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Bluehost

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Overview

Bluehost has a rating of 3.5 stars from 21,510 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Bluehost most frequently mention customer service, many times, and easy access. Bluehost ranks 1st among Web Hosting sites.

  • Service
    674
  • Quality
    608

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 43.6%
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Neutral
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Business's Favorite Review

“Happy Days Are Here Again!”

Captain A.
5/31/22

This is the second time calling for assistance and it was great/ your tech support also helping my developers solve the problem. It took some time but we got it resolved. I had Bluehost when if fist launched my website, and for reasons I can't figure out why SEO team decided to move my newly develop site. But it did happen!. Anyway, I'm glad to be back and looking for long and lasting relationship.

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Top Positive Review

“Excellent”

Randy O.
10/8/24

Our experience was great because of generous in terms of user numbers and unlimited storage, efficient processes, and a focus on customer satisfaction. The hosting excels at providing timely support and ensuring smooth operations, which made everything seamless. One area for improvement could be increasing proactive updates, so customers stay better informed throughout the process.

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Tennessee
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March 25th, 2024
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-My billing is always kinda a mess. Getting charged before the date, getting multiple notifications that indicate that a bill is overdue or due when it isn't.

-All of the emails register as suspicious from our addresses from here.

-When logging in all employees get a message that they are about to enter a suspicious site which looks bad on us.

-I have to click through that ad for upping my security every single time I log in. That's just way too much.

Reason I chose this business:

The company had it when I bought it and it seems hard to move.

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New York
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April 5th, 2024
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The mess that Bluehost created on the backend where I have 45+ user accounts and have to individually update them, or individually merge them, and individually change credit card details.

Out of necessity. But I am moving all my domains away during 2024, so this will gradually become less frequent.

Reason I chose this business:

Because you still have some of my domain names. For now.

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California
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April 11th, 2024
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I used to be able to create an Addon site without having to call customer service. You have changed that so that I must now create the Addon only by calling customer service. That change convinces me I should move my domains.

Reason I chose this business:

No comment.

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Oregon
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March 31st, 2024
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I was locked out of my account for a few weeks and the response time on emails from the team that was to help me didnt provide any reason or details. Very disappointed. Good thing my website was just beginning to be built or who knows how much money I would have lost.

Reason I chose this business:

Was referred by another user who uses bluehost.

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Arkansas
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March 28th, 2024
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Forcing changes for security reasons, without options, is still forced change. Passwords with a false sense of security. No voice in the matter, just a paying victim. I hate it every time I log in, but this is where I am. Remember, you asked.

Reason I chose this business:

I chose Bluehost years ago based on a recommendation of someone I worked with at the time.

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GB
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April 4th, 2024
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Appalling service. The chat function does not even work. I have not been assisted even though I tried several times. It then has the audacity to ask me to rate the knowledge of the rep for a service I did not even receive! I am an international client therefore don't want to pay huge costs trying to phone internationally. Bluehost do not even have an international freephone support number. Non-existent customer service. This is not a company I would recommend to anyone.

Reason I chose this business:

I would not choose Bluehost and will now look for another service provider when my subscriptions come up for renewal again.

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Virginia
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April 4th, 2024
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The service is horrible. I have been trying to get my website running for over a month now, and all I get is the runaround. The agents keep telling me they fixed the issue and I need to wait between 4-12 hours for the fix to work but it never works.

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Minnesota
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April 1st, 2024
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Loved bluehost back in the day for high quality service - regardless of phone, chat, email, etc. this is slipping. The hosting speeds and capabilities are NOT the best and everyone knows that, but service made up for it. No longer the case. Likely a hosting shift coming soon for us as we grow.

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Utah
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March 26th, 2024
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All good except setting up my Google account failed midway through. It seems the account now exists, but I never set up a password. I'm not sure if I'm getting charged. Very frustrating, but likely user error.

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California
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April 1st, 2024
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You ask me for my opinion every time I log in. And I do it 10X a day.
So I rated it 5 stars the first 5 times, but now I'm sick of the constant popup. So one star until you can figure out how to stop asking me the same $#*!. Your NPS is whack.

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California
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March 26th, 2024
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Your login process is ridiculous. It will sometimes accept my domain, sometimes my email and today, for the first time, made me use a User ID that I have never seen before or used. I have had issues simply logging into my account almost every time. I've been a software engineering manager for 10 years, specializing in user experience. This is a trash experience and I hope you can make this better. I've heard this same feedback from others using your services.

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Indiana
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April 4th, 2024
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My bluehost representative spoke excellent english, she was kind, patient and knowledgeable. She even stayed on the line upon my request to make sure I understood the process and how to do it myself. I have never had a better experience designing my website. Bluehost please keep up the GREAT work and never get rid of your phone line.

