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What is Bluehost?

Bluehost, headquartered in Orem, Utah, offers website hosting. Bluehost also offers managed WordPress hosting, with optional SEO and marketing tools for WordPress plans.

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WordPress hosting but it could be cheaper

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Osama KhanView profile
Support Specialist in Information Technology at NurulQuran (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WordPress on it. Web hosting is used with cPanel. We want to communicate our services to potential customers. It is a small website with not many visitors. You can use mulitiple installations of WordPress. We do not use the Bluehost email services. Hosting is acceptable for small sites. WordPress is running on a shared server.

Pros

  • WordPress
  • cPanel
  • File Manager

Cons

  • Price
  • Speed
  • Email

Most Important Features

  • cPanel
  • WordPress
  • File Manager

Return on Investment

  • Increase cost

Other Software Used

DigitalOcean, Linode

Excellent hosting provider for small businesses

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Gloria VargheseView profile
Digital marketing trainer in Sales at Rannz studies (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bluehost is a good hosting service provider if you are looking for an affordable price and limited features compared to other service providers in the market. It also provides a built-in website builder, making it easier to design a website in a very short time. But the templates are fewer. It has a simple User interface so even a starter can handle things quickly.

Pros

  • hosting
  • website builder service
  • Good cutsomer services

Cons

  • It has limited templates in their website builder library

Most Important Features

  • various plans
  • website builder
  • cost effective

Return on Investment

  • Roi increased

Alternatives Considered

Hostinger

BlueHost - Great for Basic Hosting Needs

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Luke PaulinView profile
Marketing Director in Marketing at Maui Real Estate Advisors LLC (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bluehost to host 2 different websites for company use. The websites we use are WordPress; previously, they were Drupal sites. We have implemented Cloud Flare through Bluehost and site encryption. We have used some domain management. Most of our usage with Bluehost focuses on hosting and the Cpanel.

Pros

  • WordPress Integration
  • Hosting setup
  • File Manager

Cons

  • CloudFlare Integration
  • Domain Settings

Most Important Features

  • Website Hosting

Return on Investment

  • Website has sufficient load speeds
  • Cloudflare integration crashed our site and did not work as described.

Alternatives Considered

DreamHost and Flywheel

Other Software Used

DreamHost

For Low-Budget Or Low-Traffic Websites, Bluehost is a contender

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Stephen SteinbergView profile
Founder in Corporate at Raw Athletics (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Quick setup.
  • Affordability.
  • Access to customer service.

Cons

  • Website speed.
  • Pricing plan flexibility.
  • Support not as fast nor as knowledgeable as other hosting providers.

Return on Investment

  • Customer support is good enough so that we don't need IT people on retainer.
  • Very affordable for low-volume websites.
  • Easy to launch new sites quickly thanks to 1-click WordPress installs and SSLs.

Alternatives Considered

DreamHost

Other Software Used

DreamHost, Namecheap

Reliable,cheap hosting that has kept up to date.

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Collin BergView profile
Lead Web Developer at SJI Associates | Full-Service Creative Agency (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • The SSL is included in the hosting.
  • Price Point is great for small projects.
  • Bluehost has 24/7 support online and the techs that are knowledgable, unlike GoDaddy.

Cons

  • Simplistic hosting might not be good if you have high volumes of traffic.
  • Phone support could be better.

Return on Investment

  • Web hosting is reliable with 0 downtimes so far for minor sites. They also keep up to date on PHP versions so they aren't bogged down.

Alternatives Considered

GoDaddy

Other Software Used

Kinsta, GoDaddy