Daily Archives2011 February 18

Hostgator introduction

Hostgator started with nothing to be the world's 4th largest hosting provider and the largest reseller hosting provider. Till present, there're over 200,000 loyal clients with multi-millions websites hosted. Their plan is to become the world's largest hosting company in another 10 years.

About Brent Oxley

Brent Oxley – the founder and CEO of hostgator, his story and experience is absolutely helpful to any entrepreneur who like to start a successful business.

When Brent is still a student, he got the idea to sell banners on websites and wish millions in return but the truth approved it's unsuccessful. The chance for brent to start hosting business only because he wanted to sell the extra free space on server and only wish several dollars bonus in return. From what he said in talk, he even didn't know what hosting is but just want to sell some space to support the server renewal.

His later experience approved the choice is correct, with his successful marketing and most profitable reseller program, hostgator growup shortly after the setup and it's a highly respected brand in the industry nowadays. From the interview to brent we learnt how important to choose and persist on your aim. As long as you determined to do something, make a plan and follow it strictly every day. You won't be regret for any hard times from the start.

Hostgator never stopped improving, they started to offer windows hosting in 2011 and approved to be a successful service from editors' review. It's a must if hostgator want's to become the largest hosting provider since there's still a big range clients who prefer to windows. Hostgator's growth is by word-of-mouth and they put a huge enphasis on customer service thus I believe their windows hosting will be another success due to their team's hard working and reliable customer support.

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He also managed another hosting brand called asmallorange which is a more and more name from hosting. Launchpad.com will be Brent's next big venture and will be a domain registrar that sells hosting, SSLs, and many other services at a discount. The plan is to invest over a million dollars per month into advertising as soon as this brand is launched in order to compete directly with GoDaddy.

However, since hostgator got acquired by EIG in 2012, all business under HG seems sold as well. EIG has been more and more smart and the business deal did not cause any service failure like they did from many other brands. Everything under hostgator is running as it was just like nothing happend there. We just hope they can keep up with the stableness in long term.

Trey Gardner Introduction

When we talk about eco-friendly hosting or green hosting, we always refer to the name – greengeeks. Greengeeks is the first group which is powered by 100% green energy in hosting industry. All of this is the result of it's founder – Trey Gardner.

Trey Gardner is a well-known name to many webmasters for his active communication to people in forums and many hosting review websites. he's quite care about greengeeks reputation in the industry and try every effort to ensure their service level.

"I have been in the web hosting business for over ten years and another 2 years in the web site design and online marketing business in addition to my years in web hosting*. I have held positions with a number of large web hosting companies including; General Manager, Director of Marketing, Reseller Program Director, Sales Director and Quality Assurance Director. I have built; reseller programs, quality assurance protocols, support teams, marketing initiatives, sales teams and I have held management positions in all but server administration areas within a web hosting company." — quote from W.H.S.R

More about Trey Gardner

When hosting business grow into such a robust, few people had thought about how it's affecting our environment, the hosting business consums around 10% total electricity usage in the world and the atmosphere is seriously polluted by CO2 for power supply. Trey Gardner is the only few people who starts to think about the future of this business and determine to be different from the traditional hosting and setup greengeeks for 300% green! Their datacenter and hosting equiptments are the greenest in America. Beside this, his company formed a good enterprise culture – in order to pollute the environment less, their staff even eat launch by home cooked foods.

Trey Work Experience

Education History

California State University-Northridge
ba, history
1991 – 1993

San Diego State University-California State University
1988 – 1992

Trey Gardner Hosting Efforts

Greengeeks is Trey's first action in hosting and definitely successful as you know. But he does not only care about how to protect the envrionment, he also catches up the new technologies fastly and has sensitive scent of potential business. Sitecloud is a good example, while the cloud hosting is still in business theory, Trey and his team already offering this service to their customers and absolutely very successful regardless of their newness.

Trey and greengeeks team has joined lots of web forums to answer questions directly to existing or new clients. Whenever there's complaint to their service they will respond fast and knowing your concerns. They have been improving their service and hosting offers to meet the latest tech support.

Bluehost CEO Introduction

Matt Heaton – The CEO for both Bluehost and hostmonster. Both his life and experience in hosting business is a legend. From his blog we learnt that Matt Heaton is a "Chinese well known" and joined many social communities before bluehost and hostmonster.

Matt Heaton left home when 19 years old and served as a missionary for church in middle and southern Taiwan.

Within that special periods he learnt how to communicate with people on a regular basis and win friends with different languages speaking and learnt how to start a successful business in his later life.

More details about his Chinese experience can be found at this blog page.

Bluehost Introduction

Bluehost is a success from it's born. Actually from the bluehost early times, Hosting business already a pretty mature business in US so a new host always got difficulty to make further success. But bluehost did the trick and grow up quickly for excellent human kind service.

Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth. Yes, bluehost is one of the first hostings who announced to offer the unlimited services! Bluehost got a great ammount of rewards within 3 years. The fantastic support plus excellent hosting features quickly promote bluehost to the business top leader. No matter in the past 10 years or nowadays, when people mentioned bluehost, NO.1 is always the first impression.

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Hostmonster Introduction

Hostmonster is another success founded by Matt Heaton. I'm not quite sure the born of hostmonster under what circumstance but it did the trick. In my opinion, hostmonster is an add-on to bluehost service. Many new stuff is firstly released to hostmonster and then available from bluehost. Hostmonster win customers by low hosting price with the same level supports from bluehost. Just the same as hostmonster.com this domain, they're the monster in the industry!

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I have to say, Matt Heaton made a successful business, it's quite rare who can running 2 successful and respected names at the same time in hosting industry. If you check the page rank and alexa rank for both bluehost and hostmonster, you can easily find there's no one else who managed to get so high. Their rank simply based on their continuing hard efforts and human kind support to their loyal clients.

UPDATE: Bluehost & Hostmonster have merged into EIG group. Being the founder of BL and HM, Matt Heaton is now powering another brand called "BeterLinux" which is optimized linux OS to fulfill hosting server requirements.

Justhost CEO Introduction

I have to say, the success of Justhost is a mystery among all other hosting companies. Within just 2 years, justhost has been selected to top 3 lists several times and rated as the NO.1 fast growing company and many many more other rewards. All of these let us to dig more about this company and finally focus on their founder and CEO – Chris Phillips.

Chris Phillips is a legend in hosting business, He founded his first hosting company dot5hosting as teenager and approved very successful, you should know he's so young on the success. Dot5hosting was later acquired by EIG and Chris Phillips earned a lot in this business and he was selected to the most rich people group under Age 20.

The next stories are well known to all people, Justdevelopit was founded for various online solutions, there're several companies under it's umbrella including web design, web development, marketing and computer solutions. The amount of time the Just Develop It team spent dealing with web sites meant web hosting was an obvious venture.

Just Host was the second company to launch under the Just Develop It brand. With all company directors having previous experience in the web hosting industry. Just Host reached the staggering figure of 250,000 clients within 24 months of business, it's absolutely the rapidest growth in this industry.

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