Comparing these two companies is really not difficult at all since there are a number of major differences that made it easy to choose a winner. A Small Orange has been having a lot of issues, especially with regards to customer satisfaction, for years, which gives them a lot of trouble. BlueHost, on the other hand, has an overall good reputation for reliability and pricing. They also provide more features and better hardware for just about every hosting package that we compared. When looking at all the details of each company, our hosting experts had no trouble choosing BlueHost as the winner.