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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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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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Mexico
1 review
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March 17th, 2024
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Passing through the gauntlet of options and screens just to be able to access the Cpanel is astronomically stupid. Every single time. Even if the sites are already set and running, you have to stare at the initial setup like an imbecile.

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Missouri
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March 19th, 2024
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Not very intuitive when trying to work on multiple websites. Should be easier to add additional owned domains to the Create New Website page instead of having to enter domain name. Should be able to select from own websites to begin editing.

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Arizona
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March 23rd, 2024
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Too many clicks to get to the control panel to edit and control the account. The old user interface was for more efficient and did not have all the extra un-needed steps. The new design sucks, it slows the process down and makes things more complicated.

Reason I chose this business:

Been a customer for 20 years and am not ready to start looking again for a hosting company. Though with the new pricing and the change in my legacy account, should anything more change or another price increase, I will be looking for other solutions.

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Massachusetts
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April 4th, 2024
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TBH I barely scratch the surface of what's available on the site, but for my simple needs it has always been easy to navigate. My previous site was a rudimentary site I built with html and it was easy to manage through the Bluehost interface. My current site's Wordpress and it's such a pain, I'm going to opt for a simpler more robust platform for the next iteration. I put this one together initially through the BlueSky subscription and they were very helpful although I've been managing it myself for the past couple of years and the experience has been frustrating. I rarely have cause to ask support of Bluehost but when I do, support has consistently been readily available. As a host I have always found them to be accessible and available and for so long as I require a website as part of my profession I expect to remain with them.

Reason I chose this business:

Er. You have been hosting me for a while. A curious question to ask.

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Washington
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March 6th, 2024
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The website themes always have errors or cause viruses, ETC. This has been a horrible experience and support never can help me is always suggesting that I spend more money by using a web developer when this site is being advertised as simple.

Reason I chose this business:

After doing research this host appeared to be better than the others

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Massachusetts
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March 15th, 2024
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Immediately after logging in, an advertisement popped up that blocked the entire screen, which I had to dismiss before I could continue to my account. Even worse, it was very unclear *how* to dismiss it. This is very disrespectful towards the customer, and gets an automatic low rating in my book.

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Michigan
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March 15th, 2024
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Somehow our user ID was changed. Spent two very frustrating days trying to figure out what was wrong. Overall, the sign in experience has changed multiple times over the past several months - the layout, an ad that needs to be bypassed, and now our User ID. Not a great user experience.

Reason I chose this business:

It's where our website is hosted.

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Michigan
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April 9th, 2024
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My website is still not working correctly and I have chatted with support numerous times to get it fixed. I am transferring my site to a different hosting platform.

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Spain
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April 1st, 2024
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Since I have been working with bluehost I have not been able to use my website, there is a problem one after another (More than 1 month no working well). The support team are the most horrible an unpoffesional I have never seen. Well not everyone, but you have to be lucky to find the rigth one. Sorry about it, but my experience has been horrible so far.

Reason I chose this business:

I think I got a good offer but after all this problem I see I got a very bad offer. I lost already more than I have safe hiring bluehost.

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Texas
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March 26th, 2024
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It's ridiculous that agents do not inform clients of the details of accessing their files (web files) after hosting expires.

I was completely misinformed. I was told that I can still access my website files even 30 days after my hosting platform expired. (I was not told that I must reactivate my website to access these files.) I had to end up paying almost $50 to reactivate the platform just to access my web files.

After speaking to the agent on the line I literally had to BEG her for a discount since I was misinformed or not given the proper information from the beginning and that alone was a hassle. She said she would ask a manager for a 20% which was approved, but later the system "wouldn't take it" so then she eventually had to downgrade it to a 15% off... and getting her to even do that took a lot of pressing. She was not understanding, and initially didn't have any sympathy or understanding of the fact that I was misinformed from the beginning.

Reason I chose this business:

Simply because I need to access my files. I will never use Bluehost again.

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Arizona
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March 28th, 2024
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The customer service for tech support has been sub par. I've been a customer for 10+ years and recently I've called in a few times for different tech support and the agents couldn't solve my basic issue, and they weren't knowledgeable or they didn't use active listening to understand what my requests were. I fixed the issues myself after several calls and 4-6 hours of wasted time speaking with tech support.

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Portugal
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April 15th, 2024
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The servers in portugal are just incredibly crazy slow... no explanations. No help or support regarding this matter. It's very frustrating and impossible to find help or troubleshoot.

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California
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April 12th, 2024
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You guys used to be great, you're slowly going downhill. Let's get back to customer service, giving the customer a price break, and easy access to the cPa el by default.

Reason I chose this business:

I've been a customer for decades but I'm starting to think it's time to switch.

