Are you looking for a cheap hosting provider with great customer support? Well in this Bluehost
review I'm going to show you everything that you need to know about Bluehost so you can make
a better informed decision on whether Bluehost is the right hosting provider for you. I'm not going
to waste your time with fluff content instead i'm going to provide you value by showing you
the most important results from my live test like the page load speed uptime and customer support
quality i will also show you a live demo so you essentially get to test out bluehost without
having to actually buy it for yourself and lastly i'll provide you with my honest recommendations
on if or who should buy bluehost i will have a special bonus offer for you if you decide to pick
up bluehost through my special discounted link in the description below i also have a free checklist
on starting a successful blog for everyone so make sure to stick with me to the end and i'll
show you how to get access to this bonus now let's get right into this review after purchase setup
and ease of use you're probably wondering what bluehost backend actually look 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 faster's 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's speed and uptime performance a 6 out of 10. 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
here's a quick question for you do you think bluehost's page load speed of 3.4 seconds
is faster or slower than what you expected let me know in the comments section below
support bluehost 24 7 customer service team comes highly rated by so many people so i would 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 three
seconds one minute and 31 seconds and the last one was three 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 seven out of ten 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
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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 a 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 plans 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 17.99
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
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 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 this is a quick note
regarding my bonus offer to you if you decide to pick up bluehost through my link then just send me
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it's that easy and if you want my free checklist on starting a successful blog then just go to this
link in the description to get access to that recommendation overall i have given bluehost an
average score of 7 out of 10 they are a solid hosting provider they have cheap hosting plans
the user interface is clean and easy to navigate and their support team is better than average
so this is my recommendation for you whether you're a beginner or advanced user looking for
a cheap hosting provider with a customized user interface and are not so worried about performance
then i believe bluehost is worth considering however if speed performance really matters to you
and i don't think bluehost is the right option for you here now i think picking the right
hosting provider is such a crucial step for your business so you must get this right and if after
watching this review you think bluehost is not the right hosting provider for you then i recommend
you check out this web hosting alternative which i know will do the job for you but if
you're happy with bluehost then go to this next video and i'll see you over in the next tutorial