BlueHost General ImpressionBlueHost 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.
Blue Host stats are the following: (Jan 2010)
Total Domains Hosted : 1.9+ million domains
Total Paying Hosting Customers: More than 525,000
Total Servers: 850+ (ALWAYS rotating out older servers)
Total Sales/Billing/Support Requests Per Day: Approximately 5,000
Number of new customers (not domains) added each day (Mon-Fri): 800+
Number of new customers (not domains) added each day (Sat, Sun): 500+
Number of new domains added each month: 50,000 - 70,000
Total Bandwidth Capacity: 20 Gigabits/Second (100% ours, not shared in ANY way)
Average Hold Time For Support: 19 seconds
Number of Employees: 240+
Registrar For Domains: Fastdomain Inc (Sister company that 'sells' domains to Bluehost/Hostmonster)
Outsourced services: NONE!
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
Since offering Domain Privacy for FREE, BluHost has been also improved their services.
BlueHost will secure your business. They are confident that can provide you with the highest level of support with their friendly and patient support staff waiting to address your needs. Their veteran hosting team knows what it takes to be the best and how they can help make your site a success.
BlueHost Price & CostHaving incredible low rates (including coupons) for excellent features, BlueHost proved over the years to be one of the best web hosting choice.
BlueHost ReliabilityReliability is very important for your online business. With their high quality redundant systems you can be sure that your data is always available for both you and your customers. Also, they already tweaked Linux kernel with many improvements to provide you the best server value.
BlueHost Data CenterUnlike other providers that rent data center, BlueHost has invested on having their own BlueHost state of the art DataCenter (located in Utah) to better guarantee security and stability of their hosting service.
BlueHost Customer SupportBlue Host offers a great support based on http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/help
All support is also located in US, like many customers likes.
Also, using their forum from http://www.bluehostforums.com/ you can get immediate advice on a lot of possible issues.
Special thanks for their CEO, which keeps a blog to inform customers about what's new on BlueHost side, at http://www.mattheaton.com/
BlueHost Control PanelBlueHost is using latest and improved version of CPanel for their Linux hosting plans (They don't offer Windows hosting yet). CPanel is one of the best control panels available today, therefore you get one of the top tools to manage you hosting account.
About BlueHostBlueHost has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Our 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 serviceQuality equipmentMaximum guaranteed uptimeHighly functional tools for administrationThe leading feature set availableSecure and reliable backupsSolid and honest businessBlueHost is here to secure your business. We are confident we can provide you with the highest level of support with our friendly and patient support staff waiting to address your needs. Our veteran hosting team knows what it takes to be the best and how we can help make your site a success.
Contact BlueHostTechnical Support / Sales SupportHelp Center: http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/help
Telephone: Main Line: 888-401-4678 / Outside the U.S: 801-765-9400
Telephone support is available 24 Hours a Day 7 Days a Week
Extended Hours! Billing Support / Affiliate & Business DevelopmentHelp Center: http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/help
Telephone: Main Line: 888-401-4678 / Outside the U.S: 801-765-9400
Telephone support is available 24 Hours a Day 7 Days a Week
Monday - Friday 8 AM - 5 PM (MST) Abuse Department
Report SPAM, fraud, or anything suspicious to abuse@bluehost.com for investigation.
Mailing Address Bluehost Inc.
1958 South 950 East
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Blue Host ConclusionYou cannot go wrong with BlueHost.com. They do a lot of improvements for their servers in order to keep your services at best level.
