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Bluehost website running slow & how it was FIXED 2007-04-23 14:13:49 If you are facing problem like your website
hosted at Bluehost
is running
slow, or have downtime. Definately you will need to read about my experience with it, and how i get it SOLVED FOREVER.
At mid of April 2007, this bluehost review website, hosted at bluehost.com is suddently running slow. And i notice it when i visit this site. Immediately i go to bluehost.com, and initiate the live chat with bluehost support team.
Informing them of the slowiness and downtime of my website. Within less than 5 minutes problem was identify. And after another 5 minutes, it was solved. Problem is caused by firewall at bluehost datacentre. I not sure what cause it, but some tweak to the firewall by the admin done the job. Now, my bluehost hosted website is running at full speed and i very HAPPY with the hosting and also support team.
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Bluehost Email content with unicode supported 2007-04-23 13:54:34 If your Bluehost
email is not supporting unicode character like: chinese, arabic, japanese, or indian characters. But showing unreadable symbols and sign, then its caused by charset problem at the php.ini file. You can fix this problem yourself.
FTP login to your server and locate the php.ini file. Edit the php.ini using notepad… and add in these lines.
[mbstring]
mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = UTF-8
mbstring.http_output = UTF-8
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
mbstring.detect_order = auto
mbstring.substitute_character = long;
mbstring.func_overload = 1
By this, your php email will now support unicode. Basically this method will fix most of the charset problem. However, if this don’t solve it, do contact bluehost support for assistant.
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Bluehost support Multiple domains/websites 2007-04-14 14:52:04 Another frequently ask question about Bluehost
.com…
“How many domain can hosted in bluehost hosting plan?”
Answer: You can host unlimited number of website/domains with bluehost $6.95 plan.
Yes, one domain is one website, for example yourwebsite1.com, yourwebsite2.com, yourwebsite3.com … and so on
Bluehost domain pricing is $10 per year, however you can get cheaper domain from other registra like godaddy at price around $8-$9 per domain name per year :). After you register your domain with godaddy, change the Nameserver of the domain to bluehost name server, namely:
NS1.bluehost.com
NS2.bluehost.com
After that from bluehost cpanel control panel, go to addon domain, and add the new domain name to it. Wait for domain propagation, usually will be ready within a day or two
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Bluehost.com Pricing Structure 2007-04-14 14:38:49 Today at bluehost forums, i come across where customer are asking about bluehost pricing structure, and how much are they charged for the hosting, domain name, and dedicated IP etc. So, i do my homework and come out a list from Bluehost
Hosting itself
Bluehost PricingStructure
:
3 Month account is $59.85 - $9.95 a Month x 3 + $30.00 setup fee (+$10.00 for domain name if needed)
6 Month account is $83.70 - $8.95 a Month x 6 + $30.00 setup fee (+$10.00 for domain name if needed)
12 Month account is $95.40 - $7.95 a Month x 12, Domain included (no setup fee)
24 Month account is $166.80 - $6.95 a Month x 24, Domain included (no setup fee)
Hosting accounts are paid for up front. You can cancel your account within the first 30 days and get a full refund. After the first 30 days you can still cancel your account any time and recieve a pro-rated refund.
Setup fees are non-refundable.
Domain names - $10.00 ea. per year
Dedicated ip - $30.00 per year ($2.50 per month) Pro-Rated.
SSL Certfica
Bluehost ecommerce setup and installation 2007-04-14 09:54:02 www.Bluehost
Review.org guide to setupecommerce
online store at Bluehost hosting plan.
Probably this is your first time setup ecommerce website with shopping cart and accept paypal or credit card payment. And setup ecommerce store at bluehost is much easier than you could imagine. Don’t panic or get frustrated with the setup. Follow simple guide:
Make sure you already have a Bluehost.com hosting plan
Download the free oscommerce shopping cart script.
Unzip the oscommerce script and upload to Blue Host server.
Check the setting of php.ini, make sure it is “register_globals = on”
In bluehost cpanel, create new mysql database and create database user.
