My wife and I host a wordpress site on Bluehost and it's been a dumpster
fire.  Once the season is over in the spring we're going to rehost
somewhere else but my opinion on BH has definitely soured. I can't speak
for general hosting, but the hosted Wordpress has been awful.

It was "hacked" (Crappy php scripts dumped that were easily cleaned up) and
they said you need to buy the Sitelock protection.  OK...we bought the
protection package.  Weeks later it happened again.  I logged into the
console and they removed it for some reason.  I get the sense that support
is just a queue of people grabbing questions and answering them in whatever
way they know how.  There is no continuity from case to case so each call
is spent trying to explain to them why their people chose to solve the last
problem the way they did.  Our staging site has been unusable since we
started with them, the site went down and we finally got someone to admit
that the physical host we were on went down despite several people assuring
us it was on our end and not theirs, I could go on....

I know enough now about wordpress that I'll probably move to Lightsail or
GoDaddy or something.  But Bluehost is definitely out for me.

My .02

-Shaun

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

>
>
> I am looking at cheap shared hosting providers.
>
> I found two so far... Bluehost and HostGator.
>
> I used Hostgator in the past and it was good and then really bad, and it
> has been a while.  I eventually moved on.  I have not used Bluehost and
> the reviews are mixed.
>
> I have three requirements:
>
> 1) must have a control panel.
> 2) must have ssh access. Not sure this is really necessary because, off
> the top of my head, all I need is to be able to edit the .htaccess file
> which I can do local and FTP up... or the control panel might have a
> built in editor.  I probably need access to SSH so I can set file
> permissions.
> 3) must be highly discounted when buying in bulk.
>
> Any other cheap hosting providers you would recommend?
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Keith
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