BLUEHOST hosting company

[kweku]

Is this company good?  because, i have had enough of my misery at other places... will i get the best from there/

[kweku]

Ok, am on my way there......  so, will give you feedback when am done.

[Aficionado]

Ok, am on my way there......  so, will give you feedback when am done.

Sure ... bluehost is great ...

No member of EIG group is great. Bluehost is crap, so is HostGator after it was sold to EIG (Summer 2013).


The internet is full of horror stories, example:

Bluehost Review: Cheap and Unreliable Shared Hosting

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/bluehost-review/

[kweku]

Lol.... guess who is here....   #Aficionado.....  hehehee... after you couldn't help me fix my installation?  lol.  please, can we have some silence?   hehehehe

[tomshaft]

Ok, am on my way there......  so, will give you feedback when am done.

Just a FYI,
I have a friend using Bluehost running 4 different scripts with one being Osclass. He is very satisfied. I have helped him so seen his account admin side and I'm quite impressed with what they offer. Almost makes me want to switch over to them.....

[Aficionado]

Lol.... guess who is here....   #Aficionado.....  hehehee... after you couldn't help me fix my installation?  lol.  please, can we have some silence?   hehehehe

I would suggest to behave yourself. Name calling is very easy, i can do it.

get a grip.

[Aficionado]

Just a FYI,
I have a friend using Bluehost running 4 different scripts with one being Osclass. He is very satisfied. I have helped him so seen his account admin side and I'm quite impressed with what they offer. Almost makes me want to switch over to them.....

Bluehost has some SERIOUS limitations on mysql. Also cpu throtlling.

The limit (to get a warning) is 1000 MySQL tables or 3 GB of database space, excluded the Information scheme that takes up 34 tables. A minimum Drupal 6 install has already 47 tables, but for an average Drupal site (contributed modules installed) this is 2 or 3 times that. Calculate a space of 150 tables + 33% for each site (some margin + tables for email addresses), so 200 tables. This amount of tables would also be in  the critical zone of slowing down your site's performance too much. 1000 divided 200 equals 5. Sure, if you have high traffic sites and video content on your server, it would be wise to keep it lower. Using Drupal, the  the 3 gig of space is much less an issue (at least if you clear your cache once in a while) than the allowed number of tables. Five Drupal sites on a Bluehost account is a decent number. It assures you good performance and keeps the cost per site within reasonable limits even if you host a few sites for family and friends.

Bluehost’s current limitation for concurrent MySQL connections is 15 per user. When you get an error stating that you have reached the max_user_connections, it means your application is trying to establish more than 15 simultaneous MySQL connections with the same username at any given time, and the MySQL server is denying them.

What is CPU Throttling?

Throttling means that our proprietary CPU Throttling System has automatically tied your account to its own dedicated core temporarily to keep your account from dominating too much CPU time. Throttling for less than 600 seconds in any given hour will not usually negatively affect your site's performance for visitors. In some extreme cases, our admins may suspend the account until the problem(s) is/are resolved or the website optimized.

Every 500ms the throttling daemon checks to see how much collective resources your account username is requesting or utilizing. If this exceeds 7% of total system resources, we "jail" your user to a single core; Meaning you may no longer pull from the total pool of CPU resources, and are isolated to a single CPU core with other jailed users. Once jailed we allow you to use 100% of that core's available resources. If in another 500ms window your load requests have dropped below the 7% threshold for 500ms or more, we'll "un-jail" you and put you back with the collective CPU resources pool.

It is completely software-controlled and the transition from CPU jailing and back is seamless. The only time CPU throttling will cause you issues is if your site is consistently being jailed, THEN using all the available CPU cycles of the core you're jailed to.

BUT for a web site with 100 hits per day, you wouldn't notice any difference.

[tomshaft]

My friend has many times that many hits per day with no issues using Bluehost.

Perhaps the problems many have with shared hosting is their hosting package may be Microsoft based instead of Linux based. I have experimented with both and found Osclass and many other scripts do not play well with Microsoft based hosting. When signing on with any provider, Linux based should be demanded. I know most offer both.
 
Possibly any throttle and/or sql limit issues are related to the type of  package purchased. Providers offer all type and size packages. As for me, I only start complaining to my provider when I or my scripts try to exceed my package and they prevent it..... How dare they not allow me to exceed what I agreed to........
 
Tom

[kweku]

Bluehost indicate that if you hit more than 500 a day, you will be slow on your website.

come on,   Aficionado,  a little joke, nothing so serious.


You guys i see more as seniors you know...

[Aficionado]

Bluehost indicate that if you hit more than 500 a day, you will be slow on your website.

Actually the Bluehost limitations has to do with CONCURRENT (simultanous) users. For example a website hosted there can't handle a lot of users at the same time.

500 a day i very low, i think they can handle a lot more.

[tomshaft]

Is this company good?  because, i have had enough of my misery at other places... will i get the best from there/

Not sure what "best" would be but I know what "bad" can sometimes be but even bad depends on site load, etc.
Bad could be Microsoft hosting, shared hosting, bandwidth limited hosting, the list goes on and on.

The true fix would be buy dedicated, unlimited everything Linux hosting but the question then comes to how deep is the wallet. Know that any and all providers are more then happy to sell you this type package. Just wave enough CASH at them so the question of which provider is secondary at best.
 
The realistic plan would be to guesstimate your site traffic, site usage, etc. Then decide what load speed, etc. is acceptable under the expected usage. As site grows so can the hosting package.
 
Clearly there are some un-happy Bluehost customers but all have their own client satisfaction issues in one way or another. Godaddy, 1and1.com and the other big boys do offer the "best" and biggest packages.

Tom

[keerthi]

Kweku I think its time u shut up. dont u dare badmouth the big guys. Aficiando is not ur servant.

[kweku]

@Keerthi.  lol.  you always need to say something?


@alficionado and I are cool. just don't want any jostling.  we all learning.

[keerthi]

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[kweku]

Lol.  @keerthi calling me a newbiee?   

I have been here for a short while, and i have learned so much through my troubles.   Am on bluehost now.   installation is great, everything working fine.  playing around with my codes and doing it how i want it and not how someone did.


I do the synchronization between my XAMPP and online Server very neatly and for now, am the happiest person waiting to open the website for the public on 25th of this Month, after all our Publicity is set right.

I am putting all my resources and everything in this....