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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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I have enjoyed the ease of access and the possibility of creating 3 distinct websites with the current plan I am using.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
California
1 review
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Someone logged in to my account, stole my information. Your website is not secure

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
South Africa
1 review
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Bad service!
January 20, 2024

Bad service! I am unable to login to my website! The help centre couldnt able to assist me!

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
California
1 review
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Ok, however too many interruptions (ads, etc.) to get to my page.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
Arizona
1 review
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I paid $758
January 20, 2024

I paid $758- for 6 months of support. Then, I could not prepare my site to publish it. I explained why in a phone call. A manager blessed me and said because of the circumstances, I was paid through March of 2024. Word Press knew about it because they helped me in October. But in November, suddenly they know nothing and claim you did not tell them.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
South Carolina
1 review
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Easy set up, support staff is outstanding, at a great price

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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I can never get rid of the message us window after using customer support chat. It floats over all your windows. It has been the same problem in multiple browsers.

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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Tried to reset my staging site to experiment with some features, but my whole live website has been erased!

Date of experience: January 13, 2024
Utah
1 review
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Navigation has been challenging with the recent changes over the past year or so. Like the service otherwise.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
SX
1 review
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Very bad support team
January 19, 2024

I have been using BlueHost for about two years now. It was fine until I started to create campaigns; I needed landing pages and subdomains for these landing pages. I asked for help to connect the subdomain with the landing page provider - something that is supposed to be a very easy task, especially if you work in a support group of a worldwide known hosting provider. However, all the possible mistakes were made; I spoke with a few chat consultants, and My case was escalated; the First person from escalated support sent me an email informing me that my issue was solved, but nothing was solved. She just didn't read the ticket carefully and didn't even know what the problem was, DNS was still pointing to the wrong address. It strikes me as highly unprofessional. Then, when another person from the escalated team acted and the landing page started to work, I noticed the main domain was down cause they changed DNS of that domain as well, even though not only were they not asked to do so, but many times I let them know to be careful and asked them specifically not to change DNS for the main domain, cause I knew that will cause an issue. In my experience basic support has no clue about what they should do, they probably mechanically use some manual, unfortunately without giving it a simple thought. Their responses sound automatic and generic. Anyway, most of the times they don't have skills and knowledge to solve issues that are not 100% standard. I know for sure I'm gonna change hosting provider soon. I have also experience with other companies and yeah there are better options on the market.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Louisiana
1 review
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My website was completely deleted, and now I have to manually reupload it when its the companies fault.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Canada
1 review
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I'm having difficulties to see my email address manager

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
South Carolina
1 review
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I'd love just a little more how-to on making the most of my website.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Oregon
1 review
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Having to navigate a pop up add to even access your account...I am out.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Spain
1 review
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Good service, but I am very confused with your billing

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Portugal
1 review
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I've made the login, I was bothered by the creation of a security pin which seems quite pointless. Next I was served an advertisement. I have no time to waste. I purchased the services and I just want to use them without ads or other annoyances.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Canada
1 review
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I just opened the website
January 12, 2024

I just opened the website. The new authentication looks good, but its my first trial. So far so good

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Texas
1 review
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The advertisement after logging-in gets really, really annoying

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Thailand
1 review
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Awful. Avoid at ALL costs.

I have my entire business set up on bluehost. Tons of different websites, spent 10s of thousands on SEO to get the ranked. Plus currently spending thousands on ads to these same websites for various customers.

I've had it 4 times now where all of my websites will be randomly down for no reason. I randomly discovered it each time so likely they were down for days, all while I was spending money google ads to these very sites.

I complained to Bluehost every single time, each time they promised me a full refund + compensation for my lost ad spend and the only thing i have ever received from them after months of dealing with them was an extra free month of hosting ($10 value in exchange for thousands of dollars lost).

Completely unacceptable, disgusting business practices, breaking their promises and lying to their customers. Avoid ad all cost.

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
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Always have to go thru an add-on service screen tho passed on it many times already.

Date of experience: January 11, 2024