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2.4

12 reviews

Visit WordPress.com

Winner

2.8

376 reviews

Visit Bluehost

Pricing

Starting price

$ 3.50 / month

$ 2.95 / month

Free domain

Yes

Coupons

Coupons 1

User Ratings

User Friendly

2.2

2.9

Support

2.2

2.7

Features

2.2

2.9

Reliability

2.6

2.8

Pricing

2.8

2.9

User Reviews

Latest positive review

chushan xiaocao

05 May, 2018 | 04:05

4.2

Advanced iframe

The advanced iframe pro is good to embed a frame in the template page. TinyWebGallery offers professional advice and suggestion.

Taylor Rogers

17 Jan, 2023 | 10:01

5.0

Good service!

I requested consultation, they attempted to call me several times but I never answered(totally my fault) but they definitely did try to reach me. Time...

differences just always had the calls coming in in the middle of the night for me. I figured out what I had needed. Thank you

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Latest negative review

n. kummer

24 Mar, 2020 | 00:03

1.0

negligent, irresponsible, careless (and cheerful about it)

Wordpress.com are irresponsible scoundrels. They forgot to tell us that if we move our site to them without first moving our email, we would be withou...

t email for the entire 5-7 days of the transfer. What are they doing about it? "Oh, we really should tell people that and put it in our literature. We will give you a free month, and the supervisor will call you to see if he can speed up the transfer" No one contacted me. Unbelievably irresponsible and unprofessional.

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Earl Wertheimer

10 Oct, 2023 | 22:10

1.4

Stay away from Bluehost

After 15 years, I am cancelling my Bluehost account. Why? Terrible service, attempts to upsell "SiteLock" to fix hacked site (did not work) and now ...

they recently changed the terms of my 2 year contract. I will be moving all my business to DreamHost, where I already have a few sites...

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Shared Hosting

Under $4

Free

$0.00 / month

Space: 3 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: other

2.4

3 reviews

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Basic

$2.95 / month

Space: 10 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: cpanel
Number of Sites: 1

2.5

50 reviews

View Basic plan

Under $8

Premium

$7.66 / month

Space: 13 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: other

1.8

2 reviews

View Premium plan

Choice Plus

$5.95 / month

Space: 40 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: cpanel
Number of Sites: 3

2.6

53 reviews

View Choice Plus plan

Over $10

Business

$20.90 / month

Space: 200 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: other

2.7

4 reviews

View Business plan

Online Store

$9.95 / month

Space: 40 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Panel: cpanel
Number of Sites: 3

0 reviews

View Online Store plan

VPS

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Standard

$29.99 / month

Space: 120 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

2.7

18 reviews

View Standard plan

Dedicated Server

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Standard

$89.98 / month

Space: 1 TB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

3.5

11 reviews

View Standard plan

Cloud Hosting

Under $4

Under $8

Starter

$6.95 / month

Space: 100 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

0 reviews

View Starter plan

Over $10

Performance

$8.95 / month

Space: Unlimited
Bandwidth: Unlimited

1.0

0 reviews

View Performance plan

Website Builder

Under $4

BASIC

$2.95 / month

Space: 10 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

4.7

13 reviews

View BASIC plan

Under $8

WordPress Starter

$5.00 / month

Space: 6 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

0 reviews

View WordPress Starter plan

CHOICE PLUS

$5.45 / month

Space: 40 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

3.3

7 reviews

View CHOICE PLUS plan

Over $10

ONLINE STORE

$9.95 / month

Space: 40 GB
Bandwidth: Unlimited

3.2

2 reviews

View ONLINE STORE plan

CDN

Under $4

Under $8

Over $10

Data Centers

North America

Europe

Asia

Oceânia

South America

Africa & Middle East

CMS support

WordPress

Joomla

Drupal

Magento

Softaculous

PrestaShop

OS Support

Windows/ASP.NET

Linux

Language Support

PHP

Java

Python

Node.js

Django

Perl

Ruby on Rails

ASP.NET

Database Support

MongoDB

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Payment Types Support

PayPal

Credit Card

Skrill

Wire Transfer

Webmoney

Bitcoin

Services Support

Live Chat

Phone Support

Email Support

Forum Support

Video guides

Knowledgebase

Comparing BlueHost with WordPress.com is only really difficult because they are so different. WordPress.com is focused only on providing hosting for those who want to have their WordPress site hosted on their servers. BlueHost, on the other hand, is a great option for people no matter what type of site they want to run. Even for WordPress based sites, however, BlueHost has better quality hosting. They are faster, more stable, and provide better support, all of which adds up to name BlueHost the winner of this comparison.

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