In this Bluehost review i'm going to show you everything that you need to know about Bluehost
before deciding if they're the right hosting provider for you. I'm going to provide you with
an honest and most comprehensive review where i will break down the pricing structure and show you
how to get the best deal currently available with my neat little trick not many people know about i
will guide you through the entire sign up process and judge how easy their platform is to use i will
then grade their performance based on page load speed and uptime from the bluehost plan that i
purchased lastly i will provide you with the pros and cons and my honest recommendations on if or
who should buy bluehost at the end of this video i will give you a very special offer if you decide
to pick up bluehost through my link i will give you my six figure blogger course for free as a
way of saying thank you in this course i show you how to set up your wordpress website the right way
how to adjust and tweak settings for optimal website performance and how to start driving
traffic and make money from your site now let's get straight into this review click on the link in
the description or type this into your browser it will take you to my special bluehost discount page
where you will get the best discount bluehost is currently offering plus just in a moment i'm
going to show you a neat little trick to get an even better discount than this now click on get
started i will be comparing their shared hosting plans although bluehost also offer other types of
hosting like dedicated hosting or vps hosting so they can support you when your business grows and
you are ready for an upgrade there are four shared hosting plans with the basic tier you are limited
to one website and 50 gigabytes of storage and automatic backups is not included the next plan
is the plus plan which comes with the added benefit of having unlimited sites and storage
the last two plans which is the choice plus and pro plan comes with the handy automatic backup
and the pro lets you have the dedicated ip which i don't think is necessary what i think bluehost
lacks here on their two most expensive plan the choice plus and the pro plan is the increase in
speed which most other hosting providers offer as an incentive to upgrade so i really see no
value in choosing their more expensive plans here as you really only get the advantage of the site
backup which can be done with free plugins anyway that being said in terms of pricing
i would only buy the basic plan if you only need one website but if you require multiple websites
then the plus plan is enough for you don't waste money on their more expensive plans so now i will
choose their basic plan for this tutorial to test them out now i have a problem with domain names
these hosting providers charge you other youtubers won't tell you this and it really annoys me so i'm
going to be honest and break this down for you i really don't suggest you buy your domain name from
any hosting provider as they usually charge you much higher than a dedicated domain name provider
right now for bluehost even though the domain name and domain privacy is free for the first
year every year after that you will have to pay 1799 for domain name renewal and 1488 for domain
privacy renewal this total is going to be 32.87 every single year and i think that's ridiculous
bluehost is not the only one guilty of this all web hosting providers do this to you so what i
recommend you do instead is to buy all your domain names from namecheap.com and you can get your
domain name for under 8.88 with domain privacy included for free and it will only cost you 12.98
to renew each year which is almost three times cheaper than bluehost so that is a no-brainer for
me plus you get to have all your domains hosted in one place which makes it very convenient when you
ever want to do anything to them now if you need help with getting your domain name from namecheap
then you can check out this video here where i guide you through the process step by step so i
just put in my domain name and click next now you just need to fill out your personal information
and come down to the more important part here bluehost comes with 12 24 and 36 month payment
plans obviously the longer the deal the cheaper it gets generally i would always suggest you to
buy the 36 month plan as you get the cheapest price and you will have no reason to leave
once you have picked a great hosting provider that you are happy with but if you're not then
bluehost has a 30-day money-back guarantee so you can get a full refund i also want to let you know
if you get this free domain name from bluehost they will still charge you for that part as
the domain name cannot be refunded so just be careful with that now i will show you a quick
little discount trick that people don't tell you about what you need to do is move your mouse all
the way out of the screen so if i move it to the top then this special sign up offer will appear
and right now you can get bluehost for as low as 2.65 per month so i'm going to click claim savings
and if we go down you can see that my price has changed to 2.65 per month and the rest of these
you definitely don't need and what you do is go to the bottom fill out your payment information agree
with their terms and click on submit the overall pricing score i would give bluehost is a 9 out of
10. i took one mark off as their more expensive plans don't offer enough value to be worth the
money on the other hand their low tier options are very cheap when you use my little trick
and it is comparable to other cheaper hosting providers so i would say they are really cost
