Comparison Between Hostgator And Bluehost
Comparison Between Hostgator And Bluehost is the topic of our today’s discussion.
Note: These comparisons are our own views. It does not mean that everybody has the same opinions and reviews about both.
Bluehost and Hostgator are two of the most popular web hosts in the industry. They are now owned by the same parent company, Endurance International Group (EIG).
| Bluehost | Hostgator |
| A web host company. | Also a web host company |
| Founded in 1996. | Founded in 2002 |
| It is recommended by WordPress.org itself. | |
| More suitable when the customer’s business isn’t just starting out. | More suitable when the customer’s business is just starting out. |
| Doesn’t provide beginners friendly services. | Provide beginners friendly services. |
| Uses industry-standard servers. | Uses industry-standard servers. |
| Their server location is Provo, Utah. | Their server location is Provo, Utah and Houston, Texas. |
| Their monthly price starts from $3.49 per month. | Their monthly price starts from $2.75 per month. |
| They have no Server Uptime. | They have 99.90% Server Uptime. |
| Bluehost gives money back guarantee within 30 days and pro-rated refunds if customer cancels beyond that period. | Hostgator gives money back guarantee within 45 days. |
| It does not provide free site migration service, the customer has to pay $150 for migrating the site. | It provides free site migration service. |
| Bluehost gives its customer a free domain name and free SSL Certificate. | Hostgator does not give its customer a free domain name and free SSL Certificate. |
| Gives DDOS free protection to its customer. | Gives DDOS free protection to its customer. |
| Offers free automatic backups but recommended the customer to make their own backup as well.
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Hostgator doesn’t provide automatic free backups. |
| Have unlimited Disk(30 GB SSD-120 GB SSD) space and bandwidth. | Have unlimited Disk space(120 GB -240 GB) and bandwidth. |
| WordPress hosting gives the customer to scale the sites to changing host needs in a more flexible way. | Hostgator use the windows OS and support ASP.Net websites through carries both Personal and Enterprise class hosting plans. |
| Through ticket, hotline and live chat Bluehost’s experts ready to assist their customers 24\7. | Supporting fast using live chats |
| Provides free cloud CDN so that customers can activate through simply few clicks. | Provides free websites builder tool along with customizable templates. |
| One click installation of all the popular CMS including WordPress, Joomla, and even Magneto. | One click installation of all the popular content management systems using Mojo Marketplace. |
| Contains unlimited Email Accounts. | Also contains unlimited Email Accounts. |
| According to google popularity contest Bluehost is more searched for as compared to Hostgator on Google. | According to google popularity contest Hostgator is less searched for as compared to Bluehost on Google. |
| According to HostingAdvice.com BlueHost secured “4.9” out of “5.0”. | According to HostingAdvice.com, Hostgator secured “4.5” out of “5.0”. |
| Less expensive easily affordable. | More expensive than Bluehost that’s why complexity in affording it. |
| Bluehost average uptime over the period of 10 months is <99.99% with only 9 minutes of downtime and 5 outages.
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Hostgator average uptime over the period of 10 months is <99.97% with 2 hours of downtime and 27 outages. |
| Bluehost, for instance, has consistently been the fifth fastest host we’ve reviewed (with an average page speed of 424ms). This new benchmark is literally 300% faster since the summer of 2017. | Over the last ten months, they’ve only been able to muster an average of 984ms. The page speed race is barely a competition in this case because this HostGator average is nearly twice Bluehost’s score. |
| The lowest shared hosting option is only $2.75 per month with our exclusive code. That rock-bottom, cheap price includes all you need for a single website, including 50 GB SSD storage, unmetered bandwidth, free SSL certificate, a domain (gratis), and even five email accounts. This is hands down the best price out there. | The lowest HostGator plans start out at $2.75/month, which includes one website, domain, unmetered bandwidth, a free site migration, and free SSL certificate. |
| The second shared tier will set you back $5.45 a month. But for double the intro price, you can host unlimited websites! Storage and bandwidth are both unmetered. A free SSL certificate is thrown in. And you get almost unlimited everything, from parked domains to subdomains and email addresses. | The second tier includes everything you’d need for multiple websites, including unlimited disk space and a free SSL certificate. This one starts at $3.95/month. |
