BlueHost Review (2020) : Exclusive Guide

As the internet is evolving with the boom of the technology, many and the many people are turning towards being present on the internet. Not just the people that are by any chance, connected to the internet but even the offline people are getting online as well.So with this ever-high demand of the internet, websites business is all-time high.And to meet with this, web hosting is the only solution to get their online presence going so that is why, I’m doing this article; BlueHost Review 2019

Thousand (and even million) of the web hosting companies are operating throughout the world, claiming all to be very-effective and sustaining the best providing web hosting services.

But who is real effective…?

Just few.

Yeah, only few of the web hosting companies that are really capable of providing the real web hosting services.

And… today, we are going to cover one of the capable web hosting company right over here. 🙂

BlueHost Review 2019

Yeah, you heard (basically read) it right.

We are going to tear apart BlueHost  a.k.a review it from the top to bottom, and from right to left or possibly from left to right. 🙂

And without the outline of the review process, a review is nothing but the plain text.

Because you are not aware of what has to be discussed beforehand, and what you are up for expecting out the blog post.

Outline of Bluehost Review 2020

So, here is the outline of this beautiful BlueHost Review. 🙂

• First of first, history of BlueHost?
• What is BlueHost?
• When it came into the world?
• Who is the real owner of BlueHost?
• Size of the BlueHost?
• Winning the Awards
• The business execution
• Price
• Money-back guarantee
• Data centers’ locations
• CPU throttling, check it!
• Uptime check
• Speed test
• Support level
• BlueHost Contacts
• External reviews from the users/customers
• Your say?

First of first, history of BlueHost?

The main page of BlueHost at the moment.

Before I start, do you know that we have listed Bluehost already in our Best WordPress Hosting Segment? Without checking out on the history and going right to the core of this review of the BlueHost, it is the total wrong.

Totally wrong.

So, we need some historical check actually checked for BlueHost.

Start then.

What is BlueHost?

BlueHost is of course, the web hosting providing company that is in business since long. And, is among the world’s top 10 best web hosting companies.

When it came into the world?

That when it emerged into the world.

Well, it was Matt Heaton who went on to produce the web hosting company named BlueHost in year 2003.

Who is the real owner of BlueHost?

Until 2010 Matt Heaton was the founder and then he sold the company to “EIG” Endurance International Group and was promoted as CEO where he stepped down from the office in year 2011.

Size of the BlueHost?

Well… Sizer matters, no? 🙂 But here we are to know the size of BlueHost.

By the way, BlueHost has a big wide facility for its in-house servers which is having the area of 50,000 square feet covered in Provo, Utah, U.S.A and employs around 700 folks to operate its all of the business.

And servicing over 2 million of the websites! That is huge, isn’t it?

Winning the awards!

BlueHost is in the business since 2003, and is among top 10 web hosting providing companies. So, how can it skip from not getting the awards?

And here comes one from PCMag…

PCMag awards BlueHost as the winner of Business Choice Award 2018 under the category of “Web Hosting.”

Worth the winning for BlueHost, right?

Not just this but BlueHost does hold so many awesome awards and winning spots.

The business execution

We now need to know the exact details about the BlueHost’s business.

Why?
Because that is the core of the thing we want to know out of this beautiful BlueHost review. 🙂

So, can we start now?

Yes?

Then alright. Let’s do it.

Price

Always out of the review, the price is the one and the best place to cover.

But before going deep down within the pricing structure, we first got to know how the BlueHost is classifying this part using all of the plans and the packages.

So please, allow me to name the packages here.

• Shared Hosting
• VPS Hosting
• Dedicated Hosting
• Cloud Hosting
• Shared WordPress Hosting
• WordPress Pro
• eCommerce Hosting
• Domains

Now is the time to go into the big details.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is for the starters.

For those folks that are just about to get their first websites up into the world of the internet.

And BlueHost offers Shared hosting plans in four different ways;

• Basic
• Plus
• Choice Plus
• Business Pro

Basic Plan

Basic plan is definitely the “Basic” shared hosting offered by BlueHost.

