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Bluehost is a web hosting and Domain name registration company owned by Newfold Digital.
Bluehost sells shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting and WooCommerce hosting as well as professional marketing services.
Bluehost is the longest-running host on WordPress.org’s recommended list (since 2005). It has been one of the 20 largest web hosts for the last decade and was collectively hosting over 2 million domains in 2010.
In 2009, Bluehost introduced a new feature called CPU throttling. CPU throttling (at Bluehost and similar hosting services) refers to the process of reducing a user's CPU time 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 introduced VPS and dedicated server hosting.
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.
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.
In 2021 the parent company Endurance International Group, merged with Web.com forming a new company, Newfold Digital, hence Bluehost became a subsidiary of Newfold Digital.
In July 2023, Bluehost launched WonderSuite product which offer an AI-powered site-building guide.
During Oracle’s Q2 2025 earnings call on March 10, 2025, Chairman Larry Ellison announced that Newfold Digital, the parent company of Bluehost and HostGator, is transitioning to Oracle Cloud alongside several other companies to enhance security and performance. In May of 2025, Bluehost launched their VPS and Dedicated servers on Oracle Cloud.
In February 2011, Bluehost, citing its terms-of-service ‘hate or violence’ clause, 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.
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. The company patched the flaw within 48 hours.
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