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This is a bluehost question posted by geo on 18 July 2006

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on this forum for other users to attempt to quash the complaints of customers choosing to run their business on bluehosts shared-hosting plans, and I simply must comment.

To everyone who holds the opinion that hosting a business on “shared hosting” is a mistake: The fact is that many hosts actively encourage, advertise, and even specially target specific features toward people hosting their businesses on shared hosting. Bluehost is just as encouraging of this as other hosts (if not more so!). Even on the first page it says “*professional* web hosting” and offers features such as “ecommerce/shopping cart”. Delve a little deeper and click on “Tell me more” (which incidentally by placing it under the heading “Whats Included” is specifically relating to their $6.95 shared-hosting option) and it comes up with this: “From the *business owner* to the individual who desires full functionality on a small budget…” etc

Bluehost specifically targets and claims their “shared hosting” is the perfect place to host ones business.

My point here is that it cannot be construed to be the customers fault if a company advertises a product that says it can do something that it then can’t. So it is absolutely not a valid defense of bluehost to suggest people running businesses are unwise to be using shared-hosting to do so. If there IS a legimitate concern with shared-hosting for businesses on bluehost then the flak should be directed AT BLUEHOST for misrepresenting their service. Everyone who is rightly concerned about their business downtime this past week, and ESPECIALLY those on shared hosting - I suggest you keep that up and demand bluehost deliver the service they are claiming you are paying for.

To be fair, it seems many of us HAVE been receiving the shared-hosting service we’ve been paying for up until recently. My main issue here is that I see absolutely NO validity in the claim from some members of this forum that we should not continue to do so!

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