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Last update: 2009-01-09 09:08:53 GMT | | Owner: | BlueHost Inc. | | Web Site Title | Bluehost.com | | Website Description | Bluehost.com provides world class hosting for only $6.95/month. We are currently one of the fastest growing hosting companies in the world. We offer features such as 1500 gigs of space, 15000 gigs of transfer, Perl, PHP, MySQL, SSH, FREE Site builder and | | Statistics for www.bluehost.com | | Site in business since | 15-Nov-2002 | | Links to the site | 8232 | | Popularity Rank (1 best) | 600 | | Site language | en | | Website details www.bluehost.com | | Website Name Servers (DNS) | MX::bluehost.com.s7a1.psmtp.com:64.18.6.14
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| | "This is without a doubt the best hosting provider out there - no one comes close to their level of friendly, professional, and prompt service. I've used many hosting providers over the years and now my search is finally over! I will be consolidating all my business with this hosting services on forward" Jeff Green / http://www.intensedevelopment.net | | US Web Hosts Self-Censor: Newsweek - March 9, 2009 - A Newsweek article, which will appear on newsstands next week, has condemned web host BlueHost (www.bluehost.com) for censoring users affiliated with foreign countries, however, this common practice, which has its faults, it can be argued that it is often the only way large web hosts can effectively weed out customers using web hosting for illegal purposes.
The Newsweek article described the situation when Belarus-born Washington DC lawyer Yaraslau Kryvoi got a notice in February from his web hosting firm that the blog he administers for his local Belarussian American Association chapter would be suspended and that he had 10 days to remove his content. This was, in effect, because BlueHost mistakenly throught that Kryvoi was a citizen of a country on the US government's list of rogue states.
Many large web hosts including HostMonster, Blaser Hosting and Biz Builder Hosting explicitly prohibit countries based on the perceived risk of dealing with them. Newsweek rightly implies that this is a form of profiling, however, from a web hosting perspective, eliminating large, troublesome areas helps companies more efficiently police customer websites.
According to its Terms of Service, BlueHost sanctions countries based on the government's economic and trade sanctions. BlueHost states that the US government, through "various of its offices and agencies, ...has determined that, with respect to all or certain commercial activities that would otherwise occur between i) the US, its citizens or residents on the one hand and ii) the governments, citizens, or residents of certain other countries ("Sanctioned Countries") on the other hand, said commercial activities are to be prohibited, embargoed, sanctioned, banned, and/or otherwise excluded."
The countries BlueHosts presently sanctions include Belarus, Burma, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Iraq, former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Zimbabwe, and countries belonging to "the Balkans."
While ideally, web hosts should be able to account for everything they host, much like newspaper publisher has a responsibility for what is published in their paper, however, as online crime continues to be profitable, criminals will continue to find hosts for their frauds and scams.
For some hosts, imposing rigid rules on international users may be a necessity so that these hosts can keep tabs on their US-approved clients, which can be equally threatening.
The dangers of laissez-faire web hosting were revealed when web hosting provider McColo (www.mccolo.com), which allegedly hosted some of the Internet's most malicious online scams, went offline in November 2008, reducing the global amount of spam by three quarters according to some estimates.
Again, while Newsweek brings up the point that US hosting companies blacklisting certain rogue states is just as anti-democratic as these purportedly authoritarian states, there are plenty of reputable hosts that will host sites from around the world - though perhaps not for just $6.95 per month.
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| July 26, 2010 | 1087961 domains | +5635 domains | | July 19, 2010 | 1082326 domains | +5837 domains | | July 12, 2010 | 1076489 domains | +5047 domains | | July 5, 2010 | 1071442 domains | +5326 domains | | June 28, 2010 | 1066116 domains | +156740 domains | | Quick and brief overview of few months from previous years | | December 28, 2009 | 909376 domains | +1639 domains | | December 21, 2009 | 907737 domains | +272050 domains | | December 29, 2008 | 635687 domains | +3598 domains | | December 22, 2008 | 632089 domains | +257761 domains | | December 31, 2007 | 374328 domains | +3725 domains | | December 24, 2007 | 370603 domains | |
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May 12, 2010
andrea ( ailenmeri(at)gmail(dot)com ) | Blue host will take all the money they can from you! Watch your money very carefully! Their customer service is terrible and the people are so rude and accuse you of all problems even when they don't know what actually happened. They take no responsibility to help their customer or improve things. They will be good to you as long as they have your money. If you try to take your money somewhere else, they will try to illegally charge you. I have reported them to the BBB. What a shame... terrible principles and terrible customer service. -never have experienced anything like it!
