Bluehost Review
Bluehost in its own words
Bluehost is a leading web solutions services provider. Since our founding in 2003, we have continually innovated and delivered on our mission: to empower people to fully harness the web. We provide comprehensive tools to millions of users throughout the world so anyone—novice or pro—can get online and thrive.
Bluehost was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It employs 1000+ people.
It offers VPS, Shared, Dedicated and Wordpress and Managed Hosting hosting products.
- United States
Quick Links
| Bluehost plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Bluehost instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Bluehost servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Bluehost trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Bluehost trials | CPUs |
| List of Bluehost yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Managed VPS
Bluehost offers Managed VPS products. Review Bluehost Managed VPS Features.
Bluehost News
Providers share news about their company, their products, their features and their promotions on VPSBenchmarks. See all announcements on the Provider News page.
This is the most recent news from Bluehost.
The $20/mo/user plan gives access to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok in one place. The $25/mo/user add privacy controls. Access is through a Bluehost website dashboard, no API but usage is unlimited.
More info in the All-Access product page.
Best VPS Awards
Bluehost VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices or that can't be managed from the provider control panel are marked as missing in the table below.
Bluehost Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Bluehost also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Bluehost VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Bluehost Coupons
This provider offers the following coupon:
Code: VPSBENCH10OFF
Value: 10.0%
10% off for the first year any VPS 12-month product.
Bluehost Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Self-Managed VPS Hosting |
Self-managed VPS hosting on modern, high-performance hardware built for developers who want full control. |
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| NVMe 2 | 1 | 2.0GB | 50GB |
$5.50 / month
First month only: $4.13 / month |
| NVMe 4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 100GB |
$11.00 / month
First month only: $8.25 / month |
| NVMe 8 | 4 | 8.0GB | 200GB |
$22.00 / month
First month only: $16.50 / month |
| NVMe 16 | 8 | 16.0GB | 450GB |
$46.50 / month
First month only: $34.88 / month |
| Family: Web Hosting Instance Type: Cloud Hosting |
WordPress Cloud Hosting. |
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| VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet. | ||||