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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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Colorado
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My experience with your website builder has been terrible. Every time I try and build the website, it won't let me save anything. I've chatted twice now with tech support and no resolution. I'm extremely frustrated at this point.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Canada
1 review
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The website builder is way more complicated than I thought. Its been few days I have been struggling with the builder everyone is not a professional and it should be user friendly and easy for a common person to use.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer service is terrible to work with. Technical support was no help & couldn't even understand the issue/question.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
California
1 review
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I'm having lots of obstacles in moving from one step to the next. Not happy thus far. But the agents have been very helpful over chat.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
South Africa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great website host
September 7, 2022

Love the experience been very easy to use and cheap for the quality provided.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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None of my pages are loading
October 7, 2022

None of my pages are loading. I can't edit anything. Every time I click on a page, it just loads forever.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Cameroon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good so far
September 7, 2022

Good so far. It seems it takes some learning to ba able to use the platform optimally. I'm glued.

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
Gibraltar
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Having trouble with email setup, set up the email in Outlook, got the confirmation email then nothing, can't send or receive and emails. Any sent to this email just bounce

Date of experience: September 7, 2022
California
1 review
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This is an awful experience so far, I can't figure out how to set up my site and you said it would be easy

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Everything takes forever to load cant even load up the site editor

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Washington
1 review
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I have moved some accounts from one bluehost account to another and nothing was set up correctly. The move was done by bluehost. Even now I am having to mess with things to see why the server won't connect

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have had a very difficult time getting my new website up and going because of a problem Bluehost is having with its SSL Certificate (whatever that is). For most of today, I could not even log in to my account. Now I am passed that, but when I clicked on "Create Your website", I was taken to a page that look anything like my notes from instructions from Fullstaq. That's where I am right now, trying to get to the page where I can choose the "primary purpose of my site" - but I can't find that page. Nor could I ever arrange to talk to a person who might help me. Hence one stay

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Trying to add email options and continually times out. Not a user friendly website. Wishing I could get my money back.

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am checking on the status of the domain transfer of jeffronci.com and crazymoon. Jeffronci., com from Omnis.com to Bluehost.com. As past chats show, I have requested this matter be expedited due to unacceptable delays on your end. I am losing business by the day.

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Utah
1 review
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Every time I try to apply a theme, I get an error. When I called bluehost the guy who helped me said he couldn't help me with the website building because that's Wordpress but all I wanted was to use a template and he could have transferred me to someone who could help me and then he went silent but the phone call was still active but he wouldn't respond. So I just hung up. You guys gotta make this easier for people who don't have a basic understanding of these things.

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Ireland
1 review
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I have had several issues setting up and logging in etc.

Date of experience: September 6, 2022
Canada
1 review
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Better navigation, can't even find back ups. And I have a domain with DNS to blue host but all of the website is in a temp domain... what?

Date of experience: September 5, 2022
Illinois
1 review
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I cannot figure out how to build my site. Astra and Elementor were recommended to me, but I just don't know what I am doing!

Date of experience: September 5, 2022
AE
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Worst for us
October 5, 2022

Blushost is our worst host we have ever chosen. We have been in business for 17 years. We have taken many hosts but we have never seen a host this bad and useless. Always our site is down. They always say your site was infected! We never touch the site and even never go the and our site has the strongest password. So their security has a problem or their server has virus?

Date of experience: September 5, 2022
New Jersey
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Bluehost is a total scam for website services
October 5, 2022

Bluehost Website Builder does not work after building entire site using it. Cannot update website. Customer service has no clue. Paid plugins do not work either. I deserve my money back!

Date of experience: September 5, 2022