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April 26, 2010
Vebnest Owner ( admin at vebnest dot com ) | I'm host my domain vebnest.com with them. This sucks people suspend my vebnest.com and sucks my money also. Vebnest sucks, Bluehost sucks :)
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January 12, 2010
Eileen ( n_b0dy[at]hotmail[dot]com ) | I was subscribed to bluehost for almost 2 to 3 years. But recently I had some problems with my files on the server being edit or go missing. Suddenly my admin panel will not be working. For the first round, i re-uploaded my admin panel and did not contact bluehost. But after sometime not even logging into my ftp account, the missing file problem arise again. This time i contacted bluehost. I understood from some articles that their server was hacked recently and when i mentioned that in my email, they told me its not their fault but its my files that is not secured. I told them i'm just a layman user, i just upload my files to their server and just hope my web site works. What is this about securing my files? They did not say more on how they can help me and from their emails i could tell they do not wish to help. I told them if this is the case I would like to move my files to another hosting and they gladly ask me to go ahead with the migration to another hosting. I am not sure if they even moved an inch to show that they like to help, instead pushes the problem to their subscribers. We are just users that upload our web site to their server and hope it runs, I think its minimum for hosting companies to ensure that no unauthorized users gets to the files on their server. I hope the people who wish to apply for bluehost be aware of what they will do to their customers and will not end up like me. Now they tell me they do not backup my files and i am going to sort out the problems with the site myself. At the same time i am sourcing for a new hosting. I am running an ecommerce site, so because of all these I had to halt my online business. I really hope the users out there get to know about this.
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BlueHost provides security for all servers. However it is up to the end user to ensure that any 3rd party applications, scripts etc. are kept up to date to prevent your site from being hacked. We provide SimpleScripts for free to all our customers which will alert you when a new version or security update is made available but it falls on the customer to actually update it. We perform courtesy backups of your data as well but it is also recommended that you perform backups to your local system. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: under 1 month.
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December 18, 2009
-anonymous- ( -no email- ) | Blue host from my experience cannot host Joomla website. Their tech support don't know how to put a Joomla website online although their sales people tell you that they have scripts which can be used to host Joomla website. So beware they will lie to you that they can host a Joomla website but they are lying to you. l spent 6 hours of my time trying to host a Joomla web site with them and all they tried to do was to lie to me and and try and wanting to eventually take my paid subscription, but l was too smart for that l caught up with them right away before 3 days was over to lose my paid subscription.
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BlueHost provides all users with a free account to SimpleScripts which installs Joomla in under 15 seconds. Joomla works very well on BlueHost servers and is recommended by many Joomla sites including joomlabear.com and youjoomla.com. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: under 1 month.
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December 18, 2009
Dave ( rdavemail-temp[at]yahoo[dot]com ) | I just signed up with Bluehost, but after the payment was taken and my account was created, the account was canceled.
The reason given was incorrect contact info. I called their support line, and was told that I would have to snailmail my ID and also give them my password in order to activate my account - i.e. there was no problem with the contact information with my account.
I don't see any reason why I should have to give my password to them to activate my account, so I canceled it.
Stay away from Bluehost.
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For fraud protection and ICANN registration rules we require customers to provide correct customer data. Bluehost verifies every customer to ensure the transaction was authorized and we automatically suspend any sites with bad contact information until the user verifies they are the account holder and provides it. This is for the protection of the credit card holder and end user. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
| Blue Host Rating (5 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
December 16, 2009
Russ ( cole6064 at comcast dot net ) | BlueHost customer service is consistant, promp, courteous and satisfied my questions every time. The control panel is easy to navigate from first use. BluHost delivers! I'm glad we went with BlueHost.
58 out of 68 Top Web Hosting users found this webhosting review to be helpful!
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| Blue Host Rating (4 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
November 15, 2009
Maynard
( info[at]maynardsgroovytunes[dot]co[dot]uk ) | I run several domains and subdomains on one bluehost account. I have SSL on one domain, running OSCommerce.
