Bluehost Managed VPS

Bluehost

Bluehost offers Managed VPS products. This page describes the Managed VPS features, plans and pricing of Bluehost. See also Bluehost self-managed VPS provider page.

Provider facts

Bluehost was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It employs 270 people.
It offers Shared, VPS, Managed hosting, Dedicated and Wordpress hosting hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • United States

Bluehost Managed VPS Highlights

  • BlueHost Managed VPS product is call "Cloud Hosting", it's not actually called VPS
  • Heavy emphasis on WordPress
  • Fuzzy definition of CPUs: "In the case of Bluehost Cloud hosting, a vCPU is synonymous with a PHP worker"
  • Amount of RAM in plan is not specified.
  • No root or SSH access

Bluehost Core Managed Features

Control Panels and Backups, along with the quality of support, are the main differentiators between managed and self-managed VPS.

Feature Bluehost offers
Essentials
Control Panels Bluehost Control Panel + cPanel.
Backups Each Bluehost Cloud plan comes with Jetpack daily automated backups for easy restores.

Bluehost Managed VPS Features

Feature Bluehost offers
Basics
OS Custom OS optimized for running Wordpress.
Root Access No.
Dedicated IP Unknown
Support
Management Level Bluehost Cloud is fully managed
Support Channels Chat and phone are available 24/7.
Monitoring Unknown
Auto Scalable Unknown
Auto Security Updates Unknown
Premium
SSL Certificates All Bluehost Cloud plans come with a Let's Encrypt SSL
Cloudflare CDN Unknown
Free Domain Unknown
Staging Unknown
Other
Firewall Unknown
DDoS protection Every Bluehost Cloud plan comes with DDoS Protection, a web application firewall, and backups to protect against malicious attacks.
1 Click Launch App Unknown
Caching Built in CDN. All plans include a global CDN that dynamically optimizes images and delivers edge server caching, reducing page load times around the world to mere milliseconds.
Migrations Unknown
Extra
Random Extras
  • Global CDN
  • PHP workers
  • 100% network uptime
  • Automated WordPress updates
  • Multi-regional fault tolerance

VPS Sizing considerations

High RAM to vCPU ratio

If available, it means that on most of the provider managed VPS plans, the ratio RAM over vCPU count is greater than 2.

High storage to vCPU ratio

If available, it means that on most of the provider managed VPS plans, the ratio storage over vCPU count is greater than 30.

Unlimited data transfers

Pricing Quirks

No price change on renewal

When true, this means the price prominently displayed on the pricing page is the price you will pay for all billing cycles: there will be no systematic increase after the first billing cycle.

No
Lower long term prices

When offered, this means the price prominently displayed on the pricing page is only for customers who picks the longest pre-paid commitment (1 year up to 3).

Yes

Bluehost Managed VPS Plans

All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month (on-demand) without any extra commitment, before promotions and before VAT, unless specified otherwise.

Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price Annual Price
Family:
Web Hosting
Instance Type:
Cloud Hosting

Power, speed, & control with WordPress cloud hosting.

Provider page for instance type: https://www.bluehost.com/hosting/cloud
Cloud 1 2 2.0GB 10GB $91.99 / month $79.99 / month

First year only: $29.99 / month

Cloud 10 10 10.0GB 125GB $129.99 / month $109.99 / month

First year only: $49.99 / month

Cloud 25 25 25.0GB 175GB $199.99 / month $169.99 / month

First year only: $89.99 / month

Cloud 50 50 50.0GB 225GB $299.99 / month $249.99 / month

First year only: $109.99 / month

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