Comments on: BlueHost is dead

By: PakMela

PakMela — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:21:29 +0000

Anyone have any experience of services of http://www.singlehop.com?

By: Toby1

Toby1 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:05:50 +0000

Wow - I had no idea. Been using Bluehost nearly a year and had no problems - but have not tested high demand at all.
I had foolishly assumed that they did some kind of backup of their own - this is a real eye-opener.

By: dna

dna — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:47:52 +0000

Reason why I am here is because my sites are down. Down are BlueHost sites also, including their forum sites. Too bad, BH used to be reliable, at least that’s what I thought.
It happened before few times, it would only take few seconds to 1 minute until they restart the servers. This time I’ve been here for more than 10 mins and still waiting, David the Italian scared the sht out of me, I am thinking I may lose my sites, that would really suck!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Try ICDSoft.com never had a problem in ten years! Awesome customer service.

By: David The Italian

David The Italian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:12:48 +0000

Friday 17th, July, 2009.
Bluehost ERASE my server COMPLETELY. “No backup available. We apologize for any inconvenience”. THANK YOU GUYS! The BADDEST EVENT in 15 years of Internet Service Consulting to Firms. I can’t BELIEVE!!! 100 email accounts deleted, 40 websites in simple html or dynamic php+mysql TOTALLY CANCELLED! I can’t BELIEVE!!! Iam desperate!

By: Tico

Tico — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:00:55 +0000

I had one client using BlueHost and just putting up a static site was hell with them and installing a Joomla CMS caused the account to become frozen which was due to quota usage. Luckily I missed that bullet and agree they are dead.

I asked around and people suggested Media Temple and like the other posters here, Media Temple sucks too. They claim great service but deliver crap. Their tech support told me that my site surfinjaco.com which basically has 3 plugins and built on the default WP theme is causing too many queries and as a result is slow to respond. This is a joke and to make it worse, they said if I upgraded to 128MB RAM for the MySql container it would perform much better. That would mean $400 per year for something HostGator does for $60.

So I wanted to search for a new provider and was asking all providers for how much RAM allocation is given to the MySql queries since this seems to be the key to having a good Wordpress hosting account. I asked Godaddy.com and they sent me an email back saying they could not answer that question for Security Reasons…WTF??? I guess that means they do not offer any slice or guaranteed RAM. It seems like Cloud computing is the future but it is still pricey. I cannot imagine needing to pay $100 per month for a Wordpress blog even with SuperCache turned on. Media Temple is a Media Crypt

By: sean browne

sean browne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:30 +0000

I think Bluehost are great. However I found this article whilst looking for a server status for Bluehost because right now all my sites (10+) are down.

That said, it’s the first time I have noticed in a year and nobody is perfect. I am sure they are doing what they can to put things right.

I recommend BlueHost.

By: NODADDY

NODADDY — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:50:38 +0000

hint:

do NOT patronize webhosts offering either unlimited diskspace or unlimited bandwidth… as it’s not possible to honor such a wild claim

By: NODADDY

NODADDY — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:48:52 +0000

if you expect Tier one performance of a dedicated box from a tier 3 shared webhost you are DELUSIONAL

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:02:36 +0000

I have to agree, BlueHost has gone down dramatically. I used to be happy with them, but for the past 6 months I’ve seen nothing but continuous outages that they have no resolve to permanently fix. It happens every day, the same time - go figure. I’m extremely upset.