Blue Host review #7169 by mitch o'daniels (zHrjWaW22BNP4yBq@r...)
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mitch o'daniels ( zHrjWaW22BNP4yBq@r... )
I help a friend manage her BlueHost account and interact with BlueHost on her behalf. Their support is about as knowledgable as a tween with interweb access. I am not a "web professional" nor a site designer. I play in a bigger technology pool.
They have crippled cPanel features
They have injected ANNOYING and unprofessional upselling modules in cPanel
bluehost subdomain cPanel app is BORKED:
sub.sub.domain to /path/path2 mapping is VERY BORKED
BlueHost has no resolution for path conflicts of
funny.domain1.com
and
funny.domain2.com
this is NOT a bug with cPanel as support rabidly insists.
BlueHost has crippled user control of SpamAssassin
BlueHost has ZERO support for free distrubuted spam addons for SpamAssassin
BlueHost is only interested in upselling MX anti-spam products.
BlueHost exim user config files are not correctly configured
Running OSS gallery.sourceforge.net on BlueHost is VEXATIOUS at best
OSS Gallery on BlueHost is last-millennium slow -- even with small family galleries.
BlueHost seems to OVERSELL shared servers.
BlueHost response is laggy even to Internet2 wired machines. uh oh.
BlueHost is unfamiliar with mod_security
BlueHost is cheap AND inexpensive... but a waste of your time and money. I will be urging my friend to start the painful migration to another host.. perhaps DreamHost.. but I would prefer another cPanel based webhost -- though one that is not crippled like BlueHost. So that puts HostGator out of the picture, too.
BlueHost is definately more capable, competant, and responsive than GodAddY, but then almost anything is (cite: nodaddy.com)
They have crippled cPanel features
They have injected ANNOYING and unprofessional upselling modules in cPanel
bluehost subdomain cPanel app is BORKED:
sub.sub.domain to /path/path2 mapping is VERY BORKED
BlueHost has no resolution for path conflicts of
funny.domain1.com
and
funny.domain2.com
this is NOT a bug with cPanel as support rabidly insists.
BlueHost has crippled user control of SpamAssassin
BlueHost has ZERO support for free distrubuted spam addons for SpamAssassin
BlueHost is only interested in upselling MX anti-spam products.
BlueHost exim user config files are not correctly configured
Running OSS gallery.sourceforge.net on BlueHost is VEXATIOUS at best
OSS Gallery on BlueHost is last-millennium slow -- even with small family galleries.
BlueHost seems to OVERSELL shared servers.
BlueHost response is laggy even to Internet2 wired machines. uh oh.
BlueHost is unfamiliar with mod_security
BlueHost is cheap AND inexpensive... but a waste of your time and money. I will be urging my friend to start the painful migration to another host.. perhaps DreamHost.. but I would prefer another cPanel based webhost -- though one that is not crippled like BlueHost. So that puts HostGator out of the picture, too.
BlueHost is definately more capable, competant, and responsive than GodAddY, but then almost anything is (cite: nodaddy.com)
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