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How to Add an Email Opt-In Form to Your Website

If you have valuable information to share with your customers on a regular basis, then it might be time to start an email list. Start by putting an opt-in form on your website – you know, those “Sign up for our newsletter,” boxes you see on other websites. Doing so will allow you to expand…

Network Issues Resolved

Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn’t typically…

Bluehost Presents Operational Case Study at OpenStack Summit

Since the beginning, Bluehost has been built with open source technology. You could say it’s in our blood. So to expand our products and to support our customers with the best hosting services possible, we have been pioneering implementation of new, cutting edge OpenStack technology.Recently, several members of our admin team attended the 2013 OpenStack…

Data Center Update

Last night we experienced some issues in our data center that affected a portion of our clients. We wanted to take a moment to let you know what happened.At approximately 6:22 PM MST our primary Data Center experienced an electrical transient. An Automatic Transfer Switch on one of our legs of power failed, causing some…

Customer Spotlight: Sarah Metzger

We love our customers, and we’re not just saying that! Genuine customer service is one of our foundational principles here at Bluehost. We strive to do whatever we can to help our clients succeed. Typically we do this over the phone, but every so often we are lucky enough to meet a client in person…

Bluehost partners with PrestaShop

Thanks to a new partnership with PrestaShop, Bluehost users can now take advantage of a great open-source solution to create a great Ecommerce website. PrestaShop is one of the most reliable and flexible ways to sell online. A leader in e-commerce software, PrestaShop allows you to easily install, build, and maintain a secure, professional shopping…

Protect your email with Postini

Here at Bluehost we provide more than just powerful web hosting. We also provide additional tools to help meet the needs of our clients. One of the great features we offer is Postini email spam protection. Powered by Google, Postini is the world’s most powerful anti-spam solution. Postini sends all of your emails through advanced…

WordPress Update 3.4

WordPress has just been upgraded to a new version—3.4. Every major update from WordPress has brought welcomed changes, but version 3.4 is definitely one worth noting. WordPress started off as just a simple tool to create blogs and has grown into a full flagship content management system for complete websites (and blogs).

How to Build Websites with Weebly

Did you know every Bluehost account now includes the Weebly drag-and-drop website builder for FREE? At Bluehost we always strive to give our clients the best and most powerful tools available. Weebly is designed for anyone who needs a simple way to make a full-functioning website fast. And to make it even easier, we created…

New FREE Webinar Trainings

Sometimes the best way to learn a new technology is to see it in action, so we’re thrilled to now offer LIVE webinar training sessions for FREE to all Bluehost customers! Simply watch and listen as a real-life Bluehost expert shows you the ropes, click by click. And use the chat feature to ask questions!…