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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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California
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I hate these surveys that seem to crop up all the time

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Connecting with a tech was slow, but he did a good job.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Azerbaijan
1 review
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I marked that my e-mails should be saved, but all my mails in inbox and sent items folders disappeared

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The bluehost product is the worse I have ever used. It is terrible, never works, totally unstable in operation, nothing is easy to do, everything is painful.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Although the LIVE support option has been excellent, I feel that there is a problem with BH and its' continued warning pop-ups about our website and domain security. We have already contacted BH about this issue and it is unresolved

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Portal is too hard to use, UI elements overlap each other.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
California
1 review
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Changing from User Email to User ID for login without warning was not a fun experience when I needed to make a quick change on my website. Also, the forced upsell screen every time I log in is pretty annoying. Please give me an option to opt out of receiving that pop-up every time I log in.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Had a problem with Bluehost technical advice because I changed my password in Bluehost and outlook emails would not work. They told me it was an outlook problem and not something they did. I hired a computer expert and he tracked down the problem to the changed mail password on bluehost. He also said they should have known to fix it. Next I decided to migrate my hosting to Go Daddy. Big problem. When I contacted bluehost who was hosting the site they said that ENOM had the password for migration. I called ENOM and they said the authorization code was with IPAGE/ owned by Bluehost. Called back to bluehost and somehow my website no longer worked. Called I page and they said they would send the authorization code. It has been 2 weeks, numerous phone calls and still no authorization code and website is a mess, which they say is not their fault. Funny thing is it worked for 12 years before I called them to migrate. Horrible experience.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
California
1 review
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As a new user, I am wildly confused! Based on your information, I thought it would be easy to get a website up and running. All I get is notices advising me to upgrade!

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bluehost has worked well for me
April 2, 2024

Bluehost has worked well for me. A web designer once told me that Bluehost was unstable and he refused to help me with some coding because I was using it for hosting. But I haven't found that to be true. Seems solid. I've also enjoyed one of your webinars and the customer service there is very good. Just wish it was a bit cheaper. I scored you a 4 (because I rarely give top stars), but that 4 should really be a 4.5. You're doing a great job.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Louisiana
1 review
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The site was down for 2 whole weeks. When I contacted a representative, she told me it was due to site maintenance. There was no communication the site was undergoing maintenance from walls part.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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I have been struggling with getting satisfactory customer with my email account since renewing over a month ago. The migration process has can't seen to done correctly, my email does not work and I have been charged an additional sum for the process...

I am frustrated

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Georgia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Unresolved issue and access to my Hosting Account and 5 websites for over a week. False promises and no real live technical support. You can all talk to someone to forward a question to them. You can't request a call back from the true technical support or call them. Blue Host lost the Website hosting Tab on my account and NO one has a clue.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Canada
1 review
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My user name was changed without my authorization.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
California
1 review
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Please don't try to sell me a new add on service when I login to account manager. It's SO annoying!

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Oklahoma
1 review
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Finding things seems cumbersome
April 2, 2024

Finding things seems cumbersome. It feels like you're trying to upsell things every time I try to manage my sites.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
New York
1 review
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This sucks i have an issue and your hotline is useless

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Service has been inconsistent and frustrating. Not intuitive. The assistance they offered for over $160 per month was very good before they changed platforms going from Blue Sky to Bluehost. It was obvious that there was a reorganization because the level of communication and getting to the right department became exhaustive. Wordpress is not easy. I was very disappointed to observe the service going from excellent to sub par. Had to cancel. Nevertheless they host my website and getting in to edit has changed for the worse.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Tennessee
2 reviews
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Hard to communicate with you
April 2, 2024

Hard to communicate with you. Long wait times and disconnected often.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
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I am just out here spinning my wheels. Hours and hours of getting nothing done. I can't find a theme that I like, nor can I see what I am doing. I have been at this for months. I want and elegant, professional website with the following pages: About, Blog, Contact, Events and Shop.

What I don't want is to spend any more time jumping through hoops. I am also very confident that this message will just end up in the cyber forever world.

Date of experience: March 23, 2024