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Bluehost has been empowering people to build and grow their online presence since 2003. As a leading web hosting provider trusted by over 5 million WordPress users worldwide, we specialize in making it easy to create, launch, and scale WordPress websites. With innovative tools, expert guidance, and powerful hosting solutions, Bluehost is your partner in building a professional online brand—without boundaries.


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Bluehost Reviews Summary

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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I'm doing horrible and nothing seems to be working. Plus this rate me thing keeps holding me up till I respond

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Arizona
1 review
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I can't find what I'm looking for
April 14, 2023

I can't find what I'm looking for. The site is not intuitive and is difficult to navigate.

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
GB
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I have contacted the customer service on chat multiple times without any resolution

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Florida
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Stop trying to get me to move all my services to you. That's not what I'm going to do. I just need your support agents or an article that tells we what records to create to you my site pointed to your hosting platform. Changing name servers is a unprofessional and easy way out for you. It's not what we need and it's not why i signed up.

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Ohio
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I'm new, it's too early to be asking about my experience. Over surveying can be disruptive.

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Australia
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Unfortunately, so far this whole set has been much more painful than I would have hoped.
I'm not even sure Wordpress has been installed properly, and the theme I purchased has to date been a nightmare to install.

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Florida
1 review
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Absolutely the worst nightmare from sales and support. Joseph finally fixed it. Total circus wasted time and money

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Illinois
2 reviews
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The web site editing process is convoluted and not at all intuitive. I spent an HOUR on live chat to find out how to change a theme and did not get an answer. I was sent down a ridiculous rabbit hole of system folders. Only when I called support could someone help me, saying that activating a different template deactivates the current one. What a bizarrely buried method with no evident instruction, and when there could just be a "Deactivate" button on the theme.

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Texas
1 review
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Every time I adjust my website it just turns into a white screen

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Florida
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I am on the phone with someones now and she is rude, I have asked for a supervisor and she will not connect to me to anyone that I ask, she is ignoring me on the phone as we speak

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Colorado
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The import plugin from Wordpress was terrible and broke my site. Better to just retire that if you're not going to provide amazing support for it. Otherwise I love Bluehost so far. <3

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
California
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Can't get anywhere
April 13, 2023

Can't get anywhere. Not user friendly. I thought I paid for everything i needed to build a website. Why does my cart show items that I already purchased? Do I also need to set up a WordPress account?

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Canada
1 review
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Finding one's away around inside here is not intuitive.

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
California
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My email address won't let me log in - i need to keep using my temporary site name. It says there are too many accounts twtih that email.

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
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Builder is almost impossible to use...Confusing with your site & wordpress.
I have used Godaddy, wix, Onos and several other buildets. But your interface and Builder is hard to use.
Wanted to try another hosting company but
Your builder is impossible to use!

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
New York
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Since my first phone call and buying Bluehost I have received 13+ emails.

My very first email was confusing because my username was not one I wanted. This propagated my first problem trying to login or use your services.

Another email on payment confirmation with yet another made up username.

My first real attempt to login to Bluehost resulted in a duplicate username error. Then after successfully login was annoyed by efforts to get me to spend more money immediately.

The first sales or support person was very nice but you need a better solution to start people out who do not really know what they want their domain name to be. Set the profile up with NODOMAINYET# where # is used for domain value uniqueness.

The second support person was very nice and made sure I was all set up. However, I had issues with my first on my own login in due to the duplicate user name issue.

Today a more money email.

Not one email about our meeting today and I waited 20 minutes for a phone call. Then I waited another 10 minutes with a support person on the phone trying get a person to "meet" with me.

About username, I think you should allow customers to have and maintain/change a username as part of their profile. The username like an email and domain needs to be unique in the Bluehost database. All three should be allowed to be used to login. This will allow customers to have a shorter login name when desired. This practice is also consistent with many other industry login processes.

Sincerely.
David Sternberg

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
India
1 review
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I dont find a way to change primary domain! And even your support is offline all the time

Date of experience: March 14, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
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Now I can't even sign in to my account! I can't figure it out!

Date of experience: March 13, 2023
Missouri
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From this point, I'm unclear how to continue setting up my page.

Date of experience: March 13, 2023
Texas
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Your new user account experience is very frustrating. I logged in and was trying to set up my email, instead it kept showing me Create New WEbsite landing page. I had to be on customer service to understand where to go and create my email because I couldn't see the left navigation nor I could logout.

Date of experience: March 13, 2023