Bluehost is RUDE! Please recommend other hosting.

I use https://www.redrobinhosting.com
They rock!

I have noticed lately that Bluehost has become more and more dodgy. Much slower response times and down time. Maybe it’s time to seek greener pastures.

How about the other recommended hostings by www.ads-software.com? WordPress Hosting

Anyone has any experiences with these hosting companies aside from Bluehost? Thanks!

…and preferably a hosting company who wouldn’t shut down your website without warning in case you accidentally write “f*ck” in your post. (Wonder if “bloody <insert word here>” as cursing would go under Bluehost’s TOS radar?

WTF! What if that’s how I write?! F*ck!

LOL!

I don’t have experience with the others, but I’ve helped a lot of people with stuff on Bluehost accounts and I have no complaints. Unless something like the topic of this thread causes you to not be able to use them, I wouldn’t discount them. They have more features in their Cpanel than any other host I’ve seen…just one great feature is the unlimited FTP upload through Cpanel…no FTP client needed.

Disclaimer: I have no association with Bluehost, other than having an account with them.

EDIT: Ooops…sorry, I didn’t notice you were the originator of the post and do have a problem with the TOS.

I’ve had very good experience with LiquidWeb. I have a dedicated server with them for over 4 years and manage a few shared accounts for others. They’re a little more expensive, but from my experience they are good. I haven’t read their TOS in detail, so check that out first ??

I have both a free and paid account with Awardspace, with WordPress currently installed on both. Their Basic Hosting plan is only $3.99 per month, and in my experience, they’re one of the best Web hosts out there. I also really like their control panel. ^__^

The thing to watch out for with their free accounts, however, is their infamous “bad words list.” If you accidentally post something with one of those “bad words” (such as “PayPal” or other spam-like phrases), the page is automatically blocked. Which could possibly conflict with your “freedom of speech,” unfortunately.

OMG! There was already a post about Bluehost’s TOS. That Bluehost is from Utah and they expect their customers to have moral standards.

I am a Christian, but that’s too much. Even if you’re careful about your words in your blog hosted by Bluehost, if someone posts a comment containing “bad words” such as F*CK, then Bluehost would take your site down immediately.

I only used Bluehost because it was HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by www.ads-software.com plus I wanted to help out www.ads-software.com.

But this is too much! Aside from Bluehost’s increasingly degrading customer service, to think that you have to be too wary of your words lest it might be a “bad word” and have your site taken down…this isn’t just about freedom of speech anymore. Goodness, what the heck is a blog for? I hate to say this, but I noticed that Livejournal seems better now considering I’ve read some celebrity blogs with some mild “bad words”. I mean, I am religious but you do acquire the language patterns of the world today most especially internet talk.

Can someone please bring up this issue to the mods or to Matt. Should have met up with him when he visited for the Camp.

I love wordpress and now I want www.ads-software.com. I haven’t had the chance to use it but I know I’ll be supporting this site and platform. But I am so torn as to what hosting I should buy now. I don’t want to transfer my posts from free blogs into my www.ads-software.com blog just to have Bluehost shut my site down if in case I miss out on any of those “bad words”.

Bluehost doesn’t even have a LIST of “bad words” which you could use to compare it from.

Hell am I supposed to talk English just to avoid their bloody system? Bollocks! No pun intended. I am utterly pissed off right now. I just wasted two years of subscription.

Please remove Bluehost from the recommended hosts on www.ads-software.com since there have been a lot of complaints already and the number is rising fast starting with the discovery that Bluehost’s customer support is not supportive these days anymore.

I would really appreciate a good recommendation. Thank you.

This is getting ridiculous!

Apparently your site would be shut down too if Bluehost finds the word POKER in your blog or any hints of gambling.

OMG…I wasted 2 years of subscription on Bluehost…I wouldn’t mind wasting the money if I wasn’t confident that www.ads-software.com recommends Bluehost.

The service is one thing, but to shut down your blogs/sites if you type just one word that they deem inappropriate…that’s just too much.

Considering they could shut you down too even if it’s not in the TOS yet as what happened to the link I posted above.

…and why terminate a site immediately, when Bluehost sends you more than 10 email messages when your subscription or domain is about to expire but couldn’t even bother to warn you about what you might be doing wrong. Sure you can read the TOS, but like in the term about profanity, what are these BANNED WORDS?!

Can’t even say sh-t now.

