I paid $35.40 via PayPal for a one year contract. The posted price was $2.95 a month, but you save 75%, off of $11.99 a month. Salient features included 1 website, 10 gigs of storage, and chat support. Listed features indcluded Free CDN, Free Domain for the first year, Free Trial of professional email, Custom WordPress themes, and Free SSL for a year. Strangely, it said you can save more by signing up for a 36 month contract, but then the monthly rate went up and the discount dropped. Obviously the other free stuff won't continue past the first year, so I'm not doing that.
Sign up was pretty straight forward, a bunch of information about me and then we're off. They had a bunch of add-ons that are automatically added to my purchase, so I had to turn all of those off. First push was for a store-front service. Skip. They automatically pushed SiteLock and CodeGuard into my cart, which brings the total up over $100. Remove those, keep going. I used PayPal which I think will make it easier to cancel. Receipt emailed to me.
I got one webpage, and it's automatically set up as WordPress. No offense to them, but I didn't want to use it. I tried to add another site, but it gave me a message that said I could either purchase more, or I could delete one I already had. I couldn't find any way to delete the website. Not great UI.
There was a hosting tab that I eventually found after clicking through everything, and there was a file manager option. That opened up a cPanel file manager, which was a familiar tool to me from using HostGator. It launched in another tab, which gives the feeling that you are not on BlueHost's site any more, but honestly I'm ok with that. I found a bunch of WordPress files. Select All, Delete. That broke a bunch of things on the BlueHost interface, but nothing that I needed so far. I found the FTP manager tool, which was another cPanel interface and moved all of my files over. They dumped into a user directory instead of the public-html directory, so I had to move them manually, but that was only a Select All, click and drag. Surprisingly few confirmations to overwrite a bunch of files when I did it the second time because I uploaded the wrong folder the first time.
It was less than a hour and already they sent me spam. It was a welcome email, encouraging me to use features on the site. There was an Unsubscribe link, clicked.
This is my third iteration of this project and I was up and going in under an hour. I haven't had any outside users test anything yet, but it looks good from my tests.