InMotion Hosting is one of our favorite options for personal, business, and dedicated hosting, offering a wealth of plans, features, and support designed to keep your Web presence running smoothly. But then again, all of that stuff can be ascribed to just about every web hosting business in the book. So, when the quick hits the bone, who in the heck really are InMotion? Read our InMotion Hosting user reviews.

Who They Really Are

InMotion first took on its name and business way back when in 2001, arriving out of a merger between business and Internet capability. As such, the provider offers a unique focus to the business consumer, bringing an unparalleled level of services and support aimed at keeping Web-necessary content online at any and all times—even during periods of extreme stress.

Todd Robinson, president of InMotion Hosting.

InMotion Hosting Awards

The company has been winning awards for these stellar services since as early as 2003, racking up a truly astonishing number of commendations since. Among these are the Drupal Association “Organization Member” aware, a CNET Certified Service Provider, an A-Rated Accredited Business with the BBB, the “Best Business Web Hosting“, the “Best Ecommerce Web Hosting“, the “Best VPS Hosting” awards from WebHostingGeeks.com, and the “Best Business Hosting” award from 100WebHosting.com—all of these given in the latest 2011 year. In other words, the company has existed for more than a decade, but has not slacked off on its duties during any time in that period.

To see all awards of InMotion Hosting click here.

InMotion Hosting Customers

Backed by a team of experts with diverse technical backgrounds, the company claims to be committed to its customer base, and according to its continued growth, it seems to be living up to all the talk.

As mentioned before, InMotion comes absolutely loaded to the gills with all kinds of awards, commendations, customer testimonials, and general pats on the back. The company has been turning heads since its initial inception a decade ago, and now supports a track record few—if any—other web hosting providers can match.

That all might be well and grand, but when it comes down to things, what in fact are those services that are so award-winning? Is it possible to knock them down into only a few bullets? In fact yes, yes it is!

Blazing Fast Hosting

One of the things we love most about InMotion is that it allows the user to choose their server of origin, an unprecedented level of control that we can’t match to any other web host. Typically, a shared hosting experience assigns the user a databank somewhere in the country. This datacenter may or may not be closest to the user’s home demographic, potentially stripping the consumer’s site of all useable performance. In comparison, InMotion offers two East and West coast oriented options, based on their Max Speed Zones system.

West Coast Data Center

East Coast Data Center

This system provides unparalleled protection and performance across the board, no matter what market you’re attempting to reach within the continental United States. In addition, for those hard to reach spots (like our native Denver) InMotion offers peer-based connectivity to give extra boosts as needed.

Green Like A City-Slicker Rancher

Believe it or not, server banks are actually one of the premier causes of pollution in modern times. InMotion is one of only a few select companies to recognize this fact, and to have taken measures to lessen their initial impact. For example, the company now runs its technology and cutting-edge cooling systems that reduce server grid drain by as much as 70%. There’s also the fact that InMotion plants 5,000 trees a year to offset any negative impact it may put into the ecosystem. All in all, InMotion is green as it gets, and that’s an incredible thing.

InMotion Hosting Support

However, it isn’t just features, or general overviews, that get our goat about the web hosting company. In fact, almost more than anything else, it’s their unique dedication to solving and preventing customer complications as they arise. InMotion offers a fully operational 24/7 chat line for customers to call, day or night, for resolutions to their web hosting conundrums as they appear.

Should you find yourself without a telephone, there’s absolutely no reason to panic. In fact, InMotion offers more than enough additional ways to get the job done, and have your website back up and running in no time. This includes a dedicated email support ticket system, live chat to aide you day-or-night directly from your computer, traditional email, and of course, the social networks.

Telephone Sales: 888-321-4678 x1 or 757-416-6575 x1
Telephone Support: 888-321-4678 x2 or 757-416-6575 x2

Email Sales: sales@inmotionhosting.com
Email Support: support@inmotionhosting.com

Live Chat: click here

Google+: https://plus.google.com/109777154476249834137/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/inmotionhosting
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inmotionhosting

More ways to contact InMotion Hosting: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/contact.html.

InMotion Hosting Help Center

In addition, InMotion also offers a full support center that’s loaded with a knowledge base of Alexandrian proportions. There’s website and email tutorials, as well as domain name set-up information, and even tutorials on general website education. It’s as if InMotion secretly has an hidden agenda, and it’s to make you smarter than you were when you went in! And when all else fails, there’s also a community support forum where you’re free to ask other customers for their time-earned and trial-and-error advice.

All in all, InMotion offers quite an impressive package on paper. They’re award-winning, have lasted over a decade, and offer a set of features that can be boiled down into a simple list, yet still strike the reader with a sense of overwhelming pizzazz. But don’t think we’re done with the company just yet: In fact, we’re only just warming up! Stick around, as we now change gears, and head directly into the hosting plans themselves to look for even more reasons why InMotion is one of the premier choices in online Web hosting.