To start the oscommerce installation, browse to the location of the folder, eg: www.yourdomain.com/store, and the installer will guide you through.
Simple as that, your installation is completed.
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Bluehost CPanel - hosting control panel 2007-04-14 09:12:40 Bluehost hosting control panel is ‘Cpanel X’. Its a very easy and simple to use control panel. I took less than 5 minutes to get familiar with the controls, icons, and menu navigation. Everything is clean and well organised. And everything is in plain simple english.
Go to Bluehost.com homepage, and use the top right login box to login to your cpanel. Enter in your login name and password to your hosting plan. This will bring you to the control panel. On the left side is my bluehost account general informations:
Hosting package
Platinum Pak
Account Expiration
323 days
Shared Ip Address
69.89.27.234
Subdomains
5 / 999
Parked Domains
0 / 999
Addon Domains
5 / 999
MySQL Databases
6 / 50
Postgre Databases
0 / 50
On the bottom right corner is the system tools. Very useful tools that i will going to show you in short future, but now i only going to give you a preview of it only:
Frontpage Extensions
SSH/Shell Access
Backup
Process Manager
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Bluehost Phone Support 2007-04-14 09:00:00 My personal opinion about Blue Host phone support
Today instead of using the usual Bluehost
email support or live chat with support team, i try to give bluehost a call at their toll free numbers. Picked up the phone and dial (888) 401-4678”… and i get through, with a short IVR, i get to the support team. And i asked some question regarding upgrade to bluehost dedicated server. And now i got the answer for that already. Simple and fast.
BlueHost Toll Free 24/7
(888) 401-HOST
(888) 401-4678
Outside the U.S: 801-765-9400
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I think bluehost had done a wonderful job in providing good customer support and phone support. I really dont like those host, that makes me waiting over the phone and have to listen to machine voice, and end up in french speaking support team :D. Bluehost 10 years plus experience, they does knows what the customer needs.
Other than phone support, bluehost.com also offers:
Bluehost Live chat
Bluehost email support ticket to helpdes Read more:Support
Bluehost Live Chat & Bluehost Support 2007-04-14 08:46:35 From the blue host homepage: www.bluehost.com , at the bottom-left corner you will find the “live chat” features. Clicking on it bring up a small windows, to get this, make sure you not have popup blocker etc that will prevent pop windows. And you can choose to contact which bluehost support department, here is the list of all departments:
BluehostSupport
Department
Bluehost Abuse Department
Bluehost Sales Department
Bluehost Billing Department
Bluehost Affiliate Department
They using websitealive4 live chat system, which is one of the industry leading live support system. Enter your name and question. Also include in the problem description and your bluehost hosted domain names.
Through my one and a half month stay at bluehost hosting, I been contacted bluehost support team three times for some technical things. Once was because my website is suddently running slow, and so i start the live chat and contact bluehost support. I was chat with support members named: Stone
My Bluehost Account Upgraded!… for FREE! 2007-04-12 07:15:39 today begins with a smile, happy that my ‘bluehostreview.org‘ hosted with bluehost.com hosting account previously limited to 6 domains, is not able to host unlimited domains. If your existing bluehost hosting plan are still 6 domains, and you already use up all 6 ‘addon domains’, quickly contact bluehost support to get a free upgrade. You can sent email to bluehost support: support@bluehost.com OR use the bluehost.com live chat to connect to support department and get it done instantly
I looking for few more domain names from godaddy registra, and will addon to bluehost.
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, Upgraded
Bluehost Review - After 60 days 2007-05-07 05:00:16 Time pass by so fast, and its already more than two month, www.bluehostreview.org hosted at Bluehost
.com hosting. This $6.95 hosting plan is definately worth it, come with lots of features, cpanel, 300Gb webspace, fast server, good support team with live chat.
Through this two months time, the site availability is quit high, and the page is loaded in reasonable speed. Although there is some slowiness noticed last month, a quick help from bluehost support, solved it.
About bluehost cpanel and fantastico is very updated, feature rich, and bugs free. No problem using it at all. I having great time exploring it. And lately customizing the .htaccess to gain more redirection features.
