InMotion Hosting

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.

Customer statisfaction

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.

User experience

Our InMotion test site showed to be very responsive.

Follow up:

InMotion uses the industry proven cPanel architecture. No surprises there.

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

Technical specs

(Section updated on Oct. 13, 07)

• PHP version: 4.4.1 — Up to date but the default should be PHP5
• PHP security: St4.1.22
• GD library: 2.0.28 — Good.

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

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