Those time-served readers of mine who have been making the despairing trek to this blog over the last year will be well aware of the problems I had with my previous webhost ANHosting, who are part of MidPhase.
Dreadful downtime, often days at a time, catastrophic hardware failures, ‘upgrades’ to the server which took my site offline, and which they then tried to blame me for, the list goes on. It seemed that everytime I received a Stumble, or a major inbound link they’d fall over for several days until the traffic dried up. Awful, and I wouldn’t touch them with someone elses bargepole.
Well the last week has seen me transfer all of my sites over to Bluehost, and I must say that so far, I’ve been very impressed.
The sign-up process was very quick and simple, and I was uploading my files within 15 minutes of starting to enter my credit card details. All of the server software seems to be the latest versions, with cPanel, PHP, Fantastico, phpMyAdmin all being at least one increment ahead of ANHosting which made setting up the websites very simple.
I needed some subdomains to be setup, so that I could upload some files before changing the nameservers, and after going for the ‘LiveChat’ option, I was connected to an operative in less than 2 minutes who:
a. Had English as their first language. And
b. Knew what they were doing.
As a consequence I was good to go less than 5 minutes after logging on to Live Chat, and if anyone noticed the transfer yesterday, I’ll be surprised. Loading times of all my blogs seems very fast now, and everything’s working as it should. It’s everything ANHosting promised, and more and all for the same money a month.
Time will tell as to reliability of course, but for $6.95 a month it’s proven to be a quality service, with support to match the sales dept. I did a fair bit of searching for customer views on a number of companies, and Bluehost time & again came up with the best reviews. They currently host over 400,000 accounts so they must be doing something right!
If you fancy giving them a go, click the banner below, and I’ll also get a few dollars towards next years hosting. 
4 users commented in " First Impressions Of Bluehost "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI am glad you are much happier with Bluehost. I don’t know why AN gave you so much trouble, but then, I don’t know much anyway.
As long as you are happy Chris! If I ever decide to go with a new host, I will click on your link to make you a couple bucks. After all the help you have given me in the last months, it would be a pleasure to be nice back. I was going to say “give you the business”…but that sounded wrong. 
LOL, and then your blog tried to block that reply because I used the word N I C E
Thanks Webduck.
Yeah, I had to include that word in my spam filter due to 60 odd comments a day starting with ‘your blog is ni….’ and ending with links to unspeakable websites
I also just made the switch a month or so ago and am really happy with Bluehost. I was crazy ever using Yahoo hosting at $11.95 per month. With Bluehost i’m paying $6.95/month and getting to use their features like fantastico deluxe (great for bloggers wanting to install wordpress). I’ve written a little bit about them on my blog simply because of how impressed I am with their service. If you haven’t tried them–do it if possible.
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