Bluehost Review: Multiple Domain Hosting

For quite a while now I’ve been using Bluehost to host all my websites and blogs.

What Does Bluehost Offer?

- Unlimited hosting space. You never have to worry about how many pages and files you add to your site.
- Unlimited file transfers. Meaning people can download stuff from your site.
- Unlimited multiple domain hosting. No need for more than one hosting account.
- 2,500 email accounts. Yea that’s a lot!
- Domain registration. I now register my domains at Bluehost too. It’s easiest to keep everything organized that way.
- 1 Free Domain Registration Forever! You never have to renew your main domain so you save $10/year, forever.
- Control Panel. I’ll have to write another blog post about the benefits of a control panel with your hosting but one of the awesome features is how easy it is to install and set up your own wordpress website.
- Lots of Geeky Stuff. Like CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL – most of that is beyond me so let’s just say if you know what it is then you probably like that too.

Bluehost offers great customer service. They have a live online chat feature and also a 24-7 telephone support line.

At a cost of just $6.95 per month when you sign up for a full year Bluehost is very reasonable priced too. You can pay via Paypal OR Credit Card, it’s up to you.

Who Needs This Hosting

Well anyone who needs a website, needs hosting. Granted every website has it’s own needs. So I would say since I’m a home based, solopreneur with less than 1000 pages of website content that Bluehost suits me just fine.

If you have any extra special needs then I would check with Bluehost first to find out if they are for you. By extra special needs I mean if you’re planning on doing a massive launch that sends tens or hundreds of thousands of people to the site at once. You always want to plan that ahead and if that’s your goal then Bluehost might not be the hosting for you, I’m not sure.

Here’s What My Bluehost Control Panel Looks Like

I mentioned the control panel at the beginning of this review and while I won’t get into all the details let me just give you a run down of some of the things that control panel makes easier for just about anyone to do:

- Set up email accounts.
- Track your website visitor statistics including how many visitors, where they come from and what keywords they typed into the search engines to find you.
- Set up multiple software programs on your website including WordPress, Joomla, Chat Forums and more.
- Do simple redirects.
- Create password protected pages.
- Register new domains.

Here’s a screenshot of my control panel:

Now don’t feel overwhelmed with this! It’s very user friendly and there are even videos available on how to use your control panel features.

A Small Feature I Don’t Like

Of course no company is perfect and there really isn’t much to complain about but a little while ago I noticed something I didn’t really like.

You see when you can host multiple domains you tend to register a lot of domains as ‘new ideas’. Not all these new ideas fly so you let the domain die. I did this and then started noticing a lot of charges for renewed domains on my credit card. It was because when you register a domain it is automatically selected to automatically RENEW when the domain is up for renewal.

There’s an easy fix here though now that I’m aware of it. I simply went into my domain area in the control panel and de-selected the automatic renewal. Also now when I register any new domains I make sure to turn off the automatic renewal as I go through the sales process.

So I think this review shows you pretty clearly the advantages of a good host and control panel. Getting stuck in a bad hosting situation can be frustrating, time consuming and costly so I definitely recommend you do you research (or count on mine) before jumping in with a new host.

Bluehost has never let me down in three years or so and I highly recommend them.

Ready? Need Hosting? Click here to sign up for Bluehost:

http://www.marketersmojo.com/recommends/bluehost

p.s. Don’t miss the detailed instructions I have for you on how to set up your own wordpress website in Bluehost. They’re here:
http://www.marketersmojo.com/freebies/courses/blogging/