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Effective January 25, 2008, BlueHost and HostMonster has approximately doubled CPU usage caps for shared hosting accounts.  Caving into user demands that CPU quotas were overly restrictive,  CPU utilization tracking was updated to measure up to 8 CPU cores. 

Matt Heaton, CEO & President of BlueHost claims growing pains for a series of support problems since Dec 20 of last year. Claiming unprecedented signups (more than 850 a day), forced upgrades of CPanel (presumablely from security issues), PHP upgrade from 4 to 5 and Apache 1.3x to 2.2x on all servers created perfect storm of problems for BlueHost.

Nice to hear BlueHost and their CEO fess up to their problem. When they’re growing as fast they are, you can expect problems but not apologies. So nice round of applause to BlueHost.

BlueHost.com is a popular Web Hosting company. According to their front page they currently host over 430,000 domains. Here’s an bullet point overview of how it got started.

+ Matt Heaton is the founder of BlueHost.com.

+ When he was 22 years old, he started a small chain of computer hardware stores called Computer Warehouse.

+ In 1996, Matt writes software to track web stats and launches under FreeStats.com and SiteTracker.com.

+ Altavista.com uses his software to track their stats.

+ Matt works w/ company called FreeServers.com

+ He cross promotes with FreeServers.com

+ He notices they’re doing well and wants in.

+ Launches 50megs.com and signs up to 50,000 accounts monthly.

+ FreeServers.com gets acquired by About.com

+ 50megs.com gets acquired by About.com

+ Matt works for About.com

+ Starts hosting service called 0catch.com which has more than 3 million signups and currently has 1.1 million active users.

+ Matt decides he wants bigger and better web hosting, buys bluehost.com domain for $1500.00.

+ BlueHost.com launches.

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