BlueHost vs HostGator Web Hosting Comparison & Reviews

If you are looking for a reliable hosting provider and trying to decide whether to buy HostGator or BlueHost, the following information is designed to help you make the right web hosting choice. BlueHost and HostGator both provide reliable shared hosting service with all necessary features to support your personal or small business website. One major difference between Bluehost and Hostgator is that Bluehost has only one plan that fits all, where as Hostgator provides multiple choices depending on your website(s) needs. i.e. if you want to host a single site and save some money, Hostgator does provide an option for that. If your site gets huge and you need a dedicated hosting solution, Hostgator can continue to provide hosting with an upgraded account.

Based on our research we created the following table to show the differences and similarities between the HostGator vs. BlueHost accounts.

Hosting comparison

Feature	Signup	Signup
Price	$3.95/mo – Websites (Domains) allowed – unlimited	$4.95/mo – Websites (Domains) allowed – 1
Price for Hosting UNLIMITED Websites	$3.95 / month	$7.95 / month
24/7/365 support
Support Rating	Bluehost support rating	hostgator support rating
Disk Space & Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited
Money Back Guarantee	30 day Money Back Guarantee	45 day Money Back Guarantee
Free Domain Name
Free Domain Privacy
Free Web Site Migration
Green Web Hosting		(Shared and reseller servers are wind powered)
Windows Hosting / ASP .NET Hosting
VPS Hosting
Dedicated Server
Reseller hosting
Google Adwords	$50	$50
Site Builder
Fantastico Scripts	(SimpleScripts)
Shared SSL
RMS server(required for boonex/orca)		(available in dedicated server)
ffmpeg		(available in dedicated server)
CubeCart,OS Commerce,Zen Cart
WordPress Hosting
Drupal,Joomla,Mambo
Ruby On Rails, Perl, Python, Cron
GD 2&Image Magick.
MySQL 5 Databases	Unlimited	Unlimited
Zend Optimizer
Private SSL Allowed		(allowed in $7.95 plan)
Backup	You can make an ‘instant’ backup of your entire account from control panel.	You can make an ‘instant’ backup of your entire account from control panel.
Discounts/Coupons offered	Special Bluehost promotion rate. Just $3.95/month. regular rate is $6.95/mo	Sign up with hostgator hosting

Conclusion:

Both Bluehost and Hostgator are reliable and affordable web hosting providers. But we are leaning towards Bluehost, because it is a reliable company and was in business much earlier than Hostgator. Bluehost support is very friendly and helpful. Sign up with Bluehost, you won’t be disappointed!