BlueHost Web Hosting Package

BlueHost had upgraded their hosting plan lately where consumers can now get unlimited storage space, unlimited bandwidth, as well as unlimited addon domain in the shared hosting plan. The upgrades made a huge boost on the company’s popularity – which much welcomed by consumers like you and me.

However, that’s not the full picture of Bluehost’s promotion. What you might not notice is that Bluehost is as well offering free marketing credit (up to $225!) for their customers. It doesn’t matter that you are starting off a new website, or transferring your hosting – the promotion is for any one of BlueHost customers.

Click here to verfiy this promotion at Bluehost homepage.

Promotion details: Unlimited storage/bandwidth & free marketing credits

Bluehost hosting plan features updates

A quick view on Bluehost upgraded hosting plan (with the same price at $6.95/mo).

Features	Details
Unlimited Disk Storage	Yes
Host Unlimited Domains	Yes
Free Domain Name	Yes
Unlimited Gigs of Site Transfer	Yes
Unlimited Add-on Domains	Yes
Override .htaccess Support	Yes
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How about the free marketing credits?

As for the marketing credits, you’ll get free $50 credits for Google Adwords, Yahoo Advertising, Miva; and $75 for Microsoft Ad Center – which add up to be $225 in total. These free credits can be obtained anytime after you have sign up your account with Bluehost at the cPanel (refer to figure below).

While credits for Miva and Microsoft Ad Center might not be that useful; credits with Yahoo and Google is a huge advantage. As soon as your website is ready, that’s the time to use up the free credits and draw new traffic from Google and Yahoo.

How do get these free marketing credits from Bluehost?

To activate your free marketing credits at Bluehost is simple. Just click on the related icon at Bluehost cpanel and follow the step-by-step sign up guidance.

“Is it okay to host a forum using shared hosting plan?”

People like to ask me questions when they knew that I’m in web business. The question like above is one of the most that I answered, and the answer is yes.

Do not get scared by the word ‘forum’. Although running a popular forum (imagine massive comment moderation plus spam issues plus user management plus…) can be a pretty tough job for a newbie; starting of a forum on your website, however is very easy.

With the help of Simple Script, installing a forum software at your hosting can be done in no time

Take example of PHPBB installation, all you need to is to click on the icon, key in the details for your forum (like title and admin logins) and the system will creates the database and install the forum software on your server for you. The process is pretty straight forward and direct.

More over, there’re more than just PHPBB to be installed.

You can get PHPBB, BB Press, and PUN BB using Simple Script; get SMF and PHP BB using Fantastico – all these are available when you subscribe to ANY BlueHost hosting plan.

Advantages with hosting forum at BlueHost

The good thing about hosting forum at BlueHost is that the company offers unlimited disk storage and bandwidth transfer on their shared hosting plan. That means you can run your forum without worrying about the traffic surge on your hosting. With just $6.95/mo, you’ll get all the resources you need for hosting a popular forum.

Wanted to check on BlueHost server status?

Well, you can have a look on BlueHost server status now even if you do not have an account with them. There’s a useful tool provided by BlueHost to notify its server status at here.

How does the system looks like?

The system is designed to keep you informed of server outages. From here, you can view all the system alerts at BlueHost as well as specified servers for your own accounts. If you have multiple accounts, you may enter each one using this form, and status messages will appear for each account you’ve listed in the sections below.

How to add your account in the alert system?

By using this system, you can check status of the server hosting your website if you have an account with BlueHost. Adding your account to the monitoring list is simple. Login to BlueHost cPanel, scroll down and look for an icon named ‘Server Status’.

Click to activate. You’ll be directed to the server status page as soon as it’s done. A server status alert on your specified account will be showed at the bottom of the page, like this:

You’ll get instant updates on the server load as well as any service alerts from the screen.  

I had been using BlueHost since year 2004. That was my first shared hosting plan (I used to stuck with a lousy reseller hosting account at Network Eleven before that) and I’m still using their service right now.

Needless to say, I am one of their happy customers.

In fact I am keen to talk about BlueHost, mainly because of the good experience I had with them as well as all the good things I heard about them from other customers.
If you’re looking for an affordable yet reliable web host with *real* quality customer support, then BlueHost is your choice. Quality customer support, minimum (nearly zero for all packages!) server downtime, reasonable pricing; they are quite perfect in my scoresheet..
My personal rating on BlueHost service

Consideration	Rating
Server uptime	Excellent
Server loadtime.	Excellent
User-friendly	Excellent
Customer support	Excellent
Security of order page	Excellent
Customer support	Excellent
Web hosting features	Excellent
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Further Details: Real Customers Feedback

I would like to offer you further details on BlueHost service but there’s already nothing much to talk about as I have so far, zero complaints on them. Thus I had found some other useful customer feedbacks on the hosting company for you here:

“Bluehost excels in customer service. In fact, their customer service alone makes them worthy of one’s business.They are also stable, reliable, offer very good pricing, and a great feature set. Highly recommended.” — May 23rd, 2007 by Sophia @ Web Hosting Jury.

“All and all, BlueHost seems like a good web host. The company certainly has their act together and by all means can be labelled as a top quality web host with great features and support.” — by Douglas Hanna @ Click Fire.

“My wife and I have recently subscribed to Bluehost, and as the individual working on the site etc etc all I can say is that Bluehost is a 15 out of 10 for service, space, bandwidth, ease of use, etc etc! No host compares….not even close!” — April 29th, 2007 by Dan Lirette @ Web Hosting Stuff.

Wrapping up…

I had been hosting websites with BlueHost for years and I’m still doing that by now. The reason behind this is simple: Because they are good.

So in case you’re thinking of ordering a BlueHost plan, don’t think – just do it. You won’t regret to have your website hosted with them.

As you guys already knew all my reviews are done according to my personal experience with BlueHost. From time to time, I like to check on the web hosting server status and here’s a quick view on BlueHost server status today:

Everything seems fine except that one of the storage, Disk/dev/sdc1 (/home), is pretty loaded up. But still, it’s not overloaded and everything’s just working fine on my websites (I host 6 websites with them at the moment).