improve it or discuss the issue on the talk page . august 2014 bluehost type private company industry web hosting founded 2003 founder matt heaton headquarters provo utah usa key people 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 largest 1 web hosts collectively hosting well over 1.9 million domains with its sister companies hostmonster fastdomain and ipage . 2 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 . 3 bluehost was among those studied in the analysis of web based hosting services in collaborative online learning programs . 4 contents 1 history 2 controversies 3 security breach 4 references 5 external links history 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 . 5 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 . 6 in 2013 bluehost now offers vps and dedicated server hosting . 7 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 . 8 controversies 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 . 9 in february 2011 bluehost took down a religious website that they were hosting on its servers after receiving thousands of complaints when that website posted comments blaming gays and lesbians for an earthquake in new zealand . citation needed 10 security breach in march 2015 bluehost was hacked by syrian electronic army . also hacked were justhost hostgator hostmonster and fastdomain all owned by endurance international group . sea claimed that these services were hosting terrorist websites . 11 12 sea posted screenshots of the attack on twitter . 12 13 references visually 2015 the worlds largest web hosts retrieved 19 april 2015 top 100 largest web hosting companies in the world 20.6 % market share managedftp webhost isp and saas industry blog overview bluehost . hostingreviews . retrieved 2 october 2016 . m rodriguez ; hj huang ; m merrill analysis of web based hosting services in collaborative online learning programs heaton matt . genesis of bluehost.com ... . heaton matt 12 june 2011 . it s been a blast now its time to move on ... . mattheaton.com . retrieved 6 august 2014 . introducing next gen vps and dedicated hosting . bluehost.com . retrieved 3 november 2013 . endurance appoints mike olson as new ceo of web hosting brand bluehost . hosting journalist . january 28 2015 . morozov evgeny 6 march 2007 . u.s. web firms practice self censorship . news week . retrieved 22 november 2013 . lee justin 2011 02 28 . web host bluehost pulls anti gay website following complaints . web host industry review . inet interactive . retrieved 2011 10 26 . khandelwal swati 2015 03 20 . 5 biggest hosting companies hacked by syrian electronic army . the hackers news . retrieved 2015 04 01 . a b syrianelectronicarmy official sea16 2015 03 30 . endurance group bluehost justhost hostgator hostmonster was hacked by sea for hosting terrorists websites . tweet . retrieved 15 october 2016 via twitter . syrianelectronicarmy official sea16 2015 03 30 . next time ... we will change the dns . sea cc bluehost tweet . retrieved 15 october 2016 via twitter . external links internet portal official website official company blog v t e city of provo attractions byu arboretum bean museum carillon tower harris fine arts center lavell edwards stadium marriott center miller field museum of art museum of paleontology museum of peoples and cultures smith fieldhouse events festival latinoamericano freedom festival stadium of fire sunfall festival utah valley marathon other covey center for the arts lds temples city center provo peaks ice arena shops at riverwoods sundance resort utah lake state park utah starzz utah valley convention center velour live music gallery historic locations houses alexander allen carriage beebe booth brown clark taylor cluff davies eggertsen frisby hines mansion johnson hansen knight knight allen knight mangum loose ray roberts smith smoot g. taylor t.n. taylor twelves wentz other historic districts downtown east central fort utah hotel roberts knight block lds lakeview tithing office tabernacle third ward chapel lewis terrace maeser school olmsted station powerhouse provo canyon guard quarters provo city library silver row startup candy factory utah state hospital rec . center superintendent s residence west co op industry & business action target agel enterprises alpine air express aquaveo bluehost combustion resources empower playgrounds morinda new play project north american arms novell nu skin qualtrics vivint geography bridal veil falls provo canyon provo river uinta wasatch cache national forest utah lake y mountain education brigham young university provo school district independence hs provo hs timpview hs rocky mountain university of health professions healthcare & research utah valley regional medical center utah state hospital media newspapers daily herald the universe television byutv byu television international kbyu kupx kuth k43jv 3abn am radio keyy kovo ksrr fm radio kbyu kenz kxrk transportation interstate 15 provo airport provo station amtrak frontrunner the ryde u.s. routes us 89 us 189 utah state routes ut 114 ut 265 utah transit authority other community action services and food bank google fiber missionary training center utah county wasatch front retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bluehost & oldid 742175020 categories web design companies of the united states2003 establishments in utahcompanies based in provo utahcompanies based in orem utahweb hostingendurance international grouphidden categories articles to be expanded from august 2014all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read view source view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 03 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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