This article is pretty funny in the face of SitePoint’s email from this morning, but two days later:
"Hey there,
This is not an April Fool’s joke!
We’ve organized a year’s worth of premium hosting for you at a never-before-seen price of $3.50/month with Bluehost.
This SitePoint-only offer also comes with a year’s membership to Learnable, where you can access all of our books and web development courses for free.
We think that’s pretty cool. All you have to do is sign up with Bluehost on our exclusive page to get started."
It reminds me of this: http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2015/03/31/drupal-and-wordpress-have-sold-us-out/
We know articles on SitePoint are written by third parties and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of SitePoint itself, but it’s hard to ignore the similarities between WordPress.org’s recommended hosts and the monies SP would have received to send an email on BlueHost’s behalf. In the Advanced WordPress circle of groups BH is generally regarded as an inferior host to many, many others in the same space.
Cheers,
Ansel Taft