Popularity Check: Hostmonster vs Bluehost
July 2008, BlueHost Inc. announced that its combined hosting platforms of BlueHost.com and HostMonster.com have surpassed 1,000,000 domains hosted. In case you don’t know, BlueHost and HostMonster are managed by the same management, headquartered in Orem, Utah. The brand “HostMonster” was spun off from the BlueHost in year 2005 to target different markets and help expand the growth of the company.
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Out of random curiosity, I decided to run a quick check on Hostmonster and Bluehost popularity in Google Insights. And here’s the results I found:
How does Hostmonster perform compare to Bluehost?
Obviously, Hostmonster is no where near to Bluehost in term of popularity.
While the growth trend looks more or less the same, Hostmonster is still way behind of Bluehost, losing 30 points behind Bluehost. The main reason for this, is of course because of the late-coming of Hostmonster in the business. More over, Bluehost’s affiliate program (both in-house and CJ.com) had been running for a long time - where top affiliates had already attached with the company. It makes no sense to switch promoting other hosting company where Bluehost is still at the top of its class.
Considering these facts, Hostmonster growth rate is, in fact, pretty respectable. They were rising from no where and growing fast for the first three years. I expect Hostmonster to grow better - provided that they remain (or keep improving) their current hosting services.