Bluehost forums is a very good place to ask for personal helps from bluehost members. I join this forums almost 2 months now, and learned a lot more about bluehost. Although once a while, there is member account get suspended, due to hosted illegel content etc.
What i could say is that i highly recommend
Setup ecommerce store and shopping cart on bluehost hosting 2007-05-28 02:12:03 I been research a little bit on how to setup ecommerce
online store on bluehost. Previously i had experience setup online payment through paypal payment processing, and as well to worldpay payment processing. There is wide variety of payment processor that you can choose from, and each of them require certain thing that you need to apply to.
Paypal payment processing
Not require SSL. Accept paypal and credit card through paypal. Only need to setup paypal account, verify your account using credit card or banking account(UK and US user). Then upgrade your account to permier account or merchant account. From paypal account, you can use the merchant tool provided to create “code” for item you selling. Easy setup for subscription service for customer as well. Very low processing fee per transaction.
2checkout payment processing
Not require SSL. A $45 one time setup fee. Accept credit card payment. A friendly support team, and reply my enquiry promptly. Very low processing fee p
Bluehost Reviews - After 90 days hosted with bluehost.com 2007-06-03 01:29:51 Fantastic and superb hosting company!!
That is the tagline that i can give to bluehost.com. Simply amazing and well managed hosting company that offer great hosting features of 300gb storage space, free domain name, and host unlimited websites. The bluehost support team is very helpful, easy to reach them through live chat, and always give instant solution and problem (if any) will got solved on the spot. No hassle and no waiting overnight! Amazing value for $6.95 hosting provider.
This bluehost hosting review blog had been hosted with bluehost since 2nd March 2007, and now is already over 3 months hosted with bluehost.com. Everything running smooth. Website availability is very high. Although notices a slowliness in website once ago, but was immediately fixed by support team. Email sending and receiving is smooth, email arrive on time, no delay and most importantly setup email is so simple and linking to outlook express is piece of cake. Amazing hosting features and configuration of
Bluehost Full Backup from cPanel’s System Tools 2007-06-03 00:49:38 It had been the third month this bluehost reviews blog had been running at bluehost’s server. And usually what i do is stored a copy at local PC, and download backup the mysql database through the phpmysql export interface. This is bit tedious, and require lots manual “select and backup” work almost every single week.
To make the backup routine easier, i have to go for bluehost system tools > backup utility. This features come with cpanel, and you can use this to fully backup your site content, cpanel setting, emails settings and also emails in your webmail. Everything will be packed and you can stored a copy at server, or download it to local pc. This full system backup is useful when your computer crashes etc.
Above is the screenshot of the bluehost system backup. And today what i want to do is just to download a backup copy of necessary files. From “select a system backup to download:”.. i choose daily… After clicking this, it will prompt me Read more:Bluehost
, cPanel
, System
, Tools
Bluehost SSH Getting Started 2007-06-01 01:46:26 As in previous posting, i wrote some introduction to SSH and how to get connected to blue host server. This tutorial continue with, how to setup the ssh connection, and what you need to do to get started.
Login to your bluehost cpanel.. version 10. Scroll the way down to “system tool”.. and click the “SSH/shell access”. This will bring you to the telnet and secure ssh page.
“For security reasons, shell access is not enabled by default. In order to activate shell access on your account, you will need to fax or mail a copy of your driver’s license, passport or other photo id to customer service. You can fax it to +1 (801) 765-1992 or you can submit your scanned photo ID directly to our helpdesk in the following form”
That is exactly what you need to do, to get approval to use the SSH connection. Not only bluehost, other hoster is doing the same. No anonymous user is allow to ssh or telnet to server and do what ever they want. Security come f Read more:Bluehost
Bluehost Hosted Website Ranked top in Yahoo and Google search engine 2007-06-19 14:27:52 Definately you are not going to belief this, this bluehost review websites, that is hosted in bluehost.com since March 2007. A three months old website are now top ranked number 3rd in yahoo search engine for the single keyword “bluehost”. Lots of people says to me, seo expert had told me… that only old domain name will get ranked in yahoo search engine. Definately i proof them wrong. I would say, any website hosted with good hosting server can ranked very well in any search engines.
