InMotion Hosting Review

General

InMotion hosting has been providing businesses with web hosting since 2001 from their offices in Los Angeles, CA and Virginia Beach, VA. They do not outsource tech support -- all support is done from their Virgina Beach office.

They are the only host in this price range to give you the option of hosting from two geographically different data centers - one in downtown L.A. and the other just outside of Washington, DC.

Having the option to choose a datacenter near you can save you a lot of time if your business heavily relies on interacting with your website backoffice during the day.

InMotion's position is definitely oriented towards business hosting rather than personal web hosting. They offer the whole range of hosting plans from starter shared hosted plans, to virtual private servers to dedicated / managed servers.

User experience

Our InMotion test site showed to be very responsive.

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We were able to perform 10 simultaneous FTP transfers, which is outstanding and makes site maintenance extremely fast.

InMotion uses the industry proven cPanel architecture. No surprises there. The default settings allow for good operation without running into annoying limitations.

The default settings allow for reasonable operation without running into annoying limitations.

Customer satisfaction

Our satisfaction surveys show that what their customers appreciate the most is the quality of the tech support.

This concurs with our own findings that InMotion Hosting focus on the latest proven stable version of server software components in order to provide their clients with the highest stability and a seamless experience.

We have also noticed that InMotion was rated "A" by the Better Business Bureau (L.A.) which is excellent and sufficiently rare in the hosting industry to be noted.

Technical specs

• PHP version: 5.2.6 -- Up to date
• PHP security: Very Good (suPHP)
• MySQL version: 5.0.67 -- Up to date
• GD library: 2.0.34 -- Up to date

Overall, the platform is state of the art (16GB or 32GB of RAM, 2 Quad Core Xeons, 15,000 RPM SAS Hard Drives...)

Section updated on Feb 26th, 2009

Security

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

	Basic	Launch	Power	Pro
Monthly fee (× 1 mo)	-	-	-	$19.95
Monthly fee (× 6 mo)	-	-	-	$19.95
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	-	$7.95	$9.95	$18.95 $17.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$4.00	$6.95 $5.95	$8.95 $7.95	-
Disk space	150 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Transfer	1,500 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Included domain name	free	free	free	free
Sites per account	1	2	6	16
Domains per account	2	6	26	unlimited
MySQL databases	1	2	50	200
b2evo auto install	yes	yes	yes	yes

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9 comments

Comment from: Robert W. Brooks [Visitor]

Wednesday afternoon, 6 February 2008

Greetings

I am a computer novice. My primary use of my computer has been book research and word processing. Now, the 5th Tennessee, an organization, of which I am a member, has placed the duty upon me, to build, a website. I was searching for a web hosting provider, and was introduced to your site.

I commend you for the informative nature, of your site, and I found the tutorials very helpful as they present a relatively easy approach to building a new website.

I talked, via telephone, with Jeremiah, extension 854,
a very courteous individual, who answered my questions and furnished informative suggestions.

I shall report my findings, to the board, and I am confident we, 5th Regiment Tennessee Infantry, Company E, shall conduct business with you within the coming month.

Thank you for your assistance and courtesies.

Gratefully

Robert W. Brooks

02/06/08 @ 20:08

Comment from: Carmen [Visitor]

I have been looking for web hosting as I would like to start doing some Internet Marketing. My package suggests that the hosting sits has Fantastico and Cpanel in it. I can't seem to find it on your information. Can you please let me know if the $5.95 package has these features.
Thanks Carmen.

02/20/08 @ 08:40

Comment from: Francois Planque [Member]

Yes it does have cPanel and Fantastico. It is $6.95 / month though. Not sure where you saw $5.95.

02/20/08 @ 10:49

Comment from: Pedro Pablo [Visitor]

I have been hosted with InMotion for almost a year, and I am much more satisfied than I could expect for a 10$/month service.
They have lot of features, but what I like the most is their customer support, both sales and technical. They phoned me (an international call!) just to make a faster account setup, and in just a few hours, my account was setup and ready.
I have placed several advanced tecnical requests, and all of them have been attended in the same day, including a server move, with no service disruption.
Their technical staff know what this is all about, which is a pleasure for a techie like me.
Also, when reaching shared account limits, they have been very fair: they moved my account to another server and helped me to find out what the problem was.
In summary, very good company for technical people. If they continue the good work, I will keep working with them for years

06/02/08 @ 00:27

Comment from: RJ Bucsko Jr [Visitor]

I have hosted for over a year at inmotionhosting and other than a few early hiccups which they corrected immediately even though it was my fault there were still no pointing the finger. Up time is unsurpassed I promise that along with their customer service which takes the cake I feel.

The only thing I wish is they had a Message Board forum where inmotionhosting clients could trade secrets about inmotion products and tools not just general web building tools for everyone.

Overall a 9 outta 10

RJ Bucsko Jr
www.okpetresort.com
Lake Chelan Washington
Satisfied inmotionhosting Client

10/10/08 @ 03:19

Comment from: Faisal [Visitor]

InMotion hosting is simply the best.

11/24/08 @ 13:48

Comment from: Edwin [Visitor]

InMotion is a great hosting provider. There is no doubt of that. I have used them in the past and their a excellent service. They do cost slightly more than other providers. But if you want the best quality, that's what you get in the price.

02/06/09 @ 10:58

Comment from: surendra kumar naidu [Visitor]

i have been looking for webhosting for my personal site. i thought inmotion is good.

03/03/09 @ 12:37

Comment from: Debra in Marin County California [Visitor]

I've been an InMotionHosting.com customer for several years. They are excellent and worth every penny. After using other companies for hosting and inadequate tech support, I appreciate the quality of support and services offered by InMotion Hosting