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Bluehost hosting had released their new cpanel control panel for shared web hosting package. Bluehost unlimited domain hosting plan are now with this new cpanel control panel that had integrated in lots of tools and features that ease your website management and control. Blue host cpanel is now with following tab added to top section:

• blue host cpanel standard tools
• blue host domain manager
• blue host upgrade option
• blue host postini email protection
• blue host dedicated IP address purchase page
• blue host SSL certificated purchase page
• blue host profile and billing page
• blue host checkout page

From bluehost hosting specification details, you will find that bluehost hosting is offering free site builder, a fully web based site builder program that allows you to create and design website from pre-selected web templates.

I had review on this bluehost site builder feature, and performed a demo test run on the site builder program that is using PageWizard online tool. Its very simple to use, its loading time is very fast too. Once you are in the pagewizard, you are prompt to create new webpage. Then you are prompt with few web templates to choose, once you made your choice, you can enter text into the template. The pagewizard have all the tools that make web desing a fully drag and drop basis. You can publish your webpage later via built in ftp services.

Sometime its useful to know who is the latest visitors to your website. Previously, i wrote review about bluehost awstats and webalizer log program that shows you statistic of your website visitor. Now, we go into more details, and we actuall can track the latest visitors to your website.

From bluehost cpanel you can go to “latest visitors stats”.. and you will see log file like following. It reveal lots of information like who refer this visitors to you, where they come from, browser they using, what page they go to next, reveal their browing path/patent etc.

“Host: 65.44.220.21
Http Code: 200     Date: Dec 02 07:58:30     Http Version: HTTP/1.1     Size in Bytes: 74641
Referer: -
Agent: RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3E

Host: 64.41.145.175
/bluehost-uptime-for-november-2008-wwwbluehostrevieworg/
Http Code: 200     Date: Dec 02 07:57:19     Http Version: HTTP/1.0     Size in Bytes: 44542
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Host: 64.41.145.152
/bluehost-for-mambo-web-hosting/
Http Code: 200     Date: Dec 02 07:57:18     Http Version: HTTP/1.0     Size in Bytes: 43459
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Host: 64.41.145.139
/bluehost-hosting-with-over-710000-domain-names/
Http Code: 200     Date: Dec 02 07:57:17     Http Version: HTTP/1.0     Size in Bytes: 44191
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
/bluehost-database-and-phpmyadmin-version/
Http Code: 200     Date: Dec 02 07:57:17     Http Version: HTTP/1.0     Size in Bytes: 43808
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)“

Bluehost cpanel hosting package is complete with both webalizer log and awstats log program. You can choose to enable any or both of these web statistic program, and activate logging for your particular domain name hosted at bluehost. Yes, you can have webalizer and awstat enabled for addon domain names as well.

From bluehost cpanel, “choose log programs” …

“This function allows you to choose what stats programs you will use when viewing site statistics, if you are allowed to do so.

• All of the statistical reports are updated every 24 hours.
• All of the bandwidth information is updated every 6 hours.
• If you wish to compare data from each statistics program you should only compare data that is at least 36 hours old to ensure that it has been updated and is providing the correct information.
• Please note these times are estimates, and are subject to change based on the amount of traffic on the server, and that you must have stats enabled in the Stats Manager at least 24 hours before any stats will be compiled.
• Analog Stats have been deprecated. If you currently have Analog Stats enabled, they will still function, but you cannot enable them for additional domains.”

Once you had enabled the awstats and/or webalizer logging program for your domain name, the loggin will begin. Statistic and report will be available by next day. You can view how many visitors had landed on your website, and where they coming from, what keyword search they used to find your website, their browser type, what page they viewing etc. There are lots of information collected by these log programs.

Bluehost hosting is now offering with free website templates. From your bluehost hosting account, visit the cpanel control panel and you will find the “free websites templates” link. This will bring you to the web template gallery website.

Bluehost hosting is offering some free website templates for your free download. Beside that, you can enroll into the paid web template at one time cost of $59.95 only and access to 3000+ website templates. Complete with flash template, powerpoint templates, and flash templates for your downloading.

Bluehost hosting is announcing a new hosting feature. Bluehost hosting had added ’simplescripts’ into their cpanel control panel. Its a quick installer for easy scripts installation. And its claim to have wider scripts options and more quicker script updates, than fantastico. Lets check out the email from bluehost support.

