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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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Australia
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Bluehost used to be easy to use, efficient and had great professional staff. Now it is a mess with necessary features hidden and obviously foreign staff who frequently don't even pay attention to what the problem is.

Date of experience: January 20, 2024
Tennessee
1 review
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It's taking me quite some time to understand how the system works and what I need to make my website work. Hasn't been user friendly yet.

Date of experience: January 20, 2024
Texas
1 review
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The free url registration was unnecessarily confusing as someone who has used sitehost and others before. It was misleading and led to us needing to reauthenticating our theme codes meaning reaching out to our theme support.

Date of experience: January 20, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I cannot get my website fixed, i have called and spoke to 20 different people and no one fixes it.

Date of experience: January 20, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I tried logging in several times and the authentication code sent to my phone was not working. I was able to get in by using incognito mode. I should be able to login to my account when I want to.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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Having some issues with the appearance from laptop to phone.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Pennsylvania
1 review
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There should be a way to login easier, if I make a mistake on my password the account locks for several minutes

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
GB
1 review
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I chatted with someone about payment for my plans and asked to email me details after but they didn't send it and I don't know what would happen now, I will have to waste time to chat all over with someone else.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Thailand
1 review
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The cost for renewal is opaque when viewed via admin dashboard. There is literally no price, or the ability to change the terms. The only reason I knew the cost or length was a single email saying they will renew for 3 years at an exorbitant cost. This is such a scummy way of doing business. I disabled auto-renew and moved hosts. Do not use bluehost.

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Texas
1 review
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I've been trying to set up Google e-mail and it's been an utter nightmare.

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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I think I already answered this
January 18, 2024

I think I already answered this. But I wish when I set up a new Wordpress website I started with a wp-login page instead of going through the Bluehost site. I am trying to get to that point.

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
California
1 review
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Called your support number, was hung up on. Called back, on hold forever

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I don't like being spammed by ads on a service I already pay for hosting.

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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You all are $#*!ing $#*! & can't fix a single $#*!ing issue in 2 $#*!ing weeks

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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Having a lot of trouble so far 👎🏻 cannot log directly into Wordpress have to log in through bluehost and it's delaying me something fierce as the user back end is confusing to me. I wish I could just build my site with Wordpress app it would b so much easier, I can't get any progress made it's so frustrating and defeating. Help! 👎🏻

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Utah
1 review
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Bluehost is the best hosting provider I've worked with so far. They provide secure and reliable hosting, and much better customer service than the competition.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Wisconsin
1 review
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Disappointed my features were depreciated and now harder to find.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Arkansas
2 reviews
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UI is completely backwards from every other host I have ever used.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Illinois
2 reviews
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I already created a pin and now you're asking me to create one, so I used the existing pin and got an error that said please try again later

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
California
1 review
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Too confusing
January 24, 2024

Too confusing. Too many add ons. Wish I'd gone with another service. Want to cancel

Date of experience: January 17, 2024