The Bluehost Competitive Analysis

How does Bluehost measure up against the other popular web hosting providers? In this analysis we take the top 8 most popular shared hosting providers on the web today and compare them against Bluehost. Rather than comparing the little things, we decided to take 5 of the most important features for metrics. These are Price, Hosting Space, Data Transfer, total number of MySQL Databases, and whether or not you can host an unlimited amount of websites on your account. If you have not yet purchased a Bluehost account, you can get a free domain name with your signup by clicking here!

Bluehost vs. Network Solutions

Network solutions is providing a decent amount of space and bandwidth but is nothing in comparison to what Bluehost provides for a lower monthly cost. The biggest downfall with Network Solutions is that they only allow you to host up to 10 MySQL databases. So for example, let's say you wanted to host multiple Wordpress blogs on your server account. Network Solutions would only allow you to host up to 10 blogs in total while Bluehost will allow you to host up to 100.

Bluehost vs. Yahoo! Web Hosting

You can see that with the exception of price, Yahoo! Professional web hosting competes neck in neck with Bluehost. But don't be fooled. With Yahoo! Web hosting your website's response times will be slow, the tools to manage your server account are limited, and the biggest trick of all is that they actually only allow you to host up to 20 sites. So even though they provide other features “unlimited” such as MySQL Databases, you can actually only host a limited amount of websites that all those extras are useless.

Bluehost vs. GoDaddy

If you think Yahoo's administration tools are frustrating to use, try using GoDaddy's tools. Bad tools, bad loading times, and an overall lack of disk storage allotments for hosting files on your account. All 3 of these add up to be the major downfall of having a GoDaddy web hosting account. Bluehost uses the very popular Cpanel for you to use to manage your server. Cpanel has been a mainstream standard in the shared hosting world because of it's ease of use and overall reliability.

Bluehost vs. 1&1 Hosting

Bluehost and 1&1 compare pretty closely with their features and tools used for server management. The problem? The 1&1 hosting plan that actually does compare to Bluehost is way to expensive. $19.99/month. That ends up being $240 in hosting costs per year. Why pay that when you can get the same hosting package for around $90 in hosting costs per year with Bluehost? Sometimes price is important when you have two identical services like 1&1 and Bluehost.

Bluehost vs. InMotion

If you told me their was a web hosting company that charges $18/month and only allows you to host up to 16 websites for that price I would think you were crazy! That's what InMotion web hosting charges for one of their premium packages. A premium package that still only allows you to host up to 16 websites when a provider like Bluehost will charge you $7/month and let you host an unlimited amount. Somebody at InMotion isn't doing their market research!

Bluehost vs. Verio

Under Verio's comparative plan to Bluehost, you pay $30/month and still only get up to 10 MySQL databases. You get 12TB of data transfer per month and here is the real kicker. You get charged for any data transfer you go over your limit per GB! Not only are you already paying an arm and a leg for hosting just a few websites, you then get unexpected charges on top when you get high traffic to your site. It's just like getting charged for going over minutes on your cell phone plan. Nobody likes that! No overage charges with Bluehost! What you see is what you get.

Bluehost vs. Aplus.net

$20 per month for only 300GB of total storage space? Are you kidding me? Why would anybody pay that? Well that's what Aplus.net, one of the more recognizable web hosting providers charges. A Rip-Off is hardly a word to describe this. With the low cost of data storage these days, these kind of prices should not be tolerated. With Bluehost, you get unlimited storage space on your account so you don't have to worry about just 300GB. Not to mention just better service, better servers, and a better experience with Bluehost.

Bluehost vs. iPower

With the exception of price and MySQL databases, iPower professional hosting comes the closest to Bluehost web hosting. Decent service, unlimited bandwidth and storage, as well as the ability to host an unlimited amount of websites. But you only get 25 MySQL databases and you have to pay $13/month for this plan. That's the killer. With iPower you get some good things, but not all good things. Bluehost gives you all good things!

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