Choosing a hosting company calls for research and serious consideration. I know - the sheer number of hosting companies competing for your business is a bit dizzying. But hosting is essential for your website performance and you can not afford to choose a random one - what good will your exceptional design do if your website is constantly down? This article is aimed to help you a bit in making that educated decision. We will focus on one of the most affordable and reliable companies on the market - Bluehost.

Bullet points:

• Main Features
  
• Shared Hosting
  
• VPS Hosting
  
• Dedicated Hosting
  
• Optimized Hosting for WordPress
  
• Bluhost Support
  

Founded in 2003, Bluehost is one of the largest providers of cloud-based online solutions. These people have years of experience and they continue to grow and expand their services. So let's see what they can offer.

Main Features

• Unlimited Domain Hosting
• Unlimited GB Hosting Space
• Unlimited GB File Transfer
• Unlimited E-mail Accounts
• Free Domain Name
• Free Site Builder w/templates
• Free Instant Set-Up
• 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
• Anytime Money-back Guarantee

This last feature is the one I want to point out especially - you can try the service and back out anytime, with no pain, if it does not fit you. And if you do want out and your money back your domain name will stay with you!

Bluehost offers a number of hosting solutions to fit every website. Their main products are: shared hosting, VPS, dedicated hosting, and what I love the most - package optimized for WordPress. Let's look more closely into each product.

Shared Hosting

According to Wikipedia - 'A shared web hosting service refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site 'sits' on its own partition, or section/place on the server, to keep it separate from other sites.'

Since many people share the cost of server maintenance this type of hosting is the most affordable one.

Bluehost shared hosting price starts from $3.49 and this is the cheapest price I've seen. The starter package implies one site with 100 GB website space and unlimited bandwidth. Here's more detailed picture for service per price:

VPS Hosting

VPS or Virtual Private Server refers to virtual machine created by a hosting service. A physical server holds a number of VPSs, so the cost of the server maintenance is yet again shared between a number of people and thus this type of hosting is cheaper than a dedicated server. For many purposes VPS is functionally an equivalent of dedicated server.

As you can see below the price for VPS hosting from Bluehost starts from $14.99 for 2 CPU Cores, 30GB SAN storage, 2GB RAM and 1TB bandwidth. The printscreen shows all the options Bluehost has for VPS hosting:

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting, or dedicated server is a type of hosting when you rent an entire server that is not shared with anyone else. This type of hosting gives you the most control over the server (hardware, operating system etc.). So dedicated hosting is more flexible, but more expensive as well.

The cheapest option from Bluehost starts from $74.99 for 4x2.5 GHz CPU, 1TB of storage, 4GB RAM and 5TB bandwidth. Below are more details for dedicated hosting Bluehost offers.

Optimized Hosting for WordPress

This product is my personal favourite among Bluehost services. There is a package available for any website based on WordPress, from a small personal blog to a huge enterprise. The price starts from $12.49 for a blogger with maximum 5 WP websites, 100 million visitors per month, 30GB storage and 2GB RAM. Here are all the hosting packages Bluehost offers to WordPress enthusiasts:

Bluhost Support

The most important thing about web hosting company is their support system, and Bluehost has a very efficient one. If you have any questions prior to purchase and after, there is a detailed self-help section. You can also set a ticket, call or chat at any time, the support team works 24/7 and any of your questions will be answered promptly, if not instantly.

Do We Recommend Bluehost?

Definitely yes! Why? First of all - our QA team checked and tested many hosting services out there and Bluehost is by far the most reliable one. We know for sure that their hosting options will work with every web template we have in our store. Plus the prices are among the lowest on the market. Bluehost is definitely value for money! And finally - the WordPress hosting is sheer beauty :-)

So give Bluehost a try!

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