This bluehostreview.org blog was setup with aim to run a detailed review of blue host hosting. And also serve as a bluehost demo website for you to test before signup with bluehost.com. A simple blog is now ranked number 2nd in google.com search engine for keyword “blue host review”. And against 18 millions competiting webpages. Expert said that a pagerank 2 websites can’t outranked higher pagarank website. Again, this is not a factor that affecting the search engine r Read more:Bluehost
, Google
, Hosted
, Yahoo
Bluehost Affiliate and cookies for Rewards Program 2007-06-26 14:54:42 Today i drop by google, and search the internet for something related to bluehost, or anything related to bluehost rewards program or bluehost coupons or bluehost affiliate related thing. I come to some finding that i would like to write it here and share it to all of you that might consider to sign up bluehost hosting someday.
Fact that i found are as following:
Bluehost
coupon doesn’t exist.
I browse through more than 10 websites posting bluehost coupons available here. And browse whole websites and found nothing about bluehost coupons. Indeed, there is no bluehost coupons being release, and no coupon code request when you fill in the bluehost sign up form. Found out are those bluehost affiliate website, publishing untrue statement about availability of bluehost coupons, and hopefully you drop at their websites and they get granted with sales commission.
Bluehost Affiliate
pays $65 per sign up.
As you already know, bluehost.com affiliate program is paying off $65 commission f Read more:Program
, Rewards
Bluehost Reviews - After 120 days hosted with bluehost.com 2007-07-06 03:29:39 “Best Value & Reliable Hosting Plan”
Bluehost hosting is definately a reliable hosting provider. And i had been using bluehost for four long months, and i very happy with it. This bluehost review blog is hosted with bluehost hosting. And i got other two more websites with bluehost as well. I can host unlimited websites on this bluehost’s unlimited hosting plan. It cost $6.95 per month, and i can host many as i want. Also come with free domain name, 300gb storage, 2500 email accounts, 1000 ftp accounts, unlimited parked domain, unlimited subdomain, supporting ecommerce, RoR, frontpage, etc. And its a cpanel hosting with fantastico for easy script installation. You can setup your ecommerce store like, oscommerce in just few clicks easy installation.
Bluehost is using quad core processor for their server, and its equal as 4 running processor. Thats the reason making the server running fast and this bluehost hosted site loaded fast. I did a bluehost speed test again,
Bluehost forums and community 2007-07-05 04:47:02 Bluehost hosting is a fast growing hosting company, and currently with more than 315,000 domains hosted. I joined bluehost on March 2007, and also joined their community
forum http://www.bluehostforum.com/. The bluehost forum is now joined by more than 18,000 members. I had wonderful time with bluehost and also at their community forum. Guess… 4 months time really make me part of this big family. I get to know few hosting expert at this forum, and they are really skillful. Some are php expert, some are really master in .htaccess rewrite or php.ini configuration. And also wide range of script setup and installation troubleshooting. If you got anything that you don’t understand, or you need to ask someone for help, think of bluehost forum.
Its an amazingly active community, and each day, i watch about more than 10 to 20 new threads posted at the bluehost forum. And there is always helping hands to help new user to solve their problem. I get myself to the job as well. I had Read more:Bluehost
Bluehost cpanel demo 2007-07-04 13:20:08 This bluehost review blog has been hosted with bluehost.com since 4 months back. This four long monts, i had been reviewing bluehost hosting in most details, and explore deep into their hosting service and also cpanel control panel. I got myself sign up blue host, and trying to experience this hosting myself, and so i can write a true review about bluehost.
I had a great time with bluehost, and this bluehostreview.org is running fine and with great uptime. I am happy with it, and had recommended it to few of my IT friends. They like it as well. Especially the unlimited number of websites hosting with bluehost $6.95 plan. Ya, i having few websites running in this bluehost plan as well. And from the cpanel screenshot below, you can see that i am using 2 addon domains. Meaning i having other 2 websites setup here. Other than that, i also uses 3 mysql database, ftp account, and email account as well.
