I agree in fact I have a bluehost account for smaller sites, but I am also aware they are not going to be able to live up to the bandwidth they offer, but for the price you can't beat it
What is large incoming traffic? Well, feel free to Google: "CPU exceed errors" Wondering what will you see? Bluehost, Bluehost, Bluehost, Bluehost,.... Once again, there are good enough for low traffic sites...
Last month Bluehost sent out an E-mail to their subscribers that they were adding 300MB of bandwidth per month to ease the bottleneck. CPU exceeded errors are still a problem for high traffic accounts and sites running poorly optimized scripts. They do have a high cpu usage plan, but I have not heard much about it. For static or low traffic accounts, they are good. But if you have a high traffic site, you probably should not be on a shared hosting account plan in the first place.
CPU exceed errors..... exactly, if you have a poorly-written script, it is quite definitely that it hits the CPU limit easily.
i got a hosting plan from them long time ago and im hosting like 10 domains on their plan. Im only paying like 6.99 per month
Bluehost is fine for a personal site, I was with them for years, there cheap and really helpful when you call. The problem with bluehost is that the servers are just not very fast. Try streaming videos off bluehost and you'll see what I mean. Now, check out this page: http://www.trenttompkins.com/Downloads/Open-Source-FLV-Player-2-RC1.html And play the video. It's hosted at surpass, and I'm paying $55/month for 5tb, but that 20 meg video streams pretty damn good (provided your on cable, it isn't compressed very good).
Bluehost would never let you use 6TB bandwidth per month. You would get capped at around 50gb. Go ahead, try burning BW and see what happens.
you people really think you can use 6000 GB of bandwidth ? when server hosting 1000 GB normally..c'mon dont be fool anymore
Actually, I do have to agree with some of you, e.g. gkgk11 and letsjoy. They (BlueHost) might be offering you 6TB of bandwidth, but taking into consideration, will they actually allow you to use that much of bandwith. That's a question which I have not tested out or tried... but, in the first place, do you require that much bandwidth from your application? Apart from video streaming, then I am quite doubtful that any genuine site will need that much of bandwidth (I am talking about unique traffic to bandwith ratio...) Nonetheless, it will be interesting to know the truth, I might ask BlueHost about it and see how they react.
Blue host sucks. I had a site that used to be hosted on their servers. Once it got about 650 uniques daily the site was slow as turtles. I'll never go back, I would never recommend them to anyone.
Zone.net VPS $85/MO I've also grown 10X since I was with bluehost so i'm on a larger plan. I was formerly on a dedicated but moved down since then because I wasn't utilizing it. Nonetheless, bluehost was my first host; rather disgraceful, fraudulent corp if you ask me.