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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.

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    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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South Carolina
1 review
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March 28th, 2024
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I have had a horrible experience with Bluehost, especially in the past few months. I've even expressed this on quite a few support calls and asked to speak to a Manager. None would return the call. Finally, after 4 or 5 promises of a Manager callback, I called and refused to hang up until I spoke with a Manager. I ended up speaking to Ritz. She helped clear a file backup issue but did not care in the slightest bit about my concerns and complaints regarding your company's horrendous service. I am truly thinking of going back to GoDaddy or some other hosting company.

Reason I chose this business:

First off, I did not CHOOSE Bluehost today. If I had it my way, I'd be with a company that cares about customer relationship beyond my purchase and payment.

But for the moment, my hosting is with you so I am following up on a scan to ensure that none of my sites are infected.

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Illinois
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March 27th, 2024
Verified purchase

I have been trying to transfer my domain to Bluehost for over a week, and although I received an email stating the transfer didn't go through, 3 support agents told me not to worry it would, but it still hasn't been transferred.

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BO
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April 8th, 2024
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I had issues in my email account and on Feb, 2,2024 I sent my claim to '*******@support.bluehost.com'. Never got an answer.
Moreover, that same day I asked you to make a change in my account, and I have received 9 messages asking me to confirm change, eventhough I confirmed it the very first time I received the confirmation message.
I need help in both matters.
Thank you very much in advance.
Javier Aneiva, *******@aneiva.com

Reason I chose this business:

To ask for help in two issues.

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Florida
2 reviews
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April 4th, 2024
Verified purchase

The Blue Host representative was terrific. Shs was patient, listened to my concern and help me resolve the issue, which was probably not an issue other than my own ignorance. I was sorry that I was unable to complete the phone survey after the call but something happened to the connection and I was cut off. Probably of my own doing. Love Blue Host customer service!

Reason I chose this business:

Efficiency and reputable, friendly customer service.

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California
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March 31st, 2024
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A lot of your services are listed by acronyms and not explained sufficiently for a newer / less experienced user. Makes it hard to understand which services are essential and which ones are "nice to have add-ons"

Reason I chose this business:

Website is built and through the lack of info is very annoying, it is too much effort to switch and too much of a learning curve to start with a new provider

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New York
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March 30th, 2024
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Your system is not user friendly! For example... I have my credit card on file and yet every month I have to login to pay my office space email subscription... That should be automatic... And yet when I login I have to jump through hoops to simply pay a bill.

Reason I chose this business:

I thought I would give you a try

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Australia
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March 26th, 2024
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Absolute garbage customer service. I had ongoing issues with being blacklisted for falsely spamming email with no explanation given and literally days wasted and thousands lost each time I had to try fix it myself.

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Michigan
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April 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

Customer service has always had language barriers. Maybe you should have some American's on staff. Feel free to call me if you want to hire some quality workers in the US of A *******790

Reason I chose this business:

I was referred by domain.com which had even worse customer service.

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North Carolina
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April 10th, 2024
Verified purchase

On Thursday, March 28, I asked you to delete the websites soulcourse.com and talkwithelaine.com. Instead, you deleted my ACTIVE website and my email inbox for elainebayless.com. It is now almost 9:00 PM EDT on April 31st and you have yet to rectify your error. It's worth noting that despite this being your error, I have received no apology.

Reason I chose this business:

I'm trapped with you. Years ago I talked with you to detangle my elainebayless domain from soulcourse domain. You said you had done it. Yet I'm still paying. Then you deleted my domain and email. If you want me to choose you again you may want to consider offering me some significant discounts.

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New York
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March 22nd, 2024
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Your customer service has been nothing but disappointing, frustrating, and downright demeaning over the last month. I've lost count the number of times that I had to reach out for support and to follow up on numerous occasions because the promises made were not fulfilled. Please do not promise to email in 24-48 hours if you don't actually plan to do so. Bluehost deleted settings with my site without authorization, they lied to me about not being able to reinstate those settings, they put me off for a number of days, lied again, and then miraculously fixed it. I'm not happy about taking my 10+ years of service elsewhere, but you've left me no choice. I have ZERO trust in your services and that you care about your customers.

Reason I chose this business:

To prepare my site for transfer to another provider.

Thumbnail of user anirbang1
Canada
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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March 16th, 2024
Verified purchase

Everything ok with my account, but websites and emails are down. Customers are informing about both being down. I have been on waiting at Support phone line for 30 minutes. Hope that should outline the experience. Thank you.

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New York
1 review
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April 2nd, 2024
Verified purchase

Getting started was very easy and smooth. I was interrupted at the beginning of building my site and had to sign out. When I signed back in later, I had a hard time getting to the editing section to continue setting up my website. I'm not as tech savvy as I used to be so that's on me but it might be easier for other not so tech savvy people if there was a link to go back to the beginning of website set up. Other than my lack of knowledge, bluehost is a very good place to host my website. Thank you.

Reason I chose this business:

I have some free time so I'm working on refining my website before launching it.

