Comments on: Bluehost hosting offering unlimited storage space

By: Bluehost Review

Bluehost Review — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:04:16 +0000

According to hosting TOC, you only can store web files on server, and this referring to files that your website require to run, in another word this include php, html, database, configuration and others media that your website require. however, this not to be use as backup storage, or online storage purposes.

if you are not sure, always refer to bluehost support team in the first place.

By: Curious

Curious — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:54:24 +0000

I left Bluehost for Dreamhost a while back for exactly this–the promise of Unlimited Storage. I’ve recently been working on a project where there’s a genuine business need to store Terabytes of data remotely (which will, presumably, be utilized by the analytics we deliver).

Am I going to go get the rug pulled out from underneath me if I choose to use Bluehost or Dreamhost for this?

By: Bluehost Review

Bluehost Review — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:30:40 +0000

to “bluehost sucks”,

clearly you are the webmaster of the bluehostsucks and its a biased review and testimonial posted here in order to gain a link back to your website. link removed.

By: Bluehost Sucks

Bluehost Sucks — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:47:50 +0000

BlueHost Sucks – They are offering Unlimited Disk space it a total lie.
They have created their own Term Unlimited Hosting – Idiots are trying to trick everyone – Please Don’t buy blue host or else your face color will also become blue.

By: ht

ht — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:06:04 +0000

read the terms of service (TOS) prior to signing up to bluehost.com

The unlimited is not as it seems and the 99.9% doesn’t really apply to the shared hosing accounts that most of us get. Down times are very common and as the person said above support sucks.. I complained about speeds and downtime and was told theyare better than most companies because they prorate the service so I can canel anytime!!! wow that is just what I want to do is move everything again.

Well I ended up moving everything anyway they canceled my unlimited account because I had too many files on my site. Not that they were big and I was abusing the unlimited storage. They were small log files.

Read the TOS !!!!

By: Storage Portugal

Storage Portugal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:13 +0000

Thanks for your post, your offer must be valuable for people hosting of website.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:31:14 +0000

How do I add this to my RSS reader? Sorry I’m a newbie

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:17:58 +0000

Hi Bluehost Review,

Please note that this large storage space *did* comply to their TOS and was indeed only used for my web pages (re-a-lly). In addition, I had extensively and sufficiently proven this fact to the Bluehost team. Still they deactivated my account.

When a webhost makes big promises, they have to deal with the fact that some customers will actually use this. It’s simple: don’t give what you promise, and you create a pissed-off ex-customer that will happily tell his bad story everywhere and avert new customers… But do live up to your promises (even if it costs you a little money now and then), then you’ll have a radiantly enthousiastic customer who’ll defend them and advertise them for free and forever. Plus then you’re honest too :p

One positive thing, they are currently allowing me (this week) to offload the data I already uploaded, which will now go back to good old Dreamhost!

By: Bluehost Review

Bluehost Review — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:01:36 +0000

hi steven,

i had get your question answered at another blog post at http://www.bluehostreview.org/bluehost-hosting-upgrade-to-1500gb/

do refer to bluehost TOS for their disk storage and usage rules at
http://www.bluehost.com/terms_of_service.html

everyone using the bluehost hosting have to follow these TOS & rules. unfortunately, there is no shared hosting that will allow 200gb web ’storage’ space, unless you can proof those files are your webpages and you using them to run your website, except the backup or media files.

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:48:55 +0000

Just to warn everyone: I just went through a terrible experience with Bluehost and their Customer Support.

I used only 200 Gb of their promised ‘Unlimited Storage’. But still they deactivated my account in a crude fashion. After whole a day of tiresome mailing with customer support, they gave short and unfriendly answers, using any reason to hide that they wouldn’t give me the storage i paid for and they so proudly advertise.

Eventually I convinced them to do the right thing and activate my account again. In no time of course i got a 2nd blunt, short mail saying “your account has outgrown us”. What a difference with my current host (DH), where they contact people first to find a solution/upgrade together, instead of immediately kicking out a customer.

- Please, do NOT believe Bluehost’s unlimited storage promise!!
- And please do NOT expect customer support to treat you as a human being either… You’re just a number to them, and they’ll shoot first and ask questions later.