effective hosting provider overall after purchase setup and ease of use you're probably wondering
what bluehost's backend actually looked like and would like to know how easy it
is to install and manage your wordpress website right i'm going to log in and show you that now
right away from their home page you can see that it looks very easy to navigate with the
custom interface compared to the cpanel that most other hosting providers use i believe navigating
through the bluehost dashboard is very simple if you need to contact support just click on this
question mark and it will take you to the help page but if you need to do something technical
you can still click on advanced and it will take you to the cpanel which is very handy to have
something that i don't like from bluehost though is if you want to create your email address you
think you'd click on email and offers but this takes you to a paid option where they give you
the option to upgrade and i think this is very sneaky and not good business practice
whereas you can always get a free email address by going to advanced and then type in email
click on email accounts click on create and enter your username
password
and click on create and that's it so at least you can see it's very simple to create an email
address so give them a plus for that but a minus for hiding it so the next thing i'll show you is
how easy or hard it is to install your wordpress site so to do this you just click on my sites and
you can add a new site here or just go here and click delete site and i'll reinstall the site
for you step by step so now we click on add site choose your site name choose your tagline
now click on advanced and choose your email address choose your username make sure to pick
anything that's not admin because that makes it easy for hackers to get into your website get
your password in there and now click next choose the domain you want to install your wordpress on
and for these free plugins i suggest you remove them all as they can slow down your website and
you may not need them now we click on next and now you can see our wordpress website was successfully
installed that literally took two or three clicks so i would say that was a very easy process
overall i would score bluehost an 8 out of 10 for setup and ease of use i really like
that it's simple to install your wordpress site and having the option to access the cpanel to
do more technical tasks is also very handy i did take two marks away from them because they don't
guide you well when setting up a new domain name from another provider and mislead you
on things like setting up your free email address they tend to try and upsell you a bit too much
speed and uptime performance tests so after i have installed the basic wordpress site i went ahead
and tested out the speed of the bare bones website using gt metrics the result is 1.5 seconds this
is not the fastest load speed i have tested by any means but it's not the worst either i think so far
this speed is acceptable as i have not optimized the website yet so there's still some potential
there so now i will take it a step further and add some design elements to it to increase the
page size and don't worry if you're overwhelmed looking at this my course that i will provide you
for supporting the channel will guide you through this step by step i'm also going to install some
free plugins to speed up the website i'm going to first install wp fastest cache which is a speed
optimization plugin and then followed by a short pixel which is for image optimization and lastly
i will install the free cloud flare this will make it more comparable to what you would actually do
in real life after adding all the design elements and plugins to my website it now looks like this
the speed is 3.4 seconds which is a little too slow to be honest google recommends the
site to load in under 3 seconds so bluehost missed that but not by much now i have also
been monitoring the stability performance of bluehost with uptime robot and can report that
their uptime for the last 30 days is a perfect 100 that's right zero minutes of downtime i
didn't expect it to be this good to be honest but data doesn't lie so always test things out
overall i would rate bluehost speed and uptime performance a six out of ten their speed just
wasn't fast enough so i had to take a lot of points away there other shared hosting
providers can give you speed performance almost twice as fast as bluehost on the positive side
they are a very reliable host and their uptime was perfect and i cannot fault them on that
support bluehost 24 7 customer service team comes highly rated by so many people so i will test them
out by asking them these three different questions on live chat one i will tell them that i have been
infected by a virus on my website and asked for their help two i will ask them a quick question
about their domain name renewal costs but i made sure to choose the wrong question category
3. i asked them if they could do me a favor and install an ssl certificate and cloud flare for me
as i am a complete newbie and have no idea how to do this for the first question they were willing
to help straight away and scanned the website for me to check for the virus however they were
not able to remove any virus for me if found it would cost me 5.99 per month to add this feature
this is not ideal but at least they can final the virus for you and you just have to go to the
files individually and remove it yourself for the second question they were able to resolve my query
in 10 minutes and that includes the wait time so i would say that's not too bad although their domain
name renewal costs is pretty high which i wasn't happy about and for the last question bluehost
