Bluehost Review & Bluehost Coupon Discount – Bluehost Hosted

There had been increase demand for SVN lately, and there are reader of this bluehost review blog asking about installing SVN at bluehost hosting plan. SVN is a version control software, which it will keep an old copy of the file and keep track of the changes. SVN is now replacing the CVS concurrent version software. There are bluehost user whos interested to setup bluehost svn client and hopefully allows them to carry our file versioning management here.

Its hard to search for right information online, regarding installing SVN at bluehost. We had look through multiple source and carry out some hard work to get it working as well. Thanks to the bluehost forum article at http://bluehostforum.com/showpost.php?p=7223&postcount=16 .. the bluehost svn client is successfully installed.

Commonly, before we signup a new hosting plan at new hosting company, we will make sure what is their dedicated IP address pricing and private SSL cert pricing as well. These two are crucial for thos looking for hosting HTTPS secure website in the future. If you are going to setup secure page for member login, or send encrypted data over the internet, make sure you can purchase the dedicated IP & private SSL certificate from your current web hosting company.

Bluehost is offering SSL certificate and dedicated IP address at very affordable price. Previously, we know that bluehost SSL certificate is price at $45 per year. And the bluehost dedicated IP is $2.50 per month only, bluehost hosting offering private IP at this price since over two years ago. Thus, you can expect the price to be maintain at this price at future as well.

“Since dedicated IPs must be associated with a specific hosting account, Dedicated IP subscriptions are automatically synchronized with your hosting account term and expiration. For example, If you had a 12 month hosting subscription with 9 months remaining, when ordering a Dedicated IP you would only be billed the pro-rated amount for 9 months of Dedicated IP service ($22.50). When your hosting subscription renews, your Dedicated IP service would be renewed for the same term as your web hosting (in this case, 12 months for $30.00). “

Its a latest news and update from bluehost.com, its announcing that bluehost organization is hosting over 1.5 millions domain names. From what we understand, bluehost hosting is now with 825,000 domains, hostmonster with 600,000 and the remaining goes to fastdomain hosting. This is a fast growing figures and we are expecting to to hit the 2 millions mark at third quarter of this year. Congratulation to bluehost & hostmonster & fastdomain!

Bluehost & Hostgator are both big web hosting providers, this two are good web hosting brand that you can rely on! Bluehost hosting is our favourite business web hosting. If you are aiming for ecommerce hosting or company website, we highly recommend bluehost hosting over hostgator hosting.

From web hosting specification, bluehost and hostgator share alot of common list of features. Bluehost hosting with additional web promotion package is a plus, and excellent top notch bluehost support team 24/7 via email ticket, phone support, or live chat support. From web hosting feature and pricing comparison, bluehost hosting is standard pricing at $6.95 per month. If you take similar feature hosting plan from hostgator hosting, it would cost you $7.95 per month.

For bluehost hosting, we love their cpanel that integrated with domain manager, which makes domain management much more easier. Not only that, the SSL certificate ordering and dedicated IP address ordering is integrated in as well. Creating a secure ecommerce site with private SSL certificate and HTTPS secure site is much easier. Thats one reason bluehost voted as the best business web hosting.

Bluehost hosting had improved their affiliate program in order to increase the tracking system accuracy and continue to reward their affiliates. Bluehost affiliate previously with cookies tracking, is now couple with IP address tracking as well. There is other technologies upgrade in bluehost affiliate program, and not yet been enclosed in details by bluehost.com.

Bottom line is, bluehost affiliate improved their affiliate program in order to better rewarding their affiliates. And affiliates will further promotes bluehost web hosting.

Bluehost uptime by BluehostReview.org for April 2009: 99.895% over the Internet

This month of bluehost uptime was too near to 99.9% uptime level, indeed there were only 2 downtime recorded for this month. A very low downtime occurance is a very good indication for a reliable and quality web hosting server. We love to see that. Bluehost server response time was good too, at 0.32 second in average.

Bluehost hosting had roll out a new web hosting package, named “bluehost pro package”, selling at offer price of $14.95 per month. This new bluehost hosting package include extra premium feature for making your website a professional grade.

“Upgrade to Pro and get all of the standard web hosting features and more for as low as $14.95 / month (Saves you over $100 per year over the cost of buying these features separately!“

This new blue host pro package also includes:

• 1 Dedicated IP
• 1 PositiveSSL Certificate
• Domain Name Registration
• 10 Postini Email Filtering

Bluehost hosting plan is a business web hosting plan, which is ecommerce ready and running from secure server. Blue host server also come with shared SSL certificate. But if you require private SSL certificate, you can purchase it at small price of $45 from bluehost.com. Private SSL have advantages over the free shared SSL, and it also require dedicated IP address in order to work.

Why you need SSL certificate?

• If you plan to have an online store or e-commerce site that accepts online orders and credit cards.
• If you collect sensitive or personal information from your website visitors on your website through web forms.
• If you allow partners, members, or others to log in to view information securely from your website.
• If you want to help your customers ensure they are visiting your actual website, avoiding phishing scams or other counterfeiting of your website.
• If you or your business desire to or are required to comply with privacy and security regulations.

Bluehost SSL is using Positive SSL Certificate, and its using 128/256 bit encryption. Bluehost SSL Certificate is selling at price $45 per year.

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. This $6.95/mo hosting plan is now available at special discount price of $x.95/mo, more details here!

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

This will be a quick review about hosting a forum script at bluehost web hosting plan. Question is, will bluehost hosting suitable for phpbb forum script hosting, the famous open source forum discussion script. Note that phpbb are forum scripts and it require more server response expecially php process and mysql database query, if compared to web publishing or blogging website. So, its important to test it out and review it.

phpBB forum script is available for installation from blue host fantastico, we use that link to quickly setup phpbb at this blue hosting plan. Once we are done, we perform some quick testing on the new forum site. Browsing the new forum, to identify any slowliness in server response etc. What we find out is what we expected, bluehost hosting is using high end server, thus hosting a phpbb forum site will be OK as long you are not running a large size forum with millions of traffic.

Bluehost hosting also allow cpu throttling, a new feature that allow you to use maximum cpu resources for short period of time. Which is another great feature to boost website speed and performance. Bluehost special promo price $x.95/mo is the greatest place to host your phpbb forum web site!

New Installation  (3.0.3)
Disk space required: 44.84 MB
Disk space available: Unlimited MB