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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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Ghana
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The experience is good but when I add a new website, the IP address attached to the domain's A Record is usually wrong and that gives me problems.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Thailand
1 review
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Constant email errors, not getting informed about billing and cutting hosting as well as contact to customers, etc

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Czechia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Everything is take so much time to get things resolved. Also my page is down because of you.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
GB
1 review
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Horrible Customer support
December 15, 2023

Horrible Customer support. Twice they hung up the online chat in my face. The first one was when I asked to speak with a supervisor because I couldn't communicate with the advisor. The second time they disabled all my plugins and then they hung up the chat, leaving me to have to manually re-install all the plugins. Just awful.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
TW
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My website crash a lot of times for severy days, but it never informed me about this. I lose a lot of order!

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very complicated and many hurdles to get to the website

Date of experience: December 7, 2023
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is by far the first year I've had the most need...
December 15, 2023
Updated review

This is by far the first year I've had the most need to contact your team for repeated issues.

Date of experience: December 7, 2023

Thank you!
May 17, 2022
Previous review

Thank you!

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not a fan of the cpanel update as the domain changes do not show straight away which means we have no way of knowing whether or not the record was added.

Date of experience: December 7, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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As a long-standing customer of Bluehost, it's disheartening to witness their services deteriorating over the years. There was a time when I would have rated their support and service as impeccable, a solid 10 out of 10. However, the quality has significantly declined, leading me to now rate them a disappointing 0 out of 10.

The core issue lies in their technical support. The frequent response to technical inquiries seems to be a vague and unhelpful statement about waiting for an unspecified amount of time for changes to propagate. What's more frustrating is that, even after several days, the initial problems persist, only to be met with further delays and excuses from the support team.

Given the importance of reliable and efficient customer support in web hosting services, I find it necessary to advise potential customers to consider other options. If you value consistent and effective support, Bluehost may no longer be the reliable provider it once was.

Date of experience: December 5, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Host spread troyans
December 7, 2023

Our systems fell victim to a malicious attack originating from IP address 162.241.43.203,that Bluehost hosting, carrying the JS/Cryxos Trojan. Recognizing the severity of the situation, I promptly reached out to Bluehost support team for assistance.

To my dismay, the response I received was contingent upon my status as a registered client. Despite the importance of the matter, I was informed that actions would only be taken if I company registered cliient.

Subsequently, I endeavored to share evidence of the attack by sending an email with pertinent screenshots. Regrettably, these emails bounced back, exacerbating the challenges we were already facing.

Given the critical nature of the incident and the apparent roadblocks in communication, I felt compelled to escalate the matter and reported it to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. Simultaneously, I took the precautionary step of blacklisting the domain bluehost NetRange: 162.240.0.0 - 162.241.255.255 ( associated with the malicious activity.
Its seems to me that they not realy care about reputation.
I urge you to investigate this matter promptly and take the necessary actions to rectify the situation. Additionally, I implore you to review and enhance your security protocols and customer communication procedures to prevent similar incidents in the future.

Date of experience: November 30, 2023
Virginia
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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YES! It is true and bitter...
Warning! BLUEHOST may charge your bank account, 100s of dollars, NOT ONLY without your permission or notice! EVEN against your will, when you have removed your credit/ bank info from your Bluehost account!

Date of experience: November 29, 2023
AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There is no ever worst service ou can get as much as you can get from bluehost, always slow, always errors, now am 11 days my website is down, and wasted hours and hours with their customer service, and nothing happening, I highly recomend not to even put them as an option

Date of experience: November 13, 2023
India
1 review
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The worst service provider, we have never seen such a loosers. We feel BlueHost India has to strenghten their after sale service to 100%. We have been facing issue in email communication for last 1 month and also getting repeted spam mail its not been resolved yet. Even though connecting to client service team for more than 47 times, they are not able to give the solution and not even near to it. They do not provide their office address and their technical team contact too.

We have almost shut our mail communication for more than 3 weeks and we have faced the losses too.

We seek immediate response from bluehost.com and solve the issue as early as possible or we have to take next steps to allign ouverselves.

Date of experience: November 10, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This company is useless I've been calling everyday for 8 days and everyday I geta. Promise a supervisor will contact me right away. And NOTHING HAPPENS. I called for a detailed invoice and to remove my payment method and what did they do they removed my website services and cancelled everything….what does that do you ask it deletes your website and all your emails you have. They shut it down 8 hours after a phone call to their "support" team I never asked for anything to be shut down are you kidding me? To close someone's coma Ont website and then not give two sh it's about restoring it?!?!?! This company needs to be force to bankruptcy. They shut down my website and email 8 days ago and everyday I call they "escalate my ticket" then nothing happens. I've been promised three times that my services will be resorted in 24-48 hours but nothing happens. This is garbage I've racked up over $50 in long dotnace fees just sitting on hold waiting for their "support". I hate this company it makes me want to k i l l myself trying to get any help from the support teams. Supervisors are useless. Agents are useless. Everytime I call they say the team is looking into it but it's been 8 god dman says of nothing. Not even a god dman phone call. If I could talk to the CEO and tell who to fire I would they are ruining the company by not caring about their customers at all. I've never had a worst company support I've ever talked too. Beyond garbage. S-******* I would love a phone call back by the company if they even see this it would be a miracle they even call me back at all.

Date of experience: November 6, 2023
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Incredibly long waiting times for support chat. No email Offered. Will not allow you to submit complaints. Trying to migrate to new host after massive price hike and wasted hours in chat so far with multiple agents not being helpful

Date of experience: November 6, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Getting an SSL re-assigned
November 1, 2023

The rep made it easier and painless, thanks so much

Date of experience: November 1, 2023
Switzerland
6 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Horrible web host. They deleted one of my domain and told me the redemption time was over what was not true. Then one time I tried to purchase a new domain but I waited 1 day. Next day Bluehost took this domain by themself. The worst

Date of experience: November 1, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Pathetic support at best
November 7, 2023

We have (2) Pro Hosting plans with Bluehost and to stay on top of the "extras" they like to sneak on the auto billing is a full time job. Support chat is a joke. Don't waste your money.

Date of experience: October 31, 2023
Ohio
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Poor Customer Service
November 6, 2023

When you have a problem, be ready to wait FOREVER to get help. If you are on the chat, it will arbitrarily cut you off after a few minutes. Then, you get to start all over again! If you'd rather call, be ready for some heavy wait time, interrupted buy a rude "all of our agents are helping more important people than you" message. I have customers to help. The "new" layout is a dud. Now, I can't find some of my projects because they pointed them to incorrect software, but there is no help. I need a company that has good support when they screw up like this. I've had an account for years, but I'm changing to another provider and do not recommend Bluehost.

Date of experience: October 30, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awful company
November 6, 2023

They keep invoicing me for products I don't want and didn't order. No e mail address to contact them only a US telephone number

Date of experience: October 30, 2023