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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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Idaho
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I have not been very pleased
December 16, 2023

I have not been very pleased. So many phone calls and problems remain. Now blue host and WP aren't communicating.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible experience
December 16, 2023

Terrible experience. I am actively looking for a new host because my websites are consistently down.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Too many click to reach email admin
December 8, 2023

Too many click to reach email admin. However it improves.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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For the past few years, I have received nothing new and am constantly hounded when I log in to buy some product no one has ever needed, some of them for features already included for free. It's constantly annoying. Also, things have become slower and seemingly there's less accountability on your end. It makes me wish for time to go backward to when I had more confidence in you as a company.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Hawaii
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'd like more tutorials for users to get more out of the site.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Washington
1 review
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Your popup is in the way of what I'm trying to do! Otherwise I love the
Service!

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I entered a chat with Bluehost
December 15, 2023

I entered a chat with Bluehost. Nobody got back to me. So far, your customer service is terrible. Just trying to give you a new cc number. Help

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There appears to be a general collapse of your service. Even the root login page has changed. I can login with my aco$#*! number, but no longer with my domain, and your last representative promised an email in response to a problem and I have not had it. I have had to spend almost £2000 with you getting a dedicated server because the hosted platform collapsed. It was a known problem but you did nothing about it. Right now the server is not recognising standrd utf8 codes and my clients cannot login to my website with a password containing such symbols as a $ or £. I think your service has actually crashed, or at least all real support for it has crashed. The new server works to be sure, but there have been a multitude of migration issues. The configuration appears to be identical to the previous configuration, but not everything is working. You asked for the feedback, now you have got it.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I already explained how the new interface and new procedures have slowed down billing, slowed down domain transfers, have email messages that are written like spam, and confuse their customers with messages about domain locking that cause people to prevent transfers for 60 days. All the new procedures are adding HOURS to every clients attempts to do their work.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Oregon
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Consistent changes within bluehost, difficulty getting...
December 15, 2023
Updated review

Consistent changes within bluehost, difficulty getting past ads that haave no cancel button, loss of information and files due to bluehost.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023

Being a novice in WP, this is a BIG learning curve
November 21, 2022
Previous review

Being a novice in WP, this is a BIG learning curve. I'll catch up. Just give me a little time...

Date of experience: October 22, 2022
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I haven't had any major issues
December 8, 2023

I haven't had any major issues. I only use it for email.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I find the website changes frequently without notifying me in advance with instructions where to find hosting tools.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
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You keep changing things
December 15, 2023

You keep changing things. I struggled to remember and use the right user id and password combination to check my email, then you changed that process and I couldn't sign on to get my email. I called you technical help and the first person wasn't helpful and hung up on me. The second person helped me use Chrome instead of Firefox to check my email. Then, I was able to use Firefox, saving my user id and password. Now you're changing that an I have to put in my user name and password every time I want to check my email. IF IT CONTINUES, I PLAN TO SEEK OUT ANOTHER HOSTING PLATFORM AND CHANGE MY WEBSITE AND ME EMAIL.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Utah
1 review
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Much improved
December 8, 2023

Much improved. The beginning of the new system was rocky but it's improved.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Brilliant
December 8, 2023

Brilliant.
Everything that you need.
Easy to use.
Great price

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Unable to remove services and revert to basic service level.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Oregon
1 review
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Terrible customer support, changed the back end system causing logins not to work with no communication

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Georgia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have been having issues with site configurations ever since I signed up for a new hosting package for a domain under the same account where I have an expired hosting package,

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been with Bluehost for 15+ years and the service has degraded over the past 2-3 years and it reached a pinnacle and the catalyst was your new UI being incompatible with the CodeGuard you sold me and corrupted my sites and no one would help nor restore the corrupted pages. That was the last straw and I have moved domains and websites to another hosting service which provided incredible service - friendly, timely, effortless, and just people who care about me and my business.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Ohio
1 review
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When the switchover happened on november 1st for my hosting plan from unlimited to throttled it messed all my sites up and I have had issues ever since.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023