Bluehost Web Hosting Review

Bluehost is very unique in their hosting plan because they have only one hosting plan. They use one plan fits all strategy. Whether you are a business owner or hobbyist blogger you host in just one plan. In their plan, they offer unlimited storage and bandwidth. Also subscribers are allowed to host unlimited domains in just 1 account. Well the hosting feature is pretty good because by that you can host as many website as you wish in just 1 account unlike some other hosting companies which only allow 1 domain per hosting account. Also they allow 100 MySQL databases, 2,500 POP3 email accounts and 1,000 FTP accounts.

For your information, Bluehost web hosting supports PHP5, Perl5, Python, Ruby, custom PHP.INI files, MySQL, PostgreSQL flash abd etc.

Script Security -- The user group permissions running for an individual script will reveal how secure that particular server really is. Ideally, you want your server to use user based permissions to keep hacking attempts to a minimum. Bluehost's scripts run using user based permissions, which means your scripts and files are as secure as Linux itself.

SSH Access -- Secure Shell (SSH) is a command line level of access to the server. It's uses stretch past the standard control panel, and allow a special level of access to databases, Python interpreters, and much much more. This extra level of access makes many hosts skittish, and most won't take the extra precautions necessary to offer the service. Bluehost offers SSH free of charge on all accounts.

Dedicated IP -- Being able to lease a dedicated server and thus a dedicated IP address has many benefits to the small business client. First of all, search engines monitor the number of domains that share the same IP address. Therefore, a client who uses a shared hosting service will timeshare the IP with many other customers on the same server. Because the rankings that the search engines assign to a website and/or webpage also depends on the IP address, it is better to have a dedicated IP whenever possible. Furthermore, website functions such as remote databasing, payment processing, and many other functions will perform better on a dedicated server. Lastly, if you are to use eCommerce applications on your website and require Private SSL, you will need a Dedicated IP address. Privat SSL can only be installed on a dedicated server. Other web hosting companies charge upwards of $179 per month for a dedicated server service. However, a Dedicated IP from Bluehost is just $30/year.

Backup & Restore -- Your data is the one thing that's specific to you on the internet. It's value can be incalculable, and losing any portion can be catastrophic. However, most web hosts will actually charge you to restore your own data, whether or not it's your fault the data was lost in the first place. This provides an extra dime, but is absolutely ridiculous from our principled standpoint. Bluehost does not charge any fee for restoring backups. What's more, backups are taken and kept daily, weekly, and monthly for maximum protection against data loss.

Bluehost offers almost everything one would like to have in a Linux web host: cPanel(probably the best control panel), Very high level of customization for PHP(.htaccess, Custom PHP.INI Files) etc. They also allow Shell Access(SSH) which will help the advanced users. MySQL databases, subdomains etc. are available in large numbers, and you can host unlimited number of domains in one account.

Bluehost also have top quality infrastructure and wide range of protection mechanisms including DDOS protection and power backup services.

Web hosting is a technology service which dependent on hundred of other things like internet connections, power supply, data center HVAC, human monitoring and etc. Therefore it will not be possible to get 100% uptime because failures do happen. What is important is how often failures happen and how soon everything can get back in normal after failure. 99.5% is what Bluehost has achieved so far in this year. 99.5% means they are only down for 0.5% of the time along the years. This is quite an impressive results and I consider Bluehost is very reliable.

Bluehost give customers a number of choices when it comes to technical support. Firstly, there is the superb on-line help-center, where you can browse or search a large knowledgebase of articles on a diverse range of subjects; this is often the quickest and easiest way to solve a problem. The help-center also provides the ability to open a support ticket directly to Bluehost support staff. We opened a number of support tickets during our test period and found the replies to be both prompt and accurate.

For those that prefer receiving their technical support from a 'real live human', Bluehost provide a 24 hour / 7 day technical support phone number. Bluehost also supply a separate technical support number for those customers outside of the United States.

Bluehost offers shared web hosting at a very affordable price point. The monthly cost for a web hosting plan is $6.95 per month if you sign up for a 24 month or 36 month plan. You can also sign up for shorter durations, however the plan's monthly price does increase a bit. For the numerous features and benefits that Bluehost offers, this price is right on and you should be extremely happy with the services.

In term of website scripts, they have have rather comprehensive scripts. One of the highlight is the free drag and drop site builder. With this scripting you can easily build a website. You can access this features under software and services in Bluehost cpanel. It is named Page Wizard Site Builder. What you need to do is to select a template and customize it with your products and information. Also Fantastico is enabled that there are tons of scripts and software inside including blogging software, forum software, e commerce features and etc. E commerce features like shopping carts is something necessary if you are building an internet store. You can access all of these in their free hosting demo available in their website. Just goto their home page and then features page and you will see the hosting demo at the top right of the page.

Everyone is asking for bluehost coupon. And i just wasted 30 minutes searching through google and yahoo, and clicks almost all the bluehost coupon ads i seen at search engines. Just hope to look for a bluehost coupon code.

Fact No. 1 : Bluehost coupons doesn't exist
Fact No. 2 : Bluehost hosting not using coupon when sign up their hosting plan.
Fact No. 3 : There is no field to enter the coupon code when sign up.
Fact No. 4 : 12 month sign up price $7.95
Fact No. 5 : 24 month sign up price $7.95 $6.95 (a total of $24 in discount)

The only discount/rebate/offer/coupon that you have is the $24 saving when you sign up bluehost for 24 months terms. If you sign up the12 months plan, you will not getting any discount. The price will be $7.95, and will be billed annually at this price. For saving, sign up the 24 months plan.