Free domain name, SSL and DDoS protection.
When you sign up for a new hosting plan, you can register a domain name and get a free SSL certificate. They also provide free DDoS protection that helps you mitigate attacks that drain your network's available resources and destabilize your website.
Green data center
Most data centers consume large amounts of energy, and more than half of that energy is used for cooling and air conditioning. To cut cooling costs and reduce carbon emissions by more than 2,000 tons per year, they use advanced outside air cooling technology. They even opened their first green data center in Los Angeles.
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Performance(4.0 / 5.0)
InMotion Hosting Speed Tests and Uptime Guarantee
Choosing a reliable web hosting provider is the first thing you need to do to make your site lightning fast.
To test the performance of the hosting servers for our InMotion reviews, we created a test site on WordPress, using the default Twenty Seventeen theme and dummy content for theme development, including images.
We used 2 different testing tools, Pingdom and Load Impact, to see if InMotion Hosting lived up to its promises.
InMotion Hosting test pingdom
According to our Pingdom website speed test, indonesian phone numbers we found that our test site loaded in just under a second for our user in Dallas, Texas. That means the site was faster than 90% of all sites tested .
This test only looked at how the site was being perceived by a single user in Dallas. To get the full picture of server performance, we wanted to analyze how InMotion Hosting handled increased traffic during peak times.
For our traffic boost test, we used a popular testing tool, Load Impact, and sent some virtual users (VUs) to our site. We slowly increased this to 100 visitors at a time to see how the server would handle it.
In the graph below, you will find blue (active VUs) and green (VU load time) lines representing the number of virtual visitors sent to the test site and the time it took for the web page to load for the respective number of users on the site.
loadimpact inmotion
As you can see, our test site performed well until it reached 25 users. After that, it slowed down as traffic increased. It is also important to note that during our test, no downtime was recorded.
inmotion uptime
InMotion Hosting Server Response Time
From the 2 tests above, we analyze the performance of our site and record the load time and response times. In those tests, we load all the content of our website, including images (which can also have an impact on the page load time). This makes those tests slightly inaccurate when it comes to measuring the response time of a server.
Since our goal was to test the performance of our server, not the site, we needed to perform a more accurate test by ignoring the content of our site.
We decided to run a test using a tool called Bitcatcha, which works a little differently than other website speed testing tools. With Bitcatcha, you can analyze server response times around the world while ignoring the content of the site.
It averages the loading speed from eight different global locations: New York, Los Angeles, London, Brazil, India, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. The speed of each location is measured 3 separate times and then the results are averaged.
With this test, we would get a broader view of how our server responds globally to page requests.
bitcatcha InMotion Hosting test
For websites whose target audience is located in the United States and/or the United Kingdom, InMotion Hosting is a fast and reliable host. If your target audience is located outside of these regions, then you might benefit from finding a server location closer to those regions.
Support(5.0 / 5.0)
InMotion Hosting Customer Support
We personally reached out to their customer support so we could get an honest opinion for our InMotion web hosting review. And we learned that InMotion Hosting offers 24/7/365 US-based technical support via phone, live chat, email/tickets, and even Skype!
After subscribing to any of their hosting plans, you will get access to InMotion Hosting's dedicated support center from where you can manage all your support tickets.
Their extensive documentation will help you learn how to get started with a hosting account and build your online presence. They also regularly upload video tutorials to their YouTube channel to help you with your web hosting questions.
Ease of Use(4.0 / 5.0)
All InMotion Hosting accounts come with an easy-to-use cPanel that allows you to manage your website files, databases, and emails.
You'll find tons of different website scripts to help you easily get a new website up and running with 1-click installers for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.
If you need a faster solution to get your website up and running, you can try their drag-and-drop builder. BoldGrid, InMotion Hosting’s drag-and-drop builder, is built on top of WordPress. Unlike a traditional WordPress site, BoldGrid lets you build your website the exact way you want. Plus, you get the stability and flexibility of WordPress.
For example, if you want to integrate an eCommerce storefront with the builder, all you have to do is install a plugin, such as WooCommerce.