Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

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On 2023-04-03 13:57, Shaun Anderson wrote:
> 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

Thank You So Much For The Feedback!!



> 
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at 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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