InMotion Hosting Review
Features: Free Domain and WordPress pre-installed
InMotion Hosting is one of the oldest and one of the most trusted web hosts on the market.
We have seen some truly amazing things from InMotion, with lightning load speed and solid uptime.
But, of course, we saw the other things as well, on the other side of the medal.
Here is our InMotion Hosting review:
Meet InMotion Hosting
InMotion Hosting was founded in 2001 by Todd Robinson and Sunil Saxena, with headquarters in Los Angeles. InMotion Hosting has over 300 employees, three offices located in Los Angeles, Virginia Beach, and Denver, and data centers in Los Angeles and Ashburn.
The company offers services including shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, WooCommerce hosting, PrestaShop hosting, and professional services.
In 2015, InMotion Hosting introduced an editor called BoldGrid. It allows users to easily create responsive web design through the use of drag-and-drop tools. In 2018, the company partnered with Jetpack by WordPress. Jetpack is a tool for WordPress that helps you monitor traffic, design, and secure your website.
Finally, in 2019, InMotion Hosting expanded its business and purchased a 61,000-square-foot facility in Virginia Beach
Advantages of InMotion Hosting
1. Reliability
Uptime, and uptime only. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of uptime.
This metric is showing you how much time your website spends in offline mode, the time when the server is down, the time when your visitors cannot access your website.
Luckily, InMotion is performing great when it comes to keeping your website up, with an average uptime of 99.96%.
Uptime = amount of time that your website is available and operational.
2. Load Time
One of the fastest web hosts, with a load speed of 203ms!
Just how amazing is that, right? Take this into perspective – one heartbeat takes about 300ms.
As soon as someone clicks to see what’s on your front page, everything will be served to them instantly.
3. 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Industry-standard for the period when you can ask for a refund is about 30 days. Not with InMotion Hosting. They are on a 90-day mark. Pretty confident in their services, as their satisfaction guarantee states:
4. Customer Service
Okay, their chat interface is certainly not the best looking out there. No, let’s be honest, it is horrible.
BUT, their Customer Service is everything but that.
First of all, we were connected in less than a minute with our agent, Mark. Every question was answered properly, without hesitation, with every additional information that we didn’t know we needed.
We heard people praising their Customer Service, we heard InMotion praising its Customer Service, but we didn’t expect this.
5. Free Site Transfer
You can transfer your site for free from your current host, as stated on their website.
So no additional expenses while transferring to InMotion. Always a good thing to hear.
6. Data Backups
InMotion Hosting Shared hosting plans feature an Automated Remote Backup Service. When enabled, multiple instances of your Home Directory and MySQL databases are stored remotely.
And, with their Backup Manager plugin for cPanel, you can generate and restore full, partial, or individual file backups.
Disadvantages of InMotion Hosting
1. Verification Process
In order to access your new hosting account, InMotion is adamant that all new customers need to be verified by phone for security purposes.
Of course, this means that there are fewer spammers and fraud cases on their servers, compared to other web hosts.
But, in reality, that is one additional step for you in order to start building your website.
This might be a deal-breaker for some, as not many people are happy to go through the hassle of phone verification when other web hosts are one click away.
2. Price variations
Sure, when you take a two-year plan, the price stands at $6.39 per month. But, when you change that period to a one year deal, the price goes up to $7.46 per month.
Again, this is a tactic used by most of the web hosts on the market, so no surprises here.
We always suggest taking the longest period on the table, as in most cases it is the most cost-effective option.
Ease of use
When it comes to ease of use, metric that we like oh so much, InMotion is pretty much on par with the best web hosts. InMotion Hosting features a Support Center, where you can find answers to basically all of your questions, with a hefty number of useful tutorials and instructions.
Also, InMotion Hosting is one of those hosts that feature cPanel, one of those handy control panels that allow you to track server performance, keep track of your domains, update billing and account information and many more.
Pricing plans
There are three shared options to choose from when it comes to InMotion Hosting.
Please note that the prices presented below are referring to a two-year plan.
Let’s go over the plans:
– Launch: Starting at $6.39 per month, this plan includes SSL certificate, free domain name, supports up to 2 websites, and 2 SQL databases, 6 parked domains and 25 subdomains, unlimited disk space, and unlimited bandwidth.
– Power: For $8.49 per month, you are getting everything from Launch plan, but with a little upgrade. This plan supports up to 6 websites, 50 SQL databases, 26 parked domains, and 100 subdomains.
– Pro: The largest plan coming at $14.71 per month features all of the above. One change, all of the above, but UNLIMITED. Yup, unlimited websites, unlimited databases, unlimited parked domains, and subdomains.
Conclusion
Do we recommend InMotion Hosting? Well, yes.
There are some better options, but both uptime and load speed are at a high level, although the prices are a little bit on a higher side.
This is a very good host, secure, one of the biggest on the market. Not perfect, of course, but with a 90-day Guarantee, you have the luxury to try it for yourself and ask for a refund if it’s not working.
Just wait for that verification call or call them yourself, and you are good to go.
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