InMotion Hosting Establishes a New Foothold InMotion Hosting establishes a foothold in the IaaS and Private Cloud markets by announcing the general availability of Flex Metal Cloud IaaS. Flex Metal Cloud offers an On-Demand Private Cloud powered by OpenStack, an open-source infrastructure platform. In this article: On-Demand Private Clouds Made Easily Accessible for Smaller IT Read More >
Cloud Repatriation is the Choice of Cloud Professionals Public cloud users are finding out that for all their convenience and so-called affordability, they are not suitable for their workloads. Serious work requires serious infrastructure. Private clouds are the perfect solution for experienced cloud professionals who are tired of shocking cloud bills, or disappointing performance from Read More >
In this guide, we’ll show you how to manage WooCommerce products in your online store. When building an eCommerce site using the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, a major aspect is managing products. Since there are many product options available we will help you understand how it all works, so you can get your store set Read More >
Thanks SuperMicro! First, a special thank you out to SuperMicro and specifically their networking team. One of the keys for this on demand private cloud product is to be able to start with a small footprint. We use SuperMicro’s blade servers for our smallest complete OpenStack deployment (a 3 server hyper-converged cluster). As far as Read More >
Introduction Although the Horizon dashboard provided in OpenStack is useful for most tasks, infrastructure automation tools like Terraform exist to allow you to create your infrastructure as code. This allows your infra teams to follow standard development flows and implement CI/CD to fully automate your cloud. In this guide, you will configure Terraform to leverage Read More >
OpenStack is a leading open-source cloud management system for large enterprises and cloud providers like InMotion Hosting. Since its initial establishment in 2001, InMotion Hosting has invested in open source projects, building its own technical backbone on open source. Which is why they’re proud to finally announce the recent corporate sponsorship of the OpenStack Foundation. Read More >
In this tutorial: Steps to login to WordPress I can’t login to WordPress One of the benefits of being an InMotion WordPress Hosting customer is that we can migrate your existing WordPress website to your InMotion Hosting account or easily get you set up with a site that has WordPress already installed. At that point, Read More >
In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable https in WordPress, so you can connect to your website securely using an SSL certificate. For more information, see our guide titled “What is SSL and why is it important?“ Note: You will need an SSL Certificate before attempting to complete this tutorial. An SSL Read More >
Learning how to update WordPress plugins is vitally important for website security and usability. Keeping your plugins up-to-date helps harden your website security — closing doors hackers could use to access your website. It also ensures a positive user experience for your website visitors, making sure they are interacting with the most recent and compatible Read More >
Why would we build a low-cost On-Demand OpenStack Private Cloud? I have been getting this question a bit, sometimes with enthusiasm and sometimes with skepticism. The skeptic will say something like “Are you trying to go up against AWS?” That is followed by, if a polite skeptic, “Is that wise?” Update 10/19/2020 – Flex Metal Read More >