Bluehost
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Web Hosting |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Matt Heaton |
| Headquarters | Provo, Utah, USA |
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Key people
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Matt Heaton (Founder, CEO 2003-2011) Dan Handy (CEO 2011-2015) Mike Olson (CEO 2015-present) |
| Owner | Endurance International Group |
| Website | bluehost.com |
Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largestweb hosts, collectively hosting well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage. The company operates its servers in-house in a 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) facility in Provo, Utah, which is now shared with sister company HostMonster.
Bluehost was among those studied in the analysis of web-based hosting services in collaborative online learning programs.
Matt Heaton was inspired to start Bluehost in 1996 when he was working on a web statistics program project of his own creation and discovered that web hosting services at the time left much to be desired. He believed web hosts could offer more space and be more convenient to use, and he set out to fix that, creating two other web hosts, 50megs.com and 0catch.com, before finally settling on Bluehost in 2003.
In 2009, BlueHost introduced a new feature to all customers – CPU throttling. CPU throttling (at BlueHost and similar hosting services) simply refers to the process of reducing user’s CPU usage in whenever the particular user is pulling “too much” server resources at one time. At that particular time, BlueHost would freeze (or drastically reduce) client sites' CPU usage substantially. This effectively shut down clients' websites hosted on the BlueHost server for several hours throughout the day.
In 2010, BlueHost was acquired by Endurance International Group.
In June 2011, company founder Matt Heaton announced on his blog that he was stepping down as CEO to focus on the company hosting platform's design and technical structure, while COO Dan Handy took over as CEO.
In 2013, Bluehost now offers VPS and dedicated server hosting.
In January, 2015, Endurance International Group appointed Mike Olson to be CEO of Bluehost, as Dan Handy moved to enterprise-wide mobile development for small businesses.
In March 2009, Bluehost appeared in a Newsweek article that condemned the hosting company for censoring the web pages of some of their customers who were believed to be citizens of countries that the US Government had listed as rogue states.
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