Bluehost: Best Reliability ($3.95/Mo)

Bluehost Background Information

Bluehost is currently responsible for hosting more than 2 million websites all over the world and is one of the most popular and least expensive shared hosting services available.

Founded in 1996 by Matt Heaton and Danny Ashworth in Provo, Utah, they have a staff of 750 employees working around the clock to ensure the highest quality of service possible.

And while the company's long history and dedicated support staff provide a certain degree of confidence in their offer, I've noticed a serious problem with most Bluehost reviews...

They make glowing recommendations for the service without taking any objective data or metrics (like load time and uptime) into account.

But not us...

This review is based on actual statistics and data, gathered over the course of more than 3 years of testing Bluehost's cheapest 'shared' plan.

So what was our experience with Bluehost over the past 37 months?

Let's dive in and find out...

Pros of Bluehost

As is the case with all of our web hosting reviews we are committed to providing you with the most unbiased and transparent information on the web and we rely heavily on statistically relevant data and quantifiable metrics to determine the quality of a web host.

Here are just a few of the "Pros" of using Bluehost's services (according to the data).

1. Strong Uptime of 99.99% (#1)

Since their services underwent a major overhaul, Bluehost has improved its uptime so profoundly that it's darn near perfect (<99.99%).

With only 2 outages in the past 8 months, Bluehost's phenomenal uptime is well over the industry standard of 99.94% and resulted in only 1 hour of downtime out of the 4380 hours that we logged over the period of our review.

Although their uptimes took a serious hit in August of 2017, Bluehost claims that the problems were due to various DDoS attacks directed at their servers and the numbers have been trending up ever since.

Overall, it's the best uptime we've seen over the past 8 months after monitoring more than 33 hosts:

September 2017 average uptime: 99.98%
October 2017 average uptime: 99.86%
November 2017 average uptime: 100%
December 2017 average uptime: 100%
January 2018 average uptime: 99.99%
February 2018 average uptime: 100%
March 2018 average uptime: 100%
April 2018 average uptime: 100%
Simply choosing Bluehost allows eCommerce sites to obtain a free SSL security certificate, OpenPGP/GPG Encryption, and more right away.

6. 'Official' WordPress.org Recommended Host

Although you should typically take non-data drive hosting recommendations with a grain of salt, when the world's largest CMS recommends a hosting provider, it's typically a good idea to listen up.

The WordPress official site (WordPress.org) recently re-made their hosting page and listed their 3 favorite hosting providers. Among those included are SiteGround, Dreamhost and, you guessed it, Bluehost.

With Bluehost's simple interface, you can access all of your websites and email addresses from one place.

Plus, you can customize how you want to lay out the cPanel to fit your specific needs so that you can quickly reach the features you use the most.

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