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So around year and a half ago I was in this Digital marketing bootcamp, and my teacher recommended me to start with bluehost instead of using wordpress.com . They have been giving me a lot of problems, such as duplicate sites showing up. Anytime they assist me sometimes they crash on my websites and since I have customers, do you understand how tenuous that is?
Long story short should I find a new hosting provider and if so, which one should I use?
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Bluehost doesn’t get a lot of love around here. I know many people who don’t have issues with them. But I think it’s going to depend on your site requirements and your overall website skillset.
I tend to recommend knownhost for general hosting. Lots of others get recommended in this sub A quick search will pull them up.
I use their VPS’s for a few sites and no issues. Only issue is when traffic gets higher and resources get used up, but then the site needs a bigger plan, so not the fault of Bluehost.
Their shared hosting is mediocre, but for a small biz site with not a lot of traffic, it’s ok.
It’s all relative though since there are worse hosts. Bluehost is big, so I think it’s an easy target in here.
If you are on a shared hosting plan, you’d definitly have a lot of problems. It’s worth it to change hosting if you start to feel that your website needs more resources. However, getting a better comes with extra cost.
It’s not the best especially if you’re not technical. However, being one of the biggest players in the game, I usually recommend either Bluehost or Godaddy to my clients (people will cringe at reading that) but they’re the easiest to work with, and their customer support hasn’t let me down (yet). In my experience their customer support reps vary wildly with their level of knowledge and skill. Some of them saved my day. Some of them made things worse.
All in all I still trust them because they haven’t given me a reason not to. I’ve heard many stories on here that make me nervous, but maybe those people just didn’t have any DNS knowledge so they might not have understood how to fix things themselves.
They suck dogs’ eggs.
For an agency, at least a cheap VPS seems like an obvious choice, as it gives you max. flexibility for less cost. You need some skill in sysadmin to make it worth though. Also, always go with something that gives you flexible options out of the box for backups (especially the VPS itself), so you can fix stuff that went wrong quickly enough.
For recommendations, was a DigitalOcean customer for years, until I found it a tad too expensive for my needs.
NEVER HOST FOR ANY CLIENT. You could do reseller but never ever use your own hosting.
Client registers or you do it for them in their name and their e-mail address and so forth.
If you were serious about hosting I would suggest WP Engine. We use them as an agency and it’s bonkers how good their support is compared to other hosts. We host multiple client websites from the same WP Engine server and (although we don’t) you can give each client access to their environment to control backups, staging sites and redirects.
if its their shared hosting then because its overcrowded their resources cant keep up. I suggest try dedicated resources plan.