Bluehost Review

Bluehost

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Bluehost was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It employs 270 people.
It offers Shared, VPS, Managed hosting, Dedicated and Wordpress hosting hosting products.

It has data centers in:
  • United States

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Managed VPS

Bluehost offers Managed VPS products. Review Bluehost Managed VPS Features.

Bluehost VPS Features

Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  Yes
Backups  Yes
Control Panel  Custom: Bluehost Control Panel, cPanel
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  2
Number of Data Center Continents  1
Monitoring Charts  No
Admin REST API  No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes
Reverse DNS  No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  No
Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Weaknesses

  • Misleading pricing.
  • Long commitments needed to get advertised prices.

Bluehost Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Bluehost also sells the services marked green in the following table:

Backups   Block storage Object storage Load balancer
Floating IP addresses Team Management Managed databases Serverless
DDoS protection Kubernetes GPU instances Private network

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Bluehost Instance Types and Plans

All Bluehost instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.

Cloud Server Plans

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of plans and instance types offered by Bluehost. Only plans that have been tested by VPSBenchmarks or may be tested in the future are included.
Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
Family:
General Purpose
Instance Type:
Self-Managed VPS Hosting

Self-managed VPS hosting on modern, high-performance hardware built for developers who want full control.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.bluehost.com/vps-hosting
NVMe 2 1 2.0GB 50GB $9.99 / month
NVMe 4 2 4.0GB 100GB $17.99 / month
NVMe 8 4 8.0GB 200GB $30.99 / month
NVMe 16 8 16.0GB 450GB $59.99 / month
Family:
Web Hosting
Instance Type:
Cloud Hosting

Power, speed, & control with WordPress cloud hosting.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.bluehost.com/cloud-hosting
VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet.

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