UPDATE - 6 March 2010 - Bluehost is one of the top hosting providers with over 800,000 domains hosted. Compared to few years Bluehost has grown a lot, only 2 years ago they were hosting less than 500,000 domains.

I think already mentioned enough about Bluehost in my recent article, so today rather than talk about it, I want to say to my readers about the setup process of how to start with this great hosting service.

The Best Website Hosting Plan

At this time Bluehost providing a good hosting platform at low price, about $6.95 per month. Here, what you receive for this small sum.

• UNLIMITED Hosting Space (NEW!)
• UNLIMITED File Transfer (NEW!)
• Host UNLIMITED Domains!!!
• 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
• SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
• CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
• 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions
• Free Domain Forever!
• Free Site Builder (NEW)
• 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support

How Does To Start

The Bluehost signup process is very simple. All you have to do is to go to Bluehost.com, and click the “sign up now” button, as you can see on the image below.

On the next page you need to select the domain name you want to transfer to Bluehost(domain.com).  You can choose to enter a new domain name(image left) or enter the domain name you already have(image right).

Note: If you want to enter a new domain name directly from your control panel, go under the section called “Domains” and click on “Domain Manager”. Next click on the “New Domain” tab across of the top of the Domain Manager page. This will take you to a section of the control panel where enter your domain name.

Now you need to pick the price for your domain:

24 month price - $6.95 per month(reccomended)
12 month price - $7.95 per month
6 month price - $8.95 per month, +$30 setup fee, +$10 for your domain name
3 month price- $9.95 per month, +$30 setup fee, +$10 for your domain name

How To Install Wordpress With Bluehost

If you are an individual or small business, Bluehost allows you to managing all things related your account such as FTP, mail setup parameters, and much more.

Also, the fantastico script installer allows anyone to install a few software base, and once you enter all data you are able to launch your first blog in a default Wordpress state in just 5 minutes works.

In this complete guide I will show you how to do to setup a Wordpress blog through Bluehost in 8 simple step.

1. Click on the Fantastico button - Go to your Bluehost dashboard and click on the Fantastico De Luxe button, as you see in the image below.

2. Click on Wordpress button - Once clicked on the Fantastico button, you’ll should see the following screen. Don’t worry, if anything goes wrong you can just delete it from this screen through the “Remove link” and start again. As you can see the WordPress button is at the top of the script list. Ok, click the WordPress icon.

3. Click on the “Install Now” button - On the next page you will get a short overview of the script and then an icon on the bottom to Install Now.

4. Choose the option - Ok, now you’ve access to several options. You can choose between several Wordpress version, I recommend the latest stable version.

5. Choose your blog name - On the Next page you need to choose the site/blog name. I suggest to uncheck the “Generate me an Administrator” Login box and make your own username and password. Keep the “Automatically create a new database” option checked unless you know how to or already have a database setup to use.

6. Finalise the Installation - Once clicked the Complete button the Wordpress setup process is finished, Or at least it was on this Bluehost account. The next few screens show your access information. That it!

7. Login to Your New Site - The link will look like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/WordPress-directory/wp-admin/.

Click on that and you’ll see the WordPress login panel which will prompt you for the username and password that you entered earlier in the process. Once logged in you’ll find yourself in the WordPress dashboard which is a screen that you will come to be very familiar with!

8. Now you have to choose a Wordpress theme - Revolution theme was my first choice, however, if you want really make money online not all Wordpress Themes are guarantead to be successful. Recently I’ve wrote an interesting article about an affiliate Wordpress theme developed especially for affiliate marketers.

Here’s an overview of the features and reasons why Bluehost worth:

• 300 GB hosting storage
• Host unlimited domains on 1 account
• 2.500 POP/IMAP email accounts
• 3000 GB of transfer bandwidth SSH (secure shell access)
• Anonymous FTP access
• CGI, Ruby(RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL free domain for life of your hosting plan….

The Bluehost Live Chat is easy to use. All you have to do is to  go to the Bluehost web site, click on the “Live Chat” icon, enter the required details and your question. Usually, they replied quickly.

Instead, If you present an email ticket through the Bluehost “Help Center”, they replied to in approximately 48 hours.

There is also a Phone Support, this is also an excellent way to contact directly Bluehost and get a answer quickly.

Generally, the Bluehost support is great, more better then other web hosting services out there, thus I will have no hesitation in recommending Bluehost to my friends and colleagues.