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About Bluehost

BlueHost has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Their Internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost. They now hosting over 460,000 Domains!

Webhosting Overview

Host Rating: 95%
General Impression: 94%
Features: 93%
Price/Quality: 93%
Reliability& Uptime: 89%
Support: 91%
Connectivity: 94%
Overall uptime: 99.789 %

Webhosting Features

Web Space: 1,500 GB
Free Domain Registration: Free For Life
Data Transfer: 15,000 GB Monthly Bandwidth
Sub Domains: unlimited
POP3 Email: 2500
Multiple Domains: Unlimited
MySQL Databases: 50
Web Site Builder: Free
Money Back: 30 days
Support: Free 24/7 Support by Phone, Live Chat, e-mail, Ticket
$50 Yahoo Credit and $50 Google AdWords

Webhosting Awards

Editor's Choice Hosting by "Web Hosting Geeks" (2005)
Best Multiple Domain Hosting by "Web Hosting Geeks" (2005)
Best Blog Hosting by "Web Hosting Geeks" (2005)
Best Forum Hosting by "Web Hosting Geeks" (2005)
Best PHP/MySQL Hosting by "Web Hosting Geeks" (2005)
Host of the Year by "Hosting Review" (2005)
Web Host of the Year by "100 Best Web Hosting" (2005)
#1 Rated Web Hosts by "Hosting Checker" (2005)
Best Overall Host by "Top 10 Web Hosting" (2005)
Most Popular Host by "Hosting Comparison" (2005)
Best Overall Host by "Web Hosting Jungle" (2005)

Hosting Control Panel

Bluehost's hosting control panel is easy to use with a friendly user interface. Most of the web hosting companies use almost the same user friendly Cpanel that is being used by BlueHost. Cpanel features about 35 different functions which are quickly accessible. These functions include file management, e-mail management, disk usage, forums, web statistics, additional domain management, search engine submission, system security and a host of many other options.
CPanel Fantastico Script Libray Includes:
Blogs: b2evolution Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress
Content Management: Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, TYPO3, Xoops
Customer Relationship: Crafty Syntax Live Help, Help Center Live, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHP Support Tickets, Support Logic Helpdesk, Support Services Manager
Discussion Boards: phpBB2, SMF
E-Commerce: CubeCart, OS Commerce, Zen Cart
F.A.Q.: FAQMasterFlex
Guestbooks: ViPER Guestbook
Hosting Billing: AccountLab Plus, phpCOIN
Image Galleries: 4Images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, Gallery
Mailing Lists: PHPlist
Polls and Surveys: Advanced Poll, phpESP, PHPSurveyor
Project Management: PHProjekt
Site Builders: Templates Express
Wiki: TikiWiki, PhpWiki
Other Scripts: Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, phpFormGenerator, WebCalendar
Extras: Language, Side menu appearance, Email notifications, Installations overview

E-mail Features and Functions

Bluehost offers 2500 POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support and IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support, unlimited Forwarding Email Accounts and Email Auto responder. They also offer Webmail, Web File Manager, Hotlink Protection and Spam Assassin Protection.

Tools

Blue Host offers some domain name related benefits like free domain name and support International Domain Names. They also offer most effective and efficient tools for programmers and developers like 50 MySQL Databases and 50 PostgreSQL Databases, CGI-BIN, CGI Library PHP Support, Perl Support, FrontPage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions, FTP Access, Shell Access (SSH), Customizable Error Pages, Fantastico Script Support, Custom Cronjobs, Override, .htaccess Support.

Good, Bad, Ugly

Good: Bluehost is a very good host with good web storage space and Very Cheap Price, Very Good Traffic Bandwidth Easy-to-use and more.
Bad: Almost nothings.

Servers Security

They use 2 firewalls (preliminary and on-network firewall) and since they don't allow any kind of shell access to any part of their network, your website is in very good hands and they have never been hacked.

What Costumers say about Bluehost

I have been using Bluehost for over three years and I have no problem recommending them to my clients and have had not one complaint from them either.

This is the very best host there is. Period.The service is awesome, the array of features is astounding, the price is low. Wow!

Bluehost provide a fairly good package - providing almost everything you need at a very reasonable price.