I have unlimited love for Bluehost
I’m not shy about how much I love my hosting company, Bluehost. In fact, I seem to blog about it once a year, it seems as thought it’s about that time again. Reason I’m mentioning it now is because they recently upped the ante once again and I couldn’t be happier.
So a friend of mine asked me how much space you get for $6.95 a month on Bluehost, because she was always filling up her hosting account and running out of space. I knew it was alot, but I couldn’t remember the exact amount so I went and looked it up. Low and behold, they’ve changed how much space you get. To infinity. Yes, that’s right, you now get an UNLIMITED amount of space with your Bluehost account.
Of course, let’s say you create a wildly successful video podcast. Each of those videos can be upwards of 100mb. With thousands of people downloading them, you’ll probably run out of bandwidth pretty quick. That’s why hosting companies like LibSyn have made a splash, because they give you unlimited bandwidth. So I looked up how much bandwidth you get right now at Bluehost. Guess what? That’s unlimited too!
How many domains can you host there? Unlimited. Subdomains? Unlimited. Email forwards? Unlimited. FTP Accounts? Only 1000. But if you need more than 1000 separate FTP accounts, we gotta talk 
What else do I like about Bluehost? For $6.95 a month, you get a free domain name that you can set up a blog on with a single Click. Or a Drupal. Or Moodle. Or Joomla, or just about anything else. You get FTP, Email accounts (with 3 different webmail choices), wikis, SFTP, full stats, SSH, PHP, MySql, Ruby and the complete works. I have yet to want to do something with my Bluehost account that I couldn’t find a way to make it work.
In fact, it’s so easy to set things up and take them down that I do it for friends all the time. They want to try out a blog? I install one with a single click, let them play around, and then remove it. They want to try out Moodle? Install, play, remove. Couldn’t be easier.
Customer support is phenomenal as well. I’ve had about 4 or 5 problems over the last few years so they aren’t perfect, but the good thing is that every time I’ve ever called in I’ve gotten a person on the phone within a few minutes, and that first person I’ve spoken to has been able to find a solution. The service is exemplary.
In all honesty, in hindsight, had I known about them when I was a Tech Coordinator, I would never have hosted our school site on the XServes we bought with a grant. I’d have saved a bundle of money and just put it on Bluehost. No worries about backing things up, no worries about up time, power outages, server racks, or anything. Just let them take care of all that so you can focus on doing the good stuff.
Now, for the full disclosure part. The links to Bluehost so far have all contained my affiliate link. Whenever someone registers for Bluehost, I get a small kickback. However, I’m a big enough fan for them that I’d recommend that you use them even if you don’t use my affiliate link. So if you click here you can go check out Bluehost and sign up WITHOUT giving a cent to me. Pure and simple, I use them because I love them and I think you will too.
If you have any questions about them or want to play around with any of it, just let me know!
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mwright103
7/11/2008
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Rich Platts
7/12/2008
I may be convinced to switch — any idea how tricky moving a site / domain would be? It looks like you are getting more functionality and product for your buck than I am at oneworldhosting.com .
I suppose it would not be too bad – export my databases, copy my files and voila. Now the domain transfer i’ve not done before.
Steve Dembo
7/12/2008
The domain transfer is the easiest part. If it’s registered at OneWorldHosting, then Bluehost can handle the transfer. If it’s registered at something like GoDaddy, just change where the DNS servers point to. Not too painful at all.
As to moving your site, just depends on what you’ve got there that you need to move. You probably have it right though. Export databases, transfer all the files, tweak a few settings and then relaunch.
If you want me to set up a testing grounds in my account, let me know!
Steve Dembo’s most recent blog post.. I have unlimited love for Bluehost
Chad Lehman
7/14/2008
I wish this would have been posted a week ago. I’m going with 1and1.com for now. It’s cheap and seems to do what I’m hoping for. If it turns out to not meet my needs, I’ll be moving in this direction. For now, I just have my imcguy blog there, but hope to expand on that down the road.
Bif Sinclair
8/2/2008
I use BlueHost too, but I prefer HostNexus because they can give me more unique class c ip addresses.
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bluehostreview.org
9/13/2008
for bluehost unlimited storage hosting, TOS apply 
.. basically you can use it for your web file only.
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Craig Walton
10/9/2008
Heh, I too have made the move to Bluehost and I’m pretty happy. I feel bad letting you know but if you’re really tight for cash and you can’t help Steve out you could get hosting for $4.95 a month instead of the normal $6.95 with their promo they are running in a few select locations. http://www.bestofthewebhosts.com/blog/?p=52 Basically you just have to use that link to get the deal – but really the extra two bucks isn’t going to kill anyone.
Matt
10/9/2008
I’m brand new to the hosting/blogging game (just signed up with bluehost and started writing a couple weeks ago), and so far I’m very impressed. For some reason I couldn’t get either bluehost or my blog to open for about 30 mins today, but other than that, a great experience and great bargain.
—Matt—
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Steve
10/10/2008
@craig Hey, don’t feel bad! I’m all for people getting the best deal that they can
computer problems
10/26/2008
thanks that was really helpful really appreciate your effort
but i am having a hostgator account and it rocks too
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Joe
8/25/2009
Thank you for sharing. I’ve lately signed up for Bluehost and since I’m newbie I really don’t know how to use all its features perfectly. Everyday I search on the web and study different reviews and tutorials to get more about my available facilities. So far I’m happy with their services. Especially their help center and support team are perfect. Thank you again for sharing your experience and knowledge.
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