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Hostinger International

Type of business Private

Founded 2004 (as Hosting Media)

Headquarters Kaunas, Lithuania

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Florianópolis, Brazil

Area served Worldwide

CEO Balys Krikščiūnas

Key people Antanas Patašius (CTO)

Domantas Beržanskis (CFO)

Industry Domain Registrar, Web hosting

Employees 500 (2019)

 Website www.hostinger.com

Hostinger International, Ltd. is an employee-owned web hosting provider and Internet domain
registrar. Established in 2004, Hostinger now has over 29 million users, collectively with
its subsidiaries in 178 countries.[1] The company uses cloud web hosting technology and
provides hosting with MySQL, FTP and PHP. Hostinger is a parent company of 000Webhost,
Niagahoster and Weblink.[2]

Contents

 1History
 2Subsidiaries
 3Datacenters
 4References

History[edit]
Founded in Kaunas, Lithuania, the company was originally named Hosting Media.[2] In 2011, it
changed its name to Hostinger after reaching 1 million user milestone. Back in 2007, a
subsidiary 000webhost was established, providing free web hosting worldwide, and in 2008, a US
web hosting brand Hosting24 was launched with data centers in Asheville, NC, and UK.[3] After rapid
international expansion, another web hosting brand and a company was bootstrapped in Indonesia -
Niagahoster.co.id, just before Hostinger International has reached 10 million user base. In 2014,
Hostinger services were localized in 39 countries and a company in Brazil, together with a new
brand – weblink.com.br, was established. A new data center and a company in Singapore was
launched in October of the same year.[4]

Subsidiaries[edit]
The company currently has 4 Subsidiaries under its ownership:

 2004 – Hostinger. It is an employee-owned Lithuanian establishment based in Kaunas. The

brand was renamed in 2011, before it was known as Hosting Media. The company currently
provides web hosting, VPS, cloud hosting services, and domain registration.[5]
 2007 – 000Webhost. Established in 2007.
 2008 – Hosting24. Website hosting platform.[6]
 2013 – Niagahoster. Indonesian web hosting company, launched in 2013.[7]
 2014 – Weblink. Web hosting brand launched in 2014, based in Brazil.

Datacenters[edit]
Hostinger has data-centers in 7 locations[8] around the world:

 US
 UK
 Netherlands
 Singapore
 Lithuania
  Indonesia
 Brazil

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Bluehost
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Bluehost

Type Private company

Industry Web hosting

Founded 2003; 16 years ago

Founder Matt Heaton

Headquarters Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Key people Matt Heaton

(Founder, CEO 2003-2011)
Dan Handy
(CEO 2011-2015)
Mike Olson
(CEO 2015-2016)
James Grierson
(CEO 2016-2017)
Suhaib Zaheer
(CEO 2017-present)

Owner Endurance International Group

Website www.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 2 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 employs over 700 people in its Utah facility.[4]
 Bluehost was among those studied in the analysis of web-based hosting services in collaborative
online learning programs.[5]
Bluehost offered shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting, cloud
hosting, WooCommerce hosting,[6] and many more types of hosting and domain services.[7] Bluehost
servers are powered by PHP 7, HTTP/2, and NGINX+ caching.[8]

Contents

 1History
 2Controversies
 3Security breach
 4References

History[edit]
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.[9]
In 2009, Bluehost introduced a new feature called CPU throttling. CPU throttling (at Bluehost and
similar hosting services) 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.[10]
In 2013, Bluehost introduced VPS and dedicated server hosting.[11]
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.[12]
In January 2017, the company announced that it will lay off 440 Bluehost employees at Utah, in an
effort to consolidate its business to improve customer support.[13]

Controversies[edit]
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 United States government had listed as rogue states.[14]
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.[15]

Security breach[edit]
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.[16][17] Syrian Electronic Army
posted screenshots of the attack on Twitter.[17][18]
In January 2019, the magazine WebsitePlanet uncovered client-side vulnerability in some of the
largest hosting companies in the world: Bluehost, DreamHost, HostGator, iPage and OVH.[19]

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