Bluehost Review 2014
Bluehost: A Bit of History
Marketed as a web hosting solution for small and medium websites, BlueHost is one of the most popular names in hosting industry. The company was started by Matt Heaton who started his first computer hardware business at age of 21. Today, BlueHost stands as one of the largest shared hosting providers in the industry.
In 2011, Endurance International Group bought out Bluehost, adding the company to its stable of more than 50 hosting brands, which includes HostGator.com, iPage and Domain.com After eight years as CEO, Heaton stepped down in June 2011, admitting he was a “techie distracted by shiny new things”. He assigned himself to work as a system architect within the company so he could concentrate on the design and technical structure of the hosting platform. COO Dan Handy took over as CEO at the Utah-based company.
Bluehost copped some flak in 2009 for censoring users affiliated with foreign countries. A Newsweek article claimed that Belarus-born Washington DC lawyer Yaraslau Kryvoi received a notice from his web host that the blog he administered for his local Belarussian American Association chapter would be suspended and he had 10 days to remove his content. Bluehost had mistakenly thought that Kryvoi was a citizen of a country of the US government’s list of rogue states.
You can tell Bluehost was founded by a true geek – the company runs its own datacenter and builds its own servers. It has its own nationwide (North America) fiber network and builds it own custom linux kernel. Bluehost’s facilities also include its 50,000 square foot headquarters with two secondary data center locations totalling more than 20,000 square feet of data center space, including UPS power, diesel generators and multiple 10GB fiber connections to locations all over the world.
Cost
Bluehost offers shared hosting from $7.99 a month ($4.95 on sale) and includes:
Unlimited domain hosting
Unlimited GB hosting space
Unlimited GB file transfer
Unlimited email accounts
Free domain (for 12 months)
Free site builder with templates
Secure shell, SSL, FTP, Statistics
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
$100 Google advertising offer
There are three Dedicated Hosting plans:
A one-time discount of $75, $100, or $125 will automatically be applied to your order, regardless of whether you choose a 1, 3, 6 or 12 month plan.
Each plan includes:
- Instant provisioning so you can use your site straight away
- Root access
- An enhanced cPanel
- Dedicated support
- Mirrored storage
- Bundled resources
- 30-day money back guarantee
There are four VPS Hosting plans:
Each plan includes:
- 1 domain
- 24/7 Support
- An enhanced cPanel
- Cloud Technology
- 30-day money back guarantee
Features
- Unlimited Disk Storage
- Unlimited Domain Hosting
- Free Domain Name (One Year)
- Free Drag and Drop Site Builder
- Support International Domain Names
- Unlimited GB of Site Transfer
- Addon Domain
- FTP Access
- FTP Access
- Web File Manager
- Secure Shell (SSH) Access
- Server Side Includes
- Hotlink Protection
- Override .htaccess Support
- Log Files
- Site Statistics
- Customizable Error Pages
- Custom Cronjobs
- Spam Assassin Protection
- and much more
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