InMotion Hosting Review

InMotion Hosting Reviewed

InMotion Hosting has been serving businesses since 2001, and they currently have headquarters on both coasts: In Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Marina del Rey, California. The Green Hosting company, which is accredited by the Better Business Bureau, has several initiatives to promote environmental issues, and they recently opened up the first green data center in Los Angeles. The employee-owned firm is staffed by experienced personnel, who always take the time to listen and learn from their customers.

InMotion Hosting Products and Services

InMotion Hosting offers the full range of service and a broad selection of hosting accounts for both consumers and business, along with virtual private servers and dedicated servers. Business class hosting comes in three tiers: Launch, Power, and Pro, and all are affordable and exceptionally powerful. InMotion will even design and build your professional web site for you! Their skilled professionals will create a custom design, and make sure your site can be found by your customers.

InMotion's VPS hosting solutions provide a very affordable system for when you need to go a step beyond the standard shared hosting account. Besides greater capacity, the VPS service gives you additional services, including SSH access, a custom firewall, and a dedicated IP address. The advantage of the VPS is that you get almost everything you would get with a dedicated server, but at lower cost and with less management overhead. Backups are included and a full cPanel license, along with RAID 10 fault tolerant disk space.

There are three VPS versions available, with 256, 512, or 1024 MB of dedicated memory. When your business is growing by leaps and bounds, or you have special requirements, the dedicated server option can't be beat. Starting at about $200, you get Dell servers, a cPanel control panel, and 24x7 support. You can choose from three versions; starting with the Essential with a Pentium Dual Core 2.4GHz; or the Advanced with the Intel Xeon Dual Core 3.0GHz; or the Elite, with the Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.83GHz. The Elite version is RAID 1 fault tolerant, and all versions have guaranteed two-hour hardware replacement in case of any component failure.

Benefits of using InMotion Hosting

InMotion Hosting offers real value with every single account, from the entry-level account, to the most powerful quad-core dedicated server. The web hosting company is employee-owned and operated, and you can rest assured that your site is being run by skilled professionals. Their incredible customer service department (in-house, never outsourced) always takes the time to answer your questions fully, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, anyone who has ever lost a file will understand the importance of backups—and InMotion Hosting offers a complete backup automatically.

Hosting Reliability and Performance

All web hosting accounts are Max Speed Zone enabled, which means you choose your data center for faster response. All servers are located in Category-A, PCI-compliant data centers, with N+2 or N+1 power systems and multiple battery and diesel backup systems. The BGP4 network presents downtime, and you can rely on system admins to be on hand 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, backups are generated every 36 hours up to 10GB. InMotion uses 100% Dell servers and Cisco routers, and all machines use RAID 5 protection, and you can count on a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee.

Customer Service & Support

As an employee-owned company, customer service and support is all in-house, and delivered by people who have a stake in your success, and have an average of over four years of experience in the hosting business. Their tech support team is highly rated, friendly, and always responsive. There are plenty of hosting tutorials and guides, along with community support and an extensive knowledgebase, and 24/7 phone support. The company stands behind its service, and offers a
100 percent satisfaction guarantee.

Web Hosting Features

You have plenty of options to choose from, but even the least expensive, entry-level package includes plenty of extras, including spam protection, backups, and web site builders. There is a good library of self-installing scripts, along with image galleries, and compatibility with Dreamweaver and Adobe Go Live, and plenty of blogging tools land web site plug-ins, such as WordPress, web calendars, counters, forum software, Mambo, Joomla, Moodle, and much more.

Business Hosting accounts, as well as the Max personal account, include several e-commerce features, including shopping carts, shared SSL, and password protected directories. InMotion Hosting also goes the extra mile with excellent data backup services, offering a complete, automatic backup of shared and virtual environments. InMotion's backup environment is secure, with all backups transmitted over encrypted connections.