This is how the actual bluehost hosting cpanel will look like. And its extremely simple t Read more:Bluehost
Bluehost FastCGI support 2007-07-04 11:56:06 Bluehost hosting is started to implementing the fastcgi into their hosting server. Pass few days, i notice the bluehost server that i am using, is updated with the fastcgi as well. I am pretty new to fastcgi thing and have to do some homework here to find out more about it, and how to utilise it.
From bluehost cpanel , under web server config menu, you will find “fastcgi acceleration”. And this will bring you to the fastcgi activation or deactivation page as following:
“FastCGI for PHP makes all your PHP applications run through mod_fastcgi instead of mod_phpsusexec. This eliminates the overhead of loading the PHP interpretor on every hit. Since it is always in memory ready for the next hit, the responses will be generated faster. NO MODIFICATIONS to your existing PHP applications will be performed so you can easily enable and disable it at will.”
And what wiki said about fastcgi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI
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Bluehost coupons and Bluehost coupon code 2007-07-24 13:57:55 Bluehost coupons… Bluehost coupons… Bluehost coupons…
Everyone is asking for bluehost coupon. And i just wasted 30 minutes searching through google and yahoo, and clicks almost all the bluehost coupon ads i seen at search engines. Just hope to look for a bluehost coupon code.
Fact No. 1 : Bluehost coupons doesn’t exist
Fact No. 2 : Bluehost hosting not using coupon when sign up their hosting plan.
Fact No. 3 : There is no field to enter the coupon code when sign up. Not asking bluehost coupons.
Fact No. 4 : 12 month sign up price $7.95
Fact No. 5 : 24 month sign up price $7.95 $6.95 (a total of $24 in discount)
The only discount/rebate/offer/coupon that you have is the $24 saving when you sign up bluehost for 24 months terms. If you sign up the12 months plan, you will not getting any discount. The price will be $7.95, and will be billed annually at this price. For saving, sign up the 24 months plan.
I have recommended few my clients to sign up bluehost.com as Read more:Bluehost
Bluehost webmail and Boxtrapper reviews 2007-07-24 09:33:37 This article continue the previous bluehost email review. Previous writing is focus on bluehost feature and secure email. This blog posting continue with in deep focus on the bluehost webmail
features, and what webmail is offered through the $6.95 bluehost.com hosting account.
Bluehost
shared hosting is come with 2500 email accounts, and each email account you created are an individual mailbox attached to the TLD. Sample mailbox are look like this “support@bluehostreview.org”, where the support is the email account name.
From the cpanel > mail > webmail… you will get to the webmail interface. Here you can choose to login to horde or squirrelmail. Or you can use shortcut to login to your webmail account with this format, yourdomain.com/webmail .. simple add “/webmail” to the end of your domain name, will bring you to the webmail interface. Enter your login information to go to your mailbox.
There is a mail client configuration link as well. Inside i Read more:reviews
Bluehost email account and bluehost webmail review 2007-07-24 09:21:04 As you may already know, bluehost hosting is offering 300gb hosting space with 2500 pop/imap email accounts. That is lots of email accounts that you can create, and each email account will have their own login name and password. Bluehost extend the offer, and not limited to that. The latest bluehost offers are:
2500 POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support
2500 IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support
2 Different Web Based Email Solutions
Forwarding Email Accounts
Email Autoresponder
Email boxtrapper & spam assassin
If you see closely, you will notice that the email services had been upgraded and supporting secure email now. Not many hosting provider offering secure email connection. When you login to bluehost cpanel, you can go to mail > email accounts. And here is the email account manager for you to create new email account and assign new login password and also set mailbox quota.
