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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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Ias a beginner, i find the site set-up quite confusing and hard to proceed through menus!

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Washington
1 review
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Why does it have to ask me if I want the same thing every time I log in?

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Washington
1 review
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Designing the website has been challenging, and I cannot make my email work.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Utah
1 review
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The transition to the VPS server was promised to be smooth and that I would have a specialist to help me with things and I haven't had a single specialist, websites haven't been transferred, and I have had to nag people the whole way through this process.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
California
1 review
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I can never just log in
April 8, 2024

I can never just log in. Always some problem. I track my credentials the same for this site as all my others. Why is the easy thing hard, here?

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
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Not very easy to navigate through the process of backing up my website.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Overall good service for shared hosting, but can't give 5 stars because of random outages during business hours

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Updates you're making to your site need to be more tested before you roll them out to the client and you have to communicate with your customers when there are issues! There are bugs, and they are affecting my business. Had I not caught the issues, you would have never told me!.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
New Hampshire
1 review
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I really don't like the advertisements that come up when I'm trying to login. I wish there was a way to shut them off.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
California
1 review
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I want to go to cPanel to check my mailing lists. That takes too many clicks now and is confusing every time I do it.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Canada
1 review
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I keep getting charged for things that I am not using

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Canada
1 review
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Terrible interface!
April 8, 2024
Updated review

Terrible interface! This is the message I get when trying to upload comments:
Something went wrong. Please try again or contact *******@sitejabber.com if you still have problems.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024

Terrible interface!
April 8, 2024
Previous review

Terrible interface!

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Ohio
1 review
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I am trying to change my primary e-mail address: I did it yesterday with a customer service person on the phone with me, but today (>24 hrs later) it still hasn't changed. Also the new address I entered did not change.
I don't think it works.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Canada
1 review
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Complicated to add items..
April 8, 2024

Complicated to add items. Not easy to use and help line really are not much help.Just minimal

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Florida
1 review
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I was upset but the call taker was very calm and helpful and guided me through the steps to get the website back. Thank you.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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This stupid site locked me out of my account. Customer service chat was able to help me but my cache was cleared so I lost the messages and couldn't even say thanks it's all fine now. It's always an ordeal for me to get signed in to my Bluehost account and I absolutely hate this experience.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Good experience, but needs to be able to block emails from spam mail

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
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The service is great but I do not like how they trick customers with special offers and then double the offer next round of subscription. I think it is a devious way to solicit business.

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Not a intuitive system to log in or combine domains

Date of experience: March 29, 2024
California
1 review
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Appalling services!
April 8, 2024

Bluehost is expensive and ineffective, only interested in securing long-term contracts. No interest in complaints!

Date of experience: March 29, 2024