“SimpleScripts is an automated script installer just like Fantastico (Also available in bluehost control panel). You simply click on the link to SimpleScripts and the rest is up to you. You can add and remove different web based applications with the click of a button and try out all the new FREE software that is now available for you. Another important benefit of SimpleScripts is we have included many popular scripts that aren’t currently available in Fantastico such as Roundcube webmail client, Drupal, Dada mail (Mailing list software),
PHPBB 3, and more. Thousands of different scripts work on Bluehost, but many users can’t take advantage of that because it requires a difficult manual install. We hope to alleviate that with SimpleScripts. In addition to new scripts that SimpleScripts offers we encourage all our current users to install with SimpleScripts before Fantastico if the script is available in both places. We ask you to do this because SimpleScripts offers far newer versions of software than Fantastico and is updated MUCH faster with new versions. This is EXTREMELY important to mitigate security risks over time. This lowers our support incidents, and gives you a better and more secure software to environment to work in!

SimpleScripts doesn’t just install software. It will allow you to remove software packages that were installed with it, as well as maintain your installs with the newest versions of the software. Once you install with SimpleScripts you can rest assured that maintaining those packages will be easy and secure in the future.”

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When looking at bluehost hosting features, bet you already see that, bluehost hosting is using cpanel control panel and with fantastico for easy scripts installation. If you got no idea what fantastico is, then you should finish reading this article about ‘bluehost fantastico’

In bluehost cpanel account, you will get these after you sign up a bluehost hosting account. At the control panel, you will find the fantastico. Inside is lots of scripts that you can setup. The fantastico simplify the scripts installation, and maintain the scripts at the latest version at all time. Thats the general purpose of using fantastico tool.

So, what is included in bluehost fantastico? Its a lot of free scripts that you can use. And there are part of the list:

• b2evolution blog
• Nucleus blog
• WordPress blog
• Drupal
• Geeklog
• Joomla
• Mambo Open Source
• PHP-Nuke
• phpWCMS
• phpWebSite
• Post-Nuke
• Siteframe
• Xoops
• Crafty Syntax Live Help
• Help Center Live
• osTicket
• PHP Support Tickets
• Support Services Manager
• phpBB forum
• SMF forum
• CubeCart
• OS Commerce
• Zen Cart
• FAQMasterFlex
• AccountLab Plus
• phpCOIN
• 4Images Gallery
• Coppermine Photo Gallery
• Gallery
• Advanced Poll
• phpESP
• PHProjekt
• Templates Express
• TikiWiki
• PhpWiki
• Moodle
• Open-Realty
• phpAdsNew
• PHPauction
• phpFormGenerator
• WebCalendar
• Language
• Side menu appearance
• Email notifications
• Installations overview

If you want to use any of these scripts, use the bluehost fantastico to install it. And it will be completed in just few simple steps.

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Want to know how to renew your bluehost hosting account? If its going to expired soon, please make sure that you check on the bluehost subscription either its set to auto renewal or not. If it is not auto renewal, do manually renew your bluehost hosting account before it goes expired.

To do bluehost renewal, login to your bluehost cpanel, go to preference row and select the “Renew your account”. You can choose to renew now or renew it 15 days before account expire. Select your renewal term; 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or 24 months. And then you will go to payment page. Complete the checkout process, and your bluehost account will set to renewal. Its done!

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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 the page even if the cache is fresher than TTL seconds old. Please DO NOT enable this if you receive a high volume of resource-intensive PHP hits because it makes it possible for many people to cause high loads for your account which may result in getting your account suspended.
• TTL Setting
  The Time-To-Live is the number of seconds to keep the cache before regenerating the page. Set low (around 10 seconds) if pages are very dynamic changing often and it is not acceptible to show content from an old page for very long. Set high (around 3600 seconds) if the pages take a long time or use excessive resources to generate or if there aren’t very many different pages to cache or if the pages are generally static and don’t change very often.

All these setting is here, to help you to run a better website with faster loading speed. Experience it to belief!

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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 to use. On the top you can see the microsoft adcentre $50 free ppc credits, and also yahoo search marketing $50 free credits. You can sign up on them and claim the credits as well.

For a trial run on the bluehost cpanel, you can use this bluehost hosting’s cpanel trial site http://www.bluehost.com/dm/main_cp.html?domain=blewhost.com&ldomain=blewhost.com&lpass=demo123

Note that some features is not available in the demo run. You will need to sign up to get the full features.

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