Bluehost better than Hostgator for WordPress, easier to maintain

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Spencer Haws who at times has had hundreds of WordPress niche sites wrote in his blog comparing Hostgator to Bluehost:

"You have to update WordPress installations one at a time [at Hostgator]. On Bluehost, you can click one button and ALL your websites get updated at once. If you have multiple niche websites, this is a HUGE time saver.
Sometimes Hostgator selects as the default on WordPress installations to BLOCK search engines...oh no! You literally have to go into every site and switch this so Google can find you.
File transfer are easier on Bluehost, because they use an unlimited browser file upload option that HostGator does not.
My Hostgator sites tend to load slower (my brother's sites are slower as well on Hostgator).
Bluehost has several other built in tools that are kept more up to date than Hostgator."


Can anyone shed any more light on this? I am with Hostgator and I have no issues, (except Cpanel does not work in Chrome but works great in Firefox!). I am just starting in WordPress and I don't want to make it hard for my self.
#bluehost #easier #hostgator #maintain #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Jim Thorpe
    Love my hostgator - as far as ease of install; gads man... how damn hard is it to click a button?
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by Jim Thorpe View Post

      Love my hostgator - as far as ease of install; gads man... how damn hard is it to click a button?
      Jim, if you install WP using Fantastico (which I assumed because of the "click a button" phrase), then your blog is very susceptible to hackers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Sometimes it looks (to me, at least) that HG is kind of over-rated: a herd mentality effect. A few people started to praise it and everybody went with them.

    There are many other decent hosts out there, both for WP and/or other type of sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrAlexMV
    Cpanel works great on my Chrome... are you sure yours does not work?
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  • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
    They both have their pros and cons, as long as one works for you and not causing you any problem yet I don't see why you want to go through all this hassle of thinking about changing hosts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ducksauce
    Well, I don't have many sites at HostGator and I have no WordPress sites at all, I plan to have a bunch of WordPress sites in the near future, if what is written is still valid then I see BlueHost is easier. Much easier. But maybe I should be asking, if people know is HostGAtor has fixed this yet?
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  • Profile picture of the author Clawbog
    StableHost is superior to most hosting company's I've seen.

    I don't even get what people see in hostgator. Stay as far away from "unlimited" hosts as you can. Every webmaster should know that.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    I have both Bluehost and Hostgator accounts.

    My preference is for Hostgator as their support is much better and more importantly their uptime is much better than Bluehost.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      I have both Bluehost and Hostgator accounts.

      My preference is for Hostgator as their support is much better and more importantly their uptime is much better than Bluehost.
      That surprises me. I have two Bluehost accounts and host several sites with them. They are never down.
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  • Profile picture of the author wpxo
    Yea, I hear that Bluehost's support is not as good as Hostgator's support. I think support is very important when deciding which hosting company to go with.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nick Walker
    Hostgator > Bluehost
    Hostgator guarantees 99.9% moneyback uptime guarantee while bluehost doesnt provide such guarantee.
    However it is true hostgator do not update their php often so that it is quite annoying at times when you need to update your wordpress blogs of other websites such as e-commerce
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