Compare InMotion Shared Hosting Plans: Launch, Power, and Pro

InMotion Hosting offers three shared hosting plans built around real workload tiers: Launch for a couple of small sites, Power for growing businesses running up to ten sites, and Pro for agencies and operators who need agency-level controls on a single account. This guide breaks down what each plan supports, where the performance differences come from, and how to pick the one that matches your traffic and site count today.

How Do Launch, Power, and Pro Compare Side by Side?

The fastest way to see where each plan sits is a direct feature comparison. Each plan steps up in website count, storage, performance tier, and support coverage.

Feature	Launch	Power	Pro
Websites Supported	2	10	40
NVMe SSD Storage	100 GB	200 GB	300 GB
Bandwidth	Unmetered	Unmetered	Unmetered
Monthly Visitor Capacity	~50K	~300K	~500K
vCPU / RAM Allocation	Standard shared	Standard shared	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM
UltraStack Performance Tier	6X	12X	20X
Advanced Caching	Not included	Included	Included
Email Storage per Inbox	5 GB	10 GB	20 GB
Email Accounts	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
MySQL / PostgreSQL Databases	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Dedicated IP Address	Available add-on	Available add-on	Included
Agency Features (WHM, multiple cPanels)	No	No	Yes
Phone, Live Chat, and Ticket Support from Humans	Chat and ticket	All channels	All channels
Uptime Guarantee	99.99%	99.99%	99.99%

Every plan ships with a free domain credit, free SSL, free site migration, malware and DDoS protection, a web application firewall, cPanel access, unlimited parked domains, and a 90-day money-back guarantee.

View Plans & Pricing

How Many Websites Can You Host on Each Plan?

Website limits used to be the most common point of confusion on shared hosting. The current lineup makes the counts explicit so you can plan capacity without guessing.

• Launch supports up to 2 websites. That covers a primary domain plus one additional addon domain, which is enough for a business site paired with a small project, blog, or staging instance.
• Power supports up to 10 websites under one cPanel account. This is the sweet spot for small business operators running a main site, a couple of microsites, a development copy, and several niche or campaign properties.
• Pro supports up to 40 websites distributed across as many as 4 cPanel accounts (one main account and three child accounts). The 40-site cap is a combined limit across all cPanels on the plan.

Subdomains and parked domains are unlimited on every plan, so internal sections like blog.example.com or shop.example.com do not count against your site total.

What Storage and Bandwidth Do You Actually Get?

All three plans use NVMe SSD storage, which delivers faster read and write speeds than older SATA SSDs. NVMe matters most for database-driven sites, where a single page load can trigger dozens of queries.

Storage scales with the plan: 100 GB on Launch, 200 GB on Power, and 300 GB on Pro. For context, a typical WordPress install with a moderate media library uses 1 to 5 GB. Even small ecommerce stores with hundreds of product images rarely exceed 20 GB. Storage becomes the deciding factor when you are running backups, staging copies, or sites with heavy video or PDF assets.

Bandwidth is unmetered on every plan. There are no overage charges. What governs real-world capacity is the monthly visitor estimate, which reflects the CPU, memory, and concurrency a plan can handle before sites slow down under load.

How Does Performance Scale from Launch to Pro?

Every plan runs on InMotion’s UltraStack platform, which combines NGINX, PHP-FPM, OPcache, and Redis to accelerate dynamic content. The tiering shows up in how much of that stack is tuned per plan.

• Launch delivers 6X UltraStack performance, which is calibrated for small sites with modest traffic patterns.
• Power steps up to 12X UltraStack and adds advanced caching, which makes a noticeable difference for WordPress and WooCommerce sites that serve repeat visitors.
• Pro reaches 20X UltraStack with the same advanced caching, plus a dedicated 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM allocation that protects your account from noisy neighbor activity.

Internal load testing showed InMotion shared hosting averaging a 0.77 second server response time for WordPress sites under high concurrent load. That figure puts shared hosting performance closer to entry-level VPS than to bargain-tier shared hosting from price-led competitors.

What Agency Features Come with the Pro Plan?

Pro is the only shared plan built for managing multiple client sites under a single billing relationship. The agency tooling was added specifically to address a gap: agencies that did not want to white-label reseller hosting but still needed account isolation between clients.

