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Overview

The overall reputation of the company reflects a mix of positive and negative sentiments. Customers frequently praise the reliability of the hosting services, user-friendly interface, and the quality of customer support, particularly highlighting the helpfulness and professionalism of staff during technical issues. However, concerns arise regarding inconsistent customer service experiences, with some customers reporting inadequate product knowledge among representatives and communication gaps during service upgrades. Overall, while many users express satisfaction and loyalty, there is a clear need for improvement in training support staff and enhancing proactive communication with clients.

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California
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Patient help with site/hosting upgrade
October 4, 2024

My old Bluehost host was running out of disk, so I asked to upgrade. After several emails back & forth, one of their IT folks spent several hours on the phone with me, arriving at an appropriate hosting solution and enabling the transfer of my shell account and web site to the new VPS host, dealing with startup issues, making sure nothing (especially the constant stream of new emails) was lost, and helping configure the site.

I myself am a software professional with decades of experience, but am not a sysadmin. The explanations, planning, and execution, the support in general, were faultless, supportive, clear, and professional.

Date of experience: September 24, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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Better than expected service
April 11, 2024

The agent went beyond the call of duty to help me out with my issue. I was truly amazed at her friendliness, care, and concern, and the ability to resolve the problem. I've always loved you guys, but now I love you even more.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Indiana
1 review
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The wheel just spins when I go to "Websites" on my account page. It's been that way for two weeks on two different accounts. I don't have 45 minutes to wait for "Chat" that doesn't read what I posted and asks me the same questions multiple times. Might be time to move back to GoDaddy...

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Lebanon
1 review
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Not the cheapest services but...
April 15, 2024

Not the cheapest hosting service at Bluehost but definitely the best service.
Amazing products, wonderful and fast customer service. Their team knows what they are doing and is well trained. Looking to keep working with them and most probably scale up my membership

Date of experience: April 5, 2024
Georgia
1 review
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Bluehost - A Great Host!
June 9, 2024

Redesigning, rewording... recreating our website with Bluehost just now has been a SUPER experience! We only talked with a few people and each step of the way was seamless. From the 11 pm first call (what and how do we do this?), next day 2nd call (here's how you do this for what you want), after holiday weekend 3rd call (check out your site!/make changes?) to minutes later 4th call (review changes and site done!), EVERYONE we spoke to was friendly, courteous, very knowledgeable, understood our needs, explained options, easy to understand, quick, and efficient! Copy writers & designers are the BEST at Bluehost!

Date of experience: May 30, 2024
New York
1 review
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The service has been reliable over the years
February 24, 2024
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The service has been reliable over the years. It is also reasonably priced, and the website editor is pretty easy to figure out. Technical support rep's have also been skilled at resolving any issues. I just wish there was a better discount for purchasing multiple years at a time.

Date of experience: February 24, 2024

Login
May 31, 2022
Previous review

The tech support rep figured out why the login button was not working.

Date of experience: May 31, 2022
Massachusetts
1 review
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Links don't help
September 12, 2024

I believe my customer service representative intended to be helpful by providing a link with instructions for solving my issue. Regrettably, the instructions were not written in a language I could understand.

Date of experience: September 2, 2024
Australia
2 reviews
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I have been less than impressed with the wait times both on the live chat and when I'm waiting for issues to be fixed. I had NO website for over a week while I waited for someone to get around to fixing it. Not good enough

Date of experience: February 15, 2024
Tennessee
1 review
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The biggest issue I have currently is the login never logs in with my password. It tells me that I'm locked out. I know that I am using the correct password. I'm thinking there is maybe a brute force attack or someone trying to crack the password, but its very annoying.

I also can not copy and past my post from another blogger to here which is annoying but not my primary concern this moment.

Date of experience: July 28, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
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Since Bluehost has made changes last years I continuously have spent hours trying to access my account with passwords not working even though they are correct and many other issues. Also its crap when you now come on it it doesn't go straight to the website page. Its gone from a great platform to one I won't recommend at all!

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Wisconsin
1 review
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Issues logging in to my account and support wait times are in excess of 30 minutes no matter what day or time you try. Support person (Mark) knew my call was dropped several times resulting in a complete start over. He promised to call me back and never did!

Date of experience: February 18, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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I was on the phone earlier today to ask that the secure certificate be renewed (we already paid for renewal). The guy could not figure out what it was. Then he said he had, and that out website would be up in about half hour. 7 hours later... no. I also did the online chat, and was told some plugin was the problem. Someone in my organization took a look and said the issue is the un-renewed secure certificate. I need it renewed!

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
California
1 review
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I'm having financial difficulties as a freelance designer, and every time I log in to my Bluehost account, I'm constantly being pushed to upgrade my plan. I originally had an unlimited plan, but now I'm receiving warnings about running out of storage. I am considering moving to GoDaddy hosting to remove all of this craziness. Bluehost changes its features frequently and plans to extract more money from its customers. You are a business, so I understand about turning a profit, but I would put more value on serving the customers where they are rather than for extra profit. I'd rather have a solid customer base recommending your Bluehost hosting than try to earn a quick profit for a quarterly margin.

Date of experience: March 22, 2024
New Zealand
1 review
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Support is amazingly helpful and has been what has got me through all the beginning stages of doing this for the first time. Everything was new for me and the stress was completely taken away knowing I had support on hand when I needed it. It's fantastic to know I can ask and will be attended to efficiently by professionals that know much more than me.

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
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I have been online with chat for about 40 minutes with minimal help today about my subscription. Very slow service and not a lot of help. I asked how much my renewal would be and it took them this long to tell me.

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
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The billing system is super annoying
January 1, 2024

The billing system is super annoying. "Renew" button did not work. No invoices were emailed. Notices that a payment did not go through do not provide any details, just a log in link - this is annoying when one has multiple accounts and services.

Date of experience: December 25, 2023
Virginia
1 review
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Change is good however if it effects in a negative way it's bad. It took me a long time to master the old platform, I'm not sure what else to say. I will be transferring all my domains to a new hosting platform.

Date of experience: December 9, 2023
Florida
1 review
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The instructions for setting up existing domains are unclear and I am currently in a loop of attempting to add a domain and it constantly loops between two pages rather than going to the next step in the process (without an error message)

Date of experience: December 28, 2022
GB
1 review
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The last person I spoke to was incredibly unhelpful and could not provide me with any useful advice on how to migrate my website. He also got my website wrong the whole time and thought we were talking about a totally random website

Date of experience: January 24, 2023
South Sudan
1 review
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Services meet expectations
September 24, 2024

Swift and excellent customer care support regarding queries

Date of experience: September 14, 2024