Blue Host linux Web Hosting Review

Detailed Web Hosting Plan Review Company: Blue Host Website: http://www.bluehost.com Rating: 99% Disk Space: 200 GB Traffic: 2,000 GB More Features: 2500 Email accounts, PHP, custom PHP.ini Files, mySQL, CGI, SSI, Frontpage Extensions, CPanel, Stats, FTP, SSH, Host 6 Domains on 1 Account

Review Details

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General
BlueHost currently is one of the top-ranking hosting companies on the web marketplace today. They are well known for excellent customer service and that they can be reached live on their customer support desk via toll-free telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

BlueHost is the pioneer of multiple domain hosting. You can host up to 6 domains with different websites with just one hosting account (the main site itself + 5 add-on sites).

Price / Value
IMPORTANT Highlight of Bluehost
You can create up to 5 add-on domains yourself with each hosting account. - absolutely free! The reason I need to mention this is that I have noticed other hosts that are also advertising "more domains with 1 account" but these add-on domains aren't for free. You may need to pay an extra setup fee and sometimes an extra monthly fee for each add-on domain. With Blue Host, you can fully control your add-on domains directly yourself. You do not need to send in any request to BlueHost support. You manage your add-on domains directly in your web hosting control panel.

Create up to 50 mySQL Databases Even if do not have an idea what is a mySQL database or you do not plan to use it, it is still very important to have as many of them as possible. Many free scripts like them in Fantastico require a mySQL database to function properly.

Free private Whois service for your domain name
Every domain that is registered requires some contact information to be made available to the public. That's called the domain whois information. This allows others to contact the domain owner easily. However, mail spammers have collected the email adresses in the whois information and making use of them. Although this is illegal, it still happens and is hard to control. If you don't like to be spammed, you can make use of this free private whois service.

Control Panel
BlueHost is using our favourite Control Panel cPanel. This offers not only speed and user friendliness but also many helpful features.

The Fantastico Library is an add-on to the powerful cPanel. It allows you to install many popular scripts with just a few clicks. (e.g. blogs, content management tools, forums, polls, guestbook, shopping-carts, picture galleries, mailing lists, wikis, etc.)

Customer Support
Personally, customer support and reliability are always my first criteria for choosing a web host. This comes before price, size, traffic and all of the other points. The first thing I always do to test a web host is to mail them with a lot of questions - even before I buy a plan!

The BlueHost staff is well trained, they know their servers and you get your answers quick.

Summary
BlueHost is one of the best web hosting companies out there today. We use them often for our own projects, because of their outstanding features and well organized support.
BlueHost is a very good choice for all private and medium sized web-projects.

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