They host your website on the same IP address as malicious and scammer web sites and get you blacklisted! Avoid this company! They do not care about quality of service. Their support, with very rare exceptions is a bunch of clueless people with zero training on the product (like: Errr... it's working on my side). That's what you get when your legitimate website is hosted on the same junk IP as a scammer's website and antiviruses block it. Better stay away from BlueHost! read more

Bluehost - Web Design Near Me - Orem, Utah

15 year user here...the company had great packages and services back in the day. After a few years of frustration, I dropped them like a hot potato--terrible cpanel interface, integrations, service packages, etc. Service used to be top notch...now its abominably bad and they nickel and dime you every step of the way. Sites are slow and unresponsive, and my last straw was a security breach that left my site inaccessible, requiring me to clean up my DB and code to transfer it to another web hosting provider. Go look for other options like SiteGround, Square Space, etc. you won't regret it. read more

terrible company will charge your credit card for the rest of your life. no refunds no customer service they have lied to us and even after completeing the entire cancel your service policy they still wont end our account. 4 years we have been trying to cancel and they still continue to charge our card and defend the charge. do not use read more

I've been a Bluehost customer since 2010, but my experience with them--and their parent company, Newfold Digital--has gone from bad to worse over the years. Upgrading to a dedicated server was supposed to be a game-changer for performance and speed. Instead, it turned into a nightmare. After paying $100 per site for migration, my websites were down for an entire week. Once they were finally back up, speed tests revealed my site was actually slower than before. Twelve months into my expensive 3-year plan, things deteriorated even further. My site started experiencing major issues, and despite hours of troubleshooting with Bluehost's support team over a period of 3 months--alongside my own team of 4 web techs--they couldn't resolve the problems. Their "solution" was to blame outdated hardware and pressure me to upgrade again. When I requested to remain on the same dedicated server plan but simply move to updated hardware with better resources, they gave me two unacceptable options: 1. Forfeit the $1,100 remaining on my current plan and pay more for modest improvements. 2. Upgrade to an outrageously expensive plan, almost doubling my costs, and with no option to ever downgrade. This level of greed and inflexibility was the final straw. Rather than throw more money at a company with such poor customer service and hosting quality, I walked away and ate the $1,100 loss. I would not recommend Bluehost or Newfold Digital to anyone. Their upselling tactics, lack of transparency, and inability to deliver on promises make them one of the worst hosting providers I've ever dealt with. Stay away. read more

The shut down my account without emailing me. They have no record of my website, phone or email and I have to start all over again. They suck in a word. Very bad company, run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. I've had another website and host for 25 years and wish now I had put my other site with them. read more

AWFUL....they continued billing my card after I told them it was unauthorized and to remove my card from their files. I had to call back again and spend almost an hour with another rep explaining the situation again that my card was being used unauthorized. This is 2 months after the last conversation. This is the 2nd time in 2 months they have pulled money out of my account using my card. I have had to call my bank and put a block on the company and the charges. We'll see if this rep I am speaking to at Bluehost actually does their job. read more

TERRIBLE. AVOID. I have been a Bluehost customer for many years and never had an issue. Until recently. Their chat function and the reps on the chat function are not only unhelpful, they have actually made situations worse. I have resorted to only calling now. The call center is in the Philippines and the folks there are courteous and professional, although I have had to escalate an issue to supervisor/manager level three times over the past two months to get any resolution. The chat option should be DISABLED as, wherever that team is in the world, they are completely unhelpful and, as of the past two months, left issues unresolved or made matters worse. There's always a survey. Not sure if anyone is reading the feedback?! I absolutely DO NOT recommend Bluehost. read more

The pricing was decent; the reviews - at a glance - were good, so I tried them in 2023. But the service was HORRIBLE. They must be manipulating reviews on some sites. They rate high on some, very low on others. read more

been with blue host for over 15 years and they were good. Now, they are the worst. My sites are constantly down, or load too slow and timeout, or have some HTTP support error. I have spent several hours on phone and chat multiple time in last 12 months and its frustrating. their chat is a joke and utter waste of time, their call tech support not much better... they simply run the same checks over and over and have little real experience. I spoke with support supervisors and they seem knowledgeable and say they will run checks and call me back but doesn't happen and left starting from scratch again..... it is no wonder why they now have such low ratings online. STAY AWAY. read more