I haven't had any big problems, I find them helpful on customer service, and uptime is as quoted or better.
Their server setup is very flexible for php, allowing me to set individual php.ini files.
I wouldn't have known that cPanel had been limited, because it has lots of useful functionality.
It's great value for money, and I'm a happy customer.
104 out of 116 Top Web Hosting users found this webhosting review to be helpful!
Did you find this BlueHost review useful? YES / NO | Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
| Blue Host Rating (2 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
October 18, 2009
mitch o'daniels
( zHrjWaW22BNP4yBq at rew dot armed dot us ) | I help a friend manage her BlueHost account and interact with BlueHost on her behalf. Their support is about as knowledgable as a tween with interweb access. I am not a "web professional" nor a site designer. I play in a bigger technology pool.
They have crippled cPanel features
They have injected ANNOYING and unprofessional upselling modules in cPanel
bluehost subdomain cPanel app is BORKED:
sub.sub.domain to /path/path2 mapping is VERY BORKED
BlueHost has no resolution for path conflicts of
funny.domain1.com
and
funny.domain2.com
this is NOT a bug with cPanel as support rabidly insists.
BlueHost has crippled user control of SpamAssassin
BlueHost has ZERO support for free distrubuted spam addons for SpamAssassin
BlueHost is only interested in upselling MX anti-spam products.
BlueHost exim user config files are not correctly configured
Running OSS gallery.sourceforge.net on BlueHost is VEXATIOUS at best
OSS Gallery on BlueHost is last-millennium slow -- even with small family galleries.
BlueHost seems to OVERSELL shared servers.
BlueHost response is laggy even to Internet2 wired machines. uh oh.
BlueHost is unfamiliar with mod_security
BlueHost is cheap AND inexpensive... but a waste of your time and money. I will be urging my friend to start the painful migration to another host.. perhaps DreamHost.. but I would prefer another cPanel based webhost -- though one that is not crippled like BlueHost. So that puts HostGator out of the picture, too.
BlueHost is definately more capable, competant, and responsive than GodAddY, but then almost anything is (cite: nodaddy.com)
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September 9, 2009
-anonymous- ( -no email- ) | Bluehost is best host firm in market.. CRM and their products are really amazing.. Price is very low. Related to the this price, all features are like free..
93 out of 105 Top Web Hosting users found this webhosting review to be helpful!
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July 4, 2009
John Adams ( johnadamsmam(at)gmail(dot)com ) | Unfortunately, I have about 30 domains at Bluehost and about 10 sites. Bluehost is NOT the place to go for anyone with multiple domains.
The Bluehost "Abuse" department is run much like a totalitarian state. "there is no appeal" , "you must..or...", "we will terminate" ...
Most recently, UNLIMITED disk space? Ha. What they don't tell you is that you are limited to 50k files. Figure that one out and you'll see that unlimited does not mean unlimited. They then state (see other's comments below) that you can have files of any size but not more than 50k. But, surprise! If you take more disk space than they "allow" then they cut you off at the knees and you must purchase another account. OK, that's ok. But why not be upfront? Why don't the comments from BlueHost below have names?
All this adds up to frustration because Bluehost is basically arbitrary and can do what ever an employee wants because it "violates TOS".
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Bluehost limits the number of files in an account to 50,000. The size of the files is unlimited. If you have large numbers of files that you are archiving, you can simply zip them up into one file and store that rather than thousands of small files. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 6 mo. to 1 year
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June 27, 2009
Rick ( rick(at)sinanju(dot)com ) | Bluehost has a much deserved reputation as a spam friendly host - they host literally dozens of scam sites, disguised to look likr government web sites and business opportunities, when in fact they are phishing and scam sites.
Can you trust a host like this with your domain? If you happen to be on a shared server that also hosts one (or more) of these scammer sites, and the scammer gets blocked - so do you! This means that your site is offline until the spammer / scammer is removed.