did not hesitate to install my ssl certificate and cloudflare they immediately did that for me
without having to beg them like some other hosting providers i was impressed with that however the
actual process did take quite a while longer than i expected with regards to their response time i
contacted them at three different times of the day to make sure i get an overall average and not just
a bias fast response time during their off-peak hours so their three response times were 3 seconds
1 minute and 31 seconds and the last one was 3 seconds again so that averages out to be around
30 seconds overall which is definitely one of the fastest hosting providers i have tested so far so
overall i would say their support was great and i would score them a 7 out of 10. their support
team was friendly and willing to help to a certain extent and they had one of the best response time
even during their peak hours they lost some points because some things were limited only to upgrades
if you needed their help their support also took a bit too long to help with some simple tasks
like helping me install my ssl certificate and cloudflare they had to refer me to another
specialist which i was little disappointed as i thought this was a fairly easy task
features cons so let me first start off with the cons this one is the biggest issue for me that i
have with bluehost and it's their website speed it is fairly slow compared to other hosting providers
in the same budget category at 3.4 seconds load speed it's just too slow for me to be viable
especially when its best competitors are loading pages almost twice as fast as this the second con
is they only have one server location which is in the united states so for anyone with their
main source of traffic coming from somewhere else the website speed will be slower and so may not be
suitable for you another con i have for bluehost which is not such a big deal for some but they
just annoyed me a little bit with always trying to upsell and making it hard to find free options
like for linking the domain name and setting up email address which i showed you previously and
the last con that i wanted to mention to you about which i didn't at the start because i didn't want
to put an unbiased view in your head and this is bluehost being part of the endurance international
group or eig for short which is a global conglomerate that buy up web hosting companies
and strip down the staff and features to make their business more profitable while the customers
suffer so if you know about bluehost you'd know there's always two sides one side is just
promoting bluehost at all costs because bluehost pay them a good commission whereas the other side
people who care about their customers will not promote bluehost so much but i'm trying to stay in
the middle and give you an unbiased review while backing up all my claims with the stats and tests
i don't think bluehost support has been affected by this but i think that tech has when i first
started building websites a few years back i actually started with bluehost and their speed and
performance was much better than now so i do think they have gotten a fair bit worse over the years
features pros the first pro that stands out to me is bluehost perfect 100 uptime
even though they are not a fast hosting provider at least they make up for it a bit
by being reliable of course ideally you want both but there's no point having blazing fast speeds
if your sight is always down the second big pro is their intuitive back end system which i believe is
much easier to navigate and use than cpanel but they also have that option for you if you require
this may not be a big deal for someone like me who has been building websites for a while but
it's a big plus for beginners just starting out the next pro is their customer support i
think they are one of the best ones out there in terms of response time they are fairly helpful
and are proactive and willing to help also but with limitations on some features they can offer
overall i have given bluehost an average score of 7 out of 10. they are a reliable hosting provider
with a helpful support team they also have a very intuitive user interface so this is why bluehost
is not a bad choice for beginners looking to build small websites with low traffic volume
anything more than that whether you're expecting to have more visitors or you have been building
websites for a while there are much better options out there for you in a similar price range that is
a lot faster and if you're in this category then i would recommend you check out my in-depth review
on that hosting provider over here instead quick question for you what is your current page load
speed and who is your hosting provider let me know in the comments section below do you like this
level of detail i am providing you in my reviews so far if so make sure to let me know by hitting
that like button and subscribing to my channel so you don't miss more videos like this that i
release every week this is a quick note regarding my bonus offer to you if you decide to pick
up bluehost through my link just send me a quick email to bonus dot com dollar dot com and i'll get
that six figure blog of course to you right away now i think picking the right hosting provider is
such a crucial step in your business when starting out so if after watching this review you think
bluehost is not the right hosting provider for you then i would definitely recommend this bluehost
alternative but if you're happy with bluehost but still want a step-by-step guide on setting it up
then i recommend this video so pick the one that's right for you and i'll see you over in that next
video