Excellent provider, I have been dealing with them for...
May 19th, 2022
Verified purchase
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Excellent provider, I have been dealing with them for 2 decades! Thank you for the great and rich options in cPanel!

Reason I chose this business:

Because I always do.

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Florida
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March 23rd, 2024
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I have not been able to login via webmail using my primary account. I purchased two additional email accounts for my team members and neither one can access using webmail. I have tried to communicate my challenges using the chat numerous times with no solutions. I am beyond disappointed with Bluehost.

Reason I chose this business:

I have no choice. I made a purchase therefore, I am locked in for a year. I am seriously shopping around for a better platform that is more responsive with troubleshooting so that I can leave Bluehost.

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Kentucky
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April 12th, 2024
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Your pin number restrictions are too severe for me to use my regular one.
Mail storage is too expensive.
The tone of your interface is unprofessional.

Reason I chose this business:

I haven't taken the effort to change hosting services.

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Florida
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March 17th, 2024
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The popups that are on my site when I log in are irritating. I worked with your chat representative and they said they cannot be removed. That was Ecommerce popup page. Today the page was website protection and i could barely see the button "no thanks" so I could move forward.

You need to think about your audience when this is a system wide popup - you are not making fans

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Canada
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April 10th, 2024
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Very efficient and polite responses received throughout the interaction. Prompt answer to questions were given. I was very pleased with the service provided.

Reason I chose this business:

Change payment method.

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GB
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March 30th, 2024
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Quite mixed. I have had 2 helpful experiences, where my problem was resolved quickly. This was when the Bluehost agent reversed my website having been removed from my websites tab, the other was when my another agent reversed my being locked out of my account (a BLuehost error). The others have been particularly poor. One being my login not working for reasons that were not explained to me. The other being bluehost removing the wrong website from my hosting package. The other being waiting 20 minutes to be identified (couldn't find my url or login details) before being able to ask my question. Call dropping spontaneously. Being put on hold for 5 minutes after I asked "what will happen to my original website if I click Transfer website?" The pathways /hosting/details/sites brings up a different page from /hosting/sites which was very confusing. This is particularly poor because of the fact that this is a hosting site, yet the pages on it are confusing.

Reason I chose this business:

I previously had a domain and wanted to continue on this, but will likely be switching as the service has been touch and go.

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Colorado
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March 18th, 2024
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What is this PIN system? The requirements of it were completely ridiculous, I tried a number of permutations just to get something that allowed me to submit it but it always showed me an error. And who uses that? If you want to set up 2FA there are a million better ways to do it, the $#*!s the matter with you.

Reason I chose this business:

I chose it years ago, and at this rate I'm going to transition off of it very soon.

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North Carolina
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March 27th, 2024
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About a month ago, my website was DELETED with no explanation of why. I spent over 2 hours with chat support trying to get it back. They had no explanation to give me of why it happened. They were able to eventually get it back, but this caused a LOT of stress for me, and as a result I no longer trust that bluehost won't just randomly do it again :(

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India
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March 9th, 2024
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Having renewal issues for one week now. Eventually the domain expired, taking all our business domains down! Have been talking to the customer support folks, just to hear that the issue will be resolved soon. And the soon never comes!

Reason I chose this business:

I chose Bluehost because I am one of the unfortunate existing customers of Bluehost who migrated to Bluehost with a very high hope 5 years ago.

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Colorado
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March 12th, 2024
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I can only access my email through cPanel--it won't let me log in through android phone or browser. I spent quite a while with chat assistance yesterday: they "noted" the issue and told me to try later. It still doesn't work and now I'll need to waste more of my time trying to resolve a problem that should have already been taken care of.

Reason I chose this business:

I can only access my email through cPanel--it won't let me log in through android phone or browser. I spent quite a while with chat assistance yesterday: they "noted" the issue and told me to try later. It still doesn't work and now I'll need to waste more of my time trying to resolve a problem that should have already been taken care of.

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TW
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March 12th, 2024
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I can't login and your website keeps locking me out. I wasted 1 hour working on this issue with customer support. He/she sent me password reset 6 (SIX) times. Did not work. THis has happened way too many times. If this happens again, I am tranferring all my more than 20 domains to Godaddy. I have been a loyal customer for the last 7 years. I am very, very disappointed at your technical issues

Reason I chose this business:

I honestly don't think I am very happy with the bad experience!

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Florida
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April 4th, 2024
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Worst webhost ever. Our side is redirecting. We were talked into buying a $500 site lock security package and after weeks our website is still being redirected with problems and no one will help.

Reason I chose this business:

They are awful. I will steer any and everyone away.

Thumbnail of user jacquelines1239
Brazil
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March 16th, 2024
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I'm having trouble updating the files of my site. My updates are not showing, or they take a long time. Plus, depending on tthe device and browser, I see different versions, or the SSL doesn't work automatically, showing my address as not safe.

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