Comments on: Bluehost Horror Story of the Week – Wordpress Recommends….Crap Hosting

By: Ian Armstrong

Ian Armstrong — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:45:17 +0000

I’m in the process of pulling ten sites off of Bluehost because of further performance degradation since the first of this month. Even the simplest Wordpress installs now have a page init time of about 5 seconds due to a slow MySQL link. We’re talking .25sec per KB in my tests.

Perhaps that isn’t clear enough.

I am pushing all images, scripts, and css files over to the Rackspace CDN, using a JQuery lazy loader, and still getting 5+ second wait times on client pages.

It’s ridiculous. Bluehost has, in the last month, sunk to the level of GoDaddy hosting.

By: tj

tj — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:17:25 +0000

I am still using BH for many sites. Both standard and pro hosting plans. I do not work for any competitor. They (and the entire shared hosting industry) has been consolidating and is going downhill really fast. Their support is very poor, with some exceptions. I cannot recommend them. On the other hand I tried Hostgator shared hosting recently and that was even worse.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:36:18 +0000

Thanks Todd Vitello,

I was considering moving my site to BlueHost but on the off chance I decided to check for hosting server problems on Google eg “BlueHost problems” and found this site. I had exactly the same problems when my site was hosted by Yahoo!. It was a nightmare, my debit card could not make payment to Yahoo! to renew the hosting (Yahoo! payment gateway problem) then they deleted all my emails which contained legal documents and police report evidence and all my files on the website. Just imagine their free service was running ok but their hosting service was deplorable.

So I moved to another hosting service and then learned about Wordpress. I have since rewritten by old website into a WP blog http://bachutha.com.

I am looking for a faster and more reliable service. I think many of the reviews are written by the hosting service providers and are fakes.

Thanks,
Peter

By: trent

trent — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:47:08 +0000

Just fyi, email outbound limits for BH are automatically set to 150, but can be raised to 500 an hour upon request, with 750 being the top max.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:36:02 +0000

Are you kidding me? This site is a total hit job. Probably funded by competitive hosts.

I’ve been using bluehost for 8 years now for MANY websites and only have good things to say. The tech support is friendly, available 24/7 and actually quite knowledgeable for a shared hosting environment tech support.

Get a grip. Have fun going down the wrong path SUCKERS. What are ya gonna do, go to GoDaddy? hahahahah ahahahahahaa

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:59:13 +0000

I am having issue with Bluehost right now. They are telling me that Time Warner has placed a block on their servers, thus blocking anyone who uses TW from accessing any Bluehost-hosted websites, which to me sounds like utter bullshit.
On calling Time Warner (my ISP) and informing them of said “issue”, they in turn denied any block (that is after they spent 20 minutes laughing their asses off) and offered some sound advice: Go with another less retarded webhost.
This, in turn, means I cannot access my own freaking website nor can I get to my database to back up the entire site/ 5 year-archive to move to a new webhosting company.

Bunch of freaking muppets.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:17:32 +0000

What is the best hosting service then. Please advice from your experiences. Thanks.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:35:30 +0000

WHY DO YOU THINK? CAUSE THEIR PAYING THEM AROUND $15K/MO. I USE TO WORK THERE… I SAW THE CHECKS.

Why would you ask such stupid questions?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:08:04 +0000

Bluehost blows. My sites have been down just about 24 hours now… nothing but canned responses from CSRs. Not even and ETA. My 12 year old nephew could have had the sites back online by now…

By: Berna

Berna — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:57:12 +0000

They should attend customer service seminar.
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