Ubuntu VPS Hosting: Configuration, Performance, and What to Look For Updated on March 31, 2026 by Sam Page Ubuntu is the most widely deployed Linux distribution for VPS hosting. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Long Term Support) is the standard for production deployments, with support until April 2027. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS extends through 2029. This guide covers what to know before provisioning, how to configure Ubuntu VPS for production workloads, and which InMotion plans support… Continue Reading
Bare Metal Dedicated Servers: What They Are and How to Evaluate Providers Updated on March 30, 2026 by Sam Page The term ‘bare metal’ gets used loosely in hosting. Sometimes it means a dedicated physical server with no virtualization layer. Sometimes it means unmanaged dedicated hosting. Sometimes it means something between the two. This article cuts through the terminology, explains what bare metal actually means in a hosting context, and gives you a framework for… Continue Reading
How to Build Recurring Revenue Into Your Agency’s Service Model Updated on March 27, 2026 by Sam Page Project revenue is unpredictable. One month you close three new clients; the next month you close none. Recurring revenue solves the cash flow problem that quietly limits most agencies’ growth: when your baseline income covers operating costs, every new project becomes growth rather than survival. Continue Reading
How to Set Up SSH Key Authentication on a Linux VPS Updated on March 27, 2026 by Sam Page Password-based SSH authentication is the most common entry point for brute-force attacks on Linux servers. SSH key authentication replaces the password with a cryptographic key pair: a private key that never leaves your local machine, and a public key that lives on the server. This guide walks through the complete setup, from key generation to… Continue Reading
Core Web Vitals and Web Hosting: What’s Actually in Your Control Updated on March 26, 2026 by Sam Page Core Web Vitals are Google’s set of user experience metrics that directly affect search rankings. Three of them, Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), have specific thresholds that distinguish good performance from poor. Your hosting infrastructure is directly responsible for two of them and partially responsible for… Continue Reading
How to Choose a Dedicated Server Plan: A Workload-Based Framework Updated on March 26, 2026 by Sam Page Dedicated server plans are differentiated by processor, RAM, storage configuration, and bandwidth. Picking the wrong tier means either paying for capacity you don’t use or capping out before your application is ready to need more. This guide walks through how to match your workload requirements to the right plan, using InMotion Hosting’s current server lineup… Continue Reading
What Is IPMI and Why It Matters for Dedicated Server Management Updated on March 26, 2026 by Sam Page IPMI stands for Intelligent Platform Management Interface. It’s a hardware-level management system built into most enterprise server motherboards that allows you to monitor and control a server independently of its operating system. If your OS crashes, your kernel panics, or your network stack stops responding, IPMI is still available. That’s the core value proposition. Continue Reading
How to Install Git on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 Updated on March 24, 2026 by Sam Page Git is available in Ubuntu’s default package repositories on both 22.04 LTS and 24.04, so installation is fast. The more involved part is configuring SSH key authentication for GitHub or GitLab, which is what this guide covers in full. You’ll also find a section on managing multiple Git identities on a single server, which comes… Continue Reading
What Is a Cloud Server? How They Work and When to Use One Updated on March 24, 2026 by Sam Page A cloud server is a virtual server that runs within a shared pool of computing resources, provisioned on demand and accessible over the internet. The definition is simple. What trips people up is understanding how it differs from a VPS, when it makes sense over a dedicated server, and what ‘cloud’ actually implies about performance,… Continue Reading
High-Frequency Data Processing on Dedicated Servers Updated on March 23, 2026 by Sam Page High-frequency data processing has a precise definition: systems that must ingest, process, and act on data streams at rates that exhaust the capacity of typical web hosting infrastructure. Financial market data feeds arriving at 100,000 updates per second, industrial sensor networks transmitting telemetry from thousands of devices simultaneously, real-time aggregation pipelines that must reduce millions of events per minute to queryable summaries — these workloads require dedicated bare metal hardware for reasons that go beyond simple CPU capacity.Continue Reading
Rate Limiting AI Crawler Bots with ModSecurity Updated on March 18, 2026 by Sam Page AI training bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and a dozen other companies are now hitting production web servers with the same aggression as a DDoS attack, and robots.txt isn’t stopping them. This guide walks through how InMotion’s systems team uses ModSecurity to enforce per-bot rate limiting at the server level, without cutting off your site’s… Continue Reading
CDN Origin Server Optimization for Dedicated Infrastructure Updated on March 17, 2026 by Sam Page A CDN is only as fast as what it’s pulling from. When a CDN edge node needs to fetch an uncached asset from your dedicated server — a cache miss — the speed of that origin response determines how long the user waits. An origin server that responds in 50ms delivers a very different user… Continue Reading
VOIP & Unified Communications Hosting on Dedicated Servers Updated on March 17, 2026 by Sam Page Monthly per-seat fees for UCaaS platforms add up fast. A company with 50 employees paying $30-50/seat for business phone service pays $18,000-30,000 annually for communications infrastructure that a self-hosted Asterisk/FreePBX deployment on a dedicated server replaces at a fraction of the cost. The tradeoff is configuration complexity and the responsibility to keep the system running.For… Continue Reading
Live Streaming Server Requirements on Dedicated Hardware Updated on March 16, 2026 by Sam Page Running live streams through Twitch or YouTube is fine until you need control they don’t give you — custom latency, multiple simultaneous streams, audience-specific routing, or a setup where the platform takes no cut of monetization. Self-hosted streaming on a dedicated server solves all of these, but the hardware and configuration requirements are specific. Getting… Continue Reading
TCO Analysis: 3-Year vs 5-Year Dedicated Server Ownership Updated on March 18, 2026 by Sam Page Most infrastructure cost comparisons show monthly prices. Monthly price is the least useful number for planning infrastructure spend — it hides the compounding costs of hardware refresh, staff time, and technology debt that make a “cheaper” option more expensive over a planning horizon. Continue Reading