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RamNode vs Bluehost

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When comparing RamNode vs Bluehost, the Slant community recommends RamNode for most people. In the question“What are the best sites to host a WordPress blog?” RamNode is ranked 4th while Bluehost is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose RamNode is:

Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. There is CPanel shared hosting for $4/mo and a $10 VPS will get you twice the resources as most competitors.

Specs

Custom ISOYes

ISOsCentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2

Server locationsLos Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam

VirtualizationKVM; OpenVZ

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Pros

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Cheap

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Good performance

RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them.

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Support is responsive

Even on a Saturday night RamNode support responds to a ticket in less than 15 minutes.

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Recommended by Wordpress.org

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Cons

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Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities

Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced.

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Has Been Hacked

BlueHost has suffered security breaches before and was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army in 2015, along with other EIG-owned hosts.

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Owned by EIG

Endurance International Group (EIG) is notorious for buying out web hosts and customers often notice a drop in quality and support. They also own BlueHost.