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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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Illinois
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Many attempts in sept to get help simply how to access live website building support, which i paid over $250 for one month and your records will show i never ONCE was able to access one call, even one second of help, this was back in sept or early oct... i also tried asking for help hiring someone with BH to design my site and didn't get feedback and i just now spent over 20 min detailing the issues, hoping i would get it resolved, frankly, hoping to still be sold on hiring someone to build my site, then the chat closed down...

Date of experience: February 23, 2024
GB
1 review
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Web interface is buggy, customer support is the worst out of all services i have ever used in my entire life.

They try to upsell me domain privacy when im in europe and have it already for free by law.

The list is endless

Date of experience: March 7, 2024
Washington
1 review
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Impossible to contact customer service by simple email. When calling the phone number, I have yet to have someone get back to me on a reasonable amount of time. Very, very frustrated with my bluehost experience thus far.

Date of experience: March 19, 2024
GB
1 review
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While an initial error was ours (incorrectly entered email) this has still not been rectified. Access to our account has been consistently difficult despite contacting customer services more than once. Word Press is clunky and not intuitive. Unfortunately, we haven't had the best experience and would not at this stage recommend Bluehost or Word Press.

Date of experience: March 11, 2024
California
1 review
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Renewal center does NOT list everything
April 11, 2024

Renewal center does NOT list everything. There were account services hidden from me that were billed against my knowledge or will. Also when the renewal say's "Renews on April 8th" should mean what it says NOT 15 days previous. That is a deceptive business practice. A legit business does not need to operate like this.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Canada
2 reviews
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Not impressed with your hosting services, the lack of security, and that you now charge for every aspect of hosting individually. This is gravely disappointing Bluehost. I've been a customer for over a decade. Not interested in being one any longer.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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This is not very user friendly and it doesn't explain things well. I need a small ecommerce site. The only theme that is coming up is a blog style theme and I cannot seem to get around it. I've already spent over an hour and a half on chat trying to figure out the first problem, I don't have time to do that again.

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
Texas
1 review
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I absolutely do not like speaking with people in other countries that have no idea when you are having issues with the network and say no problem here only to 4 hours later the problem is fixed. They have no tools to help people and are extremely hard to understand. I wish there was a copy that would stop outsourcing.

Date of experience: March 4, 2024
Spain
1 review
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The support team is not trained, there were configuration errors with the DNS that I had to hire external people to configure it correctly.

When they gave me support, they said "it's already solved, wait 2 days and we'll see", that's how I was for 2 months.

Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Wisconsin
1 review
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I like this place because I was with register/web.com and they were far too expensive for my needs, I came here mostly to hang onto domain names. I had a website here but you wanted to charge me far too much so that's gone now, basically I just need domain name renewal, and maybe a 1 page static website to show I own the names.

Date of experience: February 22, 2024
Poland
1 review
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I've had some technical issues that the support teams struggled to fix for me, but in the end things seem to be working. I do worry if there is ever something serious that goes wrong, because in that case I'm not sure I can rely on the support to fix it quickly and effectively.

Date of experience: December 9, 2023
Minnesota
1 review
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Loved bluehost back in the day for high quality service - regardless of phone, chat, email, etc. this is slipping. The hosting speeds and capabilities are NOT the best and everyone knows that, but service made up for it. No longer the case. Likely a hosting shift coming soon for us as we grow.

Date of experience: March 22, 2024
California
1 review
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The Bluehost interface is not user friendly
February 17, 2024

The Bluehost interface is not user friendly. The message us field keeps popping up and obscuring the main window. Also, accessing various fields is confusing - you might have regular users test drive your layout to improve customer experience.

Date of experience: February 10, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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It's been difficult to figure out the new Wordpress editor, and right now I can't get the messages sent to me via the "contact form" to arrive in my email. So I'm frustrated. But when I do get things to work, they look pretty good.

Date of experience: January 9, 2024
Canada
1 review
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I've had two situations in the last week that happened because of my own actions. Both times I called the representative was very helpful and solved my problem quickly. It's very nice to be able to actually talk to someone relatively quickly and the primary reason I have bought my hosting with blue host.

Date of experience: October 23, 2022
California
1 review
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Do not use bluehost
November 5, 2022

I've had their host all year and paid to use their website builder. It only worked for the first couple of months and have not been able to make any changes to my website since it has not been working. I've asked multiple times for months and nothing has been fixed and they refuse to give me a refund. I do not recommend

Date of experience: October 6, 2022
Michigan
1 review
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I found the whole experience extremely confusing. I have quite a bit of experience making videos and editing using Premiere Pro, etc so Im not a beginner in those aspects. However, I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to do while making my website. I did watch a lot of the tutorials too btw.

Date of experience: March 28, 2024
Florida
1 review
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Two of my websites were down for almost 2 weeks; nobody knew why nor seemed to follow-up with me about status. Bluehost did not respond when I asked for compensation for loss of web time which resulted in lost of business.

Date of experience: February 20, 2024
California
1 review
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The login experience is truly awful
February 26, 2024

The login experience is truly awful. For weeks, it did not allow me an option to update my existent password so that I could sign in automatically. This had to be done manually, making the sign-in process tedious. Additionally, after logging in I get an ad/offer from Bluehost. Every time. You're kidding, right? I mean, I pay for my service already. In short, streamline the login process and you will have scores more happy customers. Thank you.

Date of experience: February 19, 2024
Texas
1 review
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Something happened to the back-end of my site and as a result, I am having to recreate many sections of my site. What was suppose to have been backed up and restored is more than 2.5 years old instead of being from Feb. 9,2024. I am so angry and it is going to take me months to fix my site and I don't have any confidence that the same issues won't happen again.

Date of experience: March 14, 2024