Price (1 year): $7.95/mo ($95.4)
Renewal: $10.95/mo
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, Resource Scaling, Unmetered Bandwidth
Shared CPU: 2 Cores
Shared RAM: 2 GB
Max Websites: 1
Optional Extras: Domain Whois Privacy, Professional E-Mail, SiteLock Monitoring.
Guarantees: 45 Day Money Back
The cloud web hosting plans is on sale and you will get a discount for your first period. Choose as long billing cycle as possible to maximize your savings and discount. The 1 year pre pay billing cycle costs $7.95/mo on sale and will renew at $10.95/mo after your initial period is over. You can pre pay for longer periods of 2 years ($6.95/mo) and 3 years ($4.95/mo) for lower monthly costs.
Shared resources
Note that the reason it looks like this plan has so much more resources than other plans at the same price point is that available CPU and RAM is the max amount of CPU cores and memory that your hosting account has access to at any given time. It is shared resources and is not dedicated to your account.
Included features
The HostGator cloud includes several safety and loading speed features. By selecting one of these cloud hosting plans you can ensure that you can easily and quickly scale your server and increase or decrease resources when required with 1 click.
Extra features
Domain Whois Protection is $1.25/mo and a .com will cost you $15/year. I would suggest to get the domain and Whois Protection from a cheaper registrar, read more about domain registration here. SiteLock Monitoring (virus scanner) is another $1.67/mo. Daily Backups is $2/mo.
Data center
The HostGator servers are located in Houston, Texas, USA.
Price (1 year): $9.95/mo ($119.4)
Renewal: $13.95/mo
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, Resource Scaling, Unlimited Websites, Unmetered Bandwidth
Shared CPU: 4 Cores
Shared RAM: 4 GB
Optional Extras: Domain Whois Privacy, Professional E-Mail, SiteLock Monitoring, SSL Certificate.
Guarantees: 45 Day Money Back
The cloud web hosting plans is on sale and you will get a discount for your first period. Choose as long billing cycle as possible to maximize your savings and discount. The 1 year pre pay billing cycle costs $9.95/mo on sale and will renew at $13.95/mo after your initial period is over. You can pre pay for longer periods of 2 years ($8.95/mo) and 3 years ($7.95/mo) for lower monthly costs.
Shared resources
Note that the reason it looks like this plan has so much more resources than other plans at the same price point is that available CPU and RAM is the max amount of CPU cores and memory that your hosting account has access to at any given time. It is shared resources and is not dedicated to your account.
Included features
The HostGator cloud includes several safety and loading speed features. By selecting one of these cloud hosting plans you can ensure that you can easily and quickly scale your server and increase or decrease resources when required with 1 click.
Extra features
SSL Certificate is $1.67/mo. Domain Whois Protection is $1.25/mo and a .com will cost you $15/year. I would suggest to get the domain and Whois Protection from a cheaper registrar, read more about domain registration here. SiteLock Monitoring (virus scanner) is another $1.67/mo. Daily Backups is $2/mo.
Data center
The HostGator servers are located in Houston, Texas, USA.
Price (1 year): $10.95/mo ($131.4)
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, Resource Scaling, Unmetered Bandwidth, Varnish Cache
Shared CPU: 2 Cores
Shared RAM: 2 GB
Storage: 100 GB
Max Websites: 1
Optional Extras: Bluehost SEO Tools Start, Daily Backups, Domain Whois Privacy, Expert WP Support, SiteLock Monitoring, Website Migration.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
Yearly or longer billing cycles
1 year prepaid billing cycle required to get the listed price. 2 years billing cycles adds a discount to the price and for 3 year billing cycles you get even more discount. There are no month-to-month billing options for this plan, unfortunately, which can be a pretty big drawback. If you want to pay monthly I would suggest to check out TMDHosting which has very similar shared cloud web hosting plans or even the premium web hosting company Liquid Web which only offers monthly billing!
Cloud plan benefits
You data on a cloud server like this is more reliable, it is mirrored 3 times to help withstand hardware failures and retain uptime. Loading speed benefits include the choice of 5 different levels of caching. If your traffic grows and you need more resources in the future then you can easily allocate more server resources or move to another plan all with the click of a button, all without restarts of your server or downtime at all. You can easily see how much resources you are using and if you should upgrade. Every cloud plan comes with a free domain name.
