Pressable vs Bluehost
Pressable and Bluehost compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Pressable scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
PressableWins overall
Automattic's managed WordPress host: dedicated PHP workers, four origins, failover, a 100 percent SLA, from $25 a month
Newfold's WordPress-recommended host: three shared tiers on 36-month terms, weekly backups, a 5 percent SLA coupon
Pressable wins 3 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.6).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 3 sub-scores, Bluehost on 2. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, Bluehost is cheaper ($9.99/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | Bluehost | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | First year, with a 12-month or 36-month term |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | Let's Encrypt |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Weekly website backups on every shared plan |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | Site migration tool |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | Not stated |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | Advanced static content caching and object caching |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | WordPress staging site on every plan |
| No | Not stated | |
| Dedicated resources | 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site with 512 MB each and burst capacity; no shared memory pools | Not stated |
| Data center choice | Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn or Amsterdam per site at creation, with an account default; a secondary server in another region takes over on failure | Not stated |
| Uptime guarantee | 100 percent network, infrastructure and hardware SLA with a credit of 5 percent of the monthly fee per 30 minutes of downtime, up to the full month | 99.99% SLA; at most one coupon per month for 5% of the monthly hosting fee |
| Developer tools | SSH and WP-CLI described on the features pages, an API, an MCP server, DupliKits site templates, multisite and headless support | Not stated |
| Security | Jetpack Security, malware monitoring and threat response, Secure Hosting Alliance certification | Malware scanning on Starter; AI malware removal, web application firewall and DDoS protection from Business |
| Phone support | No | Business and above; Starter has chat only |
| CDN | Not stated | Yes |
| SSH and WP-CLI | Not stated | Yes |
| Choice of data center | Not stated | Region selected at checkout (North America, South America, Europe, Asia) |
| Windows hosting | Not stated | No |