Posted by jstoller on September 29, 2012 at 12:33am
I'm in the market for a new web host. Does anyone have any experience with InMotion Hosting? I'm primarily interested in their VPS offerings, but I'd be interested in stories about their shared hosting as well. Good? Bad? Ugly? What's the scoop?
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There were a number of people
There were a number of people from InMotion at Droplabs today. I wish I'd seen your post earlier or I would have pointed them to this discussion. I'll send them an email instead.
I don't know too much about
I don't know too much about InMotion, but atleast looking online, I didn't come across many articles flaming them.
As references:
http://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/inmotion-sucks/ (their final review is that it doesn't suck ;))
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/hosting-reviews/inmotion-hosting/
http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/inmotion-review.html
As far and shared hosting and Drupal is concerned, it just takes one badly behaving site on any isp with shared hosts system to bring every other site, including your own, to its knees. Just keep that in mind.
if you're looking for a good
if you're looking for a good company that has great support for Drupal and is not expensive i recommend getpantheon (getpantheon.com)
STRAIGHT EDGE // WEB DEVELOPER
There are a number of things
There are a number of things that make InMotion interesting for me personally, such as the additional IP addresses, their $99 dedicated servers, and that they're local. I didn't see, however, where their data center is exactly. Most of our development machines are in San Jose, which is close enough for our development team in and around Los Angeles but reducing network latency is always high on our list of priorities.
In a general sense, I'd be careful with any webhost that advertises "burstable" resources. This means that the webhost uses Virtuozzo or OpenVZ, which can use vzfs or be configured in other ways that cause performance issues. These issues are discussed all over the web, including https://drupal.org/node/1392020#comment-5423778
Hopefully a representative from InMotion can jump in here and speak to these points (datacenter location, Virtuozzo configuration, etc.). From my experience, they're a good bunch and are taking an active interest in Drupal. I've added them to the Los Angeles Drupal business directory at http://groups.drupal.org/node/73063#hosting-companies
InMotion Hosting
My name is Jeff and I work for InMotion Hosting. When choosing a VPS with InMotion Hosting, you can select either our east coast data center (in Herndon, VA) or our west coast location (downtown Los Angeles, CA). We do use Virtuozzo for our virtualization, but we do not see too many performance issues associated with it - or we wouldn't be using it. however, as a security blanket, our system administrators are definitely in the office 24x7 to make sure that if there is an issue that you are notified and that we fix it or work with you directly to see what the issue is.
Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more specific questions and I can help you out.