And the Basic plan includes;

What is the price then?

The price structure is based upon the contract. For the higher duration, you are set to pay less per month.

Plus Plan

Plus is the second plan in the line of the BlueHost Shared package.

It is best of the plan for the people starting with multiple websites altogether in the single go.

Let’s check some details about the Plus plan.

The precise details of the Plus plan are;

Where is the price of the Plus plan? 🙂

It is right here. So right here.

Choice Plus

Choice Plus is the higher one in the shared web hosting package for some advanced-kinda folks.

And the details included;

For the pricing, it is definitely in the good range!

Business Pro

You up for the business?

And want many of the good features that you can avail from at least VPS hosting?

Then this shared hosting plan is really for you!

And let me get the features list up here for you! 🙂

And what features it (the plan) is the owner of;

And the price?

VPS Hosting

After the shared web hosting from the BlueHost, it definitely is the turn of VPS Hosting and I am so ready to go into all of its details… and just for you! 🙂

Let’s go with me then.

Well, VPS Hosting package contains three plans with difference in the price and the features.

To name them, they are;

• Standard
• Enhanced
• Ultimate

Standard

Standard is the first plan from the package of VPS Hosting that is very ready to get your good sized of the website to serve.

And it contains the features which are;

What about the pricing of the Standard VPS plan?

It is good, and pretty affordable.

Enhanced

Middle plan!

The middle plan that is double of the size in the features but just sightliest expensive from the first VPS plan, Standard.

So, get it!

Check the features, please;

Against the very-affordable price range;

Ultimate

Last plan in the line of VPS hosting.

And the highest-receiver of the VPS features that you will get to really boost your websites, and without going to the dedicated server’s lineup.

Allow me to list the features for you;

Price wise; it is good!

See this for yourself.

Dedicated Hosting

It is almost the last and the end physical servers lineup offered not just by BlueHost but by almost everyone.

This hosting package (dedicated hosting) is the best of the great if you can afford.

And yeah, you can do. 🙂

So what it really contains, three dedicated plans with price differentials according to the requirements you seek for yourself;

• Standard
• Enhanced
• Premium

Standard

Standard is the first of the plan out in the list of BlueHost dedicated hosting package.

And is the least expensive of course due to being the first. 🙂

The features that it holds in hand;

And that too against the very affordable price.

Enhanced

The second of the plan in the line of BlueHost dedicated hosting package, and is called “Enhanced dedicated plan” and is recommended to go.

And comes with these much of the features;

What is the price?

Pretty not-so expensive!

Premium

Last in the dedicated hosting package but really not that expensive if you hit for the longer duration.

Yeah, not really much expensive.

And what features this plan contains? Of course, here is the list!

Yes, not so expensive. And here is the price structure for you to review.

Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is the new emergence into the world of the web hosting for sure.

The convenience it has brought to us, is totally awesome and the awfully useful!

BlueHost offers the cloud hosting as fully managed, and scaling where the BlueHost is responsible to take on every tasks and issues you are up with as well as you can increase the size of the CPU and the RAM anytime you want, and without hitting any sort of the downtime.

And cloud hosting from BlueHost comes with three different plans for you;

• Starter
• Performance
• Business Pro

Let’s go into each and every single details of the cloud plans.

Starter

Checked that?

Starter is not really the starter with the features but it is for the price wise;

Wondering about the price? You sure do! 🙂

Pretty much inexpensive, right?!

Performance

This Performance plan of the cloud hosting is the most recommended plan by BlueHost.

And it is going to really get you going to host many websites and it will handle them all with so much ease due to double of the features.

Features’ list;

What makes the price of the Performance plan then?

Business Pro

That means Business on the cloud!

Last and the highest cloud hosting plan for you with some awesome size of the features.

Where is the price of Business Pro cloud hosting?

It is right here, my fella’! 🙂

That sums up the cloud hosting package offered by BlueHost!