I used bluehost about 10 years ago for my personal website. I cancelled the service roughly 5 years ago. Since then, they've attempted to bill my credit card twice. The first time (about 3 years ago) they were successful, but I disputed the charge with my credit card company, and they put a block on any future charges from blue host. This January, Blue Host attempted to charge my card four times, but were blocked. I called Blue Host and they said "Your account was cancelled/expired/disabled on January xx, 2025, so we won't bill you any longer." That statement is absurd, because I cancelled my account 5 years ago. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE, or if you do, keep an eye on your credit card statements forever. read more

Terrible! They are a total ripoff. I got an email telling me that I if I didn't renew my domain name that day, that I was in danger of losing it. I called them, and said that my domain name was registered for another year. The guy that I spoke to said that owning the domain name and registering the domain name are 2 different things. That sounded like bs, but I was nervous and I paid the $20.99 that they were asking for. Then, after doing much research, I found out that the guy definitely lied to me. I called back and demanded to have a copy of the recording of my conversation with that guy. They refused. I'm not going to go after them for my stinking $20, but they're losing me as a customer forever. These people are evil!!! I can see that they don't care what people think by the huge number of poor reviews that they have gotten. I wish I had researched more before I got involved with these criminals. read more

On October 18, 2023, because Bluehost hosts my domain name, I spoke to Christine, who had originally called on an unrelated matter but offered Bluehost as an option. Bluehost only offers web design and would not migrate information from my old website so it was a deal breaker, but she gave me some additional tips on how my website could improve, which I added to my list. I still use Bluehost as my domain. read more

The WORST. They screwed up my website and it has been down for almost a month. Absolutely nightmare read more

DO NOT USE FOR MIGRATION. HOSTING AND DOMAIN RENEWALS EXPENSIVE. I have been using them for several years. I'm a graphic designer who designs websites. - customer service: Well meaning, but these kids from the phillippines are only allowed to spend 15 min. with you. After about 8 calls to this F&*^%$#@ing place (regarding my migration of a site from one BH account to another), this kid had me hoping they could resolve my issue. (This time) I am doing a migration. They use a 3rd-party, it's obvious, and that 3rd party always drops off on you, or never emails you back. Obviously, some accountability is missing there. I'm so pissed. Do not use bluehost. read more

Abandon hope all ye who enter here! After many frustrating hours on the phone trying to get our SSL certificate renewed, someone in sales (support was no help) suggested that we upgrade our plan so that the SSL would auto renew. Bluehost then charged us the same amount twice for one upgrade. When I requested that one of the charges be removed, Bluehost said "sure" and then canceled our plan altogether. As a result, our company's email and website were shut down for several days. I will never know how much business we lost because of Bluehost. But I do know that I lost a significant amount of time, money and sleep. Canceling our account and getting a refund also was an epically miserable process. After an interminable time in chat hell, we finally received a refund. This company is a poster child for everything wrong with the online economy! read more

Bluehost is the worst service on the internet. Do Not Use Them for anything. I don't know who owns them now but they used to be great. I'm moving my sites immediately. It has been down for a month due to supposed malware. BS BS BS BS BS. They don't deserve the one-star rating. read more

I've been with Bluehost for years, never had a problem because I've never had an issue or problem with my website. Now that I have an issue slash question, the level of frustration at getting any decent customer support is through the roof. Incompetent and ineffectual. Do not use them if you think you might ever require any level of customer support. read more

The company bluebost is horrible! They steal from their customers! I purchased services from them a year ago and found it to be not user friendly so I did not use their services - EVER! I see a charge in my credit card on May 9th for $563. I dispute it as fraud because I did not know what it was! The case is denied because Bluehost denied it! I call their customer service and they tell me if I would have called by May22nd I could have cancelled but it is the 6/6 so too bad! they are horrible...even one of the service reps admitted it was wrong! BEWARE!!! This company is run by thieves!!! read more

terrible. Tech support mediocre. I paid hundreds of dollars for a three-year subscription for numerous domains; it included sitelock to keep out malware. One year in, they changed their offering; although they are under contract, they rescinded the sitelock, which was free; they now insist that I purchase it for $95 a year--telling me that no wordpress app will provide any safety. They had me subscribe for a second year, lest the price go up or it once again not be available. Generally, over 8 years, tech support has been much worse than I received at GoDaddy. read more

