Hold onto your hats—Bluehost’s parent company, Newfold Digital, is making a monumental shift to Oracle Cloud. This move could send thousands of websites, including those powered by Bluehost, on a migration journey. Newfold Digital, a web hosting behemoth you might not know by name but definitely by its brands (think Bluehost, HostGator, and Network Solutions), is joining the ranks of cloud security giants like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto in Oracle’s growing ecosystem.
During Oracle’s latest earnings call, Larry Ellison, the company’s Chairman and CTO, dropped a bombshell: “All four of the leading cloud security companies—CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Newfold Digital, and Palo Alto—they all decided to move to the Oracle Cloud.” That’s a seismic shift, underscoring Oracle’s rising clout in the cloud market. But what does this mean for the millions of websites under Newfold’s umbrella?
Ellison didn’t spill all the beans, so we’re left wondering how much of Newfold’s business is migrating. Is it a full-scale exodus from AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure? Or just a strategic pivot? What we do know is Oracle’s multicloud strategy is a game-changer. “Customers can get our database everywhere,” Ellison declared. Whether it’s on-premises, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Oracle’s database is becoming the backbone of the digital world.
Newfold Digital, born from the merger of Endurance Web Presence and Web.com Group in 2021, is a powerhouse in the web hosting arena. Its portfolio includes household names like Bluehost, which alone powers millions of websites worldwide. And here’s the kicker: Bluehost is officially recommended by WordPress.org. That means a potential tidal wave of WordPress sites could soon call Oracle Cloud home. Ready or not, here comes the migration.