Thumbnail of user denisep1291
Virginia
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March 29th, 2024
Verified purchase

The chat window is blocking the drop down menu on my Mac so I can't log off. Also, the chat icon is blocking this box as I try to type on my phone. Argh!

I was sent an email with a link to give me step by step instructions. But I have to log off first. For now, when I hit the link, I get a page that says How to create and manage a mailbox. But there are no instructions.

Reason I chose this business:

My domains are with Bluehost.

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California
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March 27th, 2024
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The new way to manage domains makes it extremely tedious and time consuming to update the simplest things like the default billing card. Getting help from the chat feature proved to be fruitless as the agent gave incorrect information and couldn't answer a simple question.

Reason I chose this business:

Because I've been with them for a few years and just have been too lazy to switch providers.

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Idaho
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May 13th, 2024
Verified purchase

Easy, quick and understandable! I went right to where I needed to go and completed my tasks. No issues or problems.

Reason I chose this business:

It was recommended to me

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Texas
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March 24th, 2024
Verified purchase

Something happened to the back-end of my site and as a result, I am having to recreate many sections of my site. What was suppose to have been backed up and restored is more than 2.5 years old instead of being from Feb. 9,2024. I am so angry and it is going to take me months to fix my site and I don't have any confidence that the same issues won't happen again.

Reason I chose this business:

Issues with my website.

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Netherlands
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March 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

Logging in has become a real pain. You keep changing things! Now have to use a user id,,,used too be able to login with email. A little while back your password field keys wanting to set a new password rather than use for logging in. All very odd.

Also, is really annoying having the popup trying to sell me some upgrade I don't want - keep having to click 'continue to account manager'

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Michigan
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April 9th, 2024
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I was panicking a little due to my dashboard showing no posts/pages. I called and talked to a representative that was kind and helpful. She found my problem and said that it would correct itself within an hour or so. I ended up going to bed that night to check on my website in the morning. It still wasn't working correctly so I called Bluehost back. The gentleman assured me he could see the content and that the URL was not correct. He stayed on the line and helped fix my issue to my satisfaction. Both representatives I talked to were very kind and understanding that this issue was not a small one for me, and was an important concern.

I was panicking a little due to my dashboard showing no posts/pages. I called and talked to a representative that was kind and helpful. She found my problem and said that it would correct itself within an hour or so. I ended up going to bed that night to check on my website in the morning. It still wasn't working correctly so I called Bluehost back. The gentleman assured me he could see the content and that the URL was not correct. He stayed on the line and helped fix my issue to my satisfaction. Both representatives I talked to were very kind and understanding that this issue was not a small one for me, and was an important concern.

Reason I chose this business:

Bluehost was recommended to me by a blogger.

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Thumbnail of user jocelynh128
Texas
1 review
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April 3rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I have had numerous issues with Bluehost. I don't have access to my wordpress. I've called several times. I thought one time my site was recovering, only to discover that I was unable to access or edit my site.
My SSL got turned off, and now seeing an invalid certificate, giving me an error that my page is not private.
I got my.com website taken away. My.tech website is the only site that I have now. Still, I don't have access to the site. I'm Very unhappy and haven't been able to do busy. I keep getting representative after representative to assist me and still getting the same results.

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Florida
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March 29th, 2024
Verified purchase

It's too much to get to the domain tools. I am literally clicking a link instead of a button on the panel or something. It's just too much, and why am I paying an extra 50 a year? I don't understand this at all.

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California
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March 23rd, 2024
Verified purchase

I have sought help in cancelling my service and getting a refund since i did not want to renew and im being charged again anyway and inundated with calls as it appears you sold my info as a trigger lead.

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Maine
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March 31st, 2024
Verified purchase

Nightmare! I changed nameservers a week ago on Squarespace and the DNS records are still not updated correctly. I have been in touch with Bluehost every day, sometimes many times a day and every rep gives me a different answer. When I ask for a survey (after a bad interaction), my call is disconnected and I do not get a survey option (this has happened twice).

Reason I chose this business:

Long time customer

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Georgia
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March 17th, 2024
Verified purchase

Why can't you guys just allow 2 factor authentication that recognizes the 2 devices I use to access my account. My webmail logon no longer works and your particular 2-step authentication is cumbersome. Improve!

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Indiana
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March 25th, 2024
Verified purchase

I've been with Bluehost now for almost 20 years. I'm not real fond of all the changes. I liked simple C-Panel and using FTP. Email at one time was easy, now any email coming from the Bluehost servers seems to be sent to spam on other servers, I'm not sure why and there is not a good, one button fix for it.

Reason I chose this business:

I've got websites on Bluehost.

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GB
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March 18th, 2024
Verified purchase

I'm at the point of renewing and I'm really quite irritated about the lack of transparency about what it will cost (it doesn't say in the dashboard and I've not had an email recently about it (or since I asked for my plan to be changed). I also don't understand why there's such a lack of control (e.g. To change plans etc.) I have through my online portal. It's disgraceful that an online service gives so little control and transparency over these things in 2024.

Reason I chose this business:

I'm starting to wonder.

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