BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost is an interesting a comparison between those three popular webhosting companies on the net. (Updates are at the end of this post)
I am writing this review and BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost comparison because I am still currently using these three hosting providers to host my many blogs and websites.
Almost 3 years with JustHost now, and almost 2 years with HostGator, as well as a half year using BlueHost, I know three of them quite well, including performance, reliability, fast or slower support via email or chat support feature.
Let’s start with the quick overview with these three web hosts.
BlueHost has been very popular for many many years, and so is HostGator.
When I first looked for an affordable hosting plan for this blog, I have checked them both, however I didn’t decide one of them.
I then rather looked for another hosts that I thought their price fits on my budget.
Now, about JustHost, JustHost is relatively newer than the two companies, but they also have proved that they are already becoming one of top web hosting companies.
This post will discuss about BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost, but I actually have posted a review about two hostings, which is titled, JustHost vs HostGator, at that time, I have not used BlueHost yet.
BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost
Appearance and User Interface
When you want to look for a web hosting to host your word press blog or site, you will definitely ask yourself, “does this host have cPanel?”
These three web host providers do have cPanel, and all of them appear to have the almost similar cPanel’s looks.
They do have many popular features such as “File Manager”, “Addons Domains”, “PHP MyAdmin” and many more as a usual cPanel has.
In this term, you can take a look my video of BlueHost Review 2012 post.
BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost Table Comparison
Here is the simple table comparison that is valid when this post is written.
WebHosts: | BlueHost | HostGator | JustHost |
Price if you sign a year | $6.95 | $5.56 | $5.95 |
Free domain one year | √ | X | √ |
WP Automatic Install | SimpleScripts | Fantastico | Fantastico |
Billing Cycle that you can try | 1 Year | 1 Month | 1 Month |
Note: if you try a month, it costs a bit more expensive than other plans.
What is my experience with these three hosts?
Note: before I continue this post, this blog has been moved to a VPS hosting last year, because it gets bigger and bigger last year.
However, since Google Panda last October, the traffic has been dropped dramatically, so I am thinking to move the blog to a shared hosting again, although not sure which host yet.
I have built this blog with JustHost from the day one, because to me, they were the cheapest. (I took a 3 years plan).
So far, until today, their respond have been great.
Since I am living in Europe, whenever I have a problem, I send them a ticket from my cPanel.
Their respond is really fast and they have been very helpful.
Con about JustHost:
1. Live Chat Support is not too cool to me.
2. I found that they can’t really handle a lot of blogs. I hosted about 4 blogs in the past there, and all of them ran a bit slow than hosting 2 blogs.
3. They don’t really have their own VPS package. Once you want to move, they offer to upgrade to another webhosting company, so to say.
Pros about JustHost:
1. Good Support
2. Most affordable hosting out there
Then we now move to HostGator, HostGator is also a great web hosting company, I am almost two years there until today.
Cons about HostGator:
1. Long waiting if I want to use Live Chat Support, although the Live Chat support itself has been always helpful.
2. You have to pay a domain name extra.
Pros about HostGator:
1. Capable to host more than 20 wordpress blogs.
2. Once your blog gets bigger, and you consider a VPS hosting, they have this package to upgrade, so it will be less complicated, because they will do the “migration” for you.
The last one is BlueHost.
I am using this web hosting provider not long time ago, less than a year, so can’t really say much.
However, so far they have been fantastic, still I will write my cons and pros below.
Cons about BlueHost:
1. More expensive than JustHost and HostGator.
2. cPanel doesn’t include Fantastico, although there is simplescripts.
3. If you install wordpress with automatic install script, it will add links to your footer.
4. A Bit complicated to add “Addons domains”.
5. Adding their favicon to your site.
Pros about BlueHost:
1. Fast respond of the support.
2. Capable to host many blogs.
BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost: cPanels
What is my recommendation?
Based on my own experience with them, I recommend JustHost if you plan to only host a few blogs, let’s say under 5 blogs.
I recommend them because they are more affordable and good too.
However, if you plan to have many many blogs, let’s say more than 5 blogs, then I would go to HostGator.
I can’t recommend BlueHost because I am using it not even a year.
But they are recommended in official wordpress hosting page, so they must be reliable and good too.
I hope this post can help you to put some hosting providers as your consideration.
One important factor to consider is the plan, the longer plan you will take, the cheaper price you will get.
Feel free to ask if you have any question about this BlueHost vs HostGator vs JustHost discussion.
//update: After 3 years using JustHost, I have to renew my contract, and it’s very very expensive. So I now recommend HostGator or BlueHost, if you plan to renew them in the future. JustHost is more affordable in the first years, but for renewal, BlueHost and HostGator are more affordable, based on my experience.
I always thought hostgator and bluehost of being the same company, but they would never admit it hehe. 😀
Thanks for the share.
Hi Sayed!
I have no idea at all if they are the same company, I heard HostMonster and HostGator are the same..
Not sure about it too LOL
Glad to see you around
Best wishes
Kimi
Thank you,Kimi. May be you help a lot of the company a lot! We often using the HostGator! And we must to change now! Thanks again!
Hey Sony!
No, you don’t have to change your webhost 🙂 I am a happy user of HostGator too, and they have been helpful whenever I have an issue.
It also depends on your personal experience, I always have good experience with JustHost, and some people have some issues, so we must try it ourselves I guess.
Thanks for coming across Sony, and leaving a comment
Kind regards
Kimi
I’m pretty sure justhost and bluehost are the same company. I have asked a couple of times and the support guys haven’t admitted it, but today I received summer deal promotions: same exact graphics, same expiration date and exact same wording, one for justhost and another for bluehost – so yes they are the same company. Not sure if hostgator is also part of them, if it is then the large majority of hosting industry is controlled by one conglomerate. Google should buy them 🙂 kidding
I am not aware of bluehost and justhost. i only tried hostgator and they seem really good. i found new company (hostvizor – cheaper) and i am gonna give it a try, at least on monthly basis.
I am using Hostgator and Bluehost from long time and noticed that both are awesome in their own services. Btw didn’t have JustHost account, but sure will get one soon.
I just move my site from ipage to jushost. The reason for moving is ipage’s over priced renewal. Does anyone know which host offer cheap renewal rate? Thanks. 🙂
Hey, you can try hostvizor. found the one which suits to me
I can say dont use godaddy.com for wordpress hosting. it is so slow and it can make you go crazy as in my situation, loading time is over 10 secs. I will try bluehost.
HostMONSTER, JustHost, iPowerWeb, and Bluehost are all the same company. They do a pretty good job of hiding this fact, even though JustHost, iPowerWeb have datacenters in Phoenix and HostMonster and BlueHost are in Utah.
I know from research and because when a site gets banned from one company, its banned from all, so they are “sharing” information, at the very least (and if they are separate companies, this “sharing” is illegal under U.S. law).
Gotta love those Mormons!
Hey great post, from researching I’ve found that Bluehost and JustHost have exactly the same renewal fee prices, I assume they are owned by the same people.
36 Month Term: $6.99/month ($251.64 total)
24 Month Term: $8.99/month ($215.76 total)
12 Month Term: $9.99/month ($119.88 total)
6 Month Term: $11.99/month ($71.94 total)
There are lots of people on the internet covering the initial fees but no-one talks about the renewal fees, which is where the companies really screw everyone!