Is there a 0 star rating? I have had three significant support issues over the last 3-4 years and none of them have ever ended up with a resolution OR a decent answer as to why the situation occurs. My most recent one is below: Initiated contact via CHAT and CALL and explained problem and asked for escalation. This all started 12/20/22. Response 1 was from Vikas A simply telling me to change the wild card characters as he state they were wrong; even quoted an article stating as such. SO I tested (using many REG EXP engines AND your own test function) the use of the + and the * (which is what I originally used) and found that all the REG EXP engines (and your own internal tester) I tested against used BOTH wild card characters equally. At this time I also pressed the issue that I needed to know what Reg Exp engine is Bluehost using ( I have asked that MULTIPLE times of MULTIPLE agent; including managers and STILL NO ANSWER) so I could ensure my expressions were correct... I have yet STILL to get that answer. However your documentation stream seems to point to PCRE and PCRE uses both + and * as a wild card. I tried responding to my email case a couple times and no answer so I called and asked for escalation and Manager John told me that my email (the one above describing all that) did not make it to the case and that this was an ongoing issue with BH support system so he agreed to close S-2088108 and OPEN with links to that case and extra notes a new case; S-2103382. He also agreed to add priority to this case and attach my email above to it. After that was done I waited again the answer I got from escalation was telling me the filters are working but cited a use case using the filter type SUBJECT / CONTAINS and I was not having problem with CONTAINS I was having trouble with REG EXP and apparently no one seems to get that. Anyway I responded right away and waited. The next Saturday (yesterday - 1/21/23) I called again and asked for a manager and got Manager Ron who said my case was closed again. He agreed to open and link it to old case (S-2088108) and stated it was not linked... YET MANAGER JOHN previously said he would link it and add better notes... and "it seems" he did not. Anyway Manager Ron re-opened my case and said the same things Manager John said and then I waited for a response. Today (Sunday 1/22/23) I get a response from Rashmi K simply restating that the response I got previously was correct and that was the response that tested CONTAINS not REG EXP... SO they did not even dig into the notes of the case OR the notes were not in that case in which case every agent I have spoken to AND the two managers (John and Ron) did NOT do their job. I am tired of dealing with this company. read more

Bluehost charged me and then canceled my account with an email notice that I did not receive until I contacted support as I was unable to log in to my account. They took blogs and discarded or kept info. Very unprofessional and I will be sure to start a new blog and write about bluehost and how other companies are a better fit. the chat is a joke and support doesn't support anything. They will take all your money though. read more

DO NOT USE BLUE HOST FOR ANYTHING! I have been having issues with receiving emails and today is the forth day. I keep contacting them and they say it has been escalated. Well Blue Host, I had this issue back in October and it took a week for me to receive emails. Customer service/chat is horrible and Blue Host keeps you in a terrible doom loop. I am going to leave Blue Host and never return. Wish I could give them zero star I do not recommend. As a business owner, you have to have access to incoming emails. Response time is critical. read more

Absolute dogshit service, support didn't even know what a cache was! Predatory pricing and horrible product, don't waste your time here.

I switched my blog over to Blue Host because I was told they had excellent customer support. So far, the customer tech support has been ABYSMAL - and on top of that, I have been double charged - I haven't even started to deal with that issue yet. AFter being on the phone an hour earlier today, I was bumped up to a higher tech level. I had to go as I had another appointment. I did get a case number, though, and was told I could call back. That has proven to be disastrous. No one now seems to know what is going on, in spite of the previous case and number, and sending screen shots of my issue. And I;m being told now, in the mid-afternoon, that there is no higher level support person available, After being on the phone with them again for a good while (over 20 minutes). I would call the corporate office and complain, but can't find a number on line for that! I'm reading their tech support has been outsourced to an offshore company. Yeah - it really shows. You can hear laughing and talking - like a frickin' party is going on - in a foreign language in the background when calling tech support Update- I have spent 4 hours already on the phone today trying to get help,. When I FINALLY got through to a higher level tech support person, they dropped the call. Did they bother to call me back? No! I am starting over... read more

