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Bluehost

2.7

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Bluehost has been empowering people to build and grow their online presence since 2003. As a leading web hosting provider trusted by over 5 million WordPress users worldwide, we specialize in making it easy to create, launch, and scale WordPress websites. With innovative tools, expert guidance, and powerful hosting solutions, Bluehost is your partner in building a professional online brand—without boundaries.


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Bluehost Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects a mix of positive and negative sentiments. Customers frequently praise the reliability of the hosting services, user-friendly interface, and the quality of customer support, particularly highlighting the helpfulness and professionalism of staff during technical issues. However, concerns arise regarding inconsistent customer service experiences, with some customers reporting inadequate product knowledge among representatives and communication gaps during service upgrades. Overall, while many users express satisfaction and loyalty, there is a clear need for improvement in training support staff and enhancing proactive communication with clients.

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Illinois
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I've tried twice to have your techs fix an email problem related to DNS. Both times they did it wrong.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
California
1 review
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I really have found the customer service to be far below what I expected. At Level 3 it is better, but still massive lack of commination and clarity onto what's going on. I have had my site deleted, I have had MX records removed, my site down for several days, found so many bugs between the front and back end. All in all it has been a nightmare.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Issues with the wordpress reverting and changing options.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Ohio
1 review
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My client keeps getting text messages generically saying that a nameserver change is happening. I can't find anything on the login home page that states there is any sort of issue!

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Vermont
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Way too complicated even for someone who has built several websites on other platforms. Don't bother unless you are a seasoned veteran.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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E-mail accounts and automating it with outlook is cumbersome

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Oregon
1 review
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The customer service reps I've chatted with have been very courteous and obviously wish to help me. Unfortunately, I have had to visit with them more than once for the same issue. That is, the first rep assures me the issue is solved, but I find it isn't, so I must contact online chat again. So some reps are more knowledgeable than others. On the plus side, it doesn't take long to be connected with a rep and I've found that the more clear I can be in communicating my issue, the better the outcome for me. So, not a 5 Star rating, but definitely a 4 Star.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've been a customer for many years and customer service has declined significantly over the past couple years. I frequently require multiple calls now to correct simple things. In the past a single call/chat would get it resolved. Sometimes the chat feature doesn't even work - I've been cut off, stuck in limbo, and redirected to random Bluehost pages so even the ability to get in touch doesn't always work consistently.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Uruguay
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am disappointed with your service as our issues have not been resolved, despite it being a month since they were first reported.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Georgia
1 review
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Poor technical support
March 10, 2024

Poor technical support - cost to high compared to other vendors with better service + better user innerface

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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We pay for the dedicated server and frequently have to reboot the server because our site is down. No telling how many sales were missed because of this.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I hate these popups, they are everywhere, you keep asking for ratings when I have used a feature once or not at all, and I just want to work on my site. On top of that, even though I've already purchased things, I have to click through a full-page ad every day after login. I used this site only a few years back and it was great. I probably would have sought another service if I'd realized how unusable it had become. This is beyond aggravating!

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Im so new to all this...
March 10, 2024

Im so new to all this... opened my account earlier this year... had tragedy strike in my family several times. Could not get back into my account. Stressed is an understatement. So many incredible ideas.just can't get it working. Do you offer tech help?... via phone?... find this entire experience so overwhelming... wished now I hadn't paid for the domain/website...its very very frustrating!

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Ohio
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Made up for outage and I renewed for another year :)
February 29, 2024
Updated review

Made up for outage and I renewed for another year :)

Date of experience: February 29, 2024

Great, smooth
February 2, 2023
Previous review

Great, smooth

Date of experience: February 1, 2023
Saudi Arabia
1 review
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I'M FACING ISSUES IN ONE OF MY PROFESSIONAL EMAILS AND I TRAIED MANY TIMES TO SOLVE IT WITH BLUEHOST ONLINE TEAM BUT NOTHING HAPPENED, JUST WAISTING MY TIME

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Ohio
1 review
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Ever since you updated your site I have been having issues logging into it. I have spent many hours on chat getting it fixed. Then the next time I login it is the same problem.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Twice as long to get where we are today. Been stressful as no one could find welcome call information for modification. Timelines not be kept. Mod request page doesn't populate and told this is a known issue. Not a very professional way to run a website hosting and creating business if your website doesn't work.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I have seen such dramatic price increases since I signed up that the service is no longer worth the cost unless it's a new customer rate.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
North Carolina
1 review
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Stop making it so difficult to access CPanel. Too many clicks. Too much advertising. Too many hurdles.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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Your customer support sucks and your systems are archaic.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024