The Pro plan includes:

• WHM access from your account control panel. You can create, suspend, and manage child cPanel accounts the same way a reseller would, without the white-label branding overhead.
• Up to 4 cPanel accounts per plan. One main cPanel and three child accounts, each fully isolated so a plugin issue or compromise on one client site cannot affect another.
• One dedicated IP credit per cPanel account. You can claim up to four dedicated IPs across the plan, useful for SSL setups, mail deliverability, or clients with strict allowlisting requirements.
• Standard LVE resource profiles per child account. Each child cPanel inherits a defined CPU and RAM ceiling, so one runaway site cannot starve the others.

This setup is meaningfully different from packing multiple sites into a single cPanel account, where they share files, databases, and resource limits. True account separation reduces blast radius when something goes wrong on a single client site.

Which Shared Hosting Plan Should You Choose?

The right plan is almost always the one that matches your site count and monthly traffic with some headroom. A useful way to pick:

• Choose Launch if you are running one or two small business sites, a personal site plus a project, or a freelancer portfolio. Launch handles roughly 50K monthly visitors before you start feeling resource pressure.
• Choose Power if you operate a small business with growth ambitions, run a content site that gets steady search traffic, or manage a handful of related properties. Power is sized for around 300K monthly visitors and is the most common starting point for active business sites.
• Choose Pro if you are an agency or operator managing client sites, running a higher-traffic ecommerce store, or you specifically need account isolation, dedicated CPU and RAM, or a dedicated IP. Pro supports roughly 500K monthly visitors and includes the agency tooling out of the box.

Visitor estimates assume reasonably optimized sites. A WordPress site with 40 active plugins, no caching plugin, and a heavy theme will hit limits sooner than a lean install with caching configured properly.

What Comes Included on Every Shared Hosting Plan?

Several features are standard across Launch, Power, and Pro, which keeps the comparison focused on capacity and performance rather than feature gating.

• cPanel control panel for managing files, databases, email, DNS, and one-click app installs.
• Free SSL certificates through AutoSSL, with automatic renewal handled at the server level.
• Free no-downtime website migration performed by InMotion’s migration team.
• Free domain registration for the first year on 12, 24, or 36 month plans, with .COM, .ORG, .NET, .INFO, and .BIZ extensions eligible.
• Unlimited email accounts branded to your domain, plus a 30-day Professional Email trial.
• Softaculous one-click installer with 400+ applications including WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
• SSH access, WP-CLI, Git, Node.js, Python, and Ruby support for developers who need command-line workflows.
• MailChannels integration for outbound email deliverability protection.
• Malware and DDoS protection at the network and server level.
• 90-day money-back guarantee, which is among the longest in the industry.

Sites on every plan are hosted in InMotion’s Virginia, California, or Amsterdam data centers.

What Add-Ons Can You Layer onto Shared Hosting?

Add-ons cover the gaps that not every site needs.

• Backup Manager. Off-server backups with automated schedules and one-click restore. Useful when you want longer retention than your account-level backups provide.
• Dedicated IP address. Available on Launch and Power as an add-on, included with Pro. Worth considering if you run an email-heavy site, need a static IP for third-party allowlisting, or are configuring specific SSL setups.
• Paid SSL certificates. AutoSSL handles standard encryption for free, but certain payment processors and enterprise integrations require Organization Validated (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) certificates.
• InMotion Solutions consulting. Hourly engineering help for site optimization, custom configurations, or migrations that fall outside a standard ticket are available for purchase.

Backups, dedicated IPs, and Professional Email are the three add-ons most shared hosting customers eventually purchase.

When Should You Move Beyond Shared Hosting?

Shared hosting works well until your site outgrows the resource ceiling of a shared environment. Common signs that you have hit that point:

• Repeated CPU or memory throttling notifications from your account
• Time to First Byte (TTFB) climbing above 800ms during normal traffic
• WooCommerce checkout abandonment correlated with site slowdowns
• Compliance requirements (PCI scope, HIPAA, custom firewall rules) that need root access
• Traffic spikes that consistently exceed the plan’s visitor capacity

When those patterns show up, Managed VPS or a Managed Dedicated Server gives you guaranteed CPU and RAM, full root access, and predictable performance under load. Both product lines include cPanel and WHM, so the operational experience stays familiar.

Ready to Choose a Shared Hosting Plan?

Most small business sites and growing portfolios start with the Power plan and move to Pro when site count or client work picks up. Pure agencies and ecommerce operators usually start at Pro to get the dedicated resources and agency tooling from day one.

Review the Shared Hosting plan details for current pricing and term options, or contact our team if you want help sizing a plan to your traffic and stack. Every plan is backed by the 90-day money-back guarantee, so you can validate the fit on your actual workload before committing long-term.