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InMotion Hosting Review

Permalink December 5, 2007 • Category: Reviews

General

InMotion hosting has been providing businesses with web hosting since 2001 from their offices in Los Angeles, CA and Virginia Beach, VA. Their datacenter is located in downtown L.A. while their tech support is based in Virginia Beach. Note that they do not outsource tech support around the world.

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.

Follow up:

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 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 will not run the latest cutting edge versions of software like the control panel, PHP or MySQL. They will rather focus on the latest proven stable version in order to provide their clients with the highest stability and a seemless 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

(Section updated on Oct. 13, 07)

  • PHP version: 4.4.1 -- Up to date but the default should be PHP5
  • PHP security: Average
  • MySQL version: 4.1.22
  • GD library: 2.0.28 -- Good.

Update: InMotion is now switching to suPHP (instead of mod_php) which is a good thing.

Security

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is average.

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
Monthly fee (× 24 mo) $4.00 $6.95 $8.95 -
Disk space 150 GB 1,500 GB 3,000 GB 4,500 GB
Transfer 1.5 TB 15 TB 30 TB 45 TB
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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5 comments

Comment from: Edgar Engibarian [Visitor] Email · http://www.aesa.org
We host our site with them a business Pro account. Their uptime is good but they bitch second u have to many hits and actually use mysql to its potential. Basic sites are fine i wont recommended real biz site with them unless its on dedicated server ...
01/17/08 @ 17:24
Comment from: Todd Robinson [Visitor] Email
Dear Edgar,

I am really sorry to see this reaction from you. As you are aware, we first contacted you about the problems your site was causing in January of 2007. We have worked with you for over a year to correct these problems, even going to the level of having a senior database engineer point out what you could correct within your MySQL queries.

I am sure you understand that uptime and quality of service is critical for all of our customers. In the case of shared hosting, we must act to stop use that can cause poor performance for our other customers. I feel that giving you over a year to deal with these issues was fair and maybe even more than fair.

Not to be too long winded but the quality of our service is very personal to me so please bear with me. Here at InMotion Hosting we have a formal commitment to our customers called "Assured Quality and Availability" or AQA. AQA was born from InMotion Hosting's long focus on customer service as the basis of our business.

Our "Assured Quality" is made up of our representative's expertise, professionalism, and willingness to help. In fact, our customer service representatives receive a monthly team bonus according to the quality of their interaction with our clients. Everyone in our company knows our clients come first and we are proud to be a company that will do more than other hosting companies will.

In addition, to help our more advanced customers like you, we make every effort to have our Tier II team, our system administrators, and our programmers also available. As you may know, other hosting companies simply do not do this. It is a difficult and costly thing to do, so please understand when access to those individuals are limited.

I understand you feel that you have not received service on the level of our "Assured Quality". At the moment, I know you are still working with one of our system administrators. If necessary, in order to assist you without affecting service for our other clients, I will authorized free service for you on our vps hosting while you resolve this issue.

Sincerely,
Todd Robinson
President, InMotion Hosting, Inc.

AQA Note: Of course, for others reading this that are not familiar with InMotion Hosting, we also measure our "Assured Availability" via the phone, chat and email at all times. In addition to the quality metrics mentioned above, we always strive to be available when you need us. I am personally proud to say our average hold time was less than 1 minute for the last 2 months and under 1.5 minutes for the previous 6 months.
01/23/08 @ 21:32
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] Email · http://carmies-concept.com.au
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] Email · http://fplanque.com/
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

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