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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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India
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It takes lot of time to build website and never builds the template website. I have not got control panel.

Date of experience: August 30, 2022
New York
1 review
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Terrible
September 29, 2022

Terrible. Impossible to manage. The website builder doesn't work and does not finish building the template. Very user-unfriendly. No support team to help design simple websites.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Canada
1 review
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Can you please check Case # 43236743?
September 29, 2022

Can you please check Case # *******? It's more than 48 hours now and still not resolved. I was promised that I will get an email with update within 24 hours.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer service was so helpful to me, and the site usability is tops. Graphics are understandable and consistent. Love it :D

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Ohio
1 review
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This is so difficult to navigate
September 29, 2022

This is so difficult to navigate. I dont know what im doing right or wrong and why things arent uploading or working. No guidance at all

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Florida
1 review
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Your site is very difficult to use
September 28, 2022

Your site is very difficult to use. For example, there is no clear way to access my site to edit all of the pages on my site. I can "edit" the page from 3 different locations, but each location has a different layout for my homepage that messes up the work I did through another location (i. E. there is no cohesion/connection between the different menu options).

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Site was in loading for a long time when customizing and did not save changes. Have to do everything over again

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
California
1 review
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Hi,
Even though I've been writing software for over 40 years I find web site construction quite confusing. Of course I'm coming from real-time embedded and modeling code so it's a very different world, but still I find it baffling and I'm trying to work through it. Trying to navigate around is confusing to.me, it seems like it was written by marketers trying to sell services instead of developers that want to be helpful building a web site. That is a big turn off. I had considered going someplace else but decided to give it more time to see how familiar it becomes.
So far my experience is not that good

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Florida
1 review
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So far so good!
August 29, 2022

So far so good! I've already contacted support for help and my request was answered right away. The technician I spoke with resolved the issue quickly and I'm a happy camper

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
South Africa
1 review
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Learning a lot about websites hosting and domain name

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Washington
1 review
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So far, so good!
August 29, 2022

So far, so good! I don't know how I broke my site's SSL certificate, but I just received help from Harsha, and I think it's fixed! Yay!

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
PG
1 review
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I am new to Bluehost having transferred our website from WORDPRESS.COM. I am just trying to login (took ages) and then navigate to my admin panel (not showing despite being logged in). Going around in circles

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I paid for 3 years to host the website and after I paid found out you won't transfer it from google due to the. Rental vs. com.

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
Wisconsin
1 review
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It's been fine other than the fact I've had to call customer support three times but all three times I've been very helpful

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
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Technical support on simple, basic questions about WordPress was not available which is disappointing.

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
Guatemala
1 review
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It had been dificult to start my blog
September 27, 2022

It had been dificult to start my blog. I wish I could have more help.

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
Italy
2 reviews
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Migrating a website manually for the first time is not for the feint-hearted... :) But the assistance has been good so far

Date of experience: August 28, 2022
KR
1 review
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I am abroad and cannot call the US support contact but I have been trying to cancel my subscription, and the chatbot is not responsive and I got charged yesterday for another year. Please help me cancel bluehost service.

Date of experience: August 27, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
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Have had a few problems getting things set up and had no problems with the last domain I had at godaddy. Honestly, so far I'm regretting using you guys. If things pan out better my rating could go up but right now it's low.

Date of experience: August 27, 2022
Illinois
1 review
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I am on a learning curve
September 26, 2022

I am on a learning curve. I am making progress but it is slow and I feel like I loose ground sometimes... like now - I just tried to log back into bluehost and become familiar with the dashboard. It won't let me go to the dashboard. WordPress doesn't open.

Date of experience: August 27, 2022