Company Overview
InMotion Hosting got its start in Los Angeles, California in 2001. They offer some of the best WordPress hosting around. Independently owned and operated for over two decades, offer you the best services and add-ons at a fair price. No matter what goal you have for your business’s online journey or the current stage that journey is at they will have something for you. InMotion Hosting employs over 300 people across the US. InMotion Hosting boasts two eco-friendly data centers. They are notably large for being an independently owned and operated company.
This article will review InMotion Hosting’s hosting options for WordPress sites. We will look at WordPress Hosting, Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. Additionally in this article, we will also look into their reliability, usability, and customer support.
Usability
In this paragraph InMotion Hosting is incredibly easy to use. For instance, their customers’ hosting control panel is the popular cPanel. It allows cPanel/WHM access for some hosting plans. Some key features you will be able to access within their cPanel include:
- Database creation
- The ability to access using PHPMyAdmin,
- The ability to create and access email accounts
- A one-click application installer software called Softaculous.
InMotion Hosting didn’t become the respected hosting company they are today overnight. Above all, InMotion Hosting focuses on the quality of service and the quality of the server builds. Many hosting companies put as many customers as possible on one server. With InMotion Hosting the servers are populated to minimize server overloads and handle traffic spikes. They use the reliability and speed of Solid State Drives (SSD). InMotion Hosting operates with a 99.99% uptime guarantee. On top of that, they include a 90-day money-back guarantee. This is a testament to the reliability of their products and the support they provide.
Customer Support
Their United States-based support is available 24/7/365. They have offices in Los Angeles, CA, Virginia Beach, VA, and Denver, CO. The frontline support agents are not only helpful but friendly as well. You won’t spend time on some automated system either. For instance, often in a few quick clicks, you will be connected and working with knowledgeable agents.
InMotion Hosting has a few different avenues you can choose to solve your issue. If you are more of the self-service type, they have a robust library of step-by-step guides. Moreover, they also have a rich customer community. You will often find agents and customers working together to solve issues and share best practices in those community posts. After that, if you need more hands-on help, InMotion Hosting has you covered there too. Their customer support agents are able to be contacted via phone, chat, and email.
Let’s take a look at their hosting offerings and a few feature highlights for each of them.
WordPress Hosting
InMotion Hosting has combined performance and customer needs with their WordPress Hosting plans. This offering is a top recommendation. The servers included in this plan are optimized for hosting WordPress sites. Meaning, on top of the SSDs, they include, NGINX, free CDN, and free migration services with no downtime. Some additional features are:
- automatic backups
- hack protection
- malware protection
- automatic security patches.
Higher tier plans get an added bonus. Included in the WP-2000S plans and up, is a Jetpack license. If you aren’t familiar with that, it is a popular tool for online marketplaces and eCommerce sites.
InMotion is recommended by BoldGrid as a top provider for WordPress Web Hosting!
Shared Hosting
For Shared Hosting, InMotion Hosting has three options available, Launch, Power, and Pro. These hosting plans run a similar server configuration to the WordPress Hosting plans. They also utilize the speed and reliability of SSDs.
Their Shared Hosting plans come with a free year of domain registration. Additionally, they have access to over four hundred applications with one-click installs using Softaculous. These are plans are all upgradable. In other words, as your business grows, so can your hosting plan.
Speaking of which, one of the best parts of InMotion Hosting is its scalability options. For instance, if your company outgrows the Shared Hosting platform, they will migrate you to a VPS server for free with a no downtime guarantee.
VPS Hosting
InMotion Hosting has two options for those looking for a little more power in their hosting services. For the more technically sound customers, they offer Cloud VPS’s. These allow customers to choose from many operating systems. But this requires the customer to be familiar with root-level access and offer a limited range of free support. This is great for those looking for a more custom configuration without the price tag of a dedicated server.
The more popular option is their Managed VPS Hosting plans. With cPanel, WHM, and root access, customers can control their child accounts and sites. This allows customers with larger sites to rest assured that their site on a stable platform operating at peak performance. To ensure this, they configure their VPS servers in redundant clusters, which means resources are never pooled. A team of highly qualified agents helps monitor this as well.
Their VPS plans also include one of our favorite features called “server snapshots”. This feature allows customers to schedule a server backup image or snapshot. For example, if something goes wrong with that server, it can be reverted. Most importantly, they offer a retention policy for them so you don’t fill your server up with them.
Dedicated Servers
For those customers that require enterprise-level servers, InMotion has you covered. Customize Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Servers with hundreds of options and add-ons, including but not limited to:
- Memory
- Hard drives
- Backup drives
- Firewalls
- Software RAID
- Bandwidth
- Remote KVM
- And more…
For even larger sites, they have a step up from Dedicated called “Commercial Class”. Similarly, like the VPS Hosting options, InMotion Hosting offers these servers with both cPanel/WHM/Root. This allows customers to use their choice of operating system and server stack.
Summary
In conclusion, InMotion Hosting offers solutions from the first step in your web hosting journey and every step along the way. They are a web hosting company that allows your internet footprint to grow as your company grows. InMotion Hosting has WordPress Hosting servers optimized for both performance and security. Ultimately this means you can focus on your business once you have your website set.