By rahim123 on

Hello,

I've been extensively researching web hosts for the past few days, and I have read some good and bad stories about almost all of the them, including Bluehost and Hostgator. I personally am dumping Anhosting, which is generally very high rated. But I have to decide on someone, and no host will be perfect. I need a host that is:

1. Cheap <$10/month
2. Honest
3. Reliable 99.9% uptime with a meaningful guarantee
4. Generous with resources, including multiple domains and not too strict CPU requirements, won't shut me down if I get Slashdotted or Digg'd.

How would you rate Bluehost and Hostgator in these four areas?

Thanks a lot!

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Bluehost and Hostgator are owned by the same company.

1. About $166 per year (prepaid 2yr)
2. I've had no problems with them in 3 years.
3. Hard to tell, since I don't monitor them 24/7 -- but once again, no problems in 3 years.
4. Don't expect a lot of CPU time for $10 a month -- and digg/slashdot have taken down large sites :)

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rahim123 commented

Thanks for the reply! Did you mean that Bluehost and MonsterHost are the same company? I'm almost sure that Hostgator is different, Bluehost lists them in its chart of competitors.

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crazypenguin commented

Hostgator is not owned by Bluehost.

Bluehost, Hostmonster, and FastDomain are all run by CEO Matt Heaton in the same location in Orem, Utah.

I used Bluehost for two years and they have been one of the worst web hosting companies I have used. Here is my 2 cents on Bluehost out of the 20+ web hosting companies I have used.

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bp1969 commented

I mean maybe it's ok if you want to host you're 4th-grade photo page, but not for any kind of business use.

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rahim123 commented

Have you read their TOS? The worst I have ever seen...

Which company?

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infowarp commented

It's HostMonster that is owned by Bluehost.

If you want to try out HostGator you can join for one cent here and see if you like them.

Andrew

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zilla commented

but check out mediatemple.net - not much more (possibly same price if you tell them what you're getting - they may price match)

you'll get all you want plus your drupal on a grid and in a container, so serious control over the backend for performance...and they can handle insane traffic on the grid...worth a look.

i've been very happy with them for many years (like 6 or so), before the containers and the new grid...tech support is outstanding and free, 24x7, and many tech support folks know drupal...

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rahim123 commented

MediaTemple looks sweet, but I can't imagine them coming down to $7.95/mo from $20.

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seanray commented

I'm the happy user of both Bluehost and HostGator, and in terms of the four areas you listed in above, looks like to me that they are very close.

And the advantage of HostGator is that it provide many different level solution, it will be very easily for you to upgrade to a powerful hosting environment if you hosting cannot support the traffic of your site.

But Bluehost is a little cheaper. It could be a good choice for beginner.

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Sophia commented

I second that, I have been a happy customer of both, I find their level of service excellent. Recenly I have sent about 15 tickets in a row to HostGator, and they have been perfect about it. Every single one was answered within minutes.

The best feature about HG is indeed that you can upgrade to a different level, like reseller hosting or a dedicated server. Other than that, you can't go wrong with either.

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alliax commented

I'm surprised that nobody is mentioning Dreamhost... why? do they have a bad reputation on the web?? Me I'm totally satisfied with dreamhost and I can tell you that on one account I have MANY drupal sites running (with cache enabled of course!)

I went to bluehost once and saw the admin area is a standard cpanel. On dreamhost it's hand-made, it's their own admin.

As for the prices, I took 10 years with dreamhost after testing for one year and a half, I've had only good things with customer support, so if someone can tell me why dreamhost is not mentioned I'm curious, because the price is competitive compared to bluehost, the features are awesome in both cases, they're both in the USA, so what's the difference???