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name: Self-Managed VPS; category: shared_resource_self_managed_kvm_virtual_private_server; cpu isolation: shared; description: Current KVM VPS on AMD EPYC infrastructure with DDR5 memory, NVMe storage, full Linux root/SSH access, a browser console, one dedicated IPv4 address and unmetered bandwidth. Customers choose a location, operating-system or application image and optional cPanel licence, then administer the guest. The VDS comparison explicitly describes ordinary VPS as shared slices across a hypervisor, so the directory does not convert other pages' 'dedicated' or 'guaranteed resources' language into a dedicated-vCPU claim.; current plans: name: NVMe 2; vcpu: 1; memory gib: 2; storage gb: 50; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; regular monthly usd: 9.99; term pricing usd per month: 36 month: 4.99; 24 month: 4.99; 12 month: 6.99; 1 month: 9.99; live 24 month signup usd: 2.09; live displayed renewal usd: 4.68, name: NVMe 4; vcpu: 2; memory gib: 4; storage gb: 100; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; regular monthly usd: 17.99; term pricing usd per month: 36 month: 11.99; 24 month: 11.99; 12 month: 13.99; 1 month: 17.99; live 24 month signup usd: 4.18; live displayed renewal usd: 9.35, name: NVMe 8; vcpu: 4; memory gib: 8; storage gb: 200; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; regular monthly usd: 30.99; term pricing usd per month: 36 month: 24.99; 24 month: 24.99; 12 month: 26.99; 1 month: 30.99; live 24 month signup usd: 8.36; live displayed renewal usd: 18.7, name: NVMe 16; vcpu: 8; memory gib: 16; storage gb: 450; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; regular monthly usd: 59.99; term pricing usd per month: 36 month: 49.99; 24 month: 49.99; 12 month: 53.99; 1 month: 59.99; live 24 month signup usd: 17.67; live displayed renewal usd: 39.53; location scope: The current product page and purchase flow list USA (Virginia), USA (Arizona), London, Toronto and Amsterdam. London is outside this directory's sovereign-country universe; the other four location labels are included. Bluehost does not publish a city for the Virginia or Arizona choices.; pricing note: The July 9 plan-comparison article supplies the regular one-month and longer-term prices. The live product page shows substantially lower 24-month introductory prices and inconsistent renewal figures; promotional gift cards are excluded from every benchmark.; bandwidth note: The product is sold as unmetered, but the same page says customers must not exceed 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds and may be asked by email to reduce usage. No numeric transfer overage is published., name: Managed VPS; category: managed_kvm_virtual_private_server_with_root_access; cpu isolation: shared; description: Managed Linux VPS with full root access, AMD EPYC vCPU, DDR5, NVMe, cPanel/WHM, two dedicated IP addresses, unmetered bandwidth, monitoring, operating-system updates, security patches, firewall configuration and priority support. Bluehost's ordinary-VPS architecture comparison still places this family on shared virtualized infrastructure; 'isolated vCPU' marketing is not treated as dedicated physical compute.; current plans: name: Standard NVMe 4; vcpu: 2; memory gib: 4; storage gb: 100; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; monthly renewal table usd: 59.99; live 36 month signup usd: 49.99; live displayed renewal usd: 65.99, name: Enhanced NVMe 8; vcpu: 4; memory gib: 8; storage gb: 200; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; monthly renewal table usd: 92.99; live 36 month signup usd: 68.99; live displayed renewal usd: 95.99, name: Ultimate NVMe 16; vcpu: 8; memory gib: 16; storage gb: 450; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; monthly renewal table usd: 141.99; live 36 month signup usd: 97.99; live displayed renewal usd: 140.99; benchmark treatment: Cataloged as a current administrator-controlled VM family, but not benchmarked by country because the public managed purchase guide and product page do not map its deployments to named physical locations. Its live renewal figures also differ from the June managed-plan comparison table., name: Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS); category: self_managed_virtual_dedicated_server_with_dedicated_vcpu; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: A June 2026 launch family with full root/SSH access, dedicated vCPU and RAM allocation locked at the hypervisor level, AMD EPYC processors, DDR5, NVMe storage, unmetered bandwidth, one IPv4 address, one-click application images and upward live scaling. It remains virtual infrastructure rather than a physical dedicated server; Bluehost does not name the hypervisor implementation.; current plans: name: Dedicated 1; vcpu: 1; memory gib: 6; storage gb: 50; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 13.59, name: Dedicated 2; vcpu: 2; memory gib: 12; storage gb: 100; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 26.69, name: Dedicated 4; vcpu: 4; memory gib: 24; storage gb: 200; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 53.09, name: Dedicated 8; vcpu: 8; memory gib: 48; storage gb: 400; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 105.69, name: Dedicated 16; vcpu: 16; memory gib: 96; storage gb: 650; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 202.89, name: Dedicated 32; vcpu: 32; memory gib: 192; storage gb: 900; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 383.49, name: Dedicated 64; vcpu: 64; memory gib: 384; storage gb: 1050; storage type: NVMe SSD; transfer tb: unmetered; public 24 month usd: 725.59; location scope: The June 30 purchase guide's official checkout screenshot shows USA, Virginia; USA, Arizona; London; Toronto; and Amsterdam. The same four in-scope labels are therefore verified for VDS as for self-managed VPS.; pricing note: Official help screenshots show the listed prices for a 24-month term, while the live VDS marketing cards currently render $XX.XX placeholders and do not disclose a renewal or regular no-commitment price. VDS is consequently cataloged but excluded from the non-promotional benchmark set.