I having very little email setup this moment, just one :).. and link it to my outlook so that i can download an Read more:review
, webmail
Bluehost rebate and discount 2007-07-24 09:11:39 I been running bluehost review for almost a year now, and bluehost.com really is a good hosting provider. The time i start promoting bluehost hosting, i offering some bluehost rebate money to those that sign up through my referral. Bluehost
will paid some amount for successfully sales referred to them and stay above one month time without canceling their account. Its been almost a year actively promoting bluehost.com, and i still offering the bluehost rebates money as well.
You can visit my bluehost rebate website at this url http://www.hosting-rebate.com/bluehostrebates/ . This hosting rebate website was running since year 2006 and operation until now. Been putting some real hard work to it, and designed the new theme as well. The rebate process is made simple as clear, thus to ensure the sales commission is route to me and then i can paid to you. Simple as that.
You might need to know that canceling the account within the given period will void the bluehost rebate money as well, sim
Bluehost php5 or php4 your choice 2007-07-25 06:01:35 At early of this year, bluehost.com was starting to offering both php version 4 and php version 5, at your choice. By default, the sign up will be locating you at the php4 server box. As most the script in market is supporting this version 4 script. However, if you need to have php5 on bluehost server, then you need to contact bluehost support through email or through live chat or give them a phone call.
As usual, bluehost support will need to verify your account, and after that will migrate your account to the server with php5. As this involve server and IP changed, your website will be down for 1-4 hours. And best news is that there is no extra charge. Bluehost
will migrate your site to php 5 free of charge.
I just checked my bluehost cpanel account, and i am still at the php version 4.4.6 . That is a php 4 apache server running version 1.3.37. And at this point, i not having script that require php5 to run, so there is no future planning to move over to version 5. If you need it,
Bluehost Dynamic Cache and FastCGI 2007-08-09 09:46:26 In previous posting about fastcgi, i been reviewing about the features and how it can help to improve your website speed by using the server cache. Bluehost
is going one more step advance.. and now with dynamic cache features. Once you get the fastcgi enabled, you can select to use this dynamic cache feature. Dynamic
cache is advance fastcgi setting that cache the output of all FastCGI applications to avoid having to process the page for every hit. This is recommended for sites that get frequent hits.
There is few other advance fastcgi option that you need take a look as well:
Enable Super Cache
Super Cache will immediately show expired content to the browser while regenerating the request in the background. This is recommended if you just want to show your pages lightning-fast to the browser and you don’t mind showing content older than the TTL (specified below).
Enable browser refresh overwrite
Allow the browser to hit CTRL-REFRESH to force the server to regenerate t
Bluehost Domain Privacy 2007-08-09 09:38:54 Domain privacy is where the domain owner information is hide from whois check, and thus your privacy is protected. Bluehost
hosting offering FREE domain privacy when you sign up hosting plan with them. When registering new account, and after enter the new domain name, checked the free domain privacy button. By this the domain privacy will be activated after your sign up.
Sometime, its good to hide the information from public. However there is exception to domain privacy. Lets take a look of what wiki said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
“However, this is not true anonymity. Personal information is collected by these registrars to provide the service. To some, registrars like Domains by Proxy take little persuasion to release so-called ‘private’ information to the world, requiring only a phone request or cease and desist letter.”
Domain privacy is the maximum protection that you can get for your domain. And this is a great tools to avoid domain snatc Read more:Privacy
Bluehost Reviews after 6 months 2007-08-21 23:26:57 This bluehostreview.org had been hosted with bluehost.com for 6 months. And i been writing tons of good and bad review about bluehost. 6 months had passes by, why not write a comprehensive overview of my experience with bluehost hosting? And covers every aspect that you need to know about bluehost!
I like bluehost from the day one! I bet many others like bluehost as well. From the day i sign up with bluehost, and after day by days i start to realised bluehost is getting better and better. Its now in my top 3 most recommended hosting list. And if asked about “bluehost rating”, I going to give 9.9 out of 10 rating point.
Following are the main 10 reasons that you should join bluehost as well:
Bluehost
setup process is very easy and account get activated immediately.
Bluehost hosting features are impressive. Generous and in good pricing.
Bluehost cpanel is so easy to use and come with some extra features.
Bluehost domain manager is integrated into cpanel, thus allow easier do