Bluehost

I had a WordPress powered website built for my small business and my web designer recommended Blue Host or Host Gator. After some research I choose Blue Host. I am happy I did. The installation of the site on the Blue Host cloud service went smoothly and the site has been up and running without any problems. It was a big worry for me so I am very glad everything worked out well.

I have been using BlueHost for my Wordpress site now for about 6 months. I switched from Hostpapa after having horrible issues with their server being extremely slow most of the time. I haven't had this issue at all with Bluehost. Right now I am using the Basic Sharded hosting plan. I had excellent customer support switching from HostPapa to Bluehost and  the server I am on now supports HTTP2 which makes it even quicker. I am now looking into integrating Cloudfare which should really boost the speed of my site. It looks like Bluehosts control panel allows you add this easily to your website.

So far I have been extremely happy with the service from Bluehost and would recommend them to any small business or bloggers.

This is my first hosting provider I have ever used and I was pretty nervous being a newbie to the whole thing of hosting a Wordpress website.

I have Apache setup on my Windows 10 machine as a test and was able to get everything working, I was hoping it would be as easy on Blue Host using their Control Panel and it was. I already had my .com domain name so I signed up for a shared hosting account and within literally a few minutes I had my account created and I was looking around control panel. Things seem easy enough. I uploaded via FTP my WordPress website I was working on and didn't quite get things working right. I chatted with Blue Host customer service and was told I needed to point my domain to my server. Of course I had forgotten this. After a quick chat they told me what I needed to do (my domain was with Namecheap) and voila everything was working.

It was much easier than I thought at the time and in the 4 months my site has been online I have had zero problems with Blue Host itself. I 've had lots of issues with Wordpress but that is a CMS issue and not a hosting one.

I switched hosts over 2 years ago and I have not looked back. Blue Host is very fast and offers free SSL and the shared servers now support HTTP/2 which makes my Wordpress site even faster with its concurrent downloading of files. Pingdom Website Speed Test tool gives my site a Grade of "A" in performance and they say it is 91% faster than other sites.

Reliability is really up there to. I use Alertra website monitoring service which checks my website homepage every 10 minutes to see if it is up and if a certain text is present. Well in the past year it shows my site has been up and accessible 99.996% of the time which is really good.

My site gets over 2000 unique visitors a day now so speed and reliability is very important to me in a web host. Price is decent as well so I give it 5 stars. 

Over the years I have had 3 different hosting providers. I left the last 2 mainly for downtime issues and really bad customer service. I think most web hosts suffer from bad customer support as they have such low prices now and shove so many accounts onto one server that the limited number of customer representatives a company can afford is not nearly enough to cover everyone's problems in a timely matter.

So far with my Wordpress website on BlueHost, I have had no downtime and the performance has been excellent. I have a large number of complex plugins installed and I was worried it would slow down the response time of the website. So far it has not and my visitors which number about 4000 everyday have not complained. In my tests I am finding from 1 to 2 seconds until the page completely loads which is really good for a shared server.

As with other hosts BlueHosts response to my 2 tickets I have submitted has been slow. Not nearly as bad as other hosting companies and they do answer with detailed answers that have solved my problems.