Bluehost review
Mass-market shared hosting with WordPress bundling
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Quick verdict
Widely used and easy to start with, but the renewal pricing and upsell pressure need watching.
A large US shared host owned by Newfold Digital, long listed on WordPress.org as a recommended host. cPanel-based with heavy WordPress onboarding.
Who it suits
- · First-time site owners
- · WordPress sites
- · Tight budgets
Who should look elsewhere
- · No UK data centre, which costs UK visitors latency
- · Renewal pricing is much higher than the intro offer
- · Persistent upsells during signup and in the panel
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What is good
- Very easy WordPress setup for a first site
- Recommended on WordPress.org for many years
- 24/7 phone support
- Large body of third-party tutorials
What is not
- No UK data centre, which costs UK visitors latency
- Renewal pricing is much higher than the intro offer
- Persistent upsells during signup and in the panel
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- cPanel (customised)
- UK data centre
- Unknown
- Data centre regions
- United States, India, China
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- Yes
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Unknown
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Yes
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Yes
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- phone, live chat, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | shared | — | USD 3.99 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Bluehost hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Bluehost pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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