Bluehost Review

Bluehost has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996.

This is a website hosting service that offers Fantastico Cpanel, tons of free features with great customer support and all at the most reasonable price around ...$6.95/month!

If you don't know what Fantastico is,  it's a commercial script library which automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel. 

Fantastico is installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide and Bluehost is one of them.  

Not only does Bluehost use Fantastico cPanel they have some of the best support online.  This is important to a webmaster because if you're having a problem, be it 2:00 in the afternoon or 2:00 in the morning, you're gonna need on the spot support.  I don't recommend using a web host without good support, it just isn't worth the headaches. 

But the real clincher with Bluehost is their very affordable cost.  With all the free features and great customer service, I'd have to say if I you don't already have a hosting, this is a no-brainer.

Bluehost Basic Features:

• Disk Storage (NOW MORE!)  300 GB
• Host UNLIMITED Domains (WOW!)  
• Free Drag and Drop Site Builder (NEW!)  
• Free Domain Name  
• Support International Domain Names 
• POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support  2,500 
• IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support  2,500 
• 2 Different Web Based Email Solutions
• Forwarding Email Accounts  Unlimited 
• Email Autoresponder  Unlimited 
• Gigs of Site Transfer (NOW MORE!)  3,000 GB/mo 
• Add-on Domains  Unlimited 
• Parked Domains  Unlimited 
• Subdomains  Unlimited 
• Additional FTP Accounts  1,000 
• MySQL Databases  50 
• PostgreSQL Databases  50 
• CGI-BIN  
•  CGI Library   
• Server Side Includes   
• Frontpage 2000/2002/2003 Extensions  
• Account "Control Panel"  
• FTP Access   
• Shell Access (SSH) 
• Override .htaccess Support 
• Anonymous FTP   
• Webmail (Browser Based Email)   
• Log Files + Site Stats   
• Customizable Error Pages   
• Web File Manager  
• Custom Cronjobs  
• Hotlink Protection  
• Spam Assassin Protection
• Fantastico Script Support   

CGI / DATABASES  INCLUDED 

• PHP 5, Perl 5 and Python
• Support For Custom PHP.INI Files  
• MySQL 5 Database Server
• PostgreSQL Database Server   
• Javascript/ DHTML   
• Flash / Shockwave 

FREE WEBSITE PLUG-IN SCRIPTS INCLUDED 

• Message Forum (PHPBB and More) 
• Form-mail Scripts  
• PHP Nuke / Post Nuke   
• Guestbook (Multiple Options) 
• Web Blogs / Wordpress / b2evolution  
• Mailing Lists  
• Image Galleries / Coppermine (More!)  
• Poll and Survey Software  
• Web Auction Software   
• phpForm Generator   
• Help Center/Support Ticket   

E-COMMERCE FEATURES  INCLUDED

• SSL Secure Server   
• OS Commerce Shopping Cart  
• Agora Shopping Cart   
• Cube Cart Shopping Cart  
• Zen Cart Shopping Cart 
• Free Generated Certificate 
• Password Protected Directories 
• OpenPGP / GPG Encryption    
   

MULTIMEDIA FEATURES  INCLUDED 

• Supports Streaming Video 
• Supports Streaming Audio  
• Real Audio & Video Support  
• Flash Support   
• Macromedia Shockwave 
• MIDI File Support   
• Add Own MIME Types 

WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY INCLUDED 

• Quad Processor Performance Servers 
• UPS Power Backup
• Diesel Generator Backup Power 
• Customized Apache Web Server 
• 24/7 Network Monitoring   
• Storage Backups*   
• OC-48 Backbone Connection   

SITE PROMOTION INCLUDED 

• Search Engine Submission 

OK, as you can see there's a lot of features included here.  Some of which you may recognize and some of it may seem like "stuff" you'll never use, but if there's ever any feature you need in the future, you'll have it.  Besides getting all of that with the ease of CPanel (easy control panel )and Fantastico at the cost savings price of $6.95 a month, it seems like a no-brainer to me. 

Bluehost is TRULY a steal at:  $6.95 a month with free set up

Visit the Bluehost Hosting Web site, they also have 'live online chat' for all your pressing questions.