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Hi all,
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Yeah they're pretty good. I use Hostgator which has a similar thing - I've got dozens of sites and subdomains on one account!

Godaddy are better for managing domains though.

Here is a short video from Bluehost that gives you an inside look at who they are, why they're the best and most reliable with the best customer service, and what they offer that other webhosts don't.

Winston, are you moving HA to Bluehost soon?

noog wrote:Winston, are you moving HA to Bluehost soon?

No, because:

1) The process of moving a site to another webhost is complicated, not simple.
2) Bluehost doesn't allow adult content, so if I ever decided to allow adult content here someday, I couldn't use them. I prefer to keep that option open rather than closed. Plus, if people post adult content here and I don't even know about it, Bluehost would give me a hard time about that. The less potential trouble the better.

Hostgator allows sexy content

We are finally moving to Bluehost. See announcement and updates here:

viewtopic.php?t=22773

Please save your new forum posts in the meantime, in case they get lost during the migration. You can just save them in an offline file like Notepad or MS Word.

Winston wrote:Hi all,
If any of you are planning to start a website and looking for a webhost, I highly recommend Bluehost. They have UNLIMITED hosting, space, transfers and domain for only $4.95 a month, the best deal you can possibly get. Plus they are known as the web's most reliable host with the best security and customer service! Every webmaster I know recommends them too. Check out their deal at my affiliate link below. Thanks.

http://www.bluehost.com/track/wwu777

Do they have a website builder? What if I already have domains on GoDaddy?

Tsar wrote:

Winston wrote:Hi all,
If any of you are planning to start a website and looking for a webhost, I highly recommend Bluehost. They have UNLIMITED hosting, space, transfers and domain for only $4.95 a month, the best deal you can possibly get. Plus they are known as the web's most reliable host with the best security and customer service! Every webmaster I know recommends them too. Check out their deal at my affiliate link below. Thanks.

http://www.bluehost.com/track/wwu777

Do they have a website builder? What if I already have domains on GoDaddy?

Yes they have a website builder. Several of them. I am in their hosting panel right now. It's far better than the Godaddy hosting panel.

They can migrate your sites from Godaddy for $99. Pretty good deal.

If you have domains on Godaddy, you can leave them with Godaddy and just change the nameservers on them to Bluehost servers, which only takes a few seconds. Or you can transfer the domain names to Bluehost from the Bluehost cpanel, which only takes a few days and is free.

Check them out using my affiliate link so I can get credit if you sign up with them.

http://www.bluehost.com/track/wwu777

Click on Live Chat on their website. Their reps will answer all your questions.

We are now on Bluehost's server. See announcement here:

viewtopic.php?t=22773

Let me know if this site performs better on their server. But we are on their shared hosting. We will be moving to dedicated hosting and have our own server, which will raise the performance and ranking of this site.

Yeah I have a few friends who swear by Bluehost. They seem good.

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How about free hosting (with no banner ads). zettahost.com

1000 MB Disk Space
5 GB Monthly Traffic
1 Domains Hosting
MySQL
PHP5, Perl
24/7 Support
Joomla&Wordpress Installer
Email Sending (SMTP ON)

Now if you have a small basic website this will suffice. Who needs more than 1000 MB Disk Space? The only thing that concerns me is if you have more than 5 GB Monthly Traffic (~266 mb / day). A competitor could drain your bandwidth then your website would stop working (unless you choose a paid plan). Their paid plans start at 24EUR/yr.

If its free then its gonna be really shitty quality server. Use your common sense. Where does the money come from to pay for their hosting costs if they have no advertisers?

I just told you they have paid hosting plans if you need more than what's included in the free hosting.