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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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Tennessee
1 review
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I've been facing a lot of problems, my 2 website got down for more than 2 weeks which really affected my businesses. The developer team took for ever to resolve the issues.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
California
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Days and days without being able to log in to my account and no explanation from Bluehost. Login codes that do not work. What the $#*! is going on at Bluehost?

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It is no longer possible to sign into accounts. Last month you unilaterally removed 2FA from my account so anyone could get in. I have reset it but you do not accept codes you sent to my phone. The new interface is diabolically bad.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
Switzerland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's a perfect web-hosting experience, with a great...
December 13, 2023
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It's a perfect web-hosting experience, with a great customer support.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023

Great job, especially the customer service
May 20, 2022
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Great job, especially the customer service

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I dont require product advertising everytime i login to my email account

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
Turkiye
1 review
0 helpful votes
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After signing in, an advertising page appears immediately...
December 20, 2023
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After signing in, an advertising page appears immediately which is extremely annoying

Date of experience: December 13, 2023

Cannot chat with you after signing in
June 17, 2022
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Cannot chat with you after signing in

Date of experience: May 18, 2022
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Indian Credit cards are not working & now my site is down. Emails are down...
We should have been told that indian cards wouldnt work and all the settings should have been moved to the indian version of bluehost.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
Kenya
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The order history and billing is all a mess!
I cannot see the expiry or duration of the plan on the invoice.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Am getting a lot of spam email saying account is marked for deletion from *******@bluehost.com Please check this.

Date of experience: December 13, 2023
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been struggling with my websites for so long, the tech support is terrible, they never can fix my issues

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Kenya
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The support is so bad the teams takes waaaay long to resolve issues. Like now my users have not been able to sent out emails its coming to a month

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We've been trying to move a domain away from here for over a month now and you keep blocking it.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Missouri
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Things have changed so much I cant find a damn thing and have to relearn the nav. Seeing I am being charged for wordpress... which I cannot figure out when I purchased it; nor how to get back to the free version... I am seriously considering canceling all accounts and going to hostinger.com

This sucks, because I have been with Bluehost quite a few years

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Kenya
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Your customer support is quite poor
December 20, 2023
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Your customer support is quite poor. Also, the new dashboard is terrible.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023

Quite costly compared to other hosting providers
May 17, 2022
Previous review

Quite costly compared to other hosting providers. Also, I can only upgrade but not downgrade. Your platform is okay though.

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
Indonesia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We are in the process if switching all our sites over to a new server, because nobody seems to be able to give us answers to our websites that keep shutting down and not being able to support load. Super disappointed in this server.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is by far the worst hosting experience since the indians toook over, everything is glitched out, authentication codes do not work and then they want you to wait for DAYS to get back into the account.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My verificaiton code didnt work
December 20, 2023

My verificaiton code didnt work. I entered the numbers from my text. I had to go find my recovery key

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have had issue after issue with Bluehostb and am incredibly unhappy with the service. I have had multiple dealings with support who do not solve the issue on the phone and always ell you it will be 24-48 hours so you'll get off the phone but then it is not resolved after that time. I have been refused my requests for escalation every time I have asked

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
New Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been a very happy customer and have referred a number of my clients to switch to Bluehost over the years. The service has been extremely reliable and the Customer Service has been excellent. However...
Recently, there are a lot of changes which, as a longtime customer, I've not been notified about. It's been very frustrating...at first I couldn't log into my Bluehost account from Bluehost.com as usual. After being on the phone to Support twice, I found out I have to log in with different info. Next, it wouldn't accept my Password (so I found out I had to not only change it but make it longer) Again, I wasn't notified in advance of these changes.
Next I'm receiving constant notices to pay for things, like Site Lock (which the notice said it had expired, but I hadn't had that on my plan). Then it was a notice to pay for my domain which renews after January. Today I received a billing notice that my payment (I pay monthly manually on the 16th) was past due and you tried to charge my account. What?
I am logging into Bluehost right now to see if I can figure out what is happening.

I have provided feedback to the Customer Support people to hopefully get to the right people. Whoever is in charge of this transition and communicating with the customer (who pays you), needs this information so you have an opportunity to improve. If this persists, I will be going elsewhere and will recommend my clients do as well. I would prefer not to do that, so please improve and put yourself in the Customer's shoes to learn how to communicate with them.

I have had to get on Phone support to clear up a lot of these issues which takes up my time.

The customer service in the past has been excellent. But these constant messages telling me to pay for things either I don't have and the time it is taking for me to clear things up is very frustrating.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I find the dashboard to be too cluttered and difficult...
December 20, 2023
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I find the dashboard to be too cluttered and difficult to use.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023

I can't figure out how to purchase bluesky training
February 14, 2023
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I can't figure out how to purchase bluesky training

Date of experience: January 15, 2023