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

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Bluehost Sucks for Wordpress Hosting

On the Wordpress.org hosting page, they list Bluehost at the top of recommended hosting providers.  In fact, I’m 100% sure that’s a major reason why many WP users chose to bring their sites to that hosting company.  Why would Matt Mullenweg and Wordpress, who have been nothing but upstanding web figures, tarnish their names by recommending a bad service, right?

Unfortunately for us who believed such a fantasy, we had to find out how crappy Bluehost actually is the hard way.  Take a gander at Bluehost’s listing (the only one highlighted with a yellow background, by the way) over at the Wordpress hosting page: [click to continue…]

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MySQL Problems

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