Bluehost.com is creating roadblocks ever since I cancel my account renewal and wanted to transfer my domain. The new hosting company has been trying for the last three days with the EPP number but failing every time. I called blue hose 3 times. Every time they talk to their supervisor, to the ticket agent, and who knows what. But, never clearing the problem that is causing the domain from being transfered. read more

I switched to BlueHost because they had a great rating. I don't know how that happened. The customer support is horrible. They talk down to you. They refuse to transfer you to a more tech-savvy person. They won't give a number for a department that knows how to help. They make you start at Square One - tell your whole story - give you the same advice you just told them you already got.......when you get understandably upset they just repeat their lines about how mail works. ARGGGH! I have called with the SAME ISSUE for a month. Sometimes they say it will be fixed -"Give it a few hours or days." It is NEVER FIXED. At the end of my call today, they told me they don't even OFFER the 365 upgrades. The upgrade option you are directed to call in order to add. The number I called 4 -5 times, asking the same questions, answering the same questions, looking at one thing and another. What was the point if they don't offer it? I am really happy I didn't purchase a long-term plan. The support is abysmal. read more

THE WORST! When I switched my companies email to blue host they, for some reason, attached our email to someone else that had an account with them that had a similar name to mine. It then took 3 weeks to get our emails back from that person as they had to release the email addresses. All the while I was having to talk with customer service over seas that didn't understand me, hung up on me and treated me as if I had done something wrong. THEY ARE HORRIBLE. I too chose them as I read good reviews but I have no idea who is giving them good reviews. Maybe that was before they sent everything overseas and now nothing works. I'm switching my service as soon as I am released from the waiting period. Now $160 poorer! read more

Charged without my consent $ 40 for plus hosting, wrongly explained how to do a back-up of the website, deleted my hosting though I asked to wait so I did a back-up, then another week did not know how to fix the 404 error website. I made a life record - 2:30 hours of continuous mobile conversation with the specialist and guess what? - with no help at the end. Some of the agents (2 cases) just holded me for 30-40 minutes so I heard the sounds of crowded office, with no words. 1 star is too much for them! read more

Bad customer service agents are very rude and don't speak good English. All this company cares about is reviews at the end of the session. I no longer review anyone. There is no good customer service consistencies with company. Bad hosting service. read more

Used to be good - "we're crazy about support" is their slogan...and then they moved their support to India which makes getting anything done impossible. read more

I have been in IT for over twenty years, have a degree in IT, etc, and Bluhost is hands down the worst company I have ever used. They charged me for 'Domain Privacy', which I did not order. When I could not get through to their customer service, I initiated a chargeback for the amount. They subsequently turned of my website. In conversing with them, the *lied* and said I manually ordered the up-sell, I did not. Worst company ever. read more

Bluehost does not uphold their services based on your invoice! Last March I bought my domain and it came with three years of SSL protection. I signed up for a three year basic domain too. The only thing that was supposed to be renewed this year was the domain name. I get an email saying my products are due for renewal, so I log in to check. I noticed the SSL was expiring, so I referenced my invoice and it clearly shows 3 year term! I go through to renew the domain name and there is the basic domain service saying to renew too... but even on my account screen it says it is good for two more years! So what the heck? Spoke to support but they would not honor the three years SSL (said, "Sorry, our terms of service changed so now it was only good for one year") and would not even answer me about the Basic domain. When I finally said "you're not answering my question" they said, "about what?" So after 4 times, I typed, "Why is it trying to renew my basic domain when that doesn't expire for another 2 years?" and what do they say? "You have to pay every year for the SSL..." I gave up and just ended the chat. This is the third big issue I've had with them. I've had a slew of log in/service interruptions and for the first three months, my email was being blocked by junk mail folders for major contracts I had going out! Avoid them! read more

Started a simple upgrade. Was promised 8-12 hours. Took 12 DAYS to even start. When it started, they broke everything. Every domain is down over 36 hours now and they have no ETA for restoration. Excuse after excuse after excuse. read more

