Comments on: Is BlueHost Going Down on Quality?

By: mark

mark — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:25:07 +0000

I am not here to advice anyone to join this or that webhost I am here to advice people to stay away from Bluehost. It isn’t about their speed, it’s about their attitude!

I signed up with them, moved my sites over and then suddenly all my sites just displayed the message: “This Account Has Been Suspended” .

Imagine how nice it is for your users to see that message instead of your websites!. Obviously they’ll think you did something wrong, but the only problem is: you signed up with Bluehost!

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:11:46 +0000

Just this morning my business site and e-commerce site went down again with BlueHost. Their customer service told me “99.99% uptime gurantees we will be connected to the ISP. We are still connected to the ISP but our servers are down.”

That tells me their real uptime is less than 99.99% and it also tells me I am going to continually have trouble running my e-commerce site with bluehost.

Are Dreamhost, GoDaddy or anyone else better? Can’t make a living if my sites are down.

By: micek

micek — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:36:34 +0000

Bluehost sucks, but they give high amounts for affiliate service, so they are all over with their adds on so called webhost rating sites, which are affiliate sites claiming objectivity and real independent information. Bluehost have no real long term business plan, and their customers will get taste of that soon. If you are on bluehost, it is a matter of time when and over what they will screw you.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:50:37 +0000

Bluehost just suspended my account without notice and when I called did not give me explanation in detail. My customers are noe mad at me since their site are down. Their quality of services has consistently gone down.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:24:49 +0000

Bluehost is gradually becoming slower and slower…For example, my websites are all down right now. And I’m getting downtime more and more frequently.

I agree…they were so great just last year – now we are getting such a decrease in quality.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:28:21 +0000

This post is really late, and I never make comments, but I had to on this one.

I use to love Bluehost. I’ve been with them for 5 years now, but in the last 8 months or so their service has continually gotten worse. I kept hoping that it would get better, as they would tell me every time I spoke with someone that their techs have found the issue and it would be resolved. That of course has never happened.

The service has now become terrible and I just can’t take it anymore, and today I have finally decided that I need to find a new place to host my sites.

If you have any recommendations on any good hosting companies, please let me know.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:44:12 +0000

BLuehost performance has gotten a lot worse over the last couple of months. Seems they have “server under heavy load” problems at least twice a week now. Can’t the morons fix it by now? Are they really that stupid??? Time to move to another hosting company.

By: Gerry Russo

Gerry Russo — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:11:11 +0000

I’ve got web hosting on pretty much all the top hosting companies. The best I have found are ones with clustered hosting. Netfirms is good. I also heard that Vistapages has come out with some cPanel clustered hosting, which bluehost uses as their control panel too. Might be worth looking into!

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:21:00 +0000

I am only here to say I signed up to be an affiliate for BlueHost and before spending any time creating any promotions on them I signed up for their hosting just to see what my future leads were going to get.

Well…BlueHost killed my hosting account within 24 hours accusing me to giving them inaccurate contact info. They won’t reply to any emails now?

Their affiliate manager sound like those fascists that John Belushi almost ran over in “Blues Brothers”. I don’t understand what’s happening with BlueHost nor why they treated me like this, nor do I care. I am just here to warn anyone who might be thinking of joining them. These are proper cowboys, they’ll shoot first then they’ll ask “who is there”. I still don’t have a clue what their problem with me was and life’s too short to even bother.

I just hope my paypal dispute will help get my $95 back. Oh and while I was in there, it isn’t true that you get adwords and Yahoo credits! You only get them if you join adwords and Yahoo via BlueHost’s affiliates link!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:28:49 +0000

I’ve used bluehost nearly for 5 years and just recently, I’ve been getting this error as well. Now I am a web programmer so I know how to optimize my website to use less CPU and still this is happening, so it’s definitely an issue on Bluehost.com’s site.

My company uses bluehost to host all its websites and this is my only source of income so I cannot have my sites down 10-20 mins through out the day!!

They better fix the issue before people start looking else where, specifically for dedicated severs

By: Crazy Penguin

Crazy Penguin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:15:39 +0000

Using Bluehost and quality in the same sentence is an oxymoron. I had so many problems with Bluehost it would take a short novel to describe them. Read about my nightmare with Bluehost.

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By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:13:19 +0000

BlueHost, Hostmonster and DreamHost are all overselling. If you want better quality without the overselling go with WebFaction

By: Carlos de Paula

Carlos de Paula — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:30:22 +0000

I currently host with a company called dotyou.com. I sincerely do not recommend them. Their customer service is pitiful, and they are constantly having issues that take a long time to solve. The only reason I haven’t left yet is because of the problem I would have moving tens of thousands of pages from my two sites. On the good side, though, they offer great free script on their hosting package, which a lot of companies do not offer.

By: Kanak Bhandari

Kanak Bhandari — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:36:33 +0000

bluehost is really going down on quality. I wrote about it when I moved to bluehost.

Actually I was in a impression that you are already on Dedicated hosting.

http://www.tecfre.com/dreamhost-i-miss-you-is-bluehost-too-much-overrated-a-comparative-study/

By: Dj Flush

Dj Flush — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:03:41 +0000

@lol

Thanks. I will try looking at their packages. Keshav recommended me http://www.slicehost.com which seems to be quite good as well.

By: lol

lol — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:29:36 +0000

For a site like your’s, you would most likely need a minimum of 512 MB RAM.
You could check out http://www.vpslink.com they seem to be quite good.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:49:26 +0000

All these bluehost, dreamhost and all others which are in the same category are all relaible only upto certain level I guess…Has anyone tried Yahoo hosting? Its a bit expensive but it’ll be worth it if its reliable.

By: Dj Flush

Dj Flush — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:34:35 +0000

So the search for World’s best managed VPS hosting is on