitored, recorded, and examined by any authorized person, including law enforcement." with a semi-shady "Any violation found or fraudulent activity that system personnel deem inappropriate may have your account immediately terminated without notice and any recorded evidence reported to authorized persons." However, in fairness to BlueHost, the points are quite clear, and not hidden within a 10 page agreement.



affordable web hosting bluehost SUPPORT

I called their support department using their toll-free number. I was talking to someone within about 30 seconds after dialing. I asked some basic questions: Do you support mod_rewrite (Yes), do you support mod_security (didn’t know, but checked), and do you keep your Fantastico up-to-date with the latest versions (Yes)? Support was nice enough, and keep to know what they were talking about. The representative obviously wasn’t reading from a prompt (no delay with answers).

I decided to test the BlueHost support out with some more complicated issues that an average webmaster may run across. I was caller #2, and had to wait about a minute or two. I spoke to a different representative (meaning they have more than one tech on duty, always nice) and asked does BlueHost support PHP5 (they have two servers that do, and can move your account if needed), if they support Ruby on Rails (nope), and if I should use ‘localhost’ as my host name with the script I was trying to install (Yes). I reworded the questions slightly and sent them to BlueHost support via email at 4:50 PM on a Monday. By 5:17 PM, I had a helpful response.

All and all, BlueHost seems like a good web host. The company certainly has their act together and by all means can be labelled as a top quality web host with great features and support.

From looking at the BlueHost.comweb site, the company appears to be a serious and professional web host. A visually appealing web site, clearly posted contact information, lots of awards (from legitimate places), and grammatically correct text on site, all help make BlueHost seem like a formidable web host. A great feature (that seems to be awfully rare) is that BlueHost provides a demo of their control panel (a very slightly customized cPanel using the X skin) that actually works and isn’t impossible to find. It’s a great feature that allows you to review how cPanel works if you aren’t familiar with it.

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reviews bluehost Performance

Bluehost like most of the competition, do oversell. That doesn't necessarily mean that the performance is going to be affected. Bluehost is reported to be one of the better performing hosts based on the reviews and feedbacks.

We have been monitoring bluehost with a real account hosted with them using a third party uptime monitoring service. The results have been good, they delivered around 99.46% uptime from January 2008. This doesn't match up to the promised 99.9% uptime, but is not a bad figure considering the fact that most hosts never deliver what has been promised . Overall, they proved to be reliable for hosting serious websites. Checkout the screen shot below for the uptime details.


Name Platform Price Space Bandwidth Domains
One Plan Linux $6.95 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited

Bluehost Features Review

Bluehost offers almost everything one would like to have in a Linux web host: cPanel(probably the best control panel), Very high level of customization for PHP(.htaccess, Custom PHP.INI Files) etc. They also allow Shell Access(SSH) which will help the advanced users. MySQL databases, subdomains etc. are available in large numbers, and you can host unlimited number of domains in one account.

Bluehost also have top quality infrastructure and wide range of protection mechanisms including DDOS protection and power backup services.


Bluehost, one of the oldest web hosting companies has gone through a lot of changes in the last few months. They have increased the space, bandwidth and no of domains per account to match the best offer in the industry while keeping the price cheap. Now they offer unlimited domains and resources to match. If you are looking to host multiple domains and want the assurance of a reliable host, bluehost is a great option.

Blue host and hostmonster are from the same management and offers similar fearures and price. So which one should you go for? Well, these days there is not much of a difference. If you prefer a shorter contract period, bluehost is probably a better solution

reviews bluehost Price Value

Bluehost has just one plan and the price is $6.95 for a two year contract and $7.95 per month for an yearly contract. Considering that bluehost offers unlimited add on domains and very high resources, this is a great deal.

Looking for something cheaper than Bluehost? Compare Prices Here.

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