Operating systems

self managed and vds checkout: AlmaLinux 8, 9 and 10, Debian 12 and 13, Rocky Linux 8, 9 and 10, CentOS Stream 9 and 10, Fedora 41, 42 and 43, Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10; managed: Current managed VPS is marketed as a managed Linux environment with cPanel/WHM, but its public order guide does not enumerate selectable distributions.; deployment: Customers can choose a plain operating system, an OS with paid cPanel, or one application template; the portal can later reimage a self-managed VPS from the available OS/application catalog.; limitations: exact authenticated image availability remains authoritative at order time, no current Windows image is listed by the self-managed or VDS purchase guides, versions 25.04 and 25.10 appear in the provider's current selector documentation even though their upstream support status should be checked before deployment

Virtualization

vps platform: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM); current Bluehost VPS guidance and the June Claude Code launch material explicitly identify KVM.; vds platform: An unnamed hypervisor with dedicated allocation locked at the virtualization layer; no public source names its engine.; guest control: full Linux root access over SSH, web-based emergency console for self-managed VPS, portal power, root-password, hostname and destructive reimage controls, full root and SSH control on VDS, full root access plus cPanel/WHM on managed VPS; limitations: no public customer ISO-upload or custom-image import workflow was found, no public nested-virtualization commitment was found, a self-managed reimage permanently erases the existing guest data and configuration

CPU isolation

ordinary vps: directory classification: shared; provider architecture statement: Bluehost's VDS comparison calls traditional VPS resource allocation shared slices across a hypervisor and says neighboring load can affect speed.; wording conflict: Other current VPS and managed-VPS pages call plan resources dedicated, guaranteed or isolated. Those statements establish an allocation entitlement but do not override the explicit contention disclosure or claim a dedicated physical core.; vds: directory classification: dedicated; provider claim: vCPUs and memory are reserved exclusively for the instance and locked at the hypervisor level without shared-resource overcommit; qualification: Dedicated means dedicated virtual CPU allocation, not single-tenant physical hardware.

Features

• App installation documented images: Claude Code, n8n, OpenClaw, GatorClaw, WordPress, Portainer, Docker, Magento 2, LAMP, LEMP, Ghost, Cloudron, Open WebUI, Hermes Agent; workflow: The configurator can install one application per purchase and chooses a compatible operating system. Self-managed and VDS root access also permits arbitrary customer-managed installation.; limitations: the public site does not expose one canonical versioned application catalog, a preinstalled application remains customer-managed on self-managed VPS and VDS unless separate support is purchased
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• Templates & images images: Provider operating-system and application images can be selected at purchase and through the self-managed portal's Reimage workflow.; reimage: Reimaging is self-service and permanently erases all existing data and configuration.; self managed backups: Bluehost says current NVMe VPS no longer includes automatic backups; customers must configure rWHM or third-party backups. A separate expectations article mentions snapshot add-on tools without publishing price, retention, restore scope or regional availability.; managed backups: The managed product advertises free automatic and off-site backups, and the support matrix allows managed staff to configure and restore server-side backups. Public pages do not publish a retention schedule.; vds backups: No included VDS snapshot or backup entitlement was verified.; limitations: no customer image library, cross-region image copy or customer ISO upload was found, backup claims differ by product and must be verified in the checkout contract
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• Network orchestration portal: view plan, disk, status, IP address, image, hostname and data-center label, reboot, power off and launch browser console, reset root password and destructively reimage, manage optional cPanel licence and additional paid IP addresses, upgrade among preset VPS packages; api: The current self-managed product page advertises API access on every tier, but no public infrastructure API reference, authentication model or endpoint catalog was found.; scaling: New VPS accounts upgrade between preset packages rather than individual resources. VDS documentation advertises immediate upward live scaling without downtime and states that downgrades are unavailable. Managed VPS upgrades are provider-assisted or initiated from the dashboard.; addressing: one dedicated IPv4 address on self-managed VPS and VDS, two dedicated IPv4 addresses on managed VPS, additional paid addresses through the configurator or support; network limitations: no public private-network, floating-IP, routed-IPv6, bring-your-own-IP or bandwidth-overage workflow was verified, unmetered traffic is subject to the public 25%-for-90-seconds resource-usage language, the marketing phrase 'up to 100 Gbps connectivity' is not treated as a per-VM port commitment
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• Firewall self managed: Customers configure guest firewalls such as iptables, UFW, firewalld, nftables or CSF. Bluehost provides basic network-level DDoS monitoring/protection but assigns guest hardening, patching and brute-force protection to the customer.; managed: Managed VPS includes provider firewall configuration, security patches, SiteLock/malware tooling and monitoring according to current product and support pages.; vds: Full root access allows customer firewall rules and the product advertises isolated infrastructure; no provider-edge self-service rule API is documented.; limitations: no public DDoS scrubbing capacity, packet threshold, attack-duration limit or location matrix was found, guest firewall software is not represented as an independent provider-edge firewall service, no public customer-managed security-group or network-ACL control plane was verified
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• Load balancer
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• DNS management forward dns: Domains using Bluehost nameservers can manage common records in the Bluehost Portal or cPanel/WHM; VPS customers can configure custom/private nameservers.; reverse dns: A current PTR guide says Bluehost can create VPS and dedicated-server PTR records on request by phone or chat.; support boundary: The VPS scope matrix says support will not perform DNS changes for self-managed plans but will do so for managed plans. This is recorded alongside, rather than used to erase, the separate PTR-request guide.; limitations: no public DNS API was found, DNS is tied to domains using Bluehost nameservers; this is not a private service-discovery system
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• Git integrations
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• Container registry
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