Note: And the real thing is, to acquire any of the cloud hosting package you got to subscribe for at least 12-months in advance.

Shared WordPress Hosting

There are almost few TO no web hosting providing company who do not have the separate web hosting plan to serve the WordPress-backed websites.

So how come BlueHost can lag behind this race?

BlueHost does have the WordPress package, and to assist the starter-typed of the WordPress sites with its shared WordPress hosting.

The all three WordPress plans are really so much affordable.

You cannot claim the higher price they could be charging from you.

So… Let’s check the shared WordPress hosting package from BlueHost.

And as I said earlier, the package owns three great plans for you!

• Basic
• Plus
• Choice Plus

Basic

First plan and so inexpensive for you to choose for your just-started type of the website!

And the features?

For the price of?

Plus

Plus plan with some plus features to enjoy.

Price wise, it is totally affordable!

Choice Plus

The last of the Shared WordPress Hosting with the name of Choice Plus.

The features that it has for you;

Affordable. Really affordable price.

WordPress Pro

The managed hosting lineup that is only to support WordPress with higher-features to go for your commercial WordPress websites, and is called WordPress Pro.

It is going to go with three plans, which are by the name of;

• Build
• Grow
• Scale

Build

Wanting to start a professional website and with the WordPress?

Get the good features in the affordable range with WordPress Pro’s “Build” plan.

And the price for the “Build” plan is totally affordable for ya!

Grow

And Grow is for the growing WordPress-backed websites that are established and are set to pretty much growing everyday.

Features list the “Grow” plan holds;

Price is very affordable I must say.

Scale

Especially designed for the good-sized eCommerce websites that are running with the platform of the WordPress due to the good features!

What is the price of the “Scale” plan then?

Pretty affordable despite of having the highest of the plan in the line of WordPress pro’s package.

eCommerce Hosting

eCommerce hosting from BlueHost is specifically designed for the eCommerce websites to enjoy the great and the best line of the features with the affordable range of the prices.

And first thing first, the eCommerce sites that are using WooCommerce(the tool only usable with the WordPress platform) are only served with this eCommerce hosting.

BlueHost has then three different plans to introduce;

• Starter
• Plus
• Pro

Starter

First it lists the “Starter” as the first eCommerce hosting plan.

Price?

Oh… That is really and incredibly lower.

Plus

 Being the second of the eCommerce hosting plan, “Plus” is really the plus in terms of the features.

Price? Where is the price?

Well, it is right here for you.

Pro

“Pro” is the professional. And is for the professional eCommerce websites that are big enough.

For the price?

Domains

BlueHost is not all about just selling the web hosting but does happily sell the domains too.

They are up to selling all the general, common and the popular TLDs (top-level domains) starting from the extensions of .com to .club to .space.

The list of all of the TLDs they are ready to sell you;

Try from US$ 8.99 per year to high-priced TLD extensions of your very own choice.

Payment Methods

Payment methods do hold only two options to buy anything off the BlueHost.

And you either pay through credit card OR just by PayPal.

• Pay by credit card
• Pay with PayPal

So… Pay by Credit Card

You got Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express.

Well, these are the credit cards name and nothing else. 🙂

If you have any one of them, you are so ready to buy the BlueHost service(s).

Pay with PayPal

This option and the payment method is the most-popular around the globe.

And many people just turn off the thought or the sense of buying off of the site when they see no PayPal option.

No PayPal is NO SELL in most cases.

So, thank goodness BlueHost has it!

Money-back guarantee

The money-back guarantee of BlueHost is definitely here, and they have the limitations and restrictions too.

You can easily ask for the refund within the 30-days time period from the time of subscribing.

But… This money-back guarantee is definitely NOT for all of the products and the add-ons and it only applies on the web hosting AND NOT on domains, and etc.

Read the whole of the guarantee: 30-Day Hosting Money-back Guarantee

Data centers locations

We need data.

And we need centers. Oh actually to locate where are the data centers that are powering our websites hosted and managed by the BlueHost.

