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Just use Wordpress.com . You aren't going to make any money off of your site anyways, so there's no point in spending any more than you have to on hosting.

doobybiggs said:

just curious, why do you say he wont make any money?

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Because there's no evidence that your friend has a compelling idea for a website or that he actually knows how much work he'll need to put into it in order to make a site profitable.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Bluehost is awful. I had 4 sites on there, and I've moved them all off.

doobybiggs said:

hmmmm what happened with that?

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Moved off with no problem. They're just loaded up with crap apps + plugins, and the basic functionality is lacking. I don't want a bunch of horrible bloatware on my laptop, and certainly don't want it on my hosting provider.

If you don't ever need to do anything that's not accessible via their control panel (anything via SSH, or anything with editing your zone files, for example), I guess they're okay. Although, IMO, they have that typical geek feature creep problem -- a bunch of crap that people who know what they're doing will never, ever use; but far too many choices / options for people who DON'T know what they're doing.

Had a few issues with downtime, but nothing out of the ordinary for consumer-grade hosting. Would never consider them for a commercial website.

miles01110 said:

Because there's no evidence that your friend has a compelling idea for a website or that he actually knows how much work he'll need to put into it in order to make a site profitable.

If it were easy, everyone would do it.

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Well said, really really well said. From experience I've seen very few blog sites without an awesome compelling edge make any money.