You may have heard the term ‘Cloud Hosting’ or ‘Cloud Sites’ before but you may not know what does it mean. Of course, it doesn’t mean hosting websites in the sky between clouds 🙂 . The term Cloud Hosting refers to two different things; one is the services that run on the internet instead of your computer like SaaS (Software as a Service). The second is Cloud Web Hosting which means hosting your site data on many connected servers that form a cloud. At the end of August 2015, Bluehost launched their new hosting service, Cloud Hosting or what they call Bluehost Cloud Sites. In this review, I will mention the features of their Cloud Web Hosting as well as the importance of cloud hosting.
After reading this detailed review, I hope you will be able to decide if you really need to move your site to Bluehost Cloud Hosting instead of Shared hosting or Managed WordPress Hosting (use coupon: HOSTINGDEAN).
UPDATE: As of January 15th, Bluehost decided that they will no longer be offering their Cloud Hosting product and they will redirect users to their Shared Web Hosting instead.
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Cloud Hosting at Bluehost (Bluehost Cloud Sites)
As I mentioned above cloud hosting technology is hosting your site data on more than one server, this means that your site is no longer hosted on one server like shared hosting which hosts many sites on the same server so if one of these sites is hacked or consuming the server resources all the other servers will be affected unless the company using an account isolation technology.
With Bluehost Cloud Sites, your site’s data will be automatically mirrored across three servers so if one of those servers falters or went down your site will be automatically switched to another server so your site will never go down unless the three servers go down at the same time which is technically impossible.
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Bluehost Cloud Sites Features
Security & Stability
A great benefit of Bluehost Cloud Sites hosting is that your site is mirrored across three devices so you don’t have to worry about hardware falters as there will be at least one copy of your site data working which will be automatically served to your site visitors, so technically there will be NO downtime.
Flexibility
Another important feature of Cloud Web Hosting offer is that you add extra resources any time like CPU and RAM so when your site gets more traffic you don’t need to worry about your site being slow or goes down you can simply add extra resources from your hosting panel by few clicks and pay. Another good thing about Bluehost Cloud Hosting is that it gives you the ability to increase your hosting resources temporarily when you need them and you can decrease them again when you don’t need them, unlike Shared Hosting that gives you the ability to add extra resources when you need but you have to still pay for the extra resources even if you don’t need them anymore as you can’t cancel them once you added them.
Increased Speed
Hosting speed is one of the most important factors that define whether a web host is good or not. Bluehost Shared hosting is not the fastest shared hosting services in the industry, but this is not the case with their cloud hosting.
Beside the low-density servers and enhanced hardware, Bluehost Cloud Sites hosting platform comes with a built-in advanced caching layer that is built on customized NGINX/Varnish Caching configuration. It is also packed with a global Content Delivery Network (CDN). All of that will take your site loading speed to a high level.
Is Bluehost Cloud Sites the right Host for my site?
I know you’re thinking about this question right now; let me help you to answer this question and decide whether you need to move to Bluehost Cloud Sites or not. I think that you don’t need to move to cloud WordPress hosting unless your site really need it as it will cost more than Shared Web Hosting which is the best choice for beginners, but if your site traffic is increasing and you need a secure, fast, reliable hosting service and you’re able to afford some extra prices.
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Conclusion
Cloud hosting is one of the most growing web hosting services, and Bluehost Cloud Hosting or ‘Cloud Sites’ is one of the best services in the industry. They offer reliable, secure, faster, affordable Cloud Web Hosting which starts from $9.99 per month or you can use our special offer to get it for $5.95/mo Only.
Dipesh says
January 28, 2019 at 6:11 AMCan cloudl sites of bluehost handle 10k traffic daily?
Ahmed Elgameel says
January 28, 2019 at 1:41 PMActually, Bluehost does not offer Cloud hosting anymore. Instead, you can use another WordPress hosting provider.
Kapil Garg says
July 5, 2018 at 4:32 PMHi Ahmad,
you are right, Cloud hosting is a better option than VPS. I am using business cloud hosting from GlogHost, and hosting is very reliable, It is handling 6k visitors daily and 60 to 70 visitors per sec. I have 4 core CPU, 4 GB ram plan.
Noble Joseph says
November 30, 2017 at 5:49 PMwhat about the addon domain, is it unlimited.
Ahmed Elgameel says
November 30, 2017 at 7:05 PMIt depends on the plan you choose, the Starter plan has one domain only but the number is unlimited for the Performance and Business Pro plans.
Ahmad Khan says
May 23, 2017 at 6:24 AMHi Ahmed how many traffic can handle cloud server of bluhost daily based and real time. For simple MySQL and Php website Not wordpress
Ahmed Elgameel says
May 25, 2017 at 5:06 PMThe bandwidth is unmetered.
