Bluehost vs FastComet
Bluehost and FastComet compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Bluehost scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
BluehostWins overall
Newfold's WordPress-recommended host: three shared tiers on 36-month terms, weekly backups, a 5 percent SLA coupon
cPanel hosting on LiteSpeed with 30 daily offsite backups and 12 locations; small disks, now part of World Host Group
Bluehost wins 2 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.6 vs 7.5).
How do the scores compare?
Bluehost leads on 2 sub-scores, FastComet on 2. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, FastComet is cheaper ($9.95/mo vs $9.99/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Bluehost | FastComet | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | First year, with a 12-month or 36-month term | No |
| Free SSL | Let's Encrypt | Yes |
| Backups | Weekly website backups on every shared plan | Not stated |
| Staging | WordPress staging site on every plan | Not stated |
| Free migration | Site migration tool | Website and server migrations by staff |
| CDN | Yes | Not stated |
| Caching | Advanced static content caching and object caching | Not stated |
| SSH and WP-CLI | Yes | Not stated |
| Security | Malware scanning on Starter; AI malware removal, web application firewall and DDoS protection from Business | Not stated |
| Phone support | Business and above; Starter has chat only | 24/7, +1 855 818 9717 |
| Uptime guarantee | 99.99% SLA; at most one coupon per month for 5% of the monthly hosting fee | 99.9% website availability excluding maintenance; 10% of the monthly fee credited per hour of downtime, up to 100% |
| Choice of data center | Region selected at checkout (North America, South America, Europe, Asia) | Six locations at shared checkout (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai); 12 locations across all products |
| Windows hosting | No | No |
| Daily offsite backups | Not stated | Up to 30 daily backups in a separate data center, unlimited full or incremental restores from the web interface |
| Web server | Not stated | LiteSpeed Enterprise with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, AMD EPYC CPUs, NVMe storage |
| Malware scanner | Not stated | Yes |
| Node.js and SSH | Not stated | Yes |
| Resource policy | Not stated | No constant utilisation of 80% of plan resources for an hour; 400 emails per hour; 10 simultaneous IMAP/POP3 connections; slow queries under 1% a day |