Extra features
The Daily Backups extra costs $2.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you select backups from daily, weekly or monthly when and if you need to recover files. You can select only a couple of files and folders or the entire site depending on what you need. Domain Whois Privacy is $0.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you hide your personal name and contact information from your domain information that will be posted on lots of sites on the internet. Search Engine Jumpstart is a bundle with SEO resources and tips and costs $2.99/mo. You can get a lot of SEO tips for free online though, check out our guide and lists with resources here. The SiteLock Monitoring scans daily for lots of bad stuff like malware. It costs $1.99/mo.
Control panel integrated w/ marketplace and WordPress
The Bluehost shared cloud plan control panel is deeply integrated with WordPress and the Mojo addon marketplace. Ideally, you should use WordPress to get the most out of this hosting plan. It comes with easy installation of WordPress which is nice. The integrated marketplace offers lots of different products including expert WP support which costs $29/mo for the cheapest option and $149/mo for the most expensive option. If you think that you need that service you might want to compare plans that include WP support without charging extra for it. Other services includes Site Migration for $149, G Suite for $5/mo and much more.
You can also add more resources in the marketplace.
Price (1 year): $11.95/mo ($143.4)
Renewal: $19.95/mo
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, Dedicated IP, Resource Scaling, SSL Certificate, Unlimited Websites, Unmetered Bandwidth
Shared CPU: 6 Cores
Shared RAM: 6 GB
Optional Extras: Domain Whois Privacy, Professional E-Mail, SiteLock Monitoring.
Guarantees: 45 Day Money Back
The cloud web hosting plans is on sale and you will get a discount for your first period. Choose as long billing cycle as possible to maximize your savings and discount. The 1 year pre pay billing cycle costs $9.95/mo on sale and will renew at $13.95/mo after your initial period is over. You can pre pay for longer periods of 2 years ($8.95/mo) and 3 years ($7.95/mo) for lower monthly costs.
Shared resources
Note that the reason it looks like this plan has so much more resources than other plans at the same price point is that available CPU and RAM is the max amount of CPU cores and memory that your hosting account has access to at any given time. It is shared resources and is not dedicated to your account.
Included features
The HostGator cloud includes several safety and loading speed features. By selecting one of these cloud hosting plans you can ensure that you can easily and quickly scale your server and increase or decrease resources when required with 1 click.
This plan comes with free Positive SSL.
Extra features
Domain Whois Protection is $1.25/mo and a .com will cost you $15/year. I would suggest to get the domain and Whois Protection from a cheaper registrar, read more about domain registration here. SiteLock Monitoring (virus scanner) is another $1.67/mo. Daily Backups is $2/mo.
Data center
The HostGator servers are located in Houston, Texas, USA.
Price (1 year): $15.95/mo ($191.4)
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, Resource Scaling, Unlimited Websites, Unmetered Bandwidth, Varnish Cache
Shared CPU: 4 Cores
Shared RAM: 4 GB
Optional Extras: Bluehost SEO Tools Start, Daily Backups, Domain Whois Privacy, Expert WP Support, SiteLock Monitoring, Website Migration.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
Yearly or longer billing cycles
1 year prepaid billing cycle required to get the listed price. 2 years billing cycles adds a discount to the price and for 3 year billing cycles you get even more discount. There are no month-to-month billing options for this plan, unfortunately, which can be a pretty big drawback. If you want to pay monthly I would suggest to check out TMDHosting which has very similar shared cloud web hosting plans or even the premium web hosting company Liquid Web which only offers monthly billing!
Cloud plan benefits
You data on a cloud server like this is more reliable, it is mirrored 3 times to help withstand hardware failures and retain uptime. Loading speed benefits include the choice of 5 different levels of caching. If your traffic grows and you need more resources in the future then you can easily allocate more server resources or move to another plan all with the click of a button, all without restarts of your server or downtime at all. You can easily see how much resources you are using and if you should upgrade. Every cloud plan comes with a free domain name.
Extra features
The Daily Backups extra costs $2.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you select backups from daily, weekly or monthly when and if you need to recover files. You can select only a couple of files and folders or the entire site depending on what you need. Domain Whois Privacy is $0.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you hide your personal name and contact information from your domain information that will be posted on lots of sites on the internet. Search Engine Jumpstart is a bundle with SEO resources and tips and costs $2.99/mo. You can get a lot of SEO tips for free online though, check out our guide and lists with resources here. The SiteLock Monitoring scans daily for lots of bad stuff like malware. It costs $1.99/mo.