Reason I chose this business:

EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!

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Texas
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March 28th, 2024
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I wish there was more transparency with billing. I'll get suddenly billed for things without warning, and for multiple year terms I didn't agree to. I've tried to look up my subscription status for different offerings on the website, but didn't find the information I needed.

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South Africa
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April 30th, 2024
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Best Affordable and user-friendly, their rates were good for me as a newbie in the blogging career and never had much to start my blogging but Bluehost afforded my needs.

Excellent

Reason I chose this business:

It's simple and affordable and has 24/7 friendly customer care, that is there to ask if definitely, you are sure you don't need anything else.

Service
Best and affordable
April 15th, 2024
Verified purchase
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Reason I chose this business:

Its simple and affordable and has a 24/7 customer care

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Indiana
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March 31st, 2024
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Moving to slow. Asking me to do to much in my opinion. Days without communication. Can't find my certification e-mail. Not enough support. Trying to teach me how to do this and I thought they would be doing this. I'm just going to pay someone. Timing is everything for us and the timing is not working out. Hey, what did I expect for FREE.

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Canada
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April 1st, 2024
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The chat bot does a very poor job. It would be nice to have real agents to help clients who may be experiencing issues. I also have issues with the billing department. I have sent payment twice already but for some reason it just does not seem to be registering and I have not heard anything back from anyone, only that my domain is expired inspite of my attempts at renewal.

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California
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April 3rd, 2024
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My site for phished and shut down. Getting help for this has been difficult. I'm basically on my own trying to figure this out. Is your hosting site not secure? Why am I not offered assistance in cases like this when the phish attack was not my fault? Or at the very least a support person I can call who can help me go in and help me fix the problem.

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Mexico
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April 4th, 2024
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I have not been able to access my control panel for more than 1 week, this is the day I can access to make modifications because they have not given me access. I'm still waiting for a response, the Ticket number is #E-*******

All its good
May 18th, 2022
Verified purchase
• Previous review

So good, so fast and it's easy to work...

Reason I chose this business:

Because it's simple

Quality
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California
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April 5th, 2024
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All components functioning as needed. Site performance is good. The only time the site went down, getting support on the line was fast and their fix fast and successful. Wordpress automated installation and good site building support made first time website site creation pretty smooth.

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New Hampshire
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March 25th, 2024
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My website continues to crash, down too many days without explanation, getting it back online is great but why is it still crashing ~ it's a baby website with less than 500 visitors and no fancy bells, just what is provided in templates offered. The security and service provided for the price is severely lacking.

Reason I chose this business:

I thought they would provide secure hosting and easy to use website builders. That isn't happening at all ~ it just looks good from a distance but then there is no security or ease of use, just lots of selling and 'repropagation' after "fixing" what was wrong.

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Florida
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April 2nd, 2024
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Service has been inconsistent and frustrating. Not intuitive. The assistance they offered for over $160 per month was very good before they changed platforms going from Blue Sky to Bluehost. It was obvious that there was a reorganization because the level of communication and getting to the right department became exhaustive. Wordpress is not easy. I was very disappointed to observe the service going from excellent to sub par. Had to cancel. Nevertheless they host my website and getting in to edit has changed for the worse.

Thumbnail of user davidj4409
Switzerland
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October 11th, 2024
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Geschwindigkeit der Webseite könnte ein wenig schneller sein, sonst alles ok danke

Reason I chose this business:

War ein super Angebot mit allem was man braucht.

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Illinois
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October 8th, 2024
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Ok…………….l.l…………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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New York
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March 31st, 2024
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I made a switch from Homestead to Bluehost. I was really excited about getting a new website but when I reviewed it, I was a little disappointed. My site looks boring, nothing fun about it not even fading in and out photos. I waited a little more than a month for this. SEO score shows to be low on the Wordpress builder site. No training or anything of the sort. I had to figure out how to use the site myself. I'm sure I've screwed up a few of my pages too. I guess I over expected and they under delivered. I guess I'll have to learn how to do this myself. I put in several change request but it takes them about a week to complete or longer. Even if its just changing one photo to another.

They take so long to respond to a change and I see no creativity while making the change, no suggestions either. Like I said, I expected too much. Since they are the professionals, I expected professionalism. My website doesn't even show up in DuckDuckGo! Really disappointed.

Reason I chose this business:

I didn't choose it. The rep chose it for me. Shame on me for not doing my due diligence.

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Georgia
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April 11th, 2024
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Bluehost deleted my site and this has had a huge impact on my business. I still do not have my site restored and my business can't effectively move forward without my website. I am losing revenue daily.

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