Bluehost web hosting

Bluehost web hosting and domain

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hey guys and welcome to my review today of  bluehost so bluehost is known for being one  

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of the more popular web hosting companies  because of its affordability excellent value  

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great performance and being really newbie friendly  it's also one of the three hosting services that  

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is officially recommended by wordpress along  with dreamhost and siteground but it's not going  

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to be the perfect choice for everyone after  using bluehost myself for over 10 years now  

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i've learned what it's best at as well as the  things it's not so great for so today i'll not  

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only explain the different features of bluehost  and how will they perform in the real world but  

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i'll also compare them to the competition and  ultimately help you to decide whether bluehost  

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would be the best hosting company for you or  not and as always i'll include any links in  

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the description to the best deals or promotional  discounts on bluehost that i can get for you guys  

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so regarding user friendliness this is one of the  features that sets bluehost apart as they make it  

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really easy for anyone to manage a website even if  this is the first time you've ever had a website  

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now bluehost uses cpanel which is a web hosting  control panel that offers a ton of options  

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for integrations for example you can add email  autoresponders apps to track marketing metrics  

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such as the number of clicks on your website and  apps for automatic billing you can also install  

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content management systems other than wordpress  such as joomla and drupal basically bluehost makes  

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it simple and easy to add any additional apps and  plugins which gives your site more features and  

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can help to improve the experience of visitors  to your website in the performance page you can  

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change the cache settings which basically allows  you to delete the data stored on your website  

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so that it loads faster and then the settings  page gives you an overview of any updates that  

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have happened or are yet to happen you can also  manage content such as your blogs for example  

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you can moderate comments you've received on your  blog pages rather than having to log into each  

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of your sites individually and then regarding  performance this is an extremely important and  

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for some the most important feature of a good web  hosting company performance is basically measured  

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on two metrics you have the loading time of your  website and the uptime so the loading time is  

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how fast your website loads when a user opens it a  fast page loading time is ideally one that is less  

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than three seconds this ultimately means a better  user experience which means google will give  

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you more favor in the search results and as a  result means your website will get more visitors  

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so bluehost has one of the fastest loading  times compared to other hosting companies  

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which is 2.89 seconds on average then the second  factor is up time this measures the amount of time  

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for which your website is up and running  and is generally shown as a percentage here  

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again bluehost is one of the best as well with an  uptime of 99.98 percent over the course of a year  

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and although each hosting company experiences  some downtime bluehost is one of the best in  

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this regard but in addition to performance there  are several other things bluehost does which makes  

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it a great value for example no matter which  hosting plan you choose they all include at  

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least one free domain name for the first year a  free ssl certificate and five free email accounts  

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bluehost also has a one-click wordpress  installation option which is simple and  

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easy to use and in addition to this another thing  that makes bluehost great for beginners is that  

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it gives you a checklist of all the things that  you may need to complete like organize your  

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site's navigation or customize your design also  everyone is given unmetered bandwidth which means  

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that you won't be charged based on the amount of  bandwidth that you use however you will be asked  

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to reduce your usage if you exceed the limits set  in bluehost terms and service this limit is 5000  

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database tables and 10 gigabytes of total database  usage fortunately it's not likely you'll ever have  

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to worry about this as most websites never exceed  these limits but one of my favorite things about  

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bluehost is their customer support out of all  the hosting companies i've been with bluehost  

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has impressed me the most so far with how great  their support is particularly over the phone i've  

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had some of the most legendary support situations  that literally prompted me to write letters to  

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the upper management because of how impressed  i was because it's particularly unique these  

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days to find a company that not only hires great  people who genuinely care about helping you but  

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then that company also empowers those people to  do everything they can do to take care of you and  

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if you've ever been in a situation where you're  stuck trying to figure out what's wrong with your  

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website you know how valuable that type of support  can be so their customer support team is available  

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24 7 by phone or you can email or chat with them  if you prefer and then pricing is another area  

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where bluehost demonstrates its value as a hosting  company i'll highlight some of the key and most  

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important points here in this review but if you're  interested in more details about the different  

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plans i'll include a link in the description to a  more detailed review about the different pricing  

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plans and options but when it comes to choosing  the right plan it's important to understand that  

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your pricing plan will be greatly affected  by whether it's a shared hosting plan or a  

