www.bluehost.com

Full Plan Features

General Information: BlueHost has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Currently only one hosting package availabe. This package includes unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. Their services are based around a single, feature packed web hosting plan they call their professional web hosting package. With full support for advanced scripting, database and multimedia the professional web hosting package offers great flexibility.

Pricing: The features BlueHost provides seem pretty standard. Pricing varies depending how long you sign up for:
3 Months: $9.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)

6 Months: $8.95/month + $30.00 Setup + Domain ($10.00 if purchased from BlueHost)

12 Months: $7.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included)

24 Months: $6.95/month (no setup fee, free domain included).

Ignoring the minimum contract length, pricing is quite competitive.

Database Support: They offer 100 MySQL databases and 100 PostgreSQL databases. If you happen to have scripts using Postgre, Bluehost is a very good choice.

Domain Support: You could host unlimited websites in one account. Also unlimited: add-on domains, parked domains and subdomains.

Control Panel: Bluehost chooses cPanel as user control panel. cPanel is extremely feature rich as well as includes an easy-to-use web based interface (GUI). And with Fantastico, you could install your favorite CMS system (such as mambo, joomla, typo3, phpnuke) as well as blogs (e.g. Nucleus, Textpattern, b2evolution, Geeklog, Wordpress) in just one click. It is possible to use a demo and experience the panel before paying any money.

Support: The support team of BlueHost often responses support tickets in less than 30 minutes. Only a little fraction of tickets require a whole day to response. Their support department offer toll-free number.
A test shows the support is nice enough, and keep to know what they are talking about. The representative wasn’t reading from a prompt (no delay with answers).

Uptime: Although they do not formally offer an Uptime guarantee, the average uptime of bluehost servers according to Netcraft is above 99.6%.

Web Statistics: BlueHost provides three log file analyzers. Log file analyzer can tell you how many unique visitors per day, how often search engine bots visit you, what keyword phrases the visitors use to find your site and much much more. Among these analyzer tools, we believe Awstats is most accurate in distinguishing between human visitors and search engine bots.

Special Offers: A free domain if paid anually. The rate for a two-year purchase is $6.95/mo.

Conclusion: All and all, BlueHost seems like a good web host. The company certainly has their act together and by all means can be labelled as a top quality web host with great features and support. BlueHost is a good web host that provides a good hosting experience with a top-of-the-line control panel as well as helpful support for a reasonable price.

Current Total Rating: 95%