What is Bluehost Pro Hosting?

What is Bluehost Pro Hosting?

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If you are a web-based professional, let it be a web designer, blogger, internet marketer or webmaster, you’re much familiar with the name Bluehost. For more than a decade, Bluehost has been helping such web professionals to host their websites or blogs in a comparatively easy method, which is intuitive even for newbies of field. It is worth noting that shared web hosting service offered by Bluehost is much popular than others, as most of newbies prefer shared hosting to other types of web hosting.  Let us introduce you to their Bluehost Pro hosting plan.

Bluehost Pro Hosting

Unlike most of providers, Bluehost does not offer multiple shared hosting plans for its customers. On the other hand, you will have to choose either standard or pro plan of Bluehost shared hosting. A notable majority seems to have this confusion, and that is why we decided to do a comparison between standard & pro plans offered by Bluehost hosting services.

An Intro on Bluehost Pro Package

Before we tell you about the Bluehost Pro hosting plan, we will give you brief information about standard plan of Bluehost shared hosting. Basic plan of Bluehost shared web hosting offers impressive features for every user. For instance, while you purchase shared hosting from Bluehost by paying $3.49 per month with our Bluehost coupon, you will get a free domain.

Bluehost Pro Package Features

Some of such features offered by Bluehost Pro Package are as follows.

  • Automatic data backup;
  • Anytime support from expert technical team of Bluehost;
  • Free offers worth $200;
  • Unlimited money-back guarantee;
  • Unlimited email accounts;
  • Top-notch server performance

However, as time progresses, you might need enhanced server performance to move on with your website. In many cases, you may not be confident to purchase a Virtual Private Server due to lack of expertise in managing VPSs or any kind of other reasons. In such circumstances, however, Pro plan of Bluehost shared hosting seems to be optimum, as you do not have to ponder over processes of managing VPS but will be able to increase server performance using an upgrade. While the standard plan is available for $3.49 per month, you have to pay $19.99 when you want to have a pro upgrade. Now, we will see main differences of pro plan when compared to standard one.

Additional Features of Bluehost Pro Hosting Plan

Dedicated IP Address

When you host your website on shared web servers, there will be multiple websites on one IP address, which MIGHT cause some issues with SEO and ranking. However, when you have upgraded to pro plan, you will get a dedicated IP address, which will further be advantageous in several situations. Some of notable advantages of having a dedicated IP address are as follows.

  • You will be able to access your website by entering the specific IP address. So, even if domains have some issues, you can access the site. During domain name issues, you can use some FTP clients for managing your server.
  • When you are using a dedicated IP, you can have a good website loading speed, as the IP address is not shared with others.
  • You will be able to install SSL Certificates in your site.
  • SEO Experts always prefer dedicated IP address to shared ones.

SSL Certificate

Do you have a membership based website or a website that retrieves confidential information from users, there will be a requirement of an SSL Certificate. When you get to the ‘Pro’ mode, you can have a free SSL certificate and you’ll be able to use that certificate in your website for multiple purposes. You can use a SSL certificate for different kinds of purposes. Some of such are as follows.

  • SSL Certificates help you gain trust of your customers, if you accept confidential information, such as payment details, from your readers or customers.
  • By installing a SSL Certificate, you will be able to rescue your site from phishing attacks.

Advanced Server Performance (5x times)

There is a fact we should know about shared hosting. Since it is ‘shared’, all your resources would be consumed by a number of users. This means you have a limit in server speed, though plans are ‘unlimited’ in words. While we are comparing the Pro version with standard counterpart of Bluehost shared hosting, number of users is much lower in former (may be because newbies prefer the standard mode itself due to its satisfactory behaviour). This means that availability of server resources is much higher when it comes to the case of pro version of Bluehost.

Although you might be experiencing a good site loading speed already, the increased loading speed of site will have a good effect in search engine ranking section. Of course, it will be very useful.

Apart from these, the pro version of Bluehost hosting also offers some features like regular site backup, anti-spam-powered email accounts, domain privacy, etc.

Bottom Line

When comparing both the Bluehost Pro hosting and the Bluehost shared hosting, it becomes quite clear that the Bluehost upgrade is worth your money. This will provide you with the website speed and enhanced power by paying a bit more. Although this Bluehost Pro hosting plan is a part of shared hosting, we find nothing wrong in addressing it using ‘a VPS alternative’.

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Ryan Jacob

Ryan Jacob has 9 years of rich experience in Integrated Marketing Communications and Server Management. He has lead teams of professionals in his career and built online and offline reputation of organizations.

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Rebecca

Do you have any knowledge or links you can point me to, that explain the difference between the standard Bluehost packages, and the Bluhost for WordPress hosting? It’s quite a bit more expensive – $24.99 for the basic plan, so I’m not sure why I would choose it. According to the Bluehost agent I chatted with, you aren’t required to sign up for the WordPress specific hosting if your site is through WordPress. So what am I missing? Why would someone spend so much more? Is there a good reason to spend $20 (or more) a month for this WordPress specific hosting? I can’t find any comparisons on the internet, so I assume this is a new feature.

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    Ryan Jacob

    Hello Rebecca,

    With WordPress hosting you’ll get optimized hosting service for WordPress. Also support team will be WordPress experts, they will help you with your problems. As it’s optimized for WordPress they are charging extra fees as compare to normal shared hosting. Hope this helps.

    Regards,
    Ryan

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Max

Do you have any CPU / RAM limit specs for both? I came here hoping for information more than BlueHost stating “Standard” as the power level.

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    Ryan Jacob

    Max,

    Here is some of the information for the VPS Pro Hosting:

    Standard Plan has 2 CPU Cores and 2GB RAM
    Enhanced Plan has 2 CPU Cores and 4GB RAM
    Premium Plan has 3 CPU Cores and 6GB RAM
    Ultimate Plan has 4 CPU Cores and 8GB RAM

    We hope this helps with your question. Please let us know if you need anything else.

    Thanks,

    Ryan

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