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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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Virginia
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Glad my site issue was resolved in a timely manner.

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
South Carolina
1 review
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The only issue I've had has been with Wordpress footnotes. Often times when the draft of a post is saved, they show up on the post preview as regular sized numbers rather than superscript. When you change them to superscript yourself it messes up the order of the footnotes.

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Stop reminding me to upgrade
February 19, 2024

Stop reminding me to upgrade. It's getting annoying as I am trying to build my site and logging in.

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Auto billing kicked in
February 19, 2024

Auto billing kicked in - I don't want auto billing

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Website cannot be edited via Wordpress as originally started. Also, website is timing out and not showing 'coming soon'. I addressed this a few days ago via chat.

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
Singapore
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No good services, your organisation has an issues and we consumer has to suffer

Date of experience: February 12, 2024
Florida
1 review
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It is very hard to create a website with this hosting. There is not simple drag and drop software that can give you a professional looking website without the hassle.

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Indiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Excellent customer service, reasonable pricing, and reliable servers.

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Montana
1 review
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Poor customer service experience recently. Lack of knowledge left a client's site unaccessible for days due to this. I fixed the issue myself by uninstalling elementor and elementor pro plugins, then reinstalling. Pretty simple fix to the 500 error that 3 different techs weren't able to discern.
I am very thankful for them and this service. We do our best right!? My review is just and I see room for growth. Cheers.

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Costa Rica
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Im trying to cancel after 30 days and customer support is giving me a hard time

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Texas
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Poor customer service!
February 18, 2024

Poor customer service! It's been almost a month since none of your team members have been able to solve my email sending and receiving problems. I am very disappointed.

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Peru
1 review
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The transfer area is poor in service, they did not complete my transfer and I lost money

Date of experience: February 11, 2024
Nevada
1 review
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It has been pretty good with no front end experience I have been able to make a good site for my political group.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been locked out of my account for days due to login errors. I had to contact customer support three times before finally receiving an email to confirm the issue had been resolved. This was incredible stressful!

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Regarding my payment, good service but still not stopped my payment. I have to come here.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
Idaho
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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The tech support people do not seem to know what they are doing and/or do not care.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
District of Columbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My website has been down since my domain name renewed. I've tried your support service twice and waited 48 hours after each for it to "propagate." I'm waiting - again. I can't tell you how unhappy I am with this.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The Bluehost interface is not user friendly. The message us field keeps popping up and obscuring the main window. Also, accessing various fields is confusing - you might have regular users test drive your layout to improve customer experience.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
California
1 review
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It is waaaaaay too confusing for someone new to this. It isn't clear that Wordpress is opencource software that is being hosted and used by Bluehost. I am consistently asked to renter my username and password by Wordpress and I had to figure out on my own how to set that up. It is not very intuitive.

Where is the site editor?! It was here one day and the next day it was gone. So confusing when tutorials and what's out there for help is based on a system that is phased out. You should've paid to release new tutorials that went live the day they came outl

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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Pretty smooth
February 10, 2024

Pretty smooth. This was my first attempt at website building and a lot of people told me it looks professional and its easy to navigate. I just followed the template and I'm happy with the results and feedback.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024