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There's no doubt that Bluehost is a fantastic shared hosting service. In fact you could make the case that Bluehost is the very best at providing low cost, high end linux hosting in the world. I certainly think they are. But there are a few holes in their service that can make Bluehost a little frustrating to work with. Just like any service in any industry, web hosting in general depending on the provider can provide it's frustrations to it's customers. Bluehost is no different. The following are 2 brutally honest facts about Bluehost:

1. Unlimited Storage Yes! Watch out for CPU

According to Matt Heaton the CEO of Bluehost.com they are just about to hit the 850,000 mark for total Domains hosted. That's apparently according to Matt 1.4% of all domains on the Internet today. What an alarming number that is.

To be able to host that many domains and have so few complaints is truly astounding. Yeah sure there are some complaints, and we have had our fair share. But overall to have so many websites and domains the complaints are minimal.

Can you believe it? Bluehost professional web hosting has upped it's storage space for it's customers to 1,500 Gigabytes! This is a large leap from it's previous allotment of 600 Gigabytes. This is clearly an attempt by Bluehost to jump ahead of it's industry competitors like Dreamhost and Lunar Pages for example. Last I checked today Dreamhost had not yet increased it's allotment to keep up with Bluehost.

Bluehost accounts are setup to work perfectly with Drupal CMS installations. I am a big Drupal follower, so much so that I build most of my sites in the Drupal content management system. If you can tell, even this site is a 'Drupal' website.

Some Technical Details You Should Know

President of Bluehost Matt Heaton recently wrote an article stating that Bluehost along with a two of it's brother/sister companies had reached a total of hosting 700,000 domains making it the second fastest growing hosting company in the market. He said that they will soon be hosting 1,000,000 domains. Wow! Those are amazing numbers.

He went on to give 3 main predictions that he has for his hosting company for the year 2008 and they are as follows:

Creating Subdomains in your Bluehost account can be very simple. You just need to know where to look. We created this simple tutorial for you to know what you need to know to manage and create all your subdomains in Bluehost.

Step1: Click on subdomains

How to create email forwards using my Bluehost.com Account. A video tutorial on creating email forwards in Bluehost. Once you see this video you will see how truly easy this is to manage in the Bluehost control panel.

Step 1. Login to your bluehost account

How to add more domain names onto your Bluehost.com account. Currently, your Bluehost account gives you the ability to add an unlimited amount of domain names to your account. This means in essence, that you can host as many websites as your space (600Gigs) allows. Below is a video we created on how to simply add a new domain name to your account.

Great customer service is critical to professional webhosting. If your webhost has bad customer service than you need to get out of your contract while you can. Bad customer service just makes it not worth it. The reason you are paying for hosting is for dependability and responsive customer support. Make sure you are getting this. Here are some customer service things that you should EXPECT from your professional web host:

Watch out for InMotion Hosting, a company that promotes itself as business class web hosting. In our recent studies of professional web hosting comparisons called our Web Hosting Competitive Analysis, we found InMotion's features and stats to be a bit "misleading". Let me explain.