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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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Michigan
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You never fixed the major issues with one of my staging sites then clogged my website with ridiculosly large backup files as a "workaround"

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It took two days to fix what should have been repairable with the first call in 4 minutes.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Indiana
1 review
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I have tried to get help from the bluhost chat bots getting my SSL certificate on COUNTLESS OCCASIONS. It has NEVER worked. I wish I could get my money back.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The new site layout obscures what I am looking for. It appears to have been designed for people who are just beginners and don't really understand how things work. For those of us who do know how web hosting works, getting to the advanced features that we really need is much more difficult, to the point of thinking some other site would be better.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No SSL certificate covering my domain name Apple Mail client accounts. Webmail works but not Apple Mail client. 3 days and counting without receiving email.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Montana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I don't like the annoying offers to buy additional services that pop up when I log in to my account. I would rather be able to directly access my account.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I couldn't log in with my usual login as thaliaalcina
February 9, 2024
Updated review

I couldn't log in with my usual login as thaliaalcina. Com
Had to remember my id, which was so annoying. Finally got into my account after much deliberation.

Date of experience: February 2, 2024

Easy to use and quick to navigate site
May 19, 2022
Previous review

Easy to use and quick to navigate site.

Date of experience: May 19, 2022
Wyoming
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bluehost is simple and easy to use and gives me a functional website. It has been a fun to design the website we needed and continued edits are very easy. Thank you for a great website builder.

Date of experience: February 1, 2024
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I need support via chat, and every time I have to wait forever but If I don't answer within 60 seconds it gets closed

Date of experience: February 1, 2024
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was recently notified of an impending charge for SSL that I did not want. I spoke to a representative through a chat session to have it cancelled and was assured it was taken care of and would not be charged, but today I see $89.88 has been taken out of my account for SSL. I'm certainly not happy with Bluehost and am looking for other hosting providers.

Date of experience: February 1, 2024
Switzerland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You seem to be adding services I have not signed up for- such as the Wordpress Choice Plus Hosting- why
Also my sites have gone down due to Maintance- how long- the message "Check back tomorrow" is not great at all

Date of experience: February 1, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awful way to log in
February 8, 2024

Awful way to log in. Don't understand why you changed it.
Not sure why I'd need to post my credit card information 3 times.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had over 30 sites hosted on GoDaddy platform. When a question or issue would arise I could get someone on the phone within 10 minutes to work out the problem. Great customer service. I had one site that due to WP needed to be hosted on Bluehost. The migration took 5 days, customer service is non-existent. You call to press various numbers, enter your phone number, customer ID number etc., to only then wait for 30-40 minutes before a person picks up to ask you the same questions. Then they can never find my account, have to give them my customer ID again and PIN several times before they find the account. This is 10 minutes or more in addition to the time on hold. They can't fix any issue. They always say their servers are updating or some other useless answer and to check again the next day. Connections with emails continually break between cPanel email host to customer end.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Took quite a while to get going with the chat but once started all went well

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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Terrible phone waiting
February 7, 2024

Called Bluehost today. 30 minutes on hold. Who has this time and patience? Forget it. Give my GoDaddy

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I seem to be having difficulty finding basic options when I return to add new staff to the access features that I need. Such as email access and users.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I don't appreciate that the operator discontinued our call and was extremely unhelpful. I've been with bluehost for years, but the process has become more and more difficult. I feel like i need an it degree to use this platform

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have made a number of calls and spent an hour + each time with an agent to "fix" the issues I'm getting emailed about, and at end of each of these calls, per agent, everything is fixed. Only to later get yet another email that there is something more to be fixed. I am not even yet actively using this for an active website yet, but am concerned, given how it's been going, that this is only going to be a headache if I choose to get a website going and then need help along the way.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have a problem withe sending emails from 1 dec 2023 till now and not solved.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024
New York
1 review
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We count on you guys to provide reliable up time. Getting security errors trying to access SEO optimization and couldn't log on for 30 minutes. Your shared hosting results in everybody on a box gets flagged for spam if one of the accounts spams.

Date of experience: January 31, 2024