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BlueHost Hosting Review
Well I'm nearing up on the 6th month mark since I made the switch to BlueHost as my Hosting Solution. I have talked about this about in a previous publication here my partner loves bluehost. I figured 6 months was a great time to talk about uptime and my experiences with the support.
I'm not the 'techie' in our little partnership. I deal with the money, the sales calls, and the content. Ed does just about everything else and that includes dealing with our servers. I'm the reason we switched the sites we had that weren't on our dedicated servers to blue host and some other providers. Ed wanted the range of IP addresses that is tough to get on your own dedicated boxes. I also wanted a play ground for the Ruby On Rails apps Ed's been building lately. BlueHost fit the bill.
So from Site5 to BlueHost we went. I have to say we are still pleased and I haven't had to even deal with support for any problems. Ed did however talk to them about changing some of my settings and it happened in less than 5 minutes.
We are running membership sites, blogs, scripts, and even a rails app or two over at BlueHost and we haven't had a single issue yet.
So the six month review stands. If you don't need a reseller account I haven't found anything better. Here is the direct link to BlueHost.
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FEATURES INCLUDED / ALL ACCOUNTS INCLUDED
Disk Storage (NOW MORE!) 300 GB
Host UNLIMITED Domains (WOW!)
Free Drag and Drop Site Builder (NEW!)
Free Domain Name
Support International Domain Names
POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support 2,500
IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support 2,500
2 Different Web Based Email Solutions
Forwarding Email Accounts Unlimited
Email Autoresponder Unlimited
Gigs of Site Transfer (NOW MORE!) 3,000 GB/mo
Add-on Domains Unlimited
Parked Domains Unlimited
Subdomains Unlimited
Additional FTP Accounts 1,000
MySQL Databases 50
PostgreSQL Databases 50
CGI-BIN
CGI Library
Server Side Includes
Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions
Account "Control Panel"
FTP Access
Shell Access (SSH)
Override .htaccess Support
Anonymous FTP
Webmail (Browser Based Email)
Log Files + Site Stats
Customizable Error Pages
Web File Manager
Custom Cronjobs
Hotlink Protection
Spam Assassin Protection
Fantastico Script Support
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CGI / DATABASES INCLUDED:
PHP Version 4 or 5 (Your Choice)
Perl 5
Python
Ruby / Ruby On Rails (NEW!!)
Support For Custom PHP.INI Files
MySQL 5 Database Server
PostgreSQL Database Server
Javascript/ DHTML
Flash / Shockwave
FREE WEBSITE PLUG-IN SCRIPTS INCLUDED:
Message Forum (PHPBB and More)
Form-mail Scripts
PHP Nuke / Post Nuke
Guestbook (Multiple Options)
Live Chat Software
Web Blogs / Wordpress / b2evolution
Mailing Lists
Image Galleries / Coppermine (More!)
Poll and Survey Software
Web Auction Software
Moodle
Tikiwiki
Mambo and Joomla
phpForm Generator
Help Center/Support Ticket
Many, Many Others...
E-COMMERCE FEATURES INCLUDED
SSL Secure Server
OS Commerce Shopping Cart
Agora Shopping Cart
Cube Cart Shopping Cart
Zen Cart Shopping Cart
Free Generated Certificate
Password Protected Directories
OpenPGP / GPG Encryption
MULTIMEDIA FEATURES INCLUDED:
Supports Streaming Video
Supports Streaming Audio
Real Audio & Video Support
Flash Support
Macromedia Shockwave
MIDI File Support
Add Own MIME Types
WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY INCLUDED:
Quad Processor Performance Servers
Denial of Service Protection (DDOS)
UPS Power Backup
Diesel Generator Backup Power
Customized Apache Web Server
24/7 Network Monitoring
Storage Backups*
OC-48 Backbone Connection
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Blue Host Adds New Service - Simple Scripts
free to use for all current and new accounts and does many fun and important tasks that
were previously difficult to do.
SimpleScripts is an automated script installer just like Fantastico (Also available in our
control panel). You simply click on the link to SimpleScripts and the rest is up to you.
You can add and remove different web based applications with the click of a button and
try out all the new FREE software that is now available for you. Another important benefit
of SimpleScripts is we have included many popular scripts that aren't currently available
in Fantastico such as Roundcube webmail client, Drupal, Dada mail (Mailing list software),
PHPBB 3, and more. Thousands of different scripts work on Bluehost, but many users can't
take advantage of that because it requires a difficult manual install. We hope to alleviate
that with SimpleScripts. In addition to new scripts that SimpleScripts offers we encourage
all our current users to install with SimpleScripts before Fantastico if the script is available
in both places. We ask you to do this because SimpleScripts offers far newer versions of
software than Fantastico and is updated MUCH faster with new versions. This is EXTREMELY
important to mitigate security risks over time. This lowers our support incidents, and gives
you a better and more secure software to environment to work in!
SimpleScripts doesn't just install software. It will allow you to remove software packages
that were installed with it, as well as maintain your installs with the newest versions of the
software. Once you install with SimpleScripts you can rest assured that maintaining those
packages will be easy and secure in the future.
We are constantly adding new software packages to SimpleScripts, so if there is something
that you want to see added to the SimpleScripts installer please let our support department
know and we will try to add the most requested software packages.
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I've had Bluehost for about 3 months now, so far I really like them.
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I'm a big Blue Host fan. I made the switch from Site5 and Hostgator for my shared server sites quite some time ago. I also have a Blue Host site that I use to play with Ruby On Rails applications.
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