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.

Visit www.bluehost.com for official site.

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!

Visit www.hostmonster.com for official site

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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Godaddy Introduction

Godaddy is the world's largest domain registrar and one of the most profitable web hosting companies. As for the godaddy CEO Bob Parsons, his life and story is a legend among all others. Parsons has driven the expansion of Go Daddy's core business beyond domain names, to include website hosting, secure SSL certificates and email accounts. Go Daddy is a one-stop shop for domain names, websites and everything* in between.

Bob Parsons Stories

Parsons joined the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and received the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and a Purple Heart Medal.  Upon his return, Parsons enrolled in the University of Baltimore where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.  He is a Certified Public Accountant.

The name Godaddy is named very late since from the first business of parsons. He firstly started a software comapny in 1984 and reach over $100 million revenue per year, after years development, bob sold the coporation in 1994 and foundedJomax Technologies in 1997. With the fast growing business, bob renamed the company to Godaddy in 1999 and become an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar in the next year.

Go Daddy currently registers, renews or transfers a domain name more than every second of every day, has more than 8.8 million customers worldwide, manages more than 45 million domain names and employs nearly 3,000 people. Go Daddy is also the #1 Web host provider in the world with more than 4 million active hosting accounts.

The best benefit bob provided to people is his bob 16 rules as below

• 1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone.
• 2. Never give up.
• 3. When you're ready to quit, you're closer than you think.
• 4. With regard to whatever worries you, not only accept the worst thing that could happen, but make it a point to quantify what the worst thing could be.
• 5. Focus on what you want to have happen.
• 6. Take things a day at a time.
• 7. Always be moving forward.
• 8. Be quick to decide.
• 9. Measure everything of significance.
• 10. Anything that is not managed will deteriorate.
• 11. Pay attention to your competitors, but pay more attention to what you're doing.
• 12. Never let anybody push you around.
• 13. Never expect life to be fair.
• 14. Solve your own problems.
• 15. Don't take yourself too seriously.
• 16. There's always a reason to smile.

More info about bob can be found on his personal bloghttp://www.bobparsons.me

Indurance International Group CEO

EIG – full name is "endurance International Group". EIG is one of the world's largest and most profitable hosting providers. It's consistently grown at triple-digit rates and continue to see great opportunities ahead. They are positioned to be a dominant player in the online business services market for many years to come. Till present there're over 30 hosting brands under EIG group such as Fatcow, Ipage, webhost4life. Here is about the company story and CEO introduction.

Steve Sydness is the EIG leader and CEO, he joined Endurance in September of 1999. In addition to overseeing the Company’s day-to-day operations, he is responsible for determining its long-term strategy and directing future growth. Steve has been instrumental in building the Endurance management team and securing its source of capital. Before joining Endurance, Steve served as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Great Plains Software, where he spent 12 years helping to grow the company’s workforce from 100 employees to 1,100, and its annual revenues from $6 million to $150 million. Steve played a key role in leading Great Plains through a successful IPO, obtaining venture funding and directing expansion into global markets. In 1992, Steve took a leave of absence to run for the United States Senate. He holds a B.A. in business administration and history from Principia College, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Below is the summary of EIG quoted from their website

From very humble beginnings in 1997, when Hari Ravichandran founded the company under a different name in a windowless one-room basement office, Endurance has traveled a long and sometimes difficult road. We have met and overcome many obstacles. With team work, extra effort and a never-say-die attitude we have survived, endured and ultimately prospered.

During the late 1990’s, we grew like crazy. Fueled by venture capital money, we had over 100 employees by the end of 2000. Unfortunately, like so many dot-com start-ups, what we did not have was a sustainable business model. In late 2000, when the Internet bubble burst, our future was anything but certain.

From over 100 employees, we retrenched to about 20. Those were difficult times. There were many days when we thought about throwing in the towel, as so many other dot-coms had done. But there was something within this team of 20 that would not allow us to give up. We knew we had something of value to offer, and we were not going to leave it to die by the side of the road.

In January 2001, this intrepid band rallied together to save the company. We reinvented ourselves around a sustainable business model of paid website hosting. At the time, free hosting was available all over the Internet. We knew we had to offer something special if we were going to get people to pay us for shared hosting. We called the three-month effort to build and launch all the tools and systems necessary to support paid hosting “Operation Endurance.” We figured if we got it right, it would increase our ability to go the distance, to survive for the long-haul, to stay in the game. In short, it would increase our endurance.

Soon after the launch of Operation Endurance the team was introduced to the saga of Ernest Shackleton and the ill-fated, yet heroic, Antarctic voyage of Endurance.

The team drew strength and inspiration from the trials, hardships and ultimate success of Shackleton and his crew. Trapped on the frozen Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica after the Endurance was crushed by ice, Shackleton and his crew survived against the longest of odds. After 15 months, they escaped the ice and sailed in open lifeboats to deserted Elephant Island. Shackleton and five others finally crossed 650 nautical miles of the most perilous ocean on earth to return to civilization. With the ultimate rescue of those on Elephant Island, the 20-month Endurance saga ended without the loss of a single life.

Like Shackleton and his crew, we struggled against long odds before, during and for many months after Operation Endurance. But also like Shackleton and his crew, we ultimately prevailed.

Six months after Operation Endurance, we built on its success with our first acquisition of shared hosting customers. We learned a lot during that first migration and we have added to that base of knowledge during each of the subsequent migrations. Over the years, we have successfully migrated account bases that number in the hundreds to those that number in the hundreds of thousands. We are understandably proud of the fact that nobody has successfully migrated more shared hosting customers from one architecture to another than we have.

In 2003, as a well-established and successful enterprise, we renamed the company. We choose to honor the heroic accomplishments of Shackleton and the Endurance crew as well as the success of our own Operation Endurance by adopting The Endurance International Group as our new moniker.

Since then, we have continued to build a great company in the spirit of Endurance. And we are confident of our future success because we know that: With Endurance Comes Success.