Bluehost UK Hosting Reviews

Bluehost give you 30 days money-back guarantee on cancellation. If you cancel within the first 30-days you are supposed to get a full refund of your payment.

In case your Bluehost plan includes free domain, according to the refund policy a non-refundable domain charge will be deducted from your refund amount. The charges also apply with other add-ons rather than web hosting services.

With that being said, your registered domain remains yours for the selected period of time. You can simply transfer the domain name to your desired registrar thereafter or you can migrate it to a new hosting plan.

Also note that a registered domain name cannot be transferred to a new registrar before 60 days of registration. Now, if you are sure about cancelling your Bluehost hosting plan, here’s what to do –

• Login to your control panel
• Go to “Account” section
• Click on “renew” option
• Now select “Do Not Renew” button and then hit “Continue”.

Now that machine don’t understand the domain name but it can recognize the IP address. That’s where DNS or name server comes in.

In order to host your website with Bluehost, you will have to use Bluehost name servers –

• bluehost.com
• 88.60.37
• bluehost.com
• 88.61.37

Irrespective of the domain registrar, whoever from you have registered your domain name, they are bound to give you the ability to change your domain name servers.

Now if you haven’t purchased your domain from Bluehost but hosting with it, Bluehost don’t have the ability to allow you change the name servers. Nevertheless, if your domain is registered with Bluehost, here’s the method to update your name servers –

• Login to Bluehost control panel
• Go to Domain section
• Select your domain name from the domain list
• Click on Name Severs section
• Choose Use Custom Nameservers
• Enter your desired new name servers
• Hit the Nameserver Settings option

Once you done saving the new Nameservers, it will take 24 to 48 hours to successfully make it.

More specifically, the software used by Bluehost server is Linux Kernel 2.6.32, CentOS 6, Apache Web Server, with cPanel 11.42.x.

Yes, Bluehost offer free SSL certificate. In most cases, the SSL certificate automatically install itself to your existing or new domain names. Otherwise, some users may have to enable the SSL certificate manually.

To manually enable Bluehost SSL certificate to your domain –

• Login to your Bluehost cPanel
• Click on the Security option
• Locate the Free SSL Certificate option
• Click the toggle button to ON

Once the button is On, it will start installing SSL certificate to your hosting account and assign the free SLL to your domain.

Bluehost is one of the largest web hosting service providers across the globe and WordPress has officially recommended Bluehost as one of the bests. Currently, over 800,000 WordPress sites are being hosted with Bluehost.

Collaborating with WordPress, Bluehost has made your web hosting experience a total piece of cake.

Cyber-attack and hacking are very much common today. These attacks are not happening only with corporate websites containing sensitive data. Small business sites and personal blogs are also at stake.

Bluehost web hosting offers quite a solution in terms of hacking security to its users. For WordPress sites Bluehost offers protection from the source code as well as additional precautions that shall be taken from both the users and hosting provider.

Security Practices like keeping WordPress updated, used devices secured, securing password and permissions, data backup, filtering spams, and installing WordPress security plugins are must and can be done from user end.

Adding to that, WordPress built-in security features include automatic WordPress version update, complex password generation, automatic theme and plugin updates have proved to be very beneficial for Bluehost users.

Depending on your hosted plan, you can host multiple domains with Bluehost. The cheapest Bluehost shared hosting plans comes in three different packages; Basic, Plus, Choice Plus, and Pro. Basic is the only plan among them that allows only single domain hosting option.

Rest of the plans including the VPS and Dedicated plans lets you host multiple domains with a single hosting account.

Yes, there’s a money back guarantee with Bluehost. Bluehost offers 30-days money-back guarantee with their hosting plans. This means users must cancel their registered hosting plan within the first 30 days of time and can avail the full refund.

But, if your plan includes a free domain name and you cancel your plan within first 30 days, the domain name charge will be deducted from the refund amount.

However, the registered domain name will remain yours and you can transfer it to a new registrar or simply migrate it with a new hosting plan.

Bluehost support is available for 24/7 and can be reached via toll-free phone call or live chat. Adding to that they also provide knowledge base web contents, user guides, how-to tutorials, instructions, and answers to user’s most frequently asked questions. The Bluehost support though speak in English only.

Depending on your business needs, you can switch to any of the Bluehost hosting plans. If you are a beginner with limited budget for hosting purpose, Bluehost shared hosting plans like Basic, Plus, Choice Plus, etc. Would do the best.

Once you see growing your visitors and feel the need of more resources, Pro plan from Bluehost is recommended.

VPS and Dedicated hosting packages on the other hand will ensure that all the resources are used by only you. These plans are recommended when you have an established business site or handling a vast amount of data and traffic.

When you register a domain name you are bound to provide personal information like email ID, name, and contact number. This information can be seen by anyone online when they search your domain name in WHOIS database.

The only way to hide or keep the personal information safe is to enable Domain Privacy. Bluehost offers Domain Privacy service that will replace your personal information with Bluehost contact information instead.

You can contact Bluehost support via toll-free phone calls or live chat for any sort of solution. Their customer support is available 24/7 to answer your queries and solve the issues.

United States customers may dial – 888-401–4678

International customers may dial – +1 801-765-9400

Additionally, you can also check out their other user solutions.

In a short answer, Yes. You can create subdomains in your Bluehost account in the following way –

• Login to your Bluehost account
• Click on Domains option
• Click Subdomains

Here you can create subdomains as you wish. Alternatively, you can also go to your cPanel account, scroll down to Domains section, and then click Subdomains.

Bluehost is presently owned by Endurance International Group (EIG) and s built its datacenters in several locations.

1. Primary US Datacenter – Provo, Utah
2. Secondary US Datacenter – Orem, Utah
3. UK/Europe Datacenter – London
4. India Datacenter – Mumbai
5. China Datacenter – Shanghai

Bluehost comes with a control panel. Everything you need for your web hosting is integrated into the Bluehost cPanel for easier access. All you have to do is access your cPanel account and then you can buy, enable, and manage every services and tools required for your site in one place.

Currently, Bluehost doesn’t offer any free website migration assistance for VPS, Dedicated, or Reseller hosting. If you wish to transfer your domain name to Bluehost hosting account, you can use the Domain Name Transfer Utility.

Straight up, you can cancel your hosting plan within the first 30 days of purchase. But, here’s the payment/refund policies to look up to –

• No refund on cancellation after 30 days.
• Refund on cancellation within 30 days applicable on for the hosting service.
• No refunds for Add-ons like domain names and other tools.

If you cancel the hosting plan within 30 days and it consist of a free domain name during hosting purchase, non-refundable domain name charge will be deducted from the refund amount.