The purpose of this post is to inform bloggers looking to host their Wordpress sites of my experience. It is not an advertisement for one company or another but simply my findings which I have documented at my main blog with Youtube videos.
[]Before Signing up with Bluehost, I compared them to Hostgator and also Godaddy. I ought to point out that my goal is the web hosting service of Wordpress web sites. A little of what I state may not apply to non-Wordpress sites but a majority will.
Right off, before looking at other functions, I selected Bluehost (at first, but read on) simply because I can host an unrestricted number of Wordpress Internet sites for the same $6 each month. The other website hosts I evaluated charged more per web site. Considering that my personal purpose is to have a hundred plus Wordpress weblogs running, it absolutely was truly attractive to spend merely $6 month-to-month for that. I refused Godaddy rapidly as you don't get limitless sites for the same price tag. Each site is extra. In addition, not being a technical guy, I am not sure how much of bandwidth or even storage I use. With Bluehost, these are limitless and in the case of Godaddy, aside from their top priced plan, their various other programs have got restrictions.
Even so, I desire to be reasonable within this Bluehost evaluation. I am sure if you begin using gobs of storage space as well as bandwidth and also have 1000s of website visitors per day, they're going to enforce some restrictions. So if you're a heavy user, then you can want to talk to them first. (I later found out, this is a big problem).
Another thing I should mention is that I have used Wordpress for a while but I am not a techie. I don't know the way to customize the php programs as well as anything regarding php, css, or even other technical stuff. It's a foreign language if you ask me. You might need to utilize the File transfer protocol operation (though any Wordpress user could conceivably never need to) and Bluehost has software that automates your setup of the FTP accounts using popular free FTP program such as CuteFTP and Core FTP.
Next, for me, was that Bluehost comes with an anytime money-back guarantee. So if you aren't happy, it is possible to go walking. You can work with them on a month to month basis (you'll save a little if you sign up for a year but it is just a few dollars). Even so, using the 12 month plan, you get a no cost domain (worth about twelve dollars).
Up until I started my account with Bluehost, I was not conscious of Simple scripts (1 button installing of Wordpress), but don't use any host without this. Simple scripts is a push-one-button setup of a Wordpress Internet site . Actually, you push one key and this application produces the whole Wordpress Internet site so that you can complete your first post in 5 minutes. This is an extraordinary time-saving feature and don't use any service provider that doesn't provide this.
The next issue for me, which I didn't understand until I had owned the Bluehost account for a couple of days, was the ability to buy domain names by way of Bluehost. It is restricted as I ended up being not able to get a .cc domain by means of the company. Nevertheless, I realized that it was not a huge problem as I was able to get my Internet domain names by way of my own Godaddy account and easily point them to Bluehost and make use of them inside my Bluehost account. Remember, I am not a techie so probably none of the items I cover in this article is incredibly hard.
After a few months however, I realized I made the wrong choice and have switched my hosting to Hostgator. As I added sites to my Bluehost account, the speed got worse and worse. I gave them a number of opportunities to correct this. Each time they had an excuse, blaming the slow speed on my sites. When I did some research, I found that many people have been dissatisfied with Bluehost. I cannot recommend them if you have more than a few small sites. []
[]Before Signing up with Bluehost, I compared them to Hostgator and also Godaddy. I ought to point out that my goal is the web hosting service of Wordpress web sites. A little of what I state may not apply to non-Wordpress sites but a majority will.
Right off, before looking at other functions, I selected Bluehost (at first, but read on) simply because I can host an unrestricted number of Wordpress Internet sites for the same $6 each month. The other website hosts I evaluated charged more per web site. Considering that my personal purpose is to have a hundred plus Wordpress weblogs running, it absolutely was truly attractive to spend merely $6 month-to-month for that. I refused Godaddy rapidly as you don't get limitless sites for the same price tag. Each site is extra. In addition, not being a technical guy, I am not sure how much of bandwidth or even storage I use. With Bluehost, these are limitless and in the case of Godaddy, aside from their top priced plan, their various other programs have got restrictions.
Even so, I desire to be reasonable within this Bluehost evaluation. I am sure if you begin using gobs of storage space as well as bandwidth and also have 1000s of website visitors per day, they're going to enforce some restrictions. So if you're a heavy user, then you can want to talk to them first. (I later found out, this is a big problem).
Another thing I should mention is that I have used Wordpress for a while but I am not a techie. I don't know the way to customize the php programs as well as anything regarding php, css, or even other technical stuff. It's a foreign language if you ask me. You might need to utilize the File transfer protocol operation (though any Wordpress user could conceivably never need to) and Bluehost has software that automates your setup of the FTP accounts using popular free FTP program such as CuteFTP and Core FTP.
Next, for me, was that Bluehost comes with an anytime money-back guarantee. So if you aren't happy, it is possible to go walking. You can work with them on a month to month basis (you'll save a little if you sign up for a year but it is just a few dollars). Even so, using the 12 month plan, you get a no cost domain (worth about twelve dollars).
Up until I started my account with Bluehost, I was not conscious of Simple scripts (1 button installing of Wordpress), but don't use any host without this. Simple scripts is a push-one-button setup of a Wordpress Internet site . Actually, you push one key and this application produces the whole Wordpress Internet site so that you can complete your first post in 5 minutes. This is an extraordinary time-saving feature and don't use any service provider that doesn't provide this.
The next issue for me, which I didn't understand until I had owned the Bluehost account for a couple of days, was the ability to buy domain names by way of Bluehost. It is restricted as I ended up being not able to get a .cc domain by means of the company. Nevertheless, I realized that it was not a huge problem as I was able to get my Internet domain names by way of my own Godaddy account and easily point them to Bluehost and make use of them inside my Bluehost account. Remember, I am not a techie so probably none of the items I cover in this article is incredibly hard.
After a few months however, I realized I made the wrong choice and have switched my hosting to Hostgator. As I added sites to my Bluehost account, the speed got worse and worse. I gave them a number of opportunities to correct this. Each time they had an excuse, blaming the slow speed on my sites. When I did some research, I found that many people have been dissatisfied with Bluehost. I cannot recommend them if you have more than a few small sites. []
About the Author:
Bob Richards is publisher of a number of sites on practical use of the Internet for small business owners. See a list of sites at his Google Plus page.
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