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
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