Every Top 10 Hosting Plans list I see is different. So those don’t offer much help.
Bluehost I’ve never heard of but keeps emerging as one of the best.
I’m currently using Godaddy which I REALLY DISLIKE. It’s tortuous. Everytime you buy a domain, you’re blasted with screens of more options to buy crap. I dislike godaddy hosting.
I have about 8 domains and a hosting package currently on Godaddy so if I switched I’d need to be able to transfer those.
I REALLY like yahoo’s search engine and answers! area, etc. But I am not sure about there webhosting.
I would need:
- ecommerce (i’m going to be selling audio products, documents, and possibly video products from the site. So auto-downloading of a purchased product is a must (I know ejunkie offers that but that’s too small scale).
- Site analytics! I MUST have site analytics!
- domain transfer ease
- quality cPanel installs
- low cost
Bluehost was the top of this one list until I saw the reviews I posted below:
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 2
Bluehost looks like fail
Quoted from user reviews
Bye Bye Bluehost.
Customer for years… raised my rate without warning. Restricted number of emails I could send. Requested an increase and got the run around. Was told to write to someone in particular and they never wrote back or responded to any calls. POOR customer service so switched. Must be nice to be making enough $$ to not care about service anymore.
Swindle company .
NOT UNLIMITED SPACE===against the contract you can put only 50000 files . 100K jpg x 50000 =5G Precisely LIMITED 5Gb
Reviewer: Aadsd
From: WI
It charges separately when server loads are increasing. .
this company requested additional money when Our Server ‘s CPU quota are increasing.
Reviewer: Momoirorip
From: ASIA
Worst Swindle Company Blue host LIMITED 50000 FILES!!.
If you review a hosting company do not choose this company. Unlimited web space is the lie. YOU CAN ONLY PUT 50000FILES. If you put over 50000 files. Following mail come to you. >>>>>> Our reseach shows that server performance degrades when accounts have over 50,000 files. In order to ensure optimal performance for your account and the others in your shared hosting environment, we request that you reduce the number of files on your account to under 50,000 by—2009 Proper maintenance of your account will ensure the best performance for your website. If you are unable to comply with these requests your account will be automatically deactivated on -/-/2009 to maintain proper server performance. Thank you for your help in resolving this issue.
Date: June 05, 2009
Reviewer: Katsukun
From: Japan
NOT UNLIMITED.
I just received the mail from BLUEHOST.com >>> It has come to our attention that your site is using an excessive number of files stored on your BlueHost.Com account. This is causing performance problems on your website as well as for other customers that are on this server. It can cause our servers to crash and cause additional downtime. Our reseach shows that server performance degrades when accounts have over 50,000 files. In order to ensure optimal performance for your account and the others in your shared hosting environment, we request that you reduce the number of files on your account to under 50,000 by 06/10/2009. you can set up Only 50000 files!!@@
From the review above, maybe i can’t Bluehost. Do you have any suggestion in mind – one that is reliable and cheap?
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