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Bluehost takes spam seriously and if we come across the site or when it is reported we suspend any accounts that are sending out spam. When we suspend an account for spamming it does not adversely affect any other accounts on our system. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
| Blue Host Rating (4 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
June 16, 2009
Joshua Henry ( josh(at)skwl(dot)net ) | Blue Host is great for shared hosting!
Their support and features is great for early starters. However when its time to upgrade, its time to move on.
I've moved to Accurate Hub Networks with my VPS and how just recently upgraded to a physical server.
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May 7, 2009
Heather ( verdraengen[at]gmail[dot]com ) | Experienced massive dataloss on work that took me weeks to complete. Bluehost representatives (grunts as well as supervisors) treated me like absolute garbage after losing weeks of my hard work. I simply asked for them to submit something to me in writing, or to somehow give me some proof of a hardware failure that I could present to my superiors to explain why my work had suddenly gone missing. I was spoken to informally, disrespectfully, and was told that it was my fault for hosting my data on "a volatile shared server" when referring to their own service.
After submitting a letter to them about the poor treatment I received (after actually being very nice to them), my account was suspended.
This was over two months ago, and my account is still suspended for no apparent reason.
I urge everyone to reconsider their hosting plans with Bluehost. I've referred about 10 people to Bluehost and regret ever doing so. NEVER PURCHASE WEBSPACE WITH THESE PEOPLE!
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While we perform courtesy system backups regularly and allow users to restore a site in the event of data loss/corruption, the client should always keep a local backup. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
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May 5, 2009
Shane ( sgspowell-sasca(at)yahoo(dot)com ) | Stay away from BH. Unlimited does NOT mean unlimited.
I was with them just over 1 year. I had 5 personal/family domains (photos and blogs) and one not-for-profit domain. Minimal bandwidth on all of them, but considerable amounts of disk space due mostly to 4 Gallery2 installs. But, that's ok, they say unlimited storage right! Wrong! My account was disabled due to some misunderstanding. Fair enough, but in the process of diagnosing the cause for the disable, I was informed that they were days away from imposing a 50k file number limit. WHAT!! I'm over 200k easy, again due to a large photo collection. Now, I'm freaking out, and scrambling to find someone who will not lock my account for having lots of photos. Thanks for the heads up BH! Unlimited My Ass! They hide behind their TOS saying that anybody who causes stress on a server is subject to their account being disabled. I was in violation because their filesystem checks were taking too long. What? Why is it my fault that you have too many users on one machine? My CPU,Memory and Bandwidth are almost nill, yet my file # exceeds your ability to contend with? We're not talking about millions of files here, but 200,000.
Thanks for the fiasco BH, and the waste of my time.
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As seen in our terms of service at: http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/info/terms.html
Unlimited Hosting Space. BlueHost.Com does not set arbitrary limits on the amount of disk space a Subscriber can use for the Subscriber's website, nor does BlueHost.Com charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided the Subscriber's use of storage complies with these Terms. Please note, however, that the BlueHost.Com service is designed to host websites . BlueHost.Com does NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use of the Services will result in the termination of Subscriber's account, with or without notice. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
| Blue Host Rating (2 out of 5) | |
April 24, 2009
Don Freeman
( don_freeman at comcast dot net ) | I would not recommend bluehost. Our forum on our website, which sees little to no use, got hacked by a spammer. This was a free program provided by bluehost to it's customers, PHP BB3. I was told after our forums got hacked by spambots, that I would have to find another webhost, no if's and's or but's about it. I removed the forums from our site, and they still refused to allow me to have my website hosted there. This is / was a simple website for a group of guys that play a golf game online versus one another. Nothing space consuming, high usage or anything of that sorts. Anyhow, I wouldn't recommend a website from these people if they were the last host available.
