InMotionHosting: A review for those who don't INTERNETZ

This Wordpress blog is hosted by InMotionHosting, So, when I switched from blogger to word press (I switched back later)(which is why my posts older than this have some derps), I did some investigation. Wordpress.com seemed ok, but the price on damn near everything was way too expensive. Wordpress.org is nice, but you have to host your own page.

I decided to take the learning approach and purchased a shared host. I searched the internets, blog after blog, forum after forum. Some people say some say hostgator, some say bluehost , some say some other random esortic smalltime hosts.



So, I was like "I'm a cheap dude, what can I do without spending much money?"

I found 2 types of good deals. 3.49$ a month or 3.99$ a host.

Bluehost has 3.99 a month, but you need 36 months to get the deal, otherwise it's 4.99 or 5.99 depending on years

Hostgator can do 3.99 a month, again with long contracts

Inmotionhosting was 3.99 for a year or 3.49 for 2 years was the price I had temporarily

As to quality of service, I've heard both negative and positive things about both hostgator and bluehost. I have no personal experience with either. I'm not going to bash one company or another that I know little about.

Signing up for inmotionhosting was fairly simple. They do require that you call them on the phone, which can be awkward for some people, but I live in the US, so I don't care.

I was able to choose eastcoast or westcoast hosting. Performance has generally been good. To be fair, I'm using a free content delivery network called cloudflare. The only issue I've had has been using social buttons, but social buttons I've been trying have been addthis, or sharethis. The problem has been performance, and I believe I have traced it actually down to being the CDN node near my own location, as other locations are as much as 10 times faster. If I could rehost buttons locally, which I don't know how to do, because I am no web guru, I probably could fix my performance problems.

Creating a Wordpress was literally 2 clicks from Cpanel. Controls for hosting are very simple. I did a reverse DNS and only found 27 domains on my server. I don't know about every host, but I've heard a lot of rumors of other shared servers on other hosts having upwards of 4000 domains. 2 orders of magnitude is significantly different nstuff.

It's so much fun to play with all this stuff!