Web Hosting Plans

We have detailed a few of the ways in which InMotion might appeal to the carefully selective web master, and we have given a few of the ways in which InMotion is prepared to help its customers with any technical problems, should they arise. However, what we have not yet discussed was perhaps the most crucial part of the whole scheme—the hosting plans themselves! To this end, we are now prepared to dish the full details on the topic. So without further ado, dive on below to peep the full details on what makes InMotion’s web hosting plans absolutely essential for the conscientious business with a desire for a firmer Web presence.

Shared Hosting (For Personal or Business Use)

Without a doubt, shared web hosting is certainly the largest part of the market, and we have a feeling most of our readers will be looking for a quality package in this category. Shared web hosting is, after all, a great way to save on initial overhead while still garnering an incredible level of performance and Net presence. But how does InMotion stack up? Is it possible to achieve this level of success with the web host? The short answer: Totally yeah!

Right off the bat, InMotion promises to deliver the performance you want at the price you need. Just take this quote, which we’ve pulled directly from the company’s shared hosting page:

“Rest assured, you will get the best quality hosting from InMotion – even if you are shopping for cheap hosting.”

We’re willing to take InMotion at face value, but the facts are all there to support exactly this sort of claim. Consider the fact that the company offers not one, but two different shared hosting plans.

One, the Value Class Hosting is fast, offers SPAM protection, 2 MB attachment size, and even a web site builder. Should you need a little more oomph, there’s also the Business Class Hosting tier, which offers 50% faster server speeds, thanks to the Max Speed Zone capability, as well as increased attachment size, daily backups, 5 bandwidth providers, and a premium-style website creation tool.

And across the board, InMotion offers a mammoth amount of functionality, including MySQL support, dedicated email accounts, FTP access, shared SSL, additional sub domains, and even support for popular coding and development platforms like WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS. All in all, it’s an impressive package, and one that starts at as little as $3.00 a month.

Visit http://www.inmotionhosting.com for more information.

VPS Hosting (For Ecommerce Websites)

But what if you’d like just a step-up, but aren’t quite ready to commit to a full-on dedicated server with your business? What if you’d prefer to have your data physically separated from all the other tenants of the server, but can’t quite cough up the budget to get it done with a unique hardware set? With InMotion, it’s no trouble at all! The hosting provider offers a wealth of comprehensive and powerful virtual private server hosting options that are guaranteed to meet your needs and then some. Best of all, these plans start at only $39.95 a month—a cheaper price than we’ve seen just about anywhere else on the market.

For that money, users can enjoy a bevy of ground-breaking features. These include 24×7 managed support, exactly as we mentioned in the previous articles. This means that, day-or-night, InMotion is available via phone, live chat, or email to help you with your virtual hosting needs. In addition, the company also offers burstable RAM for when peak periods creep up, as well as full data backups to preserve and protect your site from unwanted down-time. Not to mention a full cPanel and WHM license, granting you unparalleled access to the inner workings of your site—without even any need for complex HTML or CSS coding knowledge!

To throw some last numbers into the mix, consider this: A virtual private server hosting experience with InMotion comes stock with up to 1024 MB of RAM, 3 GB of burstable memory, 1500 GB transfer limits, and 160 GB in RAID 10 Fault Tolerant Disc Space. And if that doesn’t sound like a bargain to you, we don’t know what else we can say (except move on to the next category, Soldier).

More information: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/vps_hosting.html.

Dedicated Servers (For Large Portals)

And finally, the big one. If you’re looking for the utmost in performance, security, and personal web power, there’s no better option than dedicated server hosting. Typically, this kind of hosting would run you a quick bundle to own. But with InMotion, it’s nearly a walk in the park! Starting at as little as $199.95 a month, you can own and operate your very own server without even having to lift a finger. This process is made even more powerful by the fully-capable 24×7 support mentioned earlier, which guarantees your server is managed and operated personally by trained professionals. Should you be dissatisfied with the server’s performance, though, the company offers a full, 30-day money back guarantee: An offer we have not seen anywhere else but InMotion for dedicated hosting.

To round out this part of our InMotion overview, have a look at some of the raw statistics (and power) behind the servers. A dedicated server with the company earns you up to 2.53 GHz, Intel Xeon Quad Core performance, tied to an 8 MB CPU Cache, and 8 GB RAM. In addition, pans max out at a whopping 500 GB disc space, and a 2500 GB monthly transfer limit. Add to this a full cPanel license, 2-Hour hardware replacement, and no set-up fee, and you’re looking at a solidly budget way to experience top-end performance.

More information: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/dedicated_servers.html.

