Comments on: BlueHost is dead

By: HKS

HKS — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:55:51 +0000

Media Temple: Poor performance and intellectually bullying customer service.

Bluehost 6.95/month: Promises way more than delivers. Overloaded shared servers cause basic, low traffic sites to overrun CPU allocation. Responsive customer service but no visible concern about degrading performance. For hobbyists only…

Bluehost 19.95/month: There unadvertised hi-cpu servers with many less accounts per server… We’ll see…

Any one else have a good experience with liquid host?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:03:02 +0000

My site (swashedbylife.com) on bluehost has been down for more than 5 hours. I don’t know when it will come back.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:00:27 +0000

I can’t agree more. Think about this: Bluehost literally removed or destroyed the database behind my CMS site. When calling support, all they can say is “Ooops!” — since they had NO backups.

And they’ve just changed their sales site from “Daily, Weekly and Monthly Backups” to read “Courtesy backups”. In other words — if they don’t back it up, they don’t have to be sorry.

They are very, very dead. My half-dozen sites are outta there.

By: ketyung

ketyung — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:41:05 +0000

I also experienced many times of CPU load exceeded with my wordpress hosted on Bluehost. I did add in quite a number of appropriate indexes for the wordpress tables. And I also use wordpress super cache, which automatically generates static pages for frequently accessed web pages to stand hikes of traffic.. this has become better, but occasionally it’s come back with the site suspended too, due to too much CPU load… so sad

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:32:48 +0000

Hey “somebody with a brain”, you obviously haven’t read what BlueHost advertises. Currently they offer “Unlimited” storage AND bandwidth. You should know that it’s not really possible to offer that, especially on a shared solution, but they do it anyway.

We are currently am on a shared server, and they are able to allocate RAM and CPU peaks properly to handle traffic spikes etc… Also, we don’t resell servers. We give our clients a couple options and allow them to choose for themselves. I think you need to do a little more research about what Bluehost guarantees, and what they deliver.

By: Somebody with a brain

Somebody with a brain — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:57:36 +0000

Ok….. honestly… when you said bluehost and then said this:
I use “Great ” meaning zero downtime, fantastic customer support, a simple admin UI, bandwidth to spare, proper CPU and RAM allocation to handle high traffic peaks (like front-page DIGG articles) etc

I right away knew you were a idiot… your definition of bluehost is 10 miles away from it. I definitely know you know jack about what ” Shared Hosting” means, you want zero downtime, you want allocated resources. all that for 5 bucks a month. You sir, are stupid. Everything you described fits a DEDICATED, or A VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER. which is no where near 5 dollars a month you moron. If you want ” zero down time ” then administer your own server for about 300 to 500 dollars a month you re-tard…. Seriously… people like you are so worthless… reselling hosting for 5 bucks a month and DEMANDING dedicated server performance… what a bunch of faggits.

By: troy

troy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:49:42 +0000

my site is at bluehost, and I have had no problems.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:06:21 +0000

Same here, my site byteburn.com is hosted at bluehost and now it is down. server status has confirmed that most of the services are down, including the all important mysql database.

I need to look for another host since my account with them will expire soon.

No more account renewal at bluehost.

By: Rajapandian

Rajapandian — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:07:02 +0000

Thanks for your review…now i realize bluehost and … will search good hosting provider…

Rajapandian (PHP Programmer)

By: Karin Witzig Rozell

Karin Witzig Rozell — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:11:22 +0000

I’ve had my fair share of hosting hell with a half dozen companies.

I too have been loving DreamHost.com. When I had a problem, they were totally on top of it.

I’m not looking for hosting perfection, just acting like you care and want to keep my business is a good place to start.

Karin