Bluehost Review

Overview

Bluehost has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Their internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost.

With BlueHost you can depend on:

• Highest customer service
• Quality equipment
• Maximum guaranteed uptime
• Highly functional tools for administration
• The leading feature set available
• Secure and reliable backups
• Solid and honest business

Bluehost Plan Features

Bluehost professional web hosting package provides customers with a great deal for their money. With this plan you get unlimited disk space and file transfer which enables you to host unlimited domains. , free domain name, CGI-BIN, PHP, PERL, FrontPage, Ruby, FTP and the list goes on. You also get website plug-in scripts, ecommerce and multimedia features and site promotion package, all backed by world class technology.

Bluehost uses the popular cPanel as their control panel as it very easy to navigate and provides access to all the configuration options.

Bluehost cPanel supports Fantastico script which allows easy scripts installation. Some of the free scripts that you can use are:

• b2evolution blog
• WordPress blog
• Drupal
• Geeklog
• Joomla
• Mambo Open Source
• PHP-Nuke
• phpWCMS
• Siteframe
• Xoops
• Templates Express
• WebCalendar
• Language
• Email notifications

Bluehost Customer Service

Like most other hosts Bluehost offer 24/7 toll free lines, live chat and email support. Bluehost also offers a knowledgebase, tutorials and forum to help answer any questions you might have.

Bluehost provides an extensive knowledgebase with articles that addresses many hosting issues.

For potential clients, Bluehost offers tutorials to help you get started with Bluehost and is available in many major languages, such as Spanish, French, German and Chinese. This can help you to get an idea of what to expect from hosting with Bluehost.

Bluehost's forum is rather new, with only a few topics as compared to Lunarpages which is very well established.

Bluehost Popularity

Bluehost has won numerous awards, and just to name a few:

Upperhost.com - The Highest Recommended Web Hosting Company
Castironhostingreview.com - Best Overall Hosting in 2008
WebHostingSearch.com - Top Pick Host in 2008

Bluehost Datacenter

Bluehost have two separate server rooms in two different locations in Utah. Utah was picked as the site for the BlueHost datacenter because of the low occurence of natural disasters and the readiness of redundant power grids. This protects the datacenter's hosting servers and other equipment, and guarantees a 99.9% uptime.

• Reliability
  * Quad Processor Performance Servers
  * UPS Power Backup
  * Diesel Generator Backup Power
  * Customized Apache Web Server
  * 24/7 Network Monitoring
  * Courtesy Site Backups
  * OC-48 Backbone Connection