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

[stars:5] Our InMotion test site showed to be very responsive.

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

[stars:5] 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

[stars:5] Overall, the platform is pretty cutting-edge and also offers free SSD drives which are much faster than the traditional hard drives used by most other hosting companies.

• PHP security: Very Good (suPHP)
• GD library: Up to date

Section updated in March 2017

Security

[stars:4.5] Overall security is good.

SFTP is not available but FTP over TLS/SSH is supported, which provides equal levels of security.

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When I was in L.A. a couple of weeks ago, I visited LunarPages' data center located in the One Wilshire building. This is just one of Lunar's 3 different data centers. They have another one in L.A. and a third one in Vegas.

Interestingly enough, I learnt that One Wilshire is the 3rd most connected building in the world! A lot of other hosting companies actually have server cages there...

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Contrary to most, AN Hosting is extending their cyber monday promo, making it the best promo available at this moment.

• DOUBLE DISK SPACE: 500 GB
• DOUBLE BANDWIDTH: 5 TB / Month
• DOUBLE DOMAINS: 40 on 1 account
• LOWER PRICE: $4.95/mo instead of $6.95/mo

MidPhase recently sent me those pictures of their new datacenter hosting their servers for AN Hosting as well as MidPhase.

I think they look cool. Actually I think hosts should always show their data centers on their website... but they rarely do. I don't know, is it me having a fetish for server racks?? ;)

Seriously, I believe how neat or how messy someone's datacenter is tells you a lot! ;)

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AN Hosting has increased their specs even further as part of their "Halloween Hosting Extravaganza Sale". They are now at TRIPLE their normal specs while still below their normal price!

• TRIPLE DISK SPACE: 750 GB
• TRIPLE BANDWIDTH: 7.5 TB / Month
• TRIPLE DOMAINS: 60 on 1 account
• LOWER PRICE: $5.95/mo instead of $6.95

If you want to take advantage of this, watch out, the promo is only valid until "Midnight on Halloween" (October 31st, 11:59 PM Central).

Our take: their double specs promo was good; this one is even better! If you need space and bandwidth, it's a no brainer: go for that one until it lasts!