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Thanks for this site it has helped me a lot in deciding to avoid BlueHost like the plague. I can only imagine they are paying review sites well in order to get recommended, because they are the number one recommended hosting on most hosting review sites! But even more serious is that they are recommended so highly by WordPress and that had me hovering over the BlueHost sign up button. But a gut feeling had me doing a last minute check and led me to this site. Thanks!

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Software vendor Carina Software has been hit by Bluehosts’ terms of service for having too many people interested in their software:

“At approximately 6:20 AM PDT this morning, we recieved a call from our web-hosting provider, bluehost.com, asking us to suspend the one-cent download offer for our Voyager and SkyGazer desktop software. Demand was so high that our automated serial-number generator, which emails serial numbers to customers, was sending out several thousand emails per hour – putting us in violation of our Terms of Service (TOS) agreement, and causing our email service to be suspended.”

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joined in 2006, and will be leaving them some time next week.

all the problems you told, mysql problem. cpu problem, forum issues, I have had with them.

few of them even you don’t have here, like blocking site for privacy violation, and it was just a simple page in my forum, nothing bad there.

Should i share it with you guys ? will be fun?

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Would you like to help me and other victims to fight against Bluehost,
we need a leader who is American knowing the better way to suit them.

Thanks,
Samuel

This is the rule they set AFTER you had hooked up…
7.02. BlueHost.Com employs complex mechanisms to protect its Subscribers and systems from abuse. BlueHost.Com’s offering of “unlimited” services is not intended to allow the actions of a single or few Subscribers to unfairly or adversely impact the experience of other Subscribers. … However, in order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all Subscribers, BlueHost.Com does place automated safeguards to protect against any one site growing too quickly and adversely impacting the system until BlueHost.Com can evaluate said sites resource needs.

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Wow, a little biased and angry aren’t we. I can definitely see in some of your site postings who you recommend and even wonder if you guys were fired from Bluehost or work for another company to slander them. Your little disclaimer about free speech is a load of crap and only gives you a right to gripe. I have clients that use Bluehost, GoDaddy and HostGator and will also say that I alone have my site on Bluehost (as amateur as it may be). I am having trouble right now with GoDaddy but have never once had a problem with Bluehost and when I call them for support because I have a question at anytime during the day, they answer in less than 5 minutes and help me the best they can. That is satisfactory in my book by a long shot and I have so much content and plugins, it should have went down by now but it hasn’t. Just a little more information about you and your “information” site, all “hosting companies” have troubles. They all go down at some time or another. That’s just life pal. Heck, even Facebook and Twitter hit the bricks. However, I have had more success with Bluehost and Host Gator than anyone. You just created an “I suck” page. I could do one of these websites about anything…hamburgers, pizza, buildings, the freakin’ sky, and get thousands of comments saying why they think it sucks. That’s not progress, it’s just reversing Darwin’s theory. The problem here is not that Bluehost sucks, but that you can’t let go of a few simple inadequacies in your little world. BTW, just to give you a little heads up, I tried to click on your “about” and “hosting recommendations”, and three times were told that the pages couldn’t be found. Wow, thanks for your insight, knowledge and expertise on the subject at hand. There’s your 1st amendment.

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See this discussion — Bluehost shut down a website without warning to the owner when a big company complained, and then turned over information about the owner without notice to the registrant, while comparing its customers “felons and crooks.” (Judge has ruled in favor of the customers)

http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2011/05/bluehosts-servile-response-to-koch-industries-shows-it-is-an-unreliable-hosting-company.html

Bluehost has yet to respond to this criticism, but the company that got Bluehost to kick its customers in the teeth has this to say (see the update) http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0511/Caving_to_Koch.html

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I would have to agree. They are terrible. I have been having nothing but problems with them for the last couple of years. Been a customer since 2006 as well. I think their adverting is misleading (Unlimited Storage / Data Transfer, etc). I would be very interested in forming a class action suit against them.

Greg

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The worst of all possible events just happened. Bluehost lost all my data, from 3 years of work.

3 years of stuff…websites, audio, video, pictures, programs, notes, records, web work. All gone. They “had a problem with the box last night” and they were “really sorry”. No backups either, from their “Courtesy Backup” scheme. Nothing from last night, last week or last month.

All my stuff is lost for eternity.

The most basic service a host provider can offer is to keep your stuff when you store it on their hard drives. Didn’t happen.

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They got me today. 1000 table limit, they just started enforcing. So basically you can have no more then 11 joomla sites or maybe 60 wordpress sites. This was out of the blue, 3 days notice. Hardly unlimited. If the limit was 2000 or higher I could understand.

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