Comments on: InMotion Hosting Vs GoDaddy: Shared Hosting Comparison

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:21:10 +0000

I have been with InMotion for a number of years, ultimately been fairly happy with them. I would like to mention one item that was not covered. I have found one problem with InMotion is that they are slow to upgrade software. For instance, the server my items are on is presently running a PHP 4.3. According to my WordPress plugin that now won’t update, this package has been archived for some time. I found that the MySQL is similar, aging instead of updated. You can see from their sales site that they are behind the times. Their site states they over upgraded PHP & MySQL, but I suppose the longtime supports need to request an upgrade opposed to being thought of first? According to the help forum, these items are slated for upgrading hopefully this summer. Just a little disappointed with InMotion …

By: Dundee

Dundee — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:22:41 +0000

Did you consider to revise the comparison after GoDaddy introduced their 4GH hosting?

By: shalini aggarwal

shalini aggarwal — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:55:16 +0000

I have a news website and is often going down / put on hold by the hiosting service provider, and I am planning to move it on some reliable hosting provider. After reading a lot, I tried godaddy hosting for one month but I am not satified as the response. The website looked so slow, the control pannel took a long of time to open and other issues not beuing solved by them. Now I am planning to shift thye news portal to inmotion hosting. I have read about other webhosts like bluehost etc, but the problem with them is you cannot expand the website in futue like if you need VPS or dedicated hosting

By: marc

marc — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:22:44 +0000

thanks to webhostinghero for the comparison. the material is not very recent, but it supports what it claims (and what i wanted to hear) very well. it’s really hard to choose between so many hosts isn’t it!?

i just came off an instant chat with brian c. at inmotion to see how they handle the issue of ‘heavy traffic’ to a website they host.

i am trying to see if i need to get a ‘business class’ or ‘vps’ (virtual private server) package with them ($6-18 and $40-150 per month) and asked at what usage level it would make sense to jump to the ‘vps’.

his answer was “20-30 concurrent users”. that is a pretty commercial level and i cannot imagine that my site will produce such results anytime soon so i will hang in the launch-power-pro area of their business class for a while first.

before i switch over i will read the terms & conditions and small print.

any advice on what else to look out for? i’m running a site offering tour guide services using wordpress with e.commerce. in the future i’d like to get it wacked into shape for i.phone/smartphone browsing.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:07:22 +0000

Did you try to contact InMotion Hosting’s support?

By: kiki

kiki — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:33:53 +0000

Has anyone found out the number of concurent connections inmotion allows? Any hosting company out there that offers 200 or more silmultaneous connections to mysql database? Someone PLEASE say.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:15:27 +0000

@ev: perhaps you may want to read this http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/tutorials/access-awstats-outside-cpanel.html

Then you’ll be able to update your stats manually

By: ev

ev — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:28:36 +0000

Thank you for this comparison. I have always wondered which one is better. It seems like GoDaddy is more popular, or at least i hear that name more often. I am an Inmotion hosting client and I am happy with them for the most part.My only problem is recently I have been looking into awstats a lot for a project I am working on, and it seems like they don’t update it every 24 hours, sometimes it take 1.5 days maybe more. This probably doesn’t matter for most of us but just wanted to share.

By: wba

wba — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:44:00 +0000

I can’t handle Godaddy. Too self-centered. I’m so happy with Inmotion so far. Clean and professional, serving you, not the other way around.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:25:46 +0000

I have the Premium GoDaddy hosting service right now and I can tell you that if you have forums, forget about it! I have a very small enthusiast site that gets maybe 50-75 hits a day while other sites get similar traffic and my most popular sites are very slow to load and sometimes fail to load at all.

Also, GoDaddy’s support is short, not terribly helpful (they typically blame the problem on you or your site and then if you press them they will investigate to see if there is a server side problem). After modest traffic gains and user complaints about the speed of the site I inquired to GoDaddy as to why the sites were so slow.

First they blamed the amount of content I have on the pages. They are simple magazine style WordPress blogs and forums so content shouldn’t be an issue. After I insisted they investigate the problem on the server side they finally admitted that they only offer 50 concurrent connections to your account (all sites) regardless of whether you are on the “Economy” or “Premium” plan.

I emailed InMotion to see if they have a concurrent hosting limit but I can tell you that if they don’t I will be leaving GoDaddy so quick.

GoDaddy is great if you are going to do a one off static site with low traffic expectations but if you plan to have forums or anything that might draw a crowd, save yourself the trouble (and money) and don’t use GoDaddy.