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dedicated hosting plan shared hosting basically  means that you share your hosting space with  

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other websites whereas dedicated hosting means  that you get to have your own hosting space  

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the benefit of shared hosting is that it's cheaper  than dedicated hosting the downside is that it  

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doesn't have as much speed security or performance  but keep in mind these shared hosting plans are  

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what 95 of people use with bluehost and these  are the plans i've continued to use for the past  

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10 years for dozens and dozens of my own sites as  they still perform really well especially for how  

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little they cost now the cheapest shared hosting  plan that bluehost offers starts at 295 per month  

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there's also a plus and choice plan which costs  545 per month the main difference is that the  

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choice plus will give you a little more protection  for your websites but although they cost the same  

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initially the renewal price for choice plus is  a few dollars more per month so what i recommend  

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doing is starting with choice plus and then  you can always downgrade to the plus plan when  

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your renewal happens if you don't want to pay the  extra few bucks per month for additional security  

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also keep in mind that when you see anything from  bluehost that talks about their shared wordpress  

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hosting plans this is the exact same thing as  their regular hosting plans they just use this for  

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marketing purposes in order to appeal to those who  strictly use wordpress but again whichever one you  

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sign up for they're exactly the same now bluehost  does have other more expensive plans as well which  

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i'll discuss in detail in a separate video again  you can check the description for a link to that  

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if you like this would include their vps  or virtual private server plans or their  

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dedicated hosting plans i don't recommend these  plans for most people and especially anyone just  

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starting out as you'll be responsible for managing  everything yourself and you won't have bluehost to  

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help you with any issues that might come up along  the way they certainly have their purpose though  

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but since it only affects about five percent of  the people watching this i'm going to save a more  

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detailed discussion of those plans for another  video so ultimately the plan i'd recommend most  

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people start with is either the basic or choice  plus plan if you just want hosting for one website  

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or want to spend the least amount possible then  i'd go with the basic plan otherwise choice plus  

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lets you have unlimited websites unlimited email  accounts unlimited email storage and unmetered  

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website space for only a dollar fifty more per  month and of course whatever plan you start  

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with you can very easily upgrade or downgrade  whenever it might make sense for you to do so  

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so as great as bluehost is there are some reasons  you may want to choose a different hosting service  

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first if you're a more advanced user then you  may find the phone support with bluehost 2 at  

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times not be as knowledgeable as you may like so  if you're the type of person who knows more than  

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most when it comes to web hosting then you may  want to go with a different option like siteground  

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while siteground isn't as friendly and helpful  to those who are less experienced especially  

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compared to bluehost they are more knowledgeable  on average which can make them better for those  

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who know what questions to ask next bluehost  isn't currently offering any free site migrations  

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while you can do this yourself or have someone do  it for you paying bluehost to do this will cost  

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you a one-time fee of 150 which will cover up to  five different sites being migrated to bluehost  

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from a different web hosting company and finally  bluehost doesn't offer automatic site backups  

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the good news is that this is easy enough to  get through third party apps or services but  

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if it's something you want your hosting service  to automatically provide then you may want to go  

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with a different option but otherwise the reason  i've continued to use bluehost myself for so  

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many years is because of the incredible value and  exceptional support they offer when my mom wanted  

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to start her own wordpress sites bluehost was  the one i recommended to her not only because  

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of how cost effective it was but at the end of  the day i knew that if she ever had problems or  

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got stuck not knowing what to do that there would  be someone friendly and helpful she could talk to  

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who could patiently walk her step by step  through getting her site working properly again  

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and that's why i love recommending bluehost it's  especially great for beginners it has an extremely  

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user-friendly interface which makes it easy to  manage your website you have outstanding customer  

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support that's truly the best i've experienced  in this industry so far and the performance you  

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get for even their most basic plans is truly a  great value which is ultimately the reason i've  

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continued to use and recommend them to this day  so hopefully you found this review helpful if so  

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please leave a thumbs up as i always appreciate  that and if you do decide to get started with  

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bluehost i'll leave a link in the description to  help you take advantage of any of the current best  

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deals or promotional offers that i can find and  if you have any questions please don't hesitate  

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to ask in the comments below as i love getting to  help answer as many questions as i can otherwise  

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i appreciate you guys taking the time to watch and  i'll look forward to seeing you in the next video