The slogan on the logo says it all, this is a web hosting company that provides what it says it does, that being affordable, reliable web hosting solutions that should be suitable for the majority of Internet users, and certainly one of the best hosting providers for the newcomer that we’ve ever come across.  Offering just about every feature you could wish for from unlimited disk space to free software such as OS Commerce Shopping Cart, and an entire suite of plug-ins, all designed to help you enhance your website, bluehost really do stand out from the crowd when it comes to budget hosting without budgeting on features.

There’s an old saying that if something seems too good to be true it usually is, and we thought this might be the case with this hosting provider as it simply did not make sense how a hosting company could offer so much for so little, but it seems to us that bluehost do just that.    They even offer a free domain to help you get started on your Internet adventure and compliment this with an assortment of other features designed to make your journey as trouble free and cost effective as possible.  Everything is geared to ease of use with this hosting provider and they’ve pretty much covered all bases on that score.

With a simple to use control panel that you can take for a test run before you buy the product bluehost are clearly confident in putting their offerings on test for its potential customers.  Supporting this is their help center which covers a comprehensive range of questions that the new customer is likely to ask.  Simple questions like how you upload you website to how you get started are answered in a clear and concise fashion without complicating things by using technical jargon most of us can’t understand.  You’ll find this approach is adopted with their excellent customer service team who we’ve tested over the past few days during this review.

Customer support is one of the most important features of a hosting company, as important as the features and price so we decided to play at being a novice looking for a hosting provider.  We threw questions at them which they answered with ease, and more importantly without losing patience with what they had no reason to believe were anything other than novice users.  It was this support package that sold their company to us and if we were in the position of having to recommend a hosting company we’d not have any hesitation in doing so with bluehost.

More often than not you’ll get inflated claims by hosting companies who don’t always tell you the whole picture, often you’ll find there are hidden costs like support fees, this isn’t the case with bluehost, its a case of what you see is what you get, and, in the unlikely event that they don’t provide a particular service like backups they nevertheless ensure that they provide you with the knowledge how to do your own backup which is easy to understand and if followed a guaranteed way to avoid needing extra support.  This is the same with every aspect of this hosting provider, if they don’t offer a service they still try to cover it in their knowledge base.

Bluehost aren’t the cheapest hosting provider available but if you were to do a price per feature comparison you’d be hard pressed to find one that offers as much for so little.  You can check out the pricing structure on the website which shows that they are certainly very competitive and with a support that in our experience was excellent we certainly have no hesitation on recommending bluehost to any of our visitors.  Don’t take our word for it though, take a look at just some of the satisfied customers who’ve left testimonials on their experiences as they’re always a good yardstick for any product or service, and if that’s not enough then you can always visit their forum and ask others who use this service about their own experiences in real time.

All in all we found bluehost to be one of the best pound for pound web hosting providers available.

Bluehost Inc.
1215 N. Research Way, #Q3500
Orem, UT 84097

Contact details here.