What is Bluehost ? Bluehost Services and Plans in 2021

Bluehost is a web hosting company that provides internet-based hosting for both clients. These can be individual or corporate clients. To define it in layman terms if someone wants to create their own website and place necessary information about their products and services, they can approach companies like Bluehost. In return for the services rendered, the web hosting company will charge a certain amount. 

Hosting services are basically about allocating space on the internet to place the web sites. In order to do this, hosting companies take a space on the webserver and lease this space out to those who want to create and host their sites. This space on which the web site is hosted is known as a domain.  

Clients include both organizations or individuals. Other services provided include internet connectivity and a data center. In the case of the latter, clients may place their physical servers that have the application database in the data center. However, it is not necessary that web hosting companies provide all these services. It may differ according to the size and scale of operations. 

 

 

Bluehost is today ranked among the top 20 web hosting companies in the world. It hosts almost 2 million domains from clients all over the world. The company was founded in the year 2003 and it is based out of Utah, USA. The founder-owner is Matt Heaton and the current CEO is Suhaib Zaheer. The pricing and plans are country-specific. In this blog, the pricing plans of India are given.

 

 

The core service offerings of  Bluehost is – 

 

Hosting

 

Shared Hosting

 

As the very name says, it means space is shared between one or more client-users. In such a scenario, there are many websites that reside on a single web server and linked to the internet. It is the most suited option for individuals or very small organizations having limited web content. The cost for the same is economical since rentals are distributed among the clients.

 

 

The Bluehost shared services has many features like the embedded Security Socket Layer ( SSL), the Cpanel – a control panel dashboard that is used to manage the web server and gives real-time analytics. It is popular for its user-friendly interface and ideal for a shared hosting environment.  The plans that come under this are – 

Basic: INR 199 per month and 1 website free. 50 GB storage, built-in SSL certificate, 5 parked and 25 subdomains for a year, unmetered bandwidth default malware scan done on a daily basis, one included domain (a subdomain is part of the main domain and a parked domain is not actively linked to a hosting service. It is meant for later use). 

Plus: INR 299 per month and all other services of above. It has unlimited websites, including domains, sub and parking domains, storage. Other ads include spam mail and free MS office for one month.  

Choice Plus – INR 299 per month. All services as in Plus along with domain privacy and site backup. This is provided through the feature known as Code Guard Basic. 

Professional: INR 859 per month. Al services as in Choice Plus along with dedicated IP. 

All three plans give a standard performance and the last gives high performance.

 

 

Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting

 

It assigns the resources to the web site owner on a virtualization basis according to their requirements. Typically, these are for servers with multiple users. However, the resources are private and not shared. Every client gets a dedicated server space. The plans are –

 

 

Standard – INR 1159 per month. Services include 2 Cores, 30 GB SSD Storage, 1 TB Bandwidth, one IP address, storage of 2 GB RAM, one-year free domain, 30 days MS office free. 

Enhanced -  INR 1859 Per month. Four cores, Storage is 60 GB, Memory is 4GB RAM, two IP addresses, 2 TB bandwidth. 

Ultimate -  INR 3650 Per month. Four cores, storage is 120 GB, Memory is 8 GB RAM, three IP addresses, 2 TB bandwidth. 

 

Dedicated Hosting

 

Dedicated hosting is another service provided by Bluehost. Here the entire server is given to a single client for their hosting requirements. The server can be run according to the performance and desired security level of the hosted content. It is best suited for big organizations with massive data. 

Standard: INR 6499 per month. 8 GB Ram, 500 GB mirrored SSD storage, 8 cores, 5TB of bandwidth, 3 IP’s will be given, one domain free and 30 days of MS office free. 

Enhanced: INR 6499 per month. 16, GB Ram, one TB mirrored SSD storage, 8 cores, 10TB of bandwidth, 4 IPs will be given, one domain free and 30 days of MS office free. 

Premium:  INR 10499 per month. 30, GB Ram, one and a half TB mirrored SSD storage, 8 cores, 5 TB of bandwidth, 4 IP’s will be given, one domain free and 30 days of MS office free. 

 

 

Woo Commerce

 

Woo commerce is one more service offered by Bluehost. Using this tool retail business ventures can create their online shopping sites. They need not go to the vendor development team to build their store or employ high paid professionals. An inbuilt e-commerce directory serves this purpose and will guide the customer at every step including a payment gateway and all sorts of promotions. 

 

 

Starter: INR 459 per month. Installs include Woo-commerce, store themes, jetpack, traffic report of website, product reviews by customers. Order creation, discount coupons. Round the clock support, unlimited products., embedded SSL certificate, no product restriction, 100 GB SSD storage, MS office for 30 days, daily virus threat scan. 

Enhanced –  INR 559 per month. Same as above with any number of online stores, code guard basics. Unlimited storage, email marketing inbuilt Bluehost tool, 

Pro –  INR 759 per month. Same as above with any number of online stores. Bluehost SEO Tools start.

 

 

Another feature of Bluehost is the Maestro Multi-Client Management tool for WordPress sites. Through this tool, users can design and manage multiple word press sites. 

 

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