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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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Canada
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Website is slow and I've tried to contact customer...
January 24, 2024
Updated review

Website is slow and I've tried to contact customer support many times with absolutely zero customer service or success.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024

Very slow servers, and now locked in to 3 years
June 18, 2022
Previous review

Very slow servers, and now locked in to 3 years. Upon further research, I should have gone with SiteGround or another with faster site load times. www.theomsound.com if you want to see for yourself. Is there any plan to improve their site speeds? I'm not sure but will likely change hosts soon if nothing changes. Does the basic job for now.

Date of experience: May 19, 2022
Maine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I can't get help fixing my website
January 24, 2024

I can't get help fixing my website. I've tried multiple times to chat and dealt with total incompetence

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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"Still Working On Me"
January 17, 2024

I had some small issues, however no more than what I made had at another place.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Have had some trouble with email but otherwise the host is great

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Connecticut
1 review
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It's challenging but I will figure it out. Optimistic

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
New Zealand
1 review
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Great, and the support was also great when I had an issue

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Washington
2 reviews
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I was notified I was coming up on renewals
January 24, 2024
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I was notified I was coming up on renewals. When I called, I told the agent I had not yet used my domain, and wanted to only renew the minimum-also I wanted to cancel the automatic changes. I got a not my SSL needed help, so I called again to find I had been given the wrong information. The second agent was extraordinarily helpful, informative and patient. We chose to just upgrade one while I work on actually having content. Then I will turn on the others. I see that the automatic renewals still show as being active. I certainly hope this is not the case.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024

Nick was terrific, patient, professional, and thorough
February 3, 2023
Previous review

Nick was terrific, patient, professional, and thorough. He walked me through it like the newbie I am.

Date of experience: February 3, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is tough sledding building a web site on here, you tubes and web searches only partially successful

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Maryland
1 review
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My experience with your shared platform was HORRID, your customer service reps hung up on me twice in a critical time, and the 3rd rep I got was unhelpful to say the least.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My account auto renews
January 23, 2024

My account auto renews. I got an expiry notice asking me to renew/ My account expires in May

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Can't get this new control panel to work correctly no matter what browser I use. Spent over an hour on chat with no resolution other than "It must be your provider."

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I tried to delete a domain I no longer use and BlueHost chat and phonecon said it was not possible, so I am no longer paying for it and will transfer the other domain.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
California
1 review
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Since the website changed, every time I go to log in, the website does not recognize my password and I have to reset it.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Peru
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I cannot stand the appalling level of service I am receiving these days from BlueHost. I cannot contact you by email support. Phoning you all the time from a different country than the USA is impractical and when I do, it takes at east 10 minutes to get past your annoying robots and into a waiting queue that takes at least another 40 minutes until I finally get to talk to a human being. Sometimes I get cut off during that process by your system and have to start over. And on your chat feature spending 1.5 to 2 hours of my precious time each time I have one or two questions that could literally be answered in 5 to 10 minutes, if I d I didn't have to repeat them over and over to your kind representatives, who sadly don't seem to want to read them the first time around and keep on asking me the same questions over and over, is frustrating as hell. So no, your service used to be really good, friendly, fast and efficient. That was 3 years ago. But no more. Which is why I'm leaving BlueHost for good and switching to NameHero. At least they presently offer the type of service level that BlueHost used to.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Canada
1 review
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1 star is correct, if zero was an option, I'd pick that

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Nigeria
1 review
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Would have scored higher but, I plan to upgrade soon and am not sure whether 4 or 5 star will match your performance.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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Bluehost used to feel like a neighborhood business that one would look forward to using its services. Now it feels like just another faceless IT company populated by indifferent call centers and self help menus that only serve to distance the company from the user.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
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Over 75% of the time when I need to edit my website I have to contact customer service because there is some sort of issue and I cannot access website builder or there is some sort of bug. It rarely gets fixed in a timely manner. It is extremely frustrating and I am very close to moving my business elsewhere.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have had a very smooth experience with very little...
January 16, 2024
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I have had a very smooth experience with very little downtime.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024

I have had very few issues
May 17, 2022
Previous review

I have had very few issues.

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
Nevada
1 review
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Not the best themes with standard subscription. Additional themes purchased, but all links that I got on email do not take me to the theme purchased. It's not appearing on my WordPress portal. Honestly, just really terrible navigation thus far.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024