I retired two years after being in Computing for 33 years, most of it in Support. So, I have a fairly good instinct for Trouble when it comes to Support provided by Web Hosting Companies.

I looked at about 100 hosting companies 2 1/2 years ago, rejecting most of them based on the number and kinds of negative comments I saw when Googling each. I tried hard to filter out the “unreasonable customer” complaints.

I then took a look at the web sites of the 5 or so that didn’t get rejected out of the 100 on my list. I settled on resellerzoom.com and hostingzoom.com, both owned by the same company in Texas. I was originally on resellerzoom.com, and held off on hostingzoom.com’s Clustered Redundancy (failover) service until they got the bugs out. But I have recently switched there, hosting about 30 web sites on a single $9.95 per month account. I had to play with .htaccess to get beyond the advertised 20 web sites, but even that was documented in their Support Forums. All 30 sites are fully hosted — none of the ugliness of Redirection.

Finally, the “Zoom company” was bought out about a month ago. But, by the neighbour of the previous owner, who is part of the deal, to stay on as President indefinitely.

There was talk of GoDaddy above. Didn’t they get bought out? I just transferred someone off another host that apparently bought out GoDaddy’s customers. And they had the worst FTP access I’ve ever seen. You had to use their web-based FTP client, and it didn’t set the security bits right on files it transferred to my Vista machine, making the files totally invisible to anything but a hard drive diagnostic tool. I ended up using a USB memory stick (which uses FAT32 and no security bits) to retrieve files.

I should also mention that, given the talk of language above, that you tend to be ignored if you swear at Zoom’s support people. They also tend to ignore posts in their Support forum that contain any kind of swearing/foul language.

If you want to do your own research, then a good place to start is here:

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/

@figaro – Thanks, but I would really appreciate hosting experience with wordpress.

@adiant – Thanks for the insight but what would you recommend as hosting? Also, I was only making my points about “bad words”. I don’t usually talk like that only when I’ve reached my limit, I think.

mikokagome04 – Thanks, but really? The word “Paypal” would get you banned?

@figaro – Thanks, but I would really appreciate hosting experience with wordpress.

why?

a host is a host — whether or not you use wordpress or not.

Here’s the scoop — shared hosts are not going to differentiate between how they treat customer A who is running solely wordpress and customer B who is running static html.

and IF there were to be a differentiation, the favor would probably go to the customer B.

why?

1. both are on shared hosting aka no hand holding allowed.
&
2. very few hosts are not inclined to involve themselves in 3rd party apps aka wordpress, while even a fledgling tech can understand plain old HTML.

re 1: you get what you pay for. I work for a host. We have clients where we do ALL the technical wordpress work for them. (thats one of my tasks) — I even do their upgrades. Theyre also not on shared hosting — theyre leasing servers.

If youre looking for a very good host, with excellent support that is infrequently needed, I recommend a small orange. I no longer use any shared hosting, but if I were to go back to it — thats where I would return to. In 10 plus years with some sort of domain on the web, theyre the best Ive found.

@whooami – Which hosting do you work for? As for wordpress, as I’ve said, the only reason I went with Bluehost (aside from the “features”) was because I wanted to help out www.ads-software.com and it’s in the list of hosts recommended by wordpress.

Also, I’m a bit concerned about hosting who will take down your site if you accidentally use one of their “banned words”…just found out that Bluehost will take down your site without warning if there’s a single word of f*ck in your whole site even if it’s from user comments and Bluehost has no list of words that shouldn’t be used in your site while you’re hosted with them. Apparently the word “poker” would get your site taken down too. Refer to previous posts.

Thanks for the recommendation whooami. That’s 2 people suggesting a small orange. I’ll check it out.

correction on my typo above:

… very few hosts are inclined …

Which hosting do you work for?

I dont tell people online who i work for. I refuse to be dooced either by accident or otherwise. So other than general insights .. my lips are sealed. No talking about work for me. ??

I can tell you who I dont work for though — bluehost, godaddy, aso, etc.. ??

@wmvyr – I would recommend https://www.hostingzoom.com/web/web-hosting.html for most people, at $8.95 a month pre-paid for a year for Failover Shared Hosting, to save $1 a month and avoid the Setup fee. Use their 30 day money-back guarantee to eliminate the fear of being locked in for a year.

They had Fantastico updated in less than a week (I only checked after a week and it was already there) for WordPress Version 2.7. And I have two production WordPress sites running for a client, and three other test WordPress sites there, too.