And for our future websites that we are going to get and hosted by the BlueHost after reading this detailed BlueHost review, nope? 🙂

So the one biggest in the size data center is located right into Provo, Utah, U.S.A.!

CPU throttling OR CPU protection, check it!

It is a system introduced by the BlueHost to protect the server’s CPU and especially for the shared servers.

What happens in the situation that an user, if causing an issue with the server and is slowing down the server’s performance, BlueHost takes the action to suspend that user’s account until the things ge back to normal.

Read more about it: CPU Performance

Uptime check for Bluehost

Let’s do the uptime test for Bluehost

So far 100 percent uptime witnessed!

Speed test for Bluehost

Speed test results conducted on Pingdom and tested through different server locations.

Server location: Asia – Japan – Tokyo

Server location: Europe – Germany – Frankfurt

Server location: Europe – United Kingdom – London

Server location: North America – United States – Washington D.C.

Server location: North America – USA – San Francisco

Server location: Pacific – Australia – Sydney

Server location: South America – Brazil – Sao Paulo

The speed from North America and Europeis relatively better but hitting to the highest mark in Asiaand Pacificdespite of being an optimized and low-sized website.

The another speed test from GTMetrix.com

The speed test conducted on GTMetrix.com is brilliantly great as you can see!

Support level

Chat… Pretty fast!

I hopped over the chat and it showed the wait time to 5 minutes but was instantly connected to the chat agent.

Tickets… Get over this tickets page to create different type of sales to support related tickets.

Phone support… It is always helpful… and fast.

And BlueHost got several departments-assigned telephone numbers.

Sales

• General Sales Questions = +1 (855) 803-8158
• New Businesses= +1 (855) 803-8155
• New Hosting Customers = +1 (855) 803-8156                                 
• Personal Websites and Blogs = +1 (855) 803-8157
• Website Speed and Performance= +1 (844) 213-7841
• Traffic Generation= +1 (844) 213-7843
• Web Security = +1 (844) 213-7844
• Website Services and Solutions = +1 (844) 213-7845

Technical support

• General Support Questions = +1 844-460-5814
• VPS and Dedicated Hosting = +1 855-503-0450
• WordPress Assistance = +1 844-213-7846

Account Management…

• General Billing Questions*
  • 844-460-5821                                                                  
  • *Available Mon – Fri 6am – 10pm, Sat 8am – 5pm MT
• Terms of Service*
  • 844-460-5820                                                                  
  • *Phones: Mon – Fri 6am – 10pm MT
  • Chat: Mon – Thu Anytime, Fri 12am – 10pm,
  • Sat – Sun 8am – 5pm and 10pm – 12am MT

Account Verifications Support*

• 844-460-5819                                                                  
• *Mon – Fri 8am – 9pm, Sat 9am – 5pm MT

Renewals*

• 844-460-5816                                                                  
• *Open 24/7

Account Cancellation*

• 844-460-5817                                                                  
• *Mon – Fri 7am – 6pm MT

Add-on Product Cancellation*

• 844-460-5818                                                                  
• *Mon – Fri 7am – 6pm MT

BlueHost Contacts

And we are here to get some address sorted out…!

Company address…

• BlueHost –Endurance International Group
• 10 Corporate Drive, Suite #300
• Burlington, MA 01803
• The U.S.A.

External reviews from the users/customers

Mix reviews, and it happens.

Because of not everyone could turn to be happy nor sad.

So… we can definitely expect the mix reviews.

Check it out all: BlueHost Reviews by 100 Users & Expert Opinion – Jan 2019

Your say & Conclusion on Bluehost Review 2020

Now the ending part is just right here….

BlueHost is definitely in the business from long, and has served so many people that are happily using her service.

I tried to discuss in detail about how does Bluehost works along with it’s features, specifications and plan comparison.s

Get the full advantage out of this review and I am so hopeful you are gonna get the web hosting service from BlueHost! 🙂

And please… share all your thoughts, reviews, and feedback about this detailed BlueHost review!

(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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