I felt like I was purchasing a used car from some sleazy salesperson each of the 3 times I called over my renewal and the pricing would change each time... oh we can't honor that price any more; that was last week's price. Okay; well that person was supposed to call me back and did not... They know it's a PITA to move services so they charge WAY MORE at renewal than for new customers. Better to use someone else. read more

You guys are the worst!! I signed up for a VPS account and your system put both myself and another user on the same VPS account... WTF? I've never seen incompetence like this before. I've been with Bluehost for about 4 days and have already spent over 15 hours of my time on hold with their terrible support team. They refuse to give me a time estimate on when this issue is going to be corrected so I can migrate my site off the host that I'm leaving. I tried explaining to the rep that I've rented a new apartment, but when I went to move in the landlord had rented it to two different people, and I only have a set amount of time to get out of my old place. He took that analogy and ran with it, responding with "Well I would say that you shouldn't move in to a new place without an inspection?" He did one better though, and followed up with "Look, there is an admin that is working on your account, and he probably has other tasks and responsibilities that he's supposed to be handling." Wow dude! Your'e really terrible at customer service. You've got some balls, but you deserve to be fired for placing blame on the customer when the company you represent made a major mistake that is costing the customer time & money. I can't speak to how well Bluehost servers run once everything is operational because I've yet to experience that. What I can speak to is their horrible support and customer service reps. The devs / admins are incredibly slow. The people or automation they're using to create accounts is definitely incapable of the task. I've worked with at least 20 hosting providers over the years and have never experienced this level of incompetence. Nor have I been treated so rudely by a level 1 support agent. Bottom line - Avoid Bluehost at all costs. read more

I paid for my website to be migrated to BlueHost for hosting on 1/24/2023. It took multiple emails back and forth to get the process started and was supposed to be completed on 2/14/2023. I contacted them on 3/21/2023 because my website was still not being hosted by BlueHost. I had to personally redirect the servers, although I paid for the service to be done. That took 4 days because I was given misinformation. Next, there were multiple issues with the security certificates. After numerous phone calls and over a week to address those issues, I realized that my email accounts were not working. It took multiple phone calls to resolve that issue. Although it has been over 2 months, my website was never migrated properly. I have had to spend dozens of hours on the phone with BlueHost support and my website is still not functioning properly. Today, for instance, I have made 3 phone calls and have been on the phone with support 120 minutes and counting. My issue has still not been resolved. I have requested to speak to a supervisor/ manager on several occasions, but my request has either been refused or I was told that they would call me back which never occurred. read more

This is a complete scam. I thought they had a great rating, but their customer service associates do not speak very clear English and despite the fact that they say they have 30 day money back guarantee--they MOST DEFINITELY DO NOT. The account representative was sarcastic and demeaning. The interface and bloat ware (if that is what you call it) - the 'additional' items "Monstersomething" and "Jetpack" are not easily understood. What a complete and total rip off! Their FTP never would work--I got stuck in some 'verify you are human' loop that would never end and when I called customer support they said that I had to pay more for any help. RIDICULOUS! read more

Do not use this company. After you cancel your service, they will attempt to charge your card over and over. You authenticate your account and send the requisite information, and the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Please stay away from this sham of a company. read more

As a Digital Marketing Agency, we've used BlueHost for our own Website and many of our clients. In the last year, their tech support has been outsourced to an offshore company, and I've experienced multiple issues in receiving knowledgeable and consistent quality support. Very disappointed. Will not be recommending this service to our clients in the future. read more

God Awful!!! I wanted to move hosting locations for my webpage and had heard of Bluehost. An ENTIRE 8 days of complete misinformation from one "tech support" rep to the next - complete incompetence always telling me the "new changes" would take 24-48 hours and getting my web migration deeper and deeper into a hole with succession of errors - I spent at least 12 hours with them on the phone during those 8 days. They finally offered that I could pay their experts $150 to fix the problem THEY created. I told them to cancel my subscription, I had my hosting company fish out my site from the migration morass (which they were able to do within 15 minutes) and went to another host and was set up and migrated within 1-1/2 hours including the wait time and nameserver changes. If you need ANY tech support with your hosting DO NOT use Bluehost. read more