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It is the users responsibility to keep scripts and open source programs up to date. The site owner did not perform a number of critical security updates to the phpBB installation on the account and the account was compromised. The user was unable to fix the issues on the site in a timely manner and the account was refunded for the remainder of the hosting term paid for. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 3 to 6 months
| Blue Host Rating (0.5 out of 5) | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
April 8, 2009
Jason ( noemail(at)noemail(dot)com ) | Terrible. Shared web hosting was slow with frequent downtime. Canceling your account is a cat and mouse game and nearly impossible to find the correct link. After canceling my account, it took 5 months for them to stop try to charge my bank for hosting that I canceled awhile ago. I had to display the e-mail that I sent and the correspondence with a sales/support rep that had told me it was canceled. After threatening BBB contact if they did not cease and desist, they quit their e-mails and charges.
Be weary of these cheap hosts for they are just that.
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There are a number of independent review sites showing our availability and uptime. All hardware is subject to failure in any hosting environment and we do our best to mitigate any downtime as well as notify users of any unscheduled maintenance or downtime. Cancellation of your account is easy and can be done via the cpanel billing center or by calling our billing department. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 3 months
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March 4, 2009
VICTIM OF BLUEHOST.COM
( FAMCUE[at]HOTMAIL[dot]COM ) | REPORT YOUR COMPLAINTS OF BLUEHOST AT THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF : saltlakecity.bbb.org/
I OBTAIN A 36 MONTH TERM PLAN, PAID $900 (ALSO OBTAINED AROUND 50 DOMAINS) WITHIN LESS THEN TWO MONTHS THEY CLOSE MY ACCOUNT, I ASK WHY, THEY SAID VIOLATION TO THEIR TOS, SUCH TOS I NEVER RECEIVED, BUT ONCE READ, THEIR WAS NO VIOLATION.
I SAID SEND ME THE INFORMATION THAT VIOLATED SUCH TOS, THEY REFUSE.
I FILED MY COMPLAINT WITH THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU.
ONCE I SEE THE INTERNET, BLUEHOST.COM IS A COMPANY THAT HAS LEFT A TRACE OF VICTIMS OF THEIR SERVICES. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY, HOSTGATOR ID A GREAT CHOICE, GO DADDY, STARLOGIC, BUT NEVER EVER ATTEMPT BLUEHOST.COM THEY ARE THIEVES.
BLUEHOST.COM IS THE WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER DONE BUSINESS WITH, BEWARE OF BLUEHOST.COM
THE COMPLAINT TO THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU WILL TAKE YOU AROUND 15 MINUTES, FILE YOUR COMPLAINTS AGAINST BLUEHOST.COM, SAVE FUTURE VICTIMS! BLUEHOST.COM WILL BE GRADED AS -10
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While we allow an unlimited number of domains on one account there are limitations to the amount of resources a single user account has access to. If your account grows too large you may need to purchase a second hosting account and move some of your domains to it in order to have more hosting resources available to you. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: over 3 years
| Blue Host Rating (1.5 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
February 17, 2009
Rob McDonell
( arkangles at arkangles dot com ) | I've used BlueHost for years, and generally been satisfied until recently. Several times now they've deactivated my account without warning because of CPU usage by my database. The trouble is they give absolutely no warning and no second chance , they just shut you down completely. You can't even FTP in to see what happened or look at the logs or anything. Most unsatisfactory.
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The customers MYSQL queries were not optimized or using caching and were constantly causing performance issues on the server. The site was suspended until such database queries were fixed and then re-enabled. The customer resolved the issues and the site is still hosted on our system. -- bluehost.com representative | Time Hosted: 1 to 2 years
| Blue Host Rating (5 out of 5) | | | Features | | | Cost | | | Customer Relation | | | Control Panel | |
February 9, 2009
Tommie Allison ( -no email- ) | Love the tech support, friendly customer service and all the features in the Control panel. Cost is great, no problems in setup. Great hosting service.
74 out of 92 Top Web Hosting users found this webhosting review to be helpful!
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January 28, 2009
pragma5.net
( trident dot software at gmail dot com ) | They can disable hosting in any moment without any notice.
Just send a message:
"WEB HOSTING ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED
I don't know any other reasons than the one noted above, but the president has made a note that you need to find a different hosting company!!!
Is it a reliable company???
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The account was shut down for violating the terms of service and abusing our system. -- bluehost.com representative |
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