Control panel integrated w/ marketplace and WordPress
The Bluehost shared cloud plan control panel is deeply integrated with WordPress and the Mojo addon marketplace. Ideally, you should use WordPress to get the most out of this hosting plan. It comes with easy installation of WordPress which is nice. The integrated marketplace offers lots of different products including expert WP support which costs $29/mo for the cheapest option and $149/mo for the most expensive option. If you think that you need that service you might want to compare plans that include WP support without charging extra for it. Other services includes Site Migration for $149, G Suite for $5/mo and much more.
You can also add more resources in the marketplace.
Price (1 year): $20.95/mo ($251.4)
Type: Shared Cloud Hosting
Location: USA
Features: Daily Backups, Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, FREE Domain Privacy, Resource Scaling, Unlimited Websites, Unmetered Bandwidth, Varnish Cache
Shared CPU: 6 Cores
Shared RAM: 6 GB
Optional Extras: Bluehost SEO Tools Start, Expert WP Support, SiteLock Monitoring, Website Migration.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
Yearly or longer billing cycles
1 year prepaid billing cycle required to get the listed price. 2 years billing cycles adds a discount to the price and for 3 year billing cycles you get even more discount. There are no month-to-month billing options for this plan, unfortunately, which can be a pretty big drawback. If you want to pay monthly I would suggest to check out TMDHosting which has very similar shared cloud web hosting plans or even the premium web hosting company Liquid Web which only offers monthly billing!
Cloud plan benefits
You data on a cloud server like this is more reliable, it is mirrored 3 times to help withstand hardware failures and retain uptime. Loading speed benefits include the choice of 5 different levels of caching. If your traffic grows and you need more resources in the future then you can easily allocate more server resources or move to another plan all with the click of a button, all without restarts of your server or downtime at all. You can easily see how much resources you are using and if you should upgrade. Every cloud plan comes with a free domain name.
Extra features
The Daily Backups extra costs $2.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you select backups from daily, weekly or monthly when and if you need to recover files. You can select only a couple of files and folders or the entire site depending on what you need. Domain Whois Privacy is $0.99/mo (included with the Pro plan) and lets you hide your personal name and contact information from your domain information that will be posted on lots of sites on the internet. Search Engine Jumpstart is a bundle with SEO resources and tips and costs $2.99/mo. You can get a lot of SEO tips for free online though, check out our guide and lists with resources here. The SiteLock Monitoring scans daily for lots of bad stuff like malware. It costs $1.99/mo.
Control panel integrated w/ marketplace and WordPress
The Bluehost shared cloud plan control panel is deeply integrated with WordPress and the Mojo addon marketplace. Ideally, you should use WordPress to get the most out of this hosting plan. It comes with easy installation of WordPress which is nice. The integrated marketplace offers lots of different products including expert WP support which costs $29/mo for the cheapest option and $149/mo for the most expensive option. If you think that you need that service you might want to compare plans that include WP support without charging extra for it. Other services includes Site Migration for $149, G Suite for $5/mo and much more.
You can also add more resources in the marketplace.
Conclusion
Even though this is the most expensive Bluehost cloud plan it is the one that gives the most bang for the buck. It includes SSL, dedicated IP, whois privacy for the free domain, and backups. No SSD storage though which is a pretty big drawback to all the Bluehost shared and cloud hosting plans.
Price (1 year): $99.99/mo ($1199.9)
Renewal: $119.99/mo
Type: Dedicated Server
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, USA Based Support
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 4 GB
Storage: 500 GB
Bandwidth: 5 TB
Optional Extras: Bluehost SEO Tools Start, Domain Whois Privacy, RAID-1, SiteLock Monitoring, SSL Certificate.
Guarantees: 100% Network Uptime, 30 Day Money Back
1 year pre payed billing cycle required to get the price of $99.99/mo. 2 years: $89.99/mo. 3 years: $79.99/mo. If you select month-to-month billing the price will go up to $149.99/mo.
Every dedicated server from Bluehost comes with a free domain name. You get access to 24/7 live support which specializes in dedicated server support and works closely by the engineers that are maintaining the servers. The servers does not come with RAID-1 as a default only as a supported feature. It is not easy to compare the dedicated servers from Bluehost with most other hosts because they do not share what models their CPU is and at what frequencies the cores are running at.
Domain Whois Privacy is $0.99/mo with this server and lets you hide your personal name and contact information from your domain information that will be posted on lots of sites on the internet. If you need whois privacy it would be a little cheaper to register your domain name though another registrar instead of using the free domain provided by Bluehost. With other registrars, you can domains for less than $10/year and FREE whois privacy.
