company industry web hosting founded 2002 founder matt lundstrom headquarters stuart florida usa area served worldwide products web services web hosting domain name website glowhost.com glowhost.com llc . is a privately held web hosting company headquartered in the united states of america and is currently registered in the state of florida providing shared reseller virtual private server and dedicated web hosting 1 2 contents 1 company history 2 public relations 3 notable industry differentiation 4 press 5 awards and achievements 6 references 7 external links company history edit the company was originally founded in crested butte colorado by matt lundstrom in 2002 . glowhost is a registered trademark registered with the united states patent and trademark office . 3 this trademark was first used in commerce on april 1 2002 later on april 16 2009 an application for the trademark was submitted to the uspto which was published for opposition on september 1 2009 . finally the trademark was registered on november 17 2009 . glowhost is accredited with the better business bureau and had an a rating as of october 21 2015 . 4 public relations edit in may of 2015 glowhost was the first 5 000 investor in a 35 000 kickstarter project . the goal of the project was to sponsor the development of 50 drupal training videos to be made free to the public . 5 glowhost announced on its blog in early 2011 that they are offering free web hosting to start up non profit organizations and charities . the first organization to accept this offer was ventura county foster parent association vcfpa . 6 glowhost is a green web host which purchases solar electricity credits to offset its carbon footprint . glowhost selects global datacenters which have green initiatives in place to house their servers . glowhost further reduces its paper consumption by offering paperless billing and recycling stations . 7 notable industry differentiation edit 15 global data centers 100 content delivery network cdn points of presence pops 20 minute advertised support turnaround time 91 day money back guarantee human support available 24 7 365 days press edit glowhost introduces cloud hosting technology for small and medium sized business geared to replace dedicated servers . 8 webhostdir.com interviewed founder and president matt lundstrom in 2011 . the article is available on their site . 9 in 2010 glowhost sponsored the annual web hosting awards at hostreview.com and placed 3rd for the best vps hosting service . 10 according to a press release from april 15 2009 glowhost acquired datacities.com a rival web hosting company . 11 awards and achievements edit glowhost has received numerous awards for its web hosting services . an interesting point is that the company has received an award outside of the web hosting industry . in 2010 glowhost wrote a software firewall to combat forum spam for a popular 3rd party forum software called vbulletin . known as spam o matic spam firewall this software was download by over 2500 users in the first couple of months that it was available in the public domain . the software was awarded mod of the month by vbulletin.org . 12 references edit glowhost.com inc business registration florida department of state official website . january 1 2006 . glowhost.com llc business registration florida department of state official website . march 28 2014 . glowhost trademark united states patent and trademark office . april 16 2009 . glowhost bbb accreditation bbb.org . may 5 2011 . glowhost helps create free educational videos for webmasters . may 13 2015 . glowhost blog . january 27 2011 . glowhost blog . april 29 2008 . glowhost cloud for smb . june 30 2011 . web host dir interviews glowhost president matt lundstrom . march 1 2011 . the hosting news . january 27 2010 . the hosting news . april 15 2009 . spam o matic on vbulletin.org . august 5 2010 . external links edit companies portal official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title glowhost & oldid 689124914 categories web hostingcompanies established in 2002companies based in florida2002 establishments in florida navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit 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 add links this page was last modified on 5 november 2015 at 02 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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