How to sign up with BlueHost
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I have been thinking about bluehost, but haven't made up my mind. What disappoints me about them is that they are flooding google with spammy reviews. That's not a good sign. I consider that to be blackhat seo. I am currently using hostgator. They seem very helpful when I am stuck with something.
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To be honest it seems most good reviews are from affiliates so I do not think they are a good option as I stated they have only 2.5/5 stars from real people reviews. When I made this post I thought all well known hosts have poor online rating by real people but now I find that is not the case like Inmotion has 4.2/5 stars and HostPapa has 4/5 stars and fatcow and siteground have good reviews but BlueHost and hostgator have horrible reviews I didn't know there was anyone with good reviews. When I posted this I had no idea there was some hosts with good reviews I thought all have poor reviews because I only checked well known brands like 1&1 and godaddy and hostgator and BlueHost all of those are terrible to be honest.
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To be honest it seems most good reviews are from affiliates so I do not think they are a good option as I stated they have only 2.5/5 stars from real people reviews. When I made this post I thought all well known hosts have poor online rating by real people but now I find that is not the case like Inmotion has 4.2/5 stars and HostPapa has 4/5 stars and fatcow and siteground have good reviews but BlueHost and hostgator have horrible reviews I didn't know there was anyone with good reviews. When I posted this I had no idea there was some hosts with good reviews I thought all have poor reviews because I only checked well known brands like 1&1 and godaddy and hostgator and BlueHost all of those are terrible to be honest.
I wanna get out of hostgator. I like their customer support only. Recently, I have been trying out x10host through a free account. They seem much faster and smoother than what I got with hostgator. I also noticed they had several platforms and most of them are open source.
I think bluehost was paying big bucks for the affiliated advertising. I kept seeing them at tech blogs.
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I don't recommend these 1-10 dollar=unlimited this and that companies. They usually have some of the weirdest terms; such as HostGator,
You enter their website and they throw everything you want with a website hosting; unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, unlimited everything.
But, then you look at their terms and they say "Max 25% bandwidth at any time, or your website hosting is shut down." That's why they have very low prices. If bandwidth is down to maximum 25%, it means you don't get the best speed.
Also, those unlimited storage are lies too, imagine how much these companies would lose. Ok, think a website like youtube enters the scene. The businessperson is stingy and decides not go with dedicated servers or a whole datacenter. He chooses their unlimited plans, call it Gold. Then he begins storing 1000s of gb of videos. But each server can't hold that much, normally each server hold 500gb. It means the webhosting company must buy more and more servers, and the stingy businessman only pays 2.99 USD rotfl That's why they have limits on bandwidth and storage while being able to introduce "unlimited" plans. When this new youtube has many users and badnwidth increases, it reaches 25% and everything stops functioning.
It's like a gamble. I say everything is unlimited but I put a condition so no one can use this unlimitedness, otherwise it would wreck havoc on the economy. -
From HostGator itself D
How much disk space and bandwidth will my plan include?
Diskspace and Bandwidth is "Unmetered" which means you are not charged according to the amount of diskspace or bandwidth you use.
However, that being said, we do require all customers to be fully compliant with our Terms of Service and to only utilize disk space and bandwidth in the normal operation of a personal or small business website.
For example, customers who are using 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds would be in violation of our Terms of Service. Please see our TOS or contact us with any questions.
What happens if I exceed usage?If we have concerns about your account's bandwidth or disk space utilization, you will receive an email asking you to reduce usage.
Again, it is very rare for a customer who is managing a personal or small business website to exceed our usage policies.
This file was last modified 7/20/2015.
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Read this, explains everything thoroughly
https//www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/the-truth-about-unlimited-hosting/
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I don't recommend these 1-10 dollar=unlimited this and that companies. They usually have some of the weirdest terms; such as HostGator,
You enter their website and they throw everything you want with a website hosting; unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, unlimited everything.
But, then you look at their terms and they say "Max 25% bandwidth at any time, or your website hosting is shut down." That's why they have very low prices. If bandwidth is down to maximum 25%, it means you don't get the best speed.
Also, those unlimited storage are lies too, imagine how much these companies would lose. Ok, think a website like youtube enters the scene. The businessperson is stingy and decides not go with dedicated servers or a whole datacenter. He chooses their unlimited plans, call it Gold. Then he begins storing 1000s of gb of videos. But each server can't hold that much, normally each server hold 500gb. It means the webhosting company must buy more and more servers, and the stingy businessman only pays 2.99 USD rotfl That's why they have limits on bandwidth and storage while being able to introduce "unlimited" plans. When this new youtube has many users and badnwidth increases, it reaches 25% and everything stops functioning.
It's like a gamble. I say everything is unlimited but I put a condition so no one can use this unlimitedness, otherwise it would wreck havoc on the economy.Yeah, I knew about this, but just didn't know hostgator would be bad. Almost none gives unlimited bandwidth, but this gator is an exceptional case. I think majority of the companies have problem with video sites.
Having our own server is great, but then you have the Internet company which charges higher if it is for running a business.
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If you want to dive into the market of webhosting and compare deals see here http//www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29, if you have questions I suggest you ask them there too. There is also https//lowendbox.com for VPSs.
Hope this helps anyone.