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Blue Host currently supports over
950,000 domains on its
servers. It is a number big enough to classify BlueHost.com among the tier
1 behemoths of web hosting service providers consisting of 1and1 Internet,
Hostgator and UK2NET. The unique aspect about Blue Host that makes
Bluehost
standout from the rest of the tier 1 web hosting providers is that Bluehost is the
only company that sells just one hosting plan. On top of that, Bluehost is one
of a handful of hosting providers who will offer unlimited bandwidth for
monthly website page loads and transfers. Under most situations, the
unlimited monthly file transfers do not have any impact on the regular-joe
websites. However, if you happen to have one of those regular-joe websites
and you were lucky enough to build into a traffic magnet, then the unlimited
bandwidth would be a great benefit for you.
Most hosting plans that are offered to the individual
webmasters, to the small business or even to some medium-sized businesses, are
typically hosted on a shared server. This means that the individual
website that you have in your possession is hosted on the same server as
hundreds of other domains from other individuals and businesses. The
result of sharing a server is that you are sharing the same traffic lanes ( for
lack of better words ) with the hundreds of other domains sitting on the same
server. As soon as your traffic increases beyond your allotted amount for
the month, the web hosting provider will begin to charge you extra fees for the
added bandwidth that it must dedicate to your website. In some cases,
we've heard of horror stories where the hosting provider would go as far as
disable your website so that it is not placing a heavy burden on the server in
question. What this means for you is that you will lose the opportunity to
make sales if your website has been disabled or is down. In most cases, the hosting
provider would try to coax you into leasing one of its dedicated servers or a
virtual private server (VPS), where you would be given more bandwidth to use per
month. Of course, a dedicated server will cost you as much as $179/month
compared to a shared hosting plan from BlueHost that only charges
you $6.95/month. So to review Bluehost's offerings to its competition in terms
of cost, it is a no-brainer.
Despite Bluehost's generosity in providing unlimited
bandwidth usage, it is not doing it out of the goodness of its own heart.
Instead, it is banking on the probability that a huge percentage of domains that
are hosted will not command a sizeable amount of traffic. Bluehost reviews
the traffic details from each domain that is hosted on its servers and has
already determined that most of these domains do not command a lot of traffic. Thus, the few
sites that do require a huge bandwidth expense can be isolated and placed on Bluehost's "dedicated servers". But, instead of having to pay a huge sum of
money for a dedicated server platform, Bluehost.com gives it to you essentially
for free.
A more detailed review of Bluehost.com reveals that
another unique aspect about the Bluehost hosting plan is that it will give you
free private domain registration along with one free domain. 1&1 Internet
is the other tier 1 hosting provider that also gives you free private domain
registration. Most other hosting companies would charge upwards of $10 per
year for the private registration, in addition to the yearly registration of the
domain itself.
Within these paragraphs, we only highlighted some of the
unique features of the Blue Host web hosting service. However, if you are
interested in finding more information on Bluehost, please visit the following
websites for more detailed reviews and analysis on Bluehost features:
The Blue Host Web Hosting Review website contains a detailed list of features that bluehost supports in it Professional Hosting Plan. The website also contains 1 on 1 comparisons to other hosting providers.
The BlueHost.com Hosting Review website is a good source of information on Bluehost.com's background and capabilities. The website will also provide information on how to obtain discounted web hosting from Blue Host.
The Options Trading and Web Hosting Review website provides a good perspective of the BlueHost service from an actual third party user.
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