Teach42

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!