BlueHost Web Hosting Package

Yes, it’s very much possible to host a popular forum on Bluehost, even if you’re just using their shared hosting account. In fact, there’s no reason why you should go ‘dedicated’ (server) when you first start your forum.

Bluehost already have all the features you need for hosting a forum and I don’t see why, for a startup forum needs the whole server dedicated as its host. Instead, save some money for promotional expenses. You can have unlimited bandwidth and disk storage at Bluehost – so what’re you waiting for? Go flood your website with unlimited traffics.

Okay, back to Bluehost. Bluehost offers forum script like vbulletin or phbb2. Hosting a forum with these scipts is simple. The installation (via Fantastico or Simple Scripts) is almost instant, the forum maintenance can be all done with web application. In fact I used to have a forum running on Bluehost (using vBulletin) and everything goes so well, expect that I can get enough members to make the forum useful.

Installing a forum at Bluehost

So here’s how you can install a forum at your website.

Get to Fantastico or Simple Script based on your own preference. There’re two forum scripts with Fantastico, which is phpBB and SMF; and three forum scripts available with Simple Scripts, which isphpBB, PunBB, and BBPress.

Take phpBB on Fantastico as our example, to select installation for phpbb forum, simply click on the installation link and Fantastico will guide you through the installation process. Fill up a few details like Forum names and URL; the installation process should be completed within seconds.

Simple as that.

“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.

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.