Bluehost is a big, well-known WordPress host and plenty of people are happy there. These are the reasons the ones who call us give for leaving.
Bluehost says its current WordPress hosting uses a customized dashboard instead of traditional cPanel. That is fine until your web person, or a tutorial, tells you to open cPanel and there is nothing to open. Every plan here has full cPanel.
Bluehost lists its sale price against a 36-month term and prints the higher renewal rate right under it. We bill month to month and the renewal is the same price you started at. There is no second number to find.
Bluehost's free domain is for the first year, then it renews at the going rate. Your domain stays wherever you want it, and you see its real cost from the start.
The other side
Moving hosts is work, even when we do most of it. Here is when staying put makes more sense.
Some people never want to see cPanel. If the customized dashboard does what you need and you never call support, that is a real reason to stay.
Bluehost is on WordPress.org's short list of recommended hosts, and has been for a long time. If that endorsement matters to you, we are not on that list.
If you paid for three years last spring, that money is spent. Put a reminder in your calendar a couple of months before renewal and call us then.
If the site does not bring in customers, the intro price on a long term is hard to beat, and we are not trying to beat it.
The people who should move are the ones whose site brings in work and who want to call someone who knows it. If that is not you yet, stay where you are.
The move
A Bluehost move is a WordPress move. The only real question at the start is whether your account still has cPanel, and that only changes how we take the copy.
You give us access and a few minutes to check the preview. We do the rest, and we do not ask you to cancel anything until the new site is running.
Bluehost says some older shared plans still include cPanel and newer WordPress plans do not. If yours has cPanel, we take a full account backup. If not, we copy WordPress itself: files and database.
The domain may be registered at Bluehost, at another registrar, or somewhere nobody remembers. Email may be on Bluehost hosting or on a separate Microsoft or Google account. We write all of it down before touching anything.
The site goes up on a temporary address. You click through pages, forms, logins, and anything that takes payment. Nothing points here until you approve it.
If mail is on Bluehost, we recreate the mailboxes here, copy the messages over, and test send and receive on your own phone and computer.
We lower the TTL, change the records, and watch both sides. You cancel Bluehost after the new site has been running for a few days, not before.
Yes. WordPress is WordPress underneath any dashboard. We need the files and the database, and Bluehost gives you ways to get both. If you are not sure what access you have, we will look at it with you on the phone.
No. The domain is registered to you. You can keep it at Bluehost and point it here, or transfer it to another registrar. Bluehost's terms say the free year renews at their regular rate, so check what that will be.
Most moves can be done with little to no downtime when DNS is planned right. Your Bluehost site keeps running until the copy here is approved and the records are switched.
No. Every plan is month to month, the renewal is the same price as month one.
Where the Bluehost facts on this page come from, checked October 2026: Bluehost: how to log into cPanel (opens in a new tab), Bluehost: shared hosting plans and renewal terms (opens in a new tab), WordPress.org: recommended hosting (opens in a new tab). Plans and policies change, so check the provider page if something in your account looks different.
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