One of the oldest web hosts started in 1996, Bluehost has become the largest brand name when it comes to WordPress hosting. They are an official "WordPress" recommended hosting provider. You never have to worry about your website being slow even when there is alot of traffic. They also offer a Free Domain and a Free Site Builder with templates. Not to mention that they have a special offer for WPBeginner users.
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I haven’t had the issues noted here, and I’m a ten out of ten reviewer for Bluehost for customer service. Since I don’t want to maintain expensive servers, Bluehost’s level of service is critical. They’ve never failed to fix an issue — mostly my issues, not theirs — and they won’t hang up the phone until you’re satisified it’s fixed. I have Network Solutions, GoDaddy and two others for other sites, but NetSol charges $65 an hour to troubleshoot WP sites. None really can match the support at Bluehost. If I did have speed issues… as I did on one site… I’d call. They found I was right and within thirty minutes had improved the situation (they said the logs noted high load and they’d fix it, which they did.) Anyway, I won’t be moving any time soon. I count on them at 2 in the morning when I have a WP problem on a deadline.
We were quite happy with Bluehost except for the past 3 months. Page load time is on average 9 seconds where it use to be 1.5 seconds. Am truly considering an alternate service.
my rating: 3 stars
I agree – there have been a lot of speed issues and a lot of downtime recently. I too am looking for an alternative solution (after having been a happy Bluehost customer for about 8 years or so).
I believe bluehost is the best of all. I got its reference in many areas.
Stay away from Bluehost. I’ve been using them nearly two years now. They have this policy of increasing their prices after one year. Also they are so slow, it takes minutes to load a simple page (that particular page, by the way, is a page from a website which has Grade A in terms of page speed grade)
Rather interesting complaint. Did you have caching on your WordPress site? How much traffic were you receiving? Sometimes, a bad plugin can cause the site to load super slow. Page speed only grades the output of the code not load time. It assumes that if the output is good, then the load time will too. Try using a tool like Pingdom to determine what is causing the speed issue.
Having the same issues with some of our clients. We insist on them hosting on one of our (dv) Media Temple boxes (which run amazingly, but are obviously more expensive). We have two clients that insisted on staying hosted with Bluehost and both of them take at least 10 seconds to load. On every page refresh. It’s horrendous.
I’m using Bluehost at the moment, and not as happy with them as I had hoped. Support helpline answers quickly but their migration process, tools or procedures from a competitor, Godaddy, had problems requiring my calling many, many times.
I’m also finding performance to be an issue from time to time using wp-admin while creating and maintaining my new site that has only my traffic. 20 seconds to update a page is unacceptable.
I’ve been on Bluehost for over 3 years, but it’s time to move. I’ve upgraded my package from them but still have speed issues. They say you get unlimited web hosting, but there’s a file limit. If you have a site that starts to get a lot of traffic, you get throttled, but they don’t tell you. I’ve liked them, I’ve liked the cPanel, I’ve liked the customer service, but the speed issue is killing me.
Ofcourse there is no such thing as unlimited. If you read our description of shared hosting here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wordpress-hosting/ it clearly tells you that. Imagine if $3.95 per month offered real unlimited hosting, then facebook and google will just use Bluehost rather than spending hundreds of million on server cost. To further elaborate on the wordpress hosting page, we wrote an entire page just about this:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/the-truth-about-shared-wordpress-web-hosting/
Shared web hosting option is created for smaller websites which includes new bloggers, small businesses, etc. If every site used their quota, then shared hosting would not work. But since only very few do, it works out very nicely for everyone. Users get a very affordable deal, and hosting companies make a good profit. As your site grow, you will HAVE to get better hosting (i.e move to VPS, or even a dedicated server).
I have only just started building WordPress websites and immediately ran into problems with the hosting company which I had been using for html sites, without incident, for several years. I checked around, found Bluehost, and moved one of the hacked domains there. I was blown away by the tech support – which had been non-existent with the old service. If this keeps up, I’ll never go anywhere else. Bluehost gets 10 out of 10 from me!
I have been using blue host from many years and it seems that they are good. I have had never any problem with their hosting and for me the are 100% up always.
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I’ve been using WP for about seven years and Bluehost for just under one year. WordPress and Bluehost are a great combination, because they both give you powerful flex ability at an unbeatable price. I’m very pleased with Bluehost, and look forward to keeping my WordPress site here for a LONG time to come.
I have been using bluehost for more than 2 years now, I have never had problem with them. Cant say about support coz I never ran into serious trouble where I contact support.
I switched over to BlueHost a few months ago after having some issues in performance on another host and have been very pleased. Fast setup, standard cpanel offerings, easy to work with customer support all created a solid platform I could count on and then focus on building my business. As a web developer I have since put a few other clients on bluehost and would recommend them for anyone looking for a service that does their job so you can do yours.
I’ve been using BluHost for several years and have had no problems whatsoever. The couple of times I’ve needed support (usually my mistake), they were easy to reach and resolved my issue quickly and correctly. I’d recommend them to anyone!