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BlueHost - Web Hosting Customer Review

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From Stephen

The Bottom Line
Customer Review by Stephen - who used this hosting company for 1-5 years when this review was written on September 13, 2007.
Pros
  • 300Gb space and 3Tb/month bandwidth (at the time of writing)
  • 24/7 support by phone, online chat, and email
  • support for unlimited domain names
  • latest cPanel with fantastico for newbies to install dozens of different applications
  • CPU limits mean that badly written scripts can't hog the server
Cons
  • email limiteded to 50 per hour (increased to 500 on request)
  • CPU limits mean that badly written scripts can't hog the server
  • shared hosting meaning that others may cause problems that affect your site
Description
  • Price: $1-$10 per month
  • Type of Provider: Standard Web Hosting
  • Operating System: Linux
  • Server Software: PHP, Database, Perl, Ruby, Python, SSI, SSL, SSH, Blogs, Other
  • Analytics / Statistics: Yes
Guide Review - BlueHost - Web Hosting Customer Review

Description - Services Provided

BlueHost sell one single hosting solution that has such a huge web space allocation and bandwidth allocation (that is always increasing) so that no one could possibly fill it by themselves. Features include: 1000 FTP accounts 50 mySQL databases 50 postgreSQL databases CGI-BIN and CGI library Server Side Includes Frontpage Extensions Shell Access Access to .htaccess and php.ini files Horde and Squirrelmail webmail options Spamassassin included (Postini additional charge) Webal

Other Comments

Not the perfect host and not the cheapest but for the features they provide and the 24/7 support that gets your site up and running again whenever there are problems (which there are with any host) they are hard to beat at the price.

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