Larry says
March 3, 2017 at 4:19 PMYou can’t be serious.
I switched to bluehost cloud account less than 2 months ago. It’s been down TWICE since then and is down NOW, 15 hours and counting. Only the Cloud ones are Down too. Your statement is a lie. I can prove it.
Ahmed Elgameel says
March 3, 2017 at 4:35 PMHi Larry,
Did you try to call Bluehost support to figure out the reason for that?
My statement is absolutely not a lie, you should call the support team first to know why the account is down, there’re many reasons that cause the downtime. Some could be from the hosting provider and others might be caused by you or by the coding.
So you should call Bluehost support team, they’re responsive and if they can’t solve your problem, then you may switch to another hosting company.
Thanks for your comment.
Alaa says
November 18, 2016 at 3:25 PMI think cloud hosting is just marketing , nothing worth to do with them
did anyone try it ?
Ahmed Elgameel says
January 24, 2017 at 2:11 PMI don’t think so, Cloud web hosting is absolutely a different hosting service and worth try. As I explained before it is different than traditional web hosting. You can say “It is the next-generation web hosting”.
With traditional web hosting you pay to get hosting resources (CPU, RAM, Disk space etc.) but with Cloud web hosting you pay for what you use and this makes it cost effective in many cases.
Thanks for your comment.
Brandi K. says
June 27, 2017 at 7:38 AMNo, Cloud hosting is not just marketing.
It is a separate hosting solution and all big and known brands use cloud hosting services to host their websites.
And yes, I did try cloud hosting and it is really top-class hosting service especially when it comes to hosting uptime and security.
Andy H. says
June 12, 2016 at 2:57 PMCloud Hosting at BH really worth buying , they offer one of the best services in the world and their servers are clean, also I liked that I can increase my site resources whenever I need so when my site has alot of traffic I simply add extra resources then I can remove then again.
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:26 AMYou’re right Andy.
Thanks for your comment!
William says
June 10, 2016 at 1:20 AMCloud Sites that Bluehost offer is really first-class cloud hosting service, after 3 months with their cloud service I can say that they’ve done a great job.
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:28 AMThanks for commenting William!
Steven says
June 3, 2016 at 1:04 AMCloud Hosting at Bluehost is really one of the best cloud hosting services I’ve ever seen, I’ve tried their service and I’m amazed of what they offer. If you’re looking for a good, reliable, affordable and stable cloud Web Hosting, go with Bluehost.
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:28 AMThanks for sharing your experience with us Steven.
Jerry Jones says
May 27, 2016 at 8:45 PMI don’t think my site need a cloud hosting right now but I think it will need one in the future. Currently I am hosting it on Bluehost servers and when I decide to use cloud hosting , I will upgrade to Bluehost cloud sites.
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:30 AMWise choice, as I always say the best hosting is a matter of balancing your needs along with your budget.
ishwar says
September 23, 2017 at 5:10 AMcould you please share some URLs which use Bluehost cloud? I am looking for ecommerce sites (preferably on magento framework)
Ahmed Elgameel says
September 23, 2017 at 6:34 AMSorry, I can’t do that without the permission of the owners.
I’ve mentioned the Pros & Cons of Cloud Hosting at Bluehost.
and I think it will be more than enough for a small to medium Magento website and you have the ability to add more resources whenever you want.
Hari says
September 15, 2018 at 2:57 AMI have hosted on Bluehost cloud for the last 1 year and there is zero down time till date. I used an external uptime monitor to substantiate this data. It is cheap and good.
Matt says
May 19, 2016 at 3:50 AMBluehost offers one of the best Cloud Hosting out there, I’m really happy with their “cloud sites hosting” my site gone 2 or 3 times faster and I can now add extra resources to my hosting account on the go.
Mathew says
June 3, 2016 at 8:40 PMI totally agree with you, their hosting service is really fast.
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:32 AMYes Matt I agree with you that Bluehost cloud hosting is really faster than shared hosting.
Thanks for sharing!
Rene says
May 13, 2016 at 2:05 PMThanks for sharing Ahmed,
I’ve upgraded my hosting plan from Bluehost shared hosting to Bluehost cloud hosting recently. really a very good hosting service, my site is now 2X faster than before and didn’t receive any email from Jetpack montitor telling me that my WordPress blog is down. Really a very good service and deserves what I pay for it. Till now I’m happy with Bluehost Cloud Sites.
Thanks!
Ahmed Elgameel says
June 14, 2016 at 2:33 AMThanks for sharing your experience with us Rene.