Bluehost

I have used about 3 other hosting company over the years and I have found none better than Bluehost.

There customer support has always been good but Bluehosts reliability and performance was only just average, until the past year that is.

They have recently updated their Linux servers with new custom software which reliably shares server resources across all accounts. This means no one customer can bog down the server by hogging the CPU and memory of  the server with their websites. Since Bluehost has installed the software I have not had one performance issue.

Good Job.

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. 

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.

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.

On the few occasions I needed BLuehost tech support the online chat has been the most helpful. It is faster that using the phone and the techs seem to know what they are doing. While the wait times could be improved for chat support they are much better than phones support. I would recommend using them if your issue isn't that big.

Other than that the features Bluehost offers is standard for the industry and so is the price. I like the unlimited domains, bandwidth and storage as I host 4 websites on this account with one of them serving up images. I moved to Bluehost 3 months ago from GoDaddy and so far the experience has been much better.  I found Godaddy nickled and dimed you for every upgrade.