Things about Bluehost

[John Sharp]

Hello I have heard many things about Bluehost some good some bad. I can only state my own experiences with Bluehost. As a longtime web designer I have been sending my clients to Bluehost for years. In fact I started a web service at <snip></snip> that will do free setup and install of Wordpress if you open a account with Bluehost. I like to keep all my clients in one place. I have had no problems with Bluehost over the past five years. If a client's website starts to get many hits and more traffic than a standard shared hosting account can handle I then move them over to a real VPS. But if your just starting out Bluehost and a service like mine is a good choice.

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John Sharp owner Wordpress Commando

[cheap freelancer]

I heard that Bluehost does not have dedicated servers, you will not be able to scale your website after a certain point of time.

[johnch]

Nice to hear your good experience with bluehost, though I hear some not so happy customers of them once in a while. But overall, good reviews are much more compared to bad ones. =)

[bonh]

I used bluehost for two of my forums once and the server I was on (shared hosting) went down and I got the short end of the stick -- data loss.

[Wajdan]

Thanks for providing your experience with bluehost.

[felgall]

Originally Posted by cheap freelancer

I heard that Bluehost does not have dedicated servers, you will not be able to scale your website after a certain point of time.

A lot of web sites are never going to need to scale to the point where they can't use BlueHost.

I have thousands of web pages hosted on BlueHost and I figure it will take me about another 90 years to reach the file limits that the hosting has. With the sort of pages I have that is the limit I expect to reach soonest (if everyone on Earth, Mars, and Venus decide to visit my site all on the same day there may be bandwidth limits across the internet but it wouldn't be affected by where my site is hosted). That assumes of course that I continue adding pages at ther same rate as over the past ten years.

[ldcdc]

Indeed, for most people hosting your average site out there, these budget hosts will fit the job indefinitely, and if they can keep their servers humming along, it's all fine.

Then you have the odd heavy user that needs a VPS or a dedicated all to himself, wondering why $6 hosting isn't cutting it anymore. All too often they make hundreds of dollars a month from their sites yet aren't willing to upgrade, or they're starting up some file or video hosting service, thinking that $6 will enable them to be the next Youtube.

Sure, the hosts offering so much space and bandwidth, limited then by CPU/memory/I/O, isn't exactly helping things, but customers can be very demanding indeed.

[pwslinks]

Originally Posted by John Sharp

Hello I have heard many things about Bluehost some good some bad. I can only state my own experiences with Bluehost. As a longtime web designer I have been sending my clients to Bluehost for years. In fact I started a web service at <snip></snip> that will do free setup and install of Wordpress if you open a account with Bluehost. I like to keep all my clients in one place. I have had no problems with Bluehost over the past five years. If a client's website starts to get many hits and more traffic than a standard shared hosting account can handle I then move them over to a real VPS. But if your just starting out Bluehost and a service like mine is a good choice.

Thank You
John Sharp owner Wordpress Commando

Hello,

I wonder about Bluehost.., what is Bluehost..? Then, I have also read,...that there is also a Green Hosting.....

[felgall]

Originally Posted by pwslinks

that there is also a Green Hosting.....

There is no one hosting provider called GreenHosting.

There are lots of hosting providers who claim to be GreenHosting who cover the full spectrum from excellent to garbage hosting providers. You cannot therefore make any c omparison of GreenHosting to other providers as many of the other good and bad providers also claim to be that same provider.

As for the term green hosting with respect to using renewable energy sources I haven't heard of any hosting provider that is genuinely doing that yet despite many claims to the contrary.

[~ServerPoint~]

Green Hosting

That is rather marketing tag then the definition for the web hosting company