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If you want our suggestion, we strongly recommend you to go with Bluehost as it is used by millions of users and provides you much more sophisticated features at almost similar prices. Anil Agarwal who owns Bloggerspassion. View all posts by Anil Agarwal BloggersPassion. I used to work for Bluehost Support. Bluehost, Hostmonster, Justhost and FastDomain are all the exact same company.

As a support tech, I took support calls from all 4 accounts. They all have the exact same control panel and server structure. I always recommended to get a FastDomain hosting service because there are so few people who do that, that you are not sharing a server with as many other people as you would from the other 3.

Just thought you would like to know. I have used Hostmonster for many years and never had the slightest bit of trouble. The only thing that is lacking is that they cannot register a. Really had a hard time choosing between them deciding what company gives the better support, but if both are run with the same staff it really makes no difference. Thank you Anil for the share. It is really hard to choose between the two.

Even friends I know say there is not much to choose between them. To me, both sound like decent solutions and I would be willing to consider either one of them in the future. You never know when you need to jump ship.

A few friends use bluehost, an they seem happy. You like it to so everything adds up. Nice post bro! Some of the links to products on this blog are affiliate links. Written by Anil Agarwal. Web Hosting. Bluehost vs HostMonster. FAQs Final Thoughts. Grab Offer. You can easily and instantly install WordPress with a click-of-a-button and manage all your installations from an enhanced cPanel control panel, so you can start building your website immediately.

After your WordPress installation, you can get your WordPress website up and running with ease. Premium managed WP hosting comes with Jetpack site analytics, malware detection and removal, and daily scheduled backups.

More advanced plans include Jetpack Premium or Pro. Bluehost offers hosting plans from small business to enterprise level, starting with shared hosting and WordPress hosting for newcomers.

Growing businesses can benefit from cheap VPS and WordPress Pro hosting, while enterprises have high-end dedicated servers at their disposal. E-commerce plans are also an option. Bluehost's managed WordPress hosting is built on a VPS platform with custom architecture engineered to deliver unprecedented performance:. If you already have a WordPress powered site, a free migration service will transfer your existing WordPress website to HostGator.

You can easily and instantly install WordPress with one click. Once your WordPress installation is complete, you can manage your new website from an enhanced cPanel control panel. You also get automatic malware removal using SiteLock security. CodeGuard automatic website backup is included. Get daily automated website backup for all web files and databases with a 1-click restore. However, they do not offer an explicit e-commerce plan.

HostGator promises that pages load at blazing speed worldwide without having to configure your caching and CDN. Experience up to 2. Your website content is managed more efficiently, enabling dynamic content requests to be processed lightning-fast. Speed and uptime are the cornerstones of any web host's core features. Because having a fast loading website that is up online at all times are two of the most important things you want from a good web host.

Bluehost shared hosting plans come with solid state drives SSD , and their server infrastructure is powered by enterprise level SSD database storage. However, we know their main datacenter is in Provo, Utah. All servers operate at Tier 3 Tier 4 is the highest certification. This means that you can expect superior uptime and redundancy capabilities. Uptime is projected to be around The infrastructure boasts:. Bluehost offers the content delivery network powered by CloudFlare.

This means your site's traffic is routed through a global network that is optimized for fastest content delivery. HostGator shared hosting plans do not come with solid state drives SSD. HostGator utilizes several Tier 4 datacenters located in Texas and Utah. Their strategic utilization of these facilities allows them to provide the flexibility you need and the performance, quality, and reliability your business requires.

Each facility boasts a state-of-the-art server, HVAC, electrical, and backup generators. Their datacenters are highly secured facilities that have controlled access.

This is part of their service guarantee. They use proprietary technologies that have built-in redundancy for greater security. Like Bluehost, HostGator also utilizes CloudFlare for its content delivery and firewall network solutions. You need to take security seriously and use a web host that has the tools and preventative measures in place the protect your website from being spammed, hacked, injected with malware or taken completely. On its higher-level shared plans, Bluehost offers CodeGuard Basic, which provides automatic back-ups.

You can schedule these to take place on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. All plans allow you to create your own backup via cPanel. For a yearly fee, Bluehost offers Site Doctor. Site Doctor can quickly diagnose and stop any issues that arise from malware. But according to the site, DDoS attacks are not something they can warn customers about beforehand. They do say that when these attacks occur to understand that their team will do all things possible to restore your service quickly.

HostGator allows you to automatically create weekly backups. You can also make an instant manual backups. There is a paid upgrade called CodeGuard, it creates daily automated website backups for all your web files and databases with a 1-click restore.

This is included with WordPress plans. A free domain-validated SSL certificate comes with all plans. The HackAlert monitoring service is particularly useful as it checks your website daily and immediately notifies you if your website has been hacked or injected with malicious code.

HostGator protects from DDoS attacks. The site states that they have implemented an extensive custom firewall ruleset that protect servers from the many forms of attack. As well, their datacenter has enabled network-level flood protection. Great Suggestion. Pick non EIG providers. Do you know of a law suit in this challenging times. EIG needs to fold. I also was accused of something from billing and when I provided proof the employee of HG vindictively did the wrong doing they offered a credit not a refund a credit no appology not a thing then they accused me of gambling sites and took my entirte network of over 50 sites down.