InMotion Hosting Reviews

Whether you require a simple personal or business website, a more powerful virtualized environment, or your own dedicated server, InMotion Hosting definitely makes a fine choice for your web hosting needs and our visitors have confirmed that over the years. If you are still not sure about signing up with InMotion, check our user written reviews at http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/inmotion-hosting/.

I hope you liked this review. Stay tuned, more hosting reviews coming soon!

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The web hosting industry fortunately isn’t one of these.  Costs have come down so far in relation to technological advances that finding good deals that you can rely on is not hard.  Let’s list off some of the best of them. Keep in mind that prices and deals change rapidly, so if you find something that peaks your interest, act fast.

1) Web Hosting Hub

One of the first thing’s that you might be worried about with a bargain host is that their customer service would suffer.  This certainly seemed to be the case with a lot of the hosts we surveyed, but it wasn’t with Web Hosting Hub.  Their customer service got rave reviews from our research, and it didn’t impact their cost.  $4.95 per month gets you the usual list of “unlimited”s (disk space, bandwidth, email addresses, etc.), and their money back guarantee offer goes all the way up to 90 days.

2) InMotion Hosting

Also getting high marks in just about all areas is InMotion Hosting.  Their “Launch” plan currently starts at $5.95 a month, and this gets you support for a long list of hosting software packages, including several types of streaming software, several spam filtering programs and multiple site design programs.  The next account up, the Power Account at $7.95/month also gives you access to several shopping cart programs.

3) Arxive Web Hosting

Quickly moving up in the world of discount web hosting is Arxive.  Their library is filled with support for all types of software packages in all areas, and they offer it at a mere $4.00 month in either Linux or Windows hosting packages.  They’ve received strong recommendations from their customer base in all areas.

4) Pacific Host

If you need to go even cheaper than the above hosts and still want to maintain that necessary level of quality, Pacific Host’s Basic plan is available at $2.49/month with a three year plan.  Though not among the largest web hosts they appear to be growing in number, and the reviews we did find gave them lots of thumbs up.  Note that this is really a discount plan: you’ll want to go through the list of features to make sure it’s not missing anything you don’t need.

5) IX Web Hosting

Also coming in extra cheap is one of the big boys of web hosting, IX Web Hosting.  With their current specials their shared hosting plans don’t go any higher than $7.95/month, and all of their account types are feature packed.  The Unlimited Pro comes with 15 IP addresses and 10GB each of database and email account space.  Their “Expert Hosting” plan at $3.99/month comes with nearly as many features.

It was once that inexpensive web hosting was something that a serious webmaster wanted to stay away from.  The market has now swung the other way.  You can now get it both ways: quality and frugality are no longer mortal enemies to the serious web site developers.

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In this first article we’ll outline a few of the key differences between shared web hosting and VPS hosting. Some of these apply only in the case of InMotion Hosting’s plans, but many of them are standard for VPS implementations.

Separate OS and Software

Virtual Private Servers have a complete autonomous Operating System specifically for that VPS. All of the software necessary to run a shared hosting server is present but setup just for the VPS to use. A VPS from InMotion Hosting is almost identical to having a dedicated server while having the convenience of a shared hosting account. It even has a full copy of Cpanel included.

Private Email Server & IP Address

Shared web hosting solutions share not only the web server but also the email server. In many situations, shared mail servers will handle thousands if not tens of thousands of domains at a time. With a VPS Hosting solution, a company will have its own email server dedicated to handling its own email. In addition, the email will be coming from a unique IP address and this greatly helps ensure fast, accurate delivery. There are several other benefits but the above two are the biggest factors for small and medium sized businesses that rely on email for their daily operations.

Custom Security Policy

VPS Hosting platforms are allow for a customized security policy. Your company can dictate how your vps is accessed and when. For example, with shared web hosting, email (POP/SMTP/IMAP/Web Mail) must be accessible through both secure and standard connections. VPS Hosting allows the business to require that its employees access their email through a secure socket layer (SSL) connection. This helps ensure logins and passwords are encrypted and can help prevent hackers from obtaining that information while in transit.

On-Server Anti-Virus Scanning

VPS Hosting accounts will most often include the ability to scan all incoming email for potential virus threats through an on-server virus scanning process. This is a resource intensive process and shared hosting typically doesn’t include it because it can greatly degrade reliability of the shared hosting server.

Customizable Firewall

Shared web hosting usually (and really should if it doesn’t) includes some form of firewall protection to help prevent hackers from accessing the server. When the firewalls are set up for shared hosting, access must be allowed to everyone on that particular server to control panels, web mail, POP, SMTP, FTP, etc. With VPS hosting, because it’s a stand-alone environment, the firewall can be locked down to only allow access from specific locations to those important services. For example, a business may be concerned about who has access to update the web site and will want to only allow access from their office to FTP or the hosting control panel.

A follow up coming soon.

Please feel free to ask questions, technical or from a business standpoint, and I will try to answer them in our upcoming posts.

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