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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
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In January 2015, Endurance International Group appointed Mike Olson as CEO of Bluehost, while Dan Handy moved to enterprise-wide mobile development for small businesses.
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Matt Heaton first conceived Bluehost in 1996. However, he first created two other web hosts, 50megs.com and 0catch.com, before finally settling on Bluehost in 2003.
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In January 2017, the company announced that it would lay off 440 Bluehost employees at Utah, in an effort to consolidate its business to improve customer support.
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In January 2019, the magazine WebsitePlanet uncovered client-side vulnerability in some of the largest hosting companies in the world: Bluehost,
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of some of their customers who were believed to be citizens of countries that the United States government had listed as
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In July 2023, Bluehost launched WonderSuite product which offer an AI-powered site-building guide.
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forming a new company, Newfold Digital, hence Bluehost became a subsidiary of Newfold Digital.
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Analysis of web based hosting services in collaborative online learning programs
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In 2021 the parent company Endurance International Group, merged with
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resources at one time. At that particular time, Bluehost would
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Bluehost was among those studied in the analysis of web-based
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article that condemned the hosting company for censoring the
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hosting as well as professional marketing services.
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Web hosting
Jacksonville, Florida
Founder & CEO
Newfold Digital
bluehost.com
domain
web hosting
Newfold Digital
hosting services
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WordPress
VPS hosting
dedicated hosting
WooCommerce
CPU throttling
CPU usage
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freeze
Endurance International Group
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earthquake in New Zealand
Syrian Electronic Army
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