I physically had a heart attack I had pain in my arms for days. Yes 50 sites remember this is content over 12 years in the makings keep in mind i sold addiitional domains also. Then to make things totally wwierd I was accused of wrong doing yet they sent me a check for the full amount I had spent with them since opening the first domain.

If i was so much in the wrong why such a refund. I dont think they thought thisone through cause im still awaiting a refund for the current sites they didnt take down. Sorry to hear that. It sounds like a terrible behavior from the EIG hosting companies. I really hope it will solve out for you.

As for May , ionos. If you looking for a new hosting provider, consider DreamHost or SiteGround , they are the ones we tested and recommend. Thanks for posting this article. I had started to notice a number of things wrong with them, including a dramatic increase in monthly charges. Up to now, I was not aware of EIG, or of their ownership of several hosting services.

Will now consider your recommendations. What you describe is the standard behavior of a provider from the EIG hosting companies family. Go with one of the EIG hosting alternatives suggested above. Much less hosting-related frustration going forward. Why would that be the case then? I found the chat option for HostGator particularly responsive. EIG hosts got great user acquisition channels — that means that they will be great when they trying to turn you into paying customers.

But, many different problems could appear later on read the article for more details. I see you suggest Dreamhost and Siteground. But do you think they are fast and good for wordpress? WPengine is too pricey. Thanks and stay safe. Hi Angel. I love Namecheap as a domain registrar but not using it as a hosting provider a while ago noticed some not-so-great speed reviews of it as well. I agree that WPEngine is for a bit different type of customers bigger enterprises. Both Dreamhost and Sitegroud hosting solutions got great speed and uptime performance for example, this site is hosted on Dreamhost together with fast support and accessible dashboards.

Thanks for this article…. My only problem is the fact that WordPress have been recommending bluehost from many years now. They should be aware of the multiple complaints from bluehost and hostgator users over the years but they still keep on recommending these hosting networks over others.

Why are they still recommending such platforms to their users? Go with a non EIG one like Dreamhost. Thanks for this information Johnny. It took days for me reading reviews and this article has helped me decide which hosting provider to subscribe. Dreamhost is always in my list until I heard about EIG and was validated here. By the way, do you know if the prices e. Starter and Unlimited in Dreamhost increases upon renewal?

This was not indicated in their pricing. Sure, happy to assist. Great prices for a non-EIG hosting. Hello Johnny! I have read your posts while our group was choosing a company for web hosting. That helped me a lot! Happy to hear that my EIG hosting list has been assisted you. A very detailed article, especially in reference to the reduced quality of service that happens after EIG acquires a company.

I had several websites hosted on HostGator years ago. They were my first experience in web-hosting. HostGator started off very helpful and once had great service. Their fees were also very affordable, being that I was of very limited income still kind of true of me today.

All was fine for about a year or two, until my own websites got hacked and trashed. When I discovered my sites were defaced, I tried to clean up the mess and restart my websites anew. Their web-server was so slow, and many of the files I wanted to delete would not delete!

SiteLock does NOT deal with security issues that originate within the web-server itself. After several frustrating attempts at resolution, I finally had to decide to just leave HostGator altogether. What was really upsetting, after the fact of leaving, is that HostGator kept spamming my email with notices of unpaid bills.

I finally had to threaten legal actions upon them, on the basis of harassment, if they continued to spam me. NameCheap did me well for a while on web-hosting. Only problem was, they often took it upon themselves to modify my htaccess files, whenever they made any changes to their web-hosting server environment. This is all fine and good, as long as they inform me of any changes to be proposed to any of my configuration files, rather than leave me guessing — and worrying about sudden, unexpected changes I discover later.

This is because I use a lot of advanced web-application protection and defenses. Lessons learned from having my own sites hacked. They are still a good non-EIG company to work with though. I have also had good experiences with A2Hosting another non-EIG company , who also offer VPS as well as dedicated web-hosting for very reasonable prices.

I have learned a LOT about the web-hosting landscape. So, thorough articles like this one, do a tremendous service to the public! Wow, Jim! Thanks for sharing your story. And you obviously right, we always learn and keep on learning about the site web-hosting landscape.

Thank you so much for keeping this article up. Or first Hostgator then EIG. Working there was hell as I watched them destroy one newly acquired company after another.

I was laid off with half the staff in Austin when they started moving much of their support to India. I felt so bad for the customers, especially at some of the smaller companies that had been getting such terrific service prior to EIG buyouts. Happy to hear that the article helps, thanks for sharing. You prove that every single sentence about EIG providers is correct. I hope your new job is much more satisfying and fulfilling. Great customer service, very good security.

Highly recommended. After the AWS takedown, I wonder how quickly a hosting company can take down legal content. A really important topic Terri. Thanks for the heads up about EIG. Looks like I can cross off HostGator as one of the hosts on my list to try out. I too love DreamHost. Their admin panel is awesome, and they offer multiple hosting solutions.

I would suggest that you learn how to install wordpress manually so that you can host multiple wordpress sites into one VPS, and the money the client would pay for hosting would just be passed on to you as profit.