Bluehost vs. Pressable

Last verified 35 days ago · 25 sources · Updated automatically

Bluehost and Pressable compared across Company facts, Pricing, Performance & infrastructure, WordPress management, Support & security and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Bluehost

Budget-friendly, WordPress.org-recommended hosting aimed at first-time site owners.

HQ Jacksonville, FL

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Pressable

Managed WordPress hosting from Automattic, with Jetpack and a global CDN included.

HQ San Antonio, TX

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Attribute

Bluehost

Pressable

Company facts

Headquarters

Jacksonville, FL Operating HQ of parent Newfold Digital

San Antonio, TX Automattic-owned; distributed/remote-first team

Employees

4.1k Parent company Newfold Digital headcount (Bluehost-specific count not published)

125 LinkedIn shows 51-200 employees (midpoint)

Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$9.99 Starter plan renewal rate (36-month term)

$25 Signature 1 plan, billed monthly

Entry Plan WordPress Sites

10 sites Starter plan

1 sites 1 WordPress install on Signature 1

Entry Plan Monthly Visits

40k Starter plan — vendor states 'ideal for 40K visits/mo' (guidance figure, not a hard meter)

30k 30,000 monthly visits on Signature 1

Entry Plan Storage (GB)

10 GB Starter plan — 10 GB NVMe SSD

20 GB 20 GB storage on Signature 1

Free Trial Length (Days)

0 days No free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee instead

0 days

Money-Back Guarantee (Days)

30 days

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans

Performance & infrastructure

Underlying Cloud

own datacenters

own datacenters Runs on Automattic's WP Cloud platform

Datacenter Locations

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4 4 origin regions: Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn (VA), Amsterdam

Free CDN

Free CDN included on all plans (Cloudflare-powered)

Pressable Edge Cache included on every plan

Web Server

Apache

NGINX NGINX with PHP-FPM

Built-in Object Cache

Redis object caching enabled by default on WordPress plans

Persistent object cache (Memcache) enabled by default

Latest PHP Version

8.4

8.4 PHP up to 8.4, selectable per site

Free SSL Certificate

Free SSL (Let's Encrypt) on all plans

Free Let's Encrypt SSL on every site

WordPress management

Automatic WordPress Updates

Managed WordPress core updates included

Automatic managed WordPress core updates

Staging Environments

WordPress staging site included on all plans

One-click staging on all plans

Automatic Daily Backups

Free backups are weekly; daily automatic backups require the paid CodeGuard add-on

Daily file backups, hourly DB backups, one-click restore

Backup Retention (Days)

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30 days Automatic backups kept at least 30 days

Free Site Migration

Free self-serve WordPress migration tool

Free White Glove migrations + free migration plugin, any number of sites

SSH & WP-CLI Access

SSH & WP-CLI access included on standard WordPress plans

SSH/SFTP access and WP-CLI on all plans

WordPress Multisite Support

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Multisite supported (path-based all plans; domain-based on 5+ site plans)

Support & security

Uptime SLA (%)

99.99% 99.99% uptime SLA (server/Apache performance); remedy is a 5% monthly account credit

100% 100% network uptime guarantee (SLA with credits)

24/7 Support

24/7 support; chat on all plans, phone added on Business and above

24/7 WordPress support on all plans

Malware Removal / Hack Fix

Starter includes malware scanning only; malware detection/removal unlocks on the Business plan and above

Free malware cleaning & hack recovery assistance

WAF / DDoS Protection

Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection included on all plans

WAF + DDoS protection included via Jetpack Security on all plans

Platform & integrations

Control Panel

custom Bluehost custom dashboard (cPanel available underneath)

custom MyPressable Control Panel

White-Label / Agency Features

No white-label/client-management tooling on the entry managed WordPress plan

White-label, collaborator permissions, agency/reseller hosting

Email Hosting Included

Professional email is a paid add-on after a 1-month free trial (~$2.99/mo per mailbox)

Professional email hosting powered by Titan

The verdict

Bluehost

Best for low-cost hosting of many small sites

Bluehost starts at $9.99/mo versus Pressable's $25 and packs 10 WordPress sites and ~40k monthly visits into that entry plan, against Pressable's single site and 30k visits. The cheaper way to host several low-traffic sites under one bill, if you can live with weekly-not-daily free backups.

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Pressable

Best for managed extras and agency work

Pressable bundles what Bluehost charges extra for or gates: daily automatic backups (30-day retention), free malware removal, white-label/agency tooling, and included email hosting. It also adds 20 GB storage versus 10 GB, a 100% uptime SLA versus 99.99%, and NGINX. Costs more at $25/mo for one site.

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Sources · 25 verified references

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