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InMotion Hosting Review

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Feature-packed web hosting from a professional provider

There are many web hosting companies, so it takes a lot of features to be considered one of the top providers. InMotion Hosting falls into that category. The web hosting service has a rich feature set that satisfies many personal- and business-related web hosting needs from a reasonably priced shared hosting, dedicated servers, reseller, virtual private server (VPS), and WordPress plans. Its uptime and customer service are excellent, too. As a result, InMotion Hosting joins top competitors, such as DreamHost, HostGator, and Hostwinds

PROS
  • Excellent uptime
  • Highly trained support staff
  • Many hosting options
  • Unlimited email
  • Unlimited data transfers with all Shared and WordPress plans
  • Money-back guarantee
  • Easy-to-use website-building software
CONS
  • No Windows servers
  • Not all plans have month-to-month payment options

What are InMotion’s Features?

Five different types of hosting services:

  • Basic Shared Web Hosting
  • WordPress hosting
  • Virtual private server (VPS) hosting
  • Dedicated servers
  • Reseller hosting

Each of the five different plans offered have different features, as they suit much different customers. Most personal bloggers, or small business sites, will be fine with shared hosting – it’s the cheapest way to host your site, and has the capabilities to handle regular waves of traffic.

Shared Web Hosting

Building a website, or personal blog, can be relatively inexpensive. Shared Hosting is the way to go for starting your small business site, or blog. With shared hosting, your site shares resources with many other sites on a single server, so you split the server cost. Shared web hosting isn’t very powerful, but it’s a great solution if you don’t expect a huge amount of traffic.

InMotion’s Shared Hosting includes offers four, Linux-based shared web hosting plans. The most basic is the Lite plan $4.99 per month, all the way up to the Pro play offering hosting for100 websites, 200GB of SSD storage, and unlimited email accounts.

With either of these shared plans InMotion also gives you a free SSL certificate, which in turn gives your site HTTPS. This is another rarity at this pricing level, but it’s a key feature for businesses.

If you’re looking purely at the limits and headline features, there may be better deals elsewhere. HostGator’s Baby plan supports unlimited domains and email addresses, with unmetered storage and bandwidth, and is priced from an introductory rate of $3.50 a month. Overall, InMotion’s strength lies in their more top-tier / professional plans.

WordPress Web Hosting

WordPress is one of the most popular software platforms for those looking to create their own custom website (technically a content management system). If you’re looking for WordPress hosting, InMotion offers packages to make it easy. Your WordPress website will reside in a WordPress-only environment which will give you better load times, and other great benefits.

InMotion Hosting’s Linux-based, WordPress-optimized servers come with the content management system preinstalled, and they offer website staging and automatic software updates. The InMotion offers four basic WordPress Hosting options, ranging from $4.99 – $17.99/mo, allowing from 1 to 6 websites to be hosted.

InMotion also offers WordPress VPS plans, which mirror the pricing on the managed VPS plans above. These are top of the line packages fully-managed by in-house pros, giving you unlimited sites, dedicated resources, a dedicated IP, up to 140GB of storage and 7TB of monthly data transfer. 

Lastly, InMotion offers WordPress Dedicated hosting plans – starting at $159.99 per month for a month-to-month plan.

InMotion’s More Advanced Plans

If your requirements stretch a little further than shared hosting, there are plenty of other options. InMotion’s managed VPS hosting, for example, comes with server management and automated security updates.

Dedicated hosting is another route to go down, but this is usually reserved for large websites or enterprise-level businesses. InMotion’s dedicated hosting comes with multi-layer security, 20x faster loading times with free SSD, and your own launch assistant to get things off the ground.

VPS Web Hosting

VPS hosting offers more power than shared hosting. That’s due to the fact that your site lives on a server with far fewer sites competing for resources than with shared hosting. For the premium price you’re then guaranteed a minimum amount of resources. As a result, VPS hosting is more expensive than shared hosting, but it’s a much more powerful and reliable system.

InMotion Hosting offers managed hosting and unmanaged cloud VPS web hosting. Managed VPS starts at $56.99 per month, all the way up to $160 per month.

Managed VPS plans include free server migrations, cPanel and WHM control panels and automatic server backups, while InMotion handles low-level server management and security updates. If you know what you’re doing and can manage the server yourself, Cloud VPS unmanaged plans get you full root access to your server.

Dedicated Web Hosting

With dedicated hosting, your website lives on a server all by itself giving you all the resources and power of that server for your own use. As a result, dedicated hosting is an extremely powerful type of web hosting. It’s one that you should look into if you expect your website to receive a large amount of traffic. Websites that host e-commerce, or are a major revenue stream, and are critical not to go down (or slow down) should be on dedicated servers.

InMotion Hosting’s dedicated servers are a great choice for large websites. Starting at $139.99 per month, and up to $259.99 per month, InMotion has a range of prices to suite every business.

InMotion’s VPS hosting plans and dedicated servers look a little more expensive than some of the competition, but they’re well specified, and very good value for the functionality you get.

Reseller Web Hosting

If you’re looking to get into the web hosting game, but you don’t want to spin up your own servers or worry about providing the bandwidth for them, check out InMotion’s reseller hosting packages. The six Linux-based plans (starting at $26.59 per month), offer up to 6TB in monthly bandwidth, unlimited email, and multiple cPanel accounts (depending on your account). InMotion Hosting provides 24/7/365 customer support, as well.

Signing up

InMotion has plenty of hosting products on offer, but the website does a better-than-average job of presenting them to potential customers, and making it clear exactly what you’ll get. Just visit their site and choose your option, or feel free to call to get more details on each plan. Don’t tell anyone but their secret is they often do custom plans.

Final verdict

InMotion has a great number of features, awesome support, and a 90-day money-back guarantee, but the best part of InMotion is it seems to be a reliable, professional, honest web hosting company. Definitely a player in the market, that you owe it to yourself to check out before making a decision.

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