Bluehost or HostGator, which one is better, or more importantly which one is better suited to
you. In this video i will put them both to the test and compare them against each other
and the five categories that i will be comparing them on are pricing setup and ease of use speed
and uptime performance support and features 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 those two hosting providers
to determine who has more and better features overall at the end of this video i will give
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to make it fair we are just going to compare their normal price with no extra special discount i've
done individual reviews on each hosting provider which i'll leave in the description where you can
purchase it at an extra discount once you have decided which hosting provider is right for you
let's compare the cheapest plan first for each of the hosting provider this one is going to
be really close as bluehost's basic plan for three years costs 2.95 per month while
hostgator's hatchling plan will set you back 2.75 per month this means that hostgator is 7
cheaper which is very small if we compare their one year plan though bluehost will cost 4.95
while hostgator will cost just 3.95 which shows a bigger difference here as bluehost is now 20
more expensive so hostgator just won out against bluehost 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 hostgator's top plan works out to be 57 cheaper than bluehost for three years
and 58 cheaper for one year you can see that hostgator wins on price hands down
but now that you know the percentage price difference you can watch my next categories
and see if the extra features bluehost offers over hostgator is worth the extra money
for your specific plans but for this pricing category i have to give one point to hostgator
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 hostgator have custom interface
in the back ends which are somewhat similar bluehost has a clean looking interface
and is easy to navigate through to different sections on their back end i just have a minor
issue with them in that they tend to hide some free features and easily present the paid one
instead like for the free email account 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 account from their cpanel now hostgator is pretty much
exactly the same as bluehost here they have a very clean and responsive user interface
and they also have the same issue as bluehost when trying to set up your email account they too hide
their free option in the cpanel and try to upsell you to purchase the paid version moving on to the
wordpress installation both hosting providers gives you the option for the custom one-click
wordpress installation however i found bluehost to be slightly easier and quicker to do the install
as you don't have to access your email account to retrieve your password like you have to on
hostgator i believe both bluehost and hostgator 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 overall this one was a very
tight one but i would have to give the point to bluehost this time as i think it is a little bit
cleaner and easier for me to work on my site and their wordpress install is more intuitive
first let's start with a comparison of the speed performance test i made sure to compare apples
with apples by installing the same speed and image optimizer plugins and putting cloudflare on both
accounts to optimize it even further so both these websites are pretty much as fast as you
can get it without paying extras for it my test result shows bluehost to have a page load speed
of 3.4 seconds on gt metrics while hostgator only managed a load time of 3.9 seconds here
this means bluehost is 13 faster than hostgator both companies only have data centers in the
united states so there shouldn't be any advantage in terms of global site speed between each other
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 hostgator you can check the link in my description for that
the next thing we will compare is the uptime bluehost had a perfect 100 uptime while
hostgator only managed to produce a subpar result of 99.895 which is way below my threshold of 99.95
and even hostgator's own 99.9 uptime guarantee they failed big time here while bluehost was
perfect overall this was an easy win for bluehost as their page load speed is faster than hostgator
even though both are not that great and don't pass google's standard 3 second load time
bluehost also has proven to be a very reliable hose with perfect uptime sadly the same can't be
said for hostgator so an easy point to bluehost on this one support with regards to bluehost customer
support response time their overall average over peak and off-peak periods was lightning quick just
30 seconds same cannot be said for hostgator their response time was around 4 minutes and 20 seconds
which is still not too bad but they're nowhere near as good as bluehost 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 and the whole process took around 10 minutes but hostgator
took almost 30 minutes and still could not give me the report they had to refer me to their more
technical staff by email and told me that i would receive a report later through this communication
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 another point features now in terms of features this one would have to be an easy
win for bluehost as they have all the features hostgators offer and so much more hostgator does
however offer a nice handy feature which is the free website migration if you're moving over from
another hosting provider bluehost does not offer this so just keep that in mind the biggest and
most important feature which is critical for your website and is missing for hostgator but not with
bluehost is the automatic daily backups bluehost provides daily backup on your website for free
on their more expensive plans this is standard nowadays and i believe every hosting provider
should have one so it's really disappointing to know that hostgator has not included this feature
overall this one is a no-brainer for me bluehost get another point easily for the features section
so after comparing these two hosting providers over five categories bluehost was a clear winner
they won four categories while hostgator only won one i don't think i can recommend hostgator
over bluehost in any situation even though they may be slightly cheaper than bluehost but the
small price difference is just not enough for the performance loss bluehost does not have the
fastest speed which isn't ideal but with their solid uptime it still makes them a reliable host
which could be suitable for beginners hostgator fails in both of these departments and provide
very little features in their plans i still think there are better options out there over these two
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