Bluehost or DreamHost, which one is better, more importantly which one is the right one for you.
In this video I will put them both to the test and compare them against each other and the five
categories that i'll be comparing them against are pricing i will determine who has the best price
and what is included in those pricing plans setup and ease of use i will show you who has a more
intuitive user interface and who makes it easier to set up and manage your website
speed and uptime performance i will test which hosting provider is faster and more reliable
support i will ask questions from their customer support team to determine who is more responsive
and helpful and lastly features i will compare the features of these two hosting providers to
determine who has more and better features at the end of this video i will give you a
very special offer if you decide to pick up bluehost or dreamhost through my link below
i will give you my six figure blogger course for free as a bonus and just a way of saying thank
you for supporting my channel 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 and now let's get straight into this review
to make it fair we're just going to compare their normal price with no extra special discount i've
done individual reviews on each hosting provider which i will leave in the description where you
can purchase it at an extra discount once you have decided which hosting provider is right for you
bluehost's basic plan for three years costs 3.95 per month while dream host's data plan
will set you back 2.59 per month this means that dream host is 34 cheaper than bluehost
if we compare their 1-year plans bluehost will cost 5.95 while dreamhost is just 3.95
which means there is the same difference of 34 so dreamhost won out pretty convincingly from the
above price comparison now what about if you're more advanced and want their most expensive plans
i'll compare that for you now things get more interesting here where dream hosts top plan is 65
cheaper than bluehost for three years and the whopping 70 percent cheaper for one year which
is a massive difference as the price is more than double here now so overall you can see the dream
host wins on price by a long shot but now that you know the percentage price difference you can watch
my next categories to see if bluehost offers extra features over dreamhost to make it worth the extra
money you pay for the service but for this price category i have to give one point to dreamhost
now let's go through and assess which hosting provider is actually easier to set up and use this
one is going to be tough because both bluehost and dreamhost have custom interface in the back ends
which are somewhat similar bluehost has a clean looking interface and is easy to navigate through
the different sections on there i just have a minor issue with them in that they tend to hide
some free features and easily present the paid ones instead like for the free email accounts if
you navigate to the email and offers tab you won't find the free option to create emails instead you
would have to navigate to the advanced section and create your free email accounts from their cpanel
this is pretty sneaky from bluehost i think so that is why i tend to like dreamhost's interface
a little bit better their dashboard is super clean and responsive once you go to the website section
and choose the site you want to work on the intuitive interface makes it very easy to
do anything to your site and they don't try to upsell you on things by hiding the setup
like bluehost does i believe both dreamhost and bluehost are one of the best choices for beginners
if you haven't created or hosted a website before you'll be able to get your wordpress site
up and running in less than five minutes without any technical knowledge or coding skills thanks to
their one-click wordpress installation which both of them provide you can see from the demonstration
here on how easy it is to install your wordpress site so they are both pretty even here
overall this one was very tight one but i would have to give the point to dreamhost because it
is slightly easier for me to work on my site and they didn't have upsell tricks like bluehost a
small win to dreamhost here but one point to them nonetheless first let's start with a comparison
of the speed performance test by installing the same speed and image optimizer plugins and putting
cloudflare on both accounts to optimize it my test result shows dream host to have a page load speed
of 2.6 seconds on gt metrics while bluehost only managed to score 3.4 seconds in page load time
this means host is 24 faster than bluehost both companies only have data centers in the united
states so there shouldn't be any advantage in terms of global site speed with either hosting
providers if you're accessing your website from any location outside of the united states
the speed should decrease by roughly the same amount now if you want more details on my tests
or just want more in-depth review of bluehost or dreamhost you can check out the video review
link in my description for that the next thing we will compare is their uptime this one is dead even
as both companies scored a perfect 100 uptime for the 30-day period so there is not much to
say about it except for well done to both of them overall dreamhost did beat out bluehost on speed
by 0.8 seconds and so have to be the winner of this speed and uptime performance category
the fact that dreamhost's site speed is below google's recommended three seconds while bluehost
is not gives them a little bit of an edge in my book so one more point to dreamhost here so are
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support with regards to bluehost's customer support response time their overall average over
peak and off peak periods was lightning quick at just 30 seconds same cannot be said for dreamhost
their average response time was 8 minutes which is a fair way behind bluehost and my own standards of
5 minutes now in terms of the staff knowledge and helpfulness this was also a clear win for bluehost
for example when i told both companies that i had a virus on my website and asked them to send me a
malware report bluehost was able to do this for me immediately in around 10 minutes all up but
dreamhost were not able to do it for me on the spot and had to refer me to their technical team
which responded to me later with the information by email and took much longer to resolve another
thing i found disappointing with dreamhost here was the second time i tried to contact him on
live chat i was not able to reach anyone and had to leave them a message by email instead
even though i got a response in 15 minutes which was great i still expected a little more from them
and i believe that all hosting providers should have 24 7 live chat support as a minimum this
shows a clear difference on how both of their support teams work so based on this i would
have to declare the overall winner in the customer support department to be bluehost by a long shot
and give them their first point here's a quick question for you who are you liking more so
far bluehost or dreamhost and why let me know in the comments section below features now in terms
of features this one would have to be a win for dreamhost as they have all the features bluehost
offers but at a lower cost first of all dreamhost wins on the two most important features which
is the price and the performance so that alone should be enough to declare them the winner but
bluehost's support team did outperform dreamhost so they make the comparison a little closer here
the last difference maker which set dreamhost apart is their 97-day money-back guarantee
compared to bluehost's standard 30 days which shows me they're more confident with their product
and they are also not as salesy in the back end so overall this one has to go to dreamhost one more
point to them here so after comparing these two hosting providers over five categories dreamhost
was the clear winner they won four categories while bluehost only won one i don't think
bluehost is all that bad like some people make them out to be but you can see from my comparison
dreamhost beats them in terms of price and performance which for me is the two most important
factors when choosing your hosting provider i do think bluehost's customer service team is much
better than dream host so if you're a complete beginner who is not confident on a computer
and may want extra hand holding then you may consider bluehost to be your choice
but for everyone else even a normal beginner i would definitely have to recommend dreamhost
as they are very solid in all areas and would do a good job for you and if the worst case happens
you can activate your 97 day money back guarantee and get your money back if you don't like it which
i'm sure will not be the case as they are a great hosting provider this is a quick note
regarding my bonus offer to you if you decide to pick up bluehost or dreamhost through my link
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access to my bonus course to you it's that easy so now that you have decided on your hosting provider
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