Search Engine Jumpstart is a bundle with SEO resources and tips and costs $2.99/mo. You can get a lot of SEO tips for free, check out our guide and lists with resources here. The SiteLock Monitoring scans daily for lots of bad stuff like malware. It costs $1.99/mo.
Customer guarantees
It is great that Bluehost does not charge a setup fee for their dedicated servers, and also that they offer a 30 day money back guarantee.
Price (1 year): $99.99/mo ($1199.9)
Renewal: $124.99/mo
Type: Dedicated Server
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, Managed, RAID-1, Root Access, SSL Certificate
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 4 GB
Storage: 500 GB
Bandwidth: 5 TB
Optional Extras: Codeguard Basic, Domain Whois Privacy, SiteLock Monitoring.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
To get the listed discounted price you need to pre-pay for a year. To get the slightly increased renewal rate you need to pre-pay for another year after your initial billing period. Even though the JustHost dedicated servers come with a free domain name, the domain whois privacy costs extra and is currently priced at $0.99/mo. You can get a combo with a domain name registration and whois privacy cheaper at one of the top registrars.
Data Center Location
JustHost data centers are located in Utah in the USA.
Price (1 year): $119.95/mo ($1439.4)
Renewal: $119.95/mo
Type: Dedicated Server
Location: EU or USA
Features: cPanel, Daily Backups, Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, Managed, RAID 10
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 8 GB
Storage: 1 TB
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Optional Extras: BitNinja Server Security, Domain Whois Privacy, E-Mail Spam Filter, LiteSpeed Web Server.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back, 99.999% Uptime
Free domain and setup fee
Every dedicated server with TMDHosting comes with a free .com domain name. To get the listed price you need to select 1 year billing cycles and pre-pay for a year. You can also choose monthly, 3 or 6 month cycles but then the price increases. This server includes full management and TMDHosting has nice money back guarantees and uptime guarantees. They also guarantee to answer support tickets within 15 minutes which is good. RAID 10 helps ensure you get fast website loading speeds and data mirroring for increased reliability.
Extra features
You can choose to instead use SSD disks for "The Original," "Smart" and "Super Powerful" dedicated servers, but you would need to ask their support and request this change before you buy. If you visit their website a support popup, in the bottom right, should appear after viewing their site for a few seconds. Whois privacy is $9.99/year. SiteLock Basic is $19.95/year and can help you stay clear of malicious files and malware. SpamExperts Email Filter is $9.95 /mo, BitNinja Server Security is $19.95/mo, CloudLinux OS is $14.95/mo, LiteSpeed web server is $43.95/mo
Data center location
You can select between their Chicago, USA or Amsterdam, EU data center locations for your server. The price stays the same for both locations.
Price (1 year): $119.99/mo ($1439.9)
Renewal: $159.99/mo
Type: Dedicated Server
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, Data Mirroring, FREE Domain, USA Based Support
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 8 GB
Storage: 1 TB
Bandwidth: 10 TB
Optional Extras: Bluehost SEO Tools Start, Domain Whois Privacy, RAID-1, SiteLock Monitoring, SSL Certificate.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
1 year pre payed billing cycle required to get the price of $119.99/mo. 2 years: $109.99/mo. 3 years: $99.99/mo. If you select month-to-month billing the price will go up to $199.99/mo.
Every dedicated server from Bluehost comes with a free domain name. You get access to 24/7 live support which specializes in dedicated server support and works closely by the engineers that are maintaining the servers. The servers does not come with RAID-1 as a default only as a supported feature. It is not easy to compare the dedicated servers from Bluehost with most other hosts because they do not share what models their CPU is and at what frequencies the cores are running at.
Domain Whois Privacy is $0.99/mo with this server and lets you hide your personal name and contact information from your domain information that will be posted on lots of sites on the internet. If you need whois privacy it would be a little cheaper to register your domain name though another registrar instead of using the free domain provided by Bluehost. With other registrars, you can domains for less than $10/year and FREE whois privacy.
Search Engine Jumpstart is a bundle with SEO resources and tips and costs $2.99/mo. You can get a lot of SEO tips for free, check out our guide and lists with resources here. The SiteLock Monitoring scans daily for lots of bad stuff like malware. It costs $1.99/mo.
Customer guarantees
It is great that Bluehost does not charge a setup fee for their dedicated servers, and also that they offer a 30 day money back guarantee.
