BlueHost

It is good and i am using it. Support is good too.

@richimages – thanks for posting your link, I’m considering using BlueHost and integrating the DM Albums plugin which I see you use on your site. The reaction times seemed a little slow flipping through the photos, but I’m not sure if that’s BlueHost or something else.

Right now I’m with 1and1 and it’s been terrible trying to upload full-res photos – it just doesn’t work with 1and1’s limitations on uploading.

My question: Have you ever had any problems at all with uploading FULL-RESOLUTION photos using DM Albums on BlueHost?

Thanks much!

I regularly (not routinely) upload fairly large media files, and the only practical limit I run into there is my own upstream bandwidth.

Again: if you have smart cache settings (I have Super Cache and the new W3 used on different sites, and Gzip / deflating works nicely) and also apply sound compacting and optimization (e.g. consolidating local CSS and JS files, minify where possible, and keep external loads / DNS lookups to a minimum) your bottleneck is mostly downstream. I know that’s obvious but I’ve had a few complaints from people who I later discovered were on… dial-up. Yeah.

Just keep your expectations on a realistic level: it’s still shared hosting, and if you’re running a massive CPU resource hog you are going to be throttled.

Well, this is unexpected…

This weekend (!) Bluehost unilaterally changed access policy to the control panel as well as changed all passwords. Without prior warning, they reset all passwords for all their hosting accounts, and emailed a new one via plain text (!) email (!) to the “administrative” email they have on file.

This is particularly lousy in the case of sites of organizations, where the “technical” admin and the “executive” admin are in separate hands – as is highly recommendable – because the unilaterally changed password won’t be available until… next Monday, when everybody is back in office.

How they can unilaterally just change passwords without any advance warning, without checking to ensure that the email address on file is current or appropriate, and in the middle of a weekend, is just beyond me.

The issue with the unexpectedly (no prior warning) control panel redirection is similarly boneheaded: while in principle, it is understandable that they want to enforce single session access (meaning, you can’t be simultaneously logged into several control panels of several sites) what they have done is to blindly redirect you to the “current” session site control panel, even when you type in a different domain name!

Say, you’re working on a site via https://www.example.com/cpanel and then move on to the next site, by typing in https://www.domain.com/cpanel (which is how you typically access control panels with shared hosters) you’re STILL redirected to the control panel of https://www.example.com – because typically people don’t bother logging out, that means that you could do all sorts of damage without realizing it. The only clue you have is looking at the title bar of the browser, where it (at the very end) gives the domain name. And this, of course, affects site admins who have more than one hosting account with Bluehost; if you have just one smaller site, you’re none the wiser.

Two great examples that show how Bluehost is applying a hamfisted, dumb approach to all its customers.

These unthinking “changes” have led me to completely reconsider Bluehost. Actually, to decide to leave them. Which is a pity, because their tech support has always been quick to respond, personable and highly skilled. It’s their upper management that sux big time.

To top it off: when I called about an hour ago to complain, I was essentially told to go stuff myself.

Well, there’s a simple way I can accommodate that: by letting my wallet do the talking. They’ve lost my business; next Monday I’m moving my sites over to a more professionally managed hosting company that at least knows to treat its customers with respect.

I now strongly recommend against hosting with Bluehost: since they’re apparently so hard pressed by incompetent amateur customers – forcing them to change passwords – and treating customers like they’re idiots, I’d rather be in better company.

Bye bye Bluehost, don’t let the draft of the revolving door of other leaving customers cause you to catch a bad cold.

Amateur site owners who also are the admin of their single site with little interest in security: please go and host your business with Bluehost.

Oh – and Bluehost: please don’t even bother to try and get in touch with me. You’re over and done with.

Never used them. Although I buy most of my domains through GoDaddy I host on Dreamhost. Not one problem so far. All my content is personal though so I would not have a business perspective on the company.

I recently signed up for my first blog using bluehost, I had another forum site using Mediatemple and they are great, just figured I would do the blog “on the cheap”.

Problem is I noticed that the TOS will not let me display my portfolio (nudes), of course I learned this AFTER I signed up.

Being that this weekend has been my first real drive in traffic, I am noticing things are REALLY slowing down, even in the admin and editing pages.

My question: I purchased a theme for my blog which entitled me to download to one site, if I change hosting will I lose all the theme work I have done, as well as content and will I be able to use my purchased theme?? I really don’t want to pay another 170 for the theme and have to re-populate. Thanks much in advance

I use Bluehost and the instalation worked fine and their rates are good, but about two weeks ago, my account got hacked. It took about a week of constant emails to get it sorted out 100%. It is working fine now, but I wouldn’t go through them again for any other blogs or hosting.

I have had Bluehost on and off for several years (along with a couple of other big hosts).

Something has happened at Bluehost during the last year and their service, performance and quality is down the drain. IThe shared box I am on has 2300 domains on it. This is about 10X as much as most other big players. Security issues, spontaneous changes in directory permissions (not my doing), unproffessional support (they seem to have outsourced this to noobs/inexperienced staff lately).

All in all – I do not suggest anyone go their way until they get their gig together again. They may be cheap but the hassle of moving your domains when leaving a sinking ship is not worth it. I have nothing good to say of them at this time of writing.

I recommend Dreamhost, you can install wordpress, joomla and many others CMS platform with just one click install.

I have Dreamhost, and i did not get any problem with dreamhost.

And also Dreamhost has 7/24 online chat service that you can ask whatever you want.

Bluehost has cpu quota so if your site gets busy don’t expect it to be running long.

I have Bluehost. My only concern is for SEO purposes. I know that WordPress is highly rated, but hosting through Bluehost appears to not carry the same PR. Are there any solutions to this?

I use godaddy deluxe to place my site and blog

I posted this concern in another forum but since I am self-hosting through BlueHost I think the folks here may be able to help also.

I added a WordPress site (https://www.garycjohnsonlaw.com/Wordpress) using my cpanel and added a “Subscribe” widget. I have gotten several messages that people cannot subscribe. I then linked my site to feedburner (https://feeds.feedburner.com/garycjohnsonlaw/LwFh) and asked people to try again. They can subscribe to the feedburner site but still not to my site. Is this a problem with self-hosting WordPress?

I am also new to WordPress forums. Is there a way you can email me any hints?

Thanks in advance and apologize if this is bad internet protocol.

tedchang, does that mean you do not actually HOST your site on BlueHost? I have thought of doing that but have not found any compelling reasons to do that. Why did you choose to host on a different server?

No idea why you have that issue, or what the issue exactly is because “people cannot subscribe” is not really a helpful description of symptoms; what I can tell you is that I know with 100% certainty that e.g. Subscribe2 (to subscribe to new entries/posts) and Subscribe to Comments (does what the name suggests) both work fine on BlueHost.

One thing you have to keep in mind though: BlueHost is very finicky about mass email, so if you have (say) more than 100 subscribers, you’d do well to contact BH tech support (see your cPanel for various contact methods) to relax the restriction on the number of allowed recipients. Also, if you have a large number of subscribers (say, over 1,000) you will have to stagger the mailing. E.g. in Subscribe2 and several other well-written “update notifier” plugins you can throttle emails by sending them in hourly batches. If your subscriptions are through the roof, may want to consider a different solution, via an external provider, e.g. Constant Contact (although that is for email newsletters, and not for update notifications).