InMotion Hosting 2018 Review

Update: 11 September 2018 
InMotion Hosting has a record of helping small to medium sized businesses reach online success. They have hundreds of thousands of clients as a worldwide web hosting provider. With 3 offices, over 300 employees and thousands of servers, you can believe that they focus on providing the best possible services to their clients. They have won plenty of awards that prove that they want their clients to have a positive experience with their product. InMotion provides over 20 different types of hosting and other services. And the best part, they have been a top rated hosting company for 14+ years and they spend a lot of time to make their platform the best. I do not know about you, but a great platform almost certainly draws my attention along with a few other things. Now let’s get started with this review. 

Founders
 
InMotion was co-founded by Sunil Saxena and Todd Robinson.


Product Cost
 
Every product has a different price, nevertheless, the price of each product will be listed alongside the services in the detailed overview to make reading and understanding this review easier.

 Detailed overview

Domains

With 24/7/365 U.S. based premium support, free domain and transfers, secure website transactions and free website transfers without downtime, you can believe that they are top rated for a reason. Every registered domain will come with a free setup and they offer domain privacy services. 

Cost: Depends on what domain extension you choose.

Web design

Web design services - With the web design services, you can have someone build you a website that is beautiful and has custom created designs fitted for your business. All websites are built on a WordPress platform and is responsive for optimal viewing no matter on what device. There is even a bonus, all design packages come with hosting included. 

Create your own website - You can always build your own website, and InMotion has the perfect service to allow you to do so. BoldGrid is a free premium website builder that comes with a hosting plan per your choosing. With easy tools like drag and drop and beautiful templates you can easily build your own website. The best part, unlike most free website builders, you own and have entire control over your website. BoldGrid is easy to use and a lot like WordPress. Although WordPress is easy to use, it can be quite confusing to the true newbies and that is where BoldGrid becomes the more easier choice.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
 
InMotion hosting uses the latest SEO techniques to help build your traffic, assisting search engines so they can connect to your website using key words and phrases that most clients would search for on the web. 


Affiliate Program

The InMotion affiliate program is a way to earn money, simply by recommending InMotion and having the sign up. This can easily be done by just placing a link or banner on your website, referring people to Inmotion and whala, up to $120 commission for every Sign Up. 


Website Hosting Tools
 
A wide range of tools and software is offered by InMotion to help you make your website unique. They also provide poplar CMS and blogging software like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. It is also an easy task to install the features thanks to the one click installation script which can be accessed using cPanel. The InMotion support center offers EDU channels and tutorials to help you learn and understand. InMotion supports PHP and MySQL software.

 

Shared Business Hosting
 
InMotion will transfer your site without downtime, free of charge as long it consist of 3 or less cPanel accounts, databases and/or sites. If you have more than 3 accounts, databases and/or sites, they can still be transferred, but it will cost $10 for every item transferred. If you want, you can also transfer it yourself and if you need help, the InMotion Support Center will be happy to lend a helping hand.

FEATURES:

• SSH Hosting with Command Line

• Blogs, eCommerce and More

• 90-Day Money-Back

• Web Hosting for Developers

• Solid State Drives

• Hosting Email Features

• Web Design Hosting

Cost: $3.99-$13.99 per month.


VPS hosting
 
Self Managed VPS Hosting - With self managed VPS Hosting you can write more code and spend less time wrangling infrastructure. The Cloud VPS platform provides the needed tools to go back to your business. You also get provided with the freedom to configure, install and set up the tools and software you need, no matter if it is Java, Node or Ruby.

Cost: $19.99-$64.99 per month.

Managed VPS Hosting - The InMotion Linux SSD VPS hosting servers provide you with increased uptime, speed and security. The VPS will include free sever management, cloud- powered infrastructure, 10X faster CentOS and NGINX software configurations and a free cPanel/WHM license. 


Migration - Databases, Email and Websites are included.  cPanel to cPanel migrations of up to 50 with a 5GB limit. Improved migrations and configurations are available with Launch Assist and Managed Hosting. Before your name-server switch, test your site.

Cost: $24.99-$59.99 per month. 

Dedicated hosting

InMotion will manage all hardware, allowing you to concentrate on building your business. Furthermore, they promise 99.9% uptime and protection from online attacks that are unfortunately popular these days. They also provide up to 15 free IP Addresses to give your business the advantage of Private DNS, SSL Certification, FTP services and Email. Due to the fact that their data centers are situated near Internet Exchange Points, you will have no problems with high server pings. Also with their Gigabit Ethernet Uplink Connection you can experience faster file transfers, handle massive bursts of traffic and have the potential for a larger number of concurrent connections. 

Cost: $95.12-$519.49 per month. 


Reseller hosting

The shared and VPS Lunix Reseller hosting plans include interesting features like, free WHMCS, cPanel, SSL, Dedicated IP, eNom and so much more. The InMotion Reseller VPS plans are fully equipped with A high availability feature provides your VPS with a boost in redundancy via the cloud, SSDs witch is up to 20X faster than spinning drives, Root level access and a Live State Snapshot feature that allows you to make the decision to revert back to a previous server condition. All Linux Reseller VPS plans come with a free Comodo SSL.

Cost: $13.99-$89.94 per month. 


WordPress hosting

InMotion has a managed platform for WordPress which has been fine tuned to deliver premium performance, offer best hosting and provide superior security. They offer a free website migration/transfer or you can start to easily build yourself a new website with WordPress.

Features include the following:

• Free Themes.

• Full support.

• Easy to customize content.

• BoldGrid videos to help you build your website.

• Drag and drop.

• Full design and hosting support.

• WordPress pre-installed on checkout.

• Ability to launch in under an hour.

Cost: $4.99 - $114.99 per month. 

Additional Services Offered

• Enterprise Hosting Solutions

• Launch Assist

Hosting Features Include:

• SSD Hosting

• Shared cPanel Hosting

• eCommerce Hosting

• SSH Hosting

• Ruby Hosting

• PostgreSQL Hosting

• PHP Hosting

Hosting Tools Include:

• Magento

• WordPress

• Drupal

• BoldGrid

• cPanel

• Joomla

• PrestaShop

• Moodle

• OpenCart

Pros

They have an average Uptime of about 99.93%

InMotion has fast loading times.

They offer great customer support.

Their hosting performance is outstanding.

Most of their plans are low cost. (Only if your plan consists of a 12+ month's subscription)

Basically, all the plans include at least one free domain.

They offer money back guarantees for those who decide that the program is not for them.

Free site transfer. (Some are limited)

They offer free data backups. (Once again, limited)

They also provide the ability for Google Apps Integration.

Cons

The free domain and free domain transfers are only available if you choose a 12+ month plan.

They advertise low pricing, but this is only for 24 month sign ups.

Their verification process is delayed, meaning there is no instant account access after signing up, especially for those who do not live in the U.S.

Some of their plans have limitations. It is understandable, seeing as they go out of their way to provide all kinds of services. These limitations include:

• Sites bigger than 10GB will not be backed up.

• Files can only be restored once every 4 months.

Conclusion...

Of the thousands of web host companies that exist, InMotion is the one of the ones with the most awards. They provide everything from hosting to e-commerce, making it a all in one platform.  Like always, start small with one website if you are new to hosting and test the service before upgrading. Each hosting company has different hosting options and they provide well in some, while lacking in others. Knowing what type of hosting you want and the service you expect in advance will help you to choose the right company without wasting money. Feel free to read the following articles if you are unsure about your needs.

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