Morph75 left this positive review of BlueHost on WHT. He is very happy with them but be sure to read the entire thread.
Now I am with bluehost. Server performance is even better than hostagor, uptime is very very good too - better than hostgator. There was no downtime ( noticed or reported by the site members ) since the last 16 days. Support is great and now they have live chat too. If you are concerned of open ports, with a dedicated IP you will have all ports open, however at this moment they are not able to sell more dedicated IP's.
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