Bluehost
Beginner WordPress hosting with long terms and steady uptime.
Bluehost, part of Newfold Digital, sells shared hosting aimed at WordPress users, plus VPS and dedicated servers. Its shared plans are priced on a 36-month term and include NVMe storage, a free domain for a year and weekly backups. Independent tests put uptime near 99.98 percent and speed in the middle of the field.
BluehostOne floor per score. Lit windows out of five.
What comes with the flat
- Starter plan covers 10 websites and 10 GB NVMe storage
- Free domain for the first year and a free migration tool
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Uptime of about 99.98 percent in independent monitoring
- Trustpilot score of 4.5 from about 32,000 reviews
The small print
- Intro price only on a 36-month prepaid term
- Starter renews at $9.99 a month after the intro term
- No phone support on the Starter plan
- US response time measured at about 0.6 s, slower than several rivals
Floor plans
Starter
Business
eCommerce Essentials
Read on 2026-10-14 on Bluehost's own pricing page, USD excl. tax. Work out the rent year by year
What the neighbours say
31,923 reviews, read 2026-10-14
Our verdict
Bluehost suits beginners who want a familiar WordPress host and a fixed price for three years. People who care about load time or want phone help on the cheapest plan will find better options. The entry plan renews at $9.99 a month, two and a half times the intro rate, and backups are only weekly.
The details
- Kinds of hosting
- shared, wordpress, vps, dedicated, email
- Control panel
- Bluehost account portal (custom), cPanel not mentioned on the plan page
- Backups
- Weekly on the shared plans
- Support
- 24/7 chat on all plans, phone from the Business plan up
- Moving in
- Free site migration tool
- Free domain
- yes, first year on the shared plans
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Data centers
- North America, South America, Europe, Asia
Sources
- Bluehost shared hosting: Prices, renewal, term, storage, sites, backups, support per plan, free domain, guarantee, migration tool, data center regions
- Website Builder Expert, Bluehost review: US speed of about 0.58 s, slower than Hostinger and DreamHost
- Website Builder Expert, DreamHost review: Comparison response time for Bluehost, 0.62 s
- Trustpilot, Bluehost: Score 4.5, 31,923 reviews, complaints about renewal billing and SSL renewals
Scores are our reading of the sources above, on a 1 to 5 scale. We did not run our own server tests for this listing.
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