BlueHost Review
Established in 1996, BlueHost provides Web hosting to more than 600,000 customers worldwide. The company is confident it can provide its clients with the highest level of support. Its veteran hosting team is friendly and patient and "knows what it takes to be the best."
BlueHost lists almost 20 awards on their Web site given by a variety of hosting review Web sites. Some of its highlights include: 2008’s Best Customer Service by hostingtrail.com, 2006's Best Hosting Award by 10-cheapwebhosting.com and 2005's Web Host of the Year by 100best-web-hosting.com.
Reliability:BlueHost uses modern quad processor servers, mirrored storage backups, UPS / diesel backup power generators and runs on a OC-48 backbone connection. It provides a bandwich of more than 2 GB / second, and the facility is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week by a trained technical staff.
Support:BlueHost provides customers with a Online Help Center on its Web site. The center includes articles written by technical experts that answer questions ranging from, "Now that I've signed up, what do I do now?" to "What is the path to PERL?" If a customer still needs help after browsing the knowledge base, he or she can open a ticket, entering information in and receiving the answer to her question via e-mail, or he or she can call one of several senior support lines, many of which are in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Price:$6.95/month.
Specifications
- Unlimited disk storage
- Host unlimited domains
- Free domain name, including support for international domain names
- Drag and drop Web site builder
- 2,500 POP3/POP3 Secure e-mail Support
- 2,500 IMAP/Secure IMAP e-mail Support
- Unlimited GBs of site transfer
- Unlimited forwarding e-mail Accounts
- Unlimited e-mail auto-responder
- Unlimited add-on domains
- Unlimited parked domains
- Unlimited subdomains
- 1,000 additional FTP accounts
- 100 MySQL databases
- 100 PostgreSQL databases
- IMAP/secure IMAP e-mail support
- 3 Different Web-based e-mail solutions
- CGI-BIN
- CGI library
- Server side includes
- Frontpage 2000/2002 extensions
- Account "Control Panel"
- FTP Access
- Shell Access (SSH)
- Override .htaccess Support
- Anonymous FTP
- Webmail (browser-based e-mail)
- Log files and site statistics
- Customizable Error Pages
- Web file manager
- Custom Cronjobs
- Spam Assassin Protection
- Fantastico Script Support