President of Bluehost Matt Heaton recently wrote an article stating that Bluehost along with a two of it's brother/sister companies had reached a total of hosting 700,000 domains making it the second fastest growing hosting company in the market. He said that they will soon be hosting 1,000,000 domains. Wow! Those are amazing numbers.

He went on to give 3 main predictions that he has for his hosting company for the year 2008 and they are as follows:

#1 - We will begin aggressively promoting individual domain name sales, especially through our fastdomain brand. We want to put the HURT on Godaddy. Godaddy’s incessant obstacles to transferring domains and extremely poor customer service will allow us to take a TON of their customers. My personal goal is to take more than 1 million of their customers in the next 24 months - Keep watching! I will make it happen!!

#2 - Fix our “CPU exceeded errors” that many of our customers have been experiencing. The one problem keeps me up at night more than anything else. We are working extensively through software and hardware means to virtually eliminate this problem for the “legitimate” user.

#3 - Finally get together a VPS option to sell to our customers that outgrow our setup. We have wanted to do this for a long time, but have never felt the products were good enough in the VPS space. My opinion of these products has changed as they have worked to make them better. I would like to implement VPS as a full fledged member of our product family.

Great stuff. It will be interesting to see how they do in the domain name world when trying to compete to GoDaddy. I think as the end user becomes more educated it will become easier for them to compete. Once people realize they can purchase domain names through there webhost they just do that instead. And nobody wants to use GoDaddy as a webhost. They just don't provide what you need.