Have you had read my post about the cost of starting a WordPress blog at GoDaddy? Today, I’m going to share with you the cost of starting a WordPress blog at BlueHost, another web hosting service provider which was recently awarded Best New Hosting Company and Best Customer Support by the some of the leading hosting review companies.
BlueHost offers only one web hosting plan for its clients. You can host unlimited domains and sub-domains under the web hosting plan and it comes with one free domain name (with free domain privacy) as well. Additional domain names are at $10.00 per year and if you’d like to avail of privacy for additional domains, its cost is $4.95 per domain annually.
BlueHost have different prices for their services depending on the length of web hosting contract that you buy ($8.95/mo. for 12 months, $7.95/mo. for 24 months and $6.95/mo. for 36 months). However, they have an ongoing promotion where web hosting is set at $6.95/month regardless of the contract period.
If you want to know if your budget can cover the initial payment for a web hosting plan, check out the table below:
| Period | Regular Price | Promotion | Savings |
| 12 months | $107.40 | $83.40 | $24.00 |
| 24 months | $190.80 | $166.80 | $24.00 |
| 36 months | $250.20 | $250.20 | – |
| Domain name | free | free | $10.00 |
| Domain privacy | free | free | $4.95 |
* Free for one domain/primary domain only.
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Right now, I’m using a Dreamhost VPS hosting package. I’ve had no end of problems. One of my friend’s sites is hosted by Bluehost and it’s always up…
I was planning on switching to Bluehost, but I’m not very savvy with host migration and they don’t seem to offer these services even at a fee which is too bad.
For anyone starting out though, Bluehost is the best bet for shared hosting. I know a few people that have 5 or 6 high traffic sites doing well with a single shared hosting account at Bluehost.
bluehost says they offer support for those. I actually inquired from them because I’m planning to transfer to another host.
ahm, i still prefer free hosting. hehehe
free hosting is good too elai. hehehe. i just thought self-hosted WP offers more ways to customize your site. and I also felt bad because of my PR3 blog that was disabled by blogger before.
Seems to have a reasonable price. I’m still using free hosting at this time since I do’t see it as an investment for not having so much time with my blogs. So for the meantime, I’ll just stay put with free hosting.
Thanks for this info though.
I’ve started with Bluehost, it’s a good starting point for bloggers!
After one year of blogging and with heavy theme customization, Bluehost shared hosting couldn’t handle my blog especially with higher daily traffic!
So, I went to HostGator VPS, and I must admit that Bluehost shared hosting is much faster than HostGator VPS, and I have no idea why!
This is why I still recommend BlueHost for those who start a new blog!
thanks for sharing your thoughts on this hesham. some of my friends are also hosting their blogs at bluehost while this blog recently transferred to hostgator.