If you're looking for a web hosting provider, you have a tremendous number of choices. In my The best web hosting providers for 2018 article[1], I looked at 15 providers who offer a wide range of plans.
To get a better feel for each individual provider, I set up the most basic account possible and performed a series of tests. In this article, we're going to dive into InMotion Hosting's[2] offerings. Stay tuned for in-depth looks at other providers in future articles.
InMotion Hosting
- Shared hosting starting at $3.39 per month
- WordPress hosting starting at $4.99 per month
- Reseller hosting starting at $13.99 per month
- VPS hosting starting at $19.99 per month
- Dedicated servers starting at $99.99 per month
Because there's such variability among plans and offerings among hosting providers, it's hard to get a good comparison. I've found that one of the best ways to see how a provider performs is to look at the least expensive plan they offer. You can expect the least quality, the least attention to detail, and the least performance from such a plan.
If the vendor provides good service for the bottom-shelf plans, you can generally assume the better plans will also benefit from similar quality. In the case of InMotion Hosting, the quality was quite reasonable.
How pricing really works
For the series of hosting reviews I'm doing now, I'm testing the most basic, most entry-level plan