Product Guides

Welcome to the InMotion Hosting Product Guides

This page helps you get started, whether you’re setting up a new website or exploring our products. Select a product below to access tutorials, setup guides, and troubleshooting articles tailored to your hosting plan or service.

Web Hosting

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated Linux servers that are completely customizable to meet your enterprise level needs.

Managed VPS Hosting

Managed VPS Hosting

Learn how to get the most out of your Managed VPS Hosting plan using cPanel/WHM or Control Web Panel.

UltraStack ONE for WordPress

UltraStack ONE for WordPress

Our all-in-one WordPress hosting platform is the ultimate choice for website owners who want to simplify their hosting and management process for their high-performance servers.

WordPress Hosting with cPanel

WordPress Hosting

Our WordPress Hosting on cPanel is fine-tuned to deliver superior performance, security, and provide best-in-class hosting.

Business Shared Hosting

Business Shared Hosting

Quickly launch your web presence with our affordable Business Shared Hosting plans.

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting

Be your own web hosting provider to your customers with our affordable Reseller Hosting plans.

Reseller VPS Hosting

Reseller VPS Hosting

Be your own web hosting provider to your customers with our affordable Reseller VPS Hosting plans.

Cloud Server

Cloud Server

Learn how to configure and control your unmanaged Cloud Server with our guides.

Minecraft Server

Minecraft Server

Learn how to manage your Minecraft server instance using the Game Panel.

Services

Web Design Services

Web Design Services

Get detailed answers to your questions about our Website Design and Maintenance Services.

InMotion Solutions

InMotion Solutions

Learn more about our in-house team of System Administrators that offer white-glove service, website migrations, server optimizations, and more.

Software & Plugins

Backup Manager

Backup Manager

Give yourself peace of mind with Backup Manager. Automatically backup your files, databases, email and cPanel account settings on an external server.

Softaculous

Softaculous

Easily install, upgrade, and manage over 400 web applications, site builders, and frameworks with Softaculous. Save time from manually uploading installation files and configuring databases with cPanel.

Google Workspace

Google Workspace

Learn how to make the most of your Google Workspace account with InMotion Hosting.

weForms

weForms

InMotion’s #1 recommended forms plugin for WordPress has an easy-to-use interface and pre-built form templates that let you quickly and easily build forms.

Sprout Invoices

Sprout Invoices

WordPress plugin for invoicing that provides the ability to automate tasks, provide project requests, and providing payment options.

Cleaning Up Old Post Metadata in WordPress

by InMotion Hosting Contributor

Regularly cleaning your WordPress database removes orphaned metadata, expired transients, and unused entries, keeping your site fast and backups quick. Over time, as posts are updated, created, or deleted, the wp_postmeta table can become large and inhibit your website’s performance. In this article, we are going to show you how to clean up old, unnecessary Read More >

InMotion Central for Advanced Users

by Jesse Owens

While Managed WordPress Hosting is designed to be easy-to-use for beginners, the service also offers advanced tools that can be leveraged by more experienced users. Beneath the graphical user interface lies a powerful web server with all of the features and customizability of a modern VPS platform. In this article we will discuss the underlying Read More >

How to Optimize your WordPress Database with WP-Optimize Settings

by InMotion Hosting Contributor

In this article, we will teach you how to use the WP-Optimize plugin settings to fully optimize your WordPress database quickly and easily. Why Optimize Your WP Database Optimizing your WordPress database is essential for maintaining fast load times and peak site performance. Over time, your database accumulates unnecessary data that causes performance issues, including: Read More >

How to Analyze WordPress Traffic with GoAccess

by Jesse Owens

Your Ultrastack VPS has a powerful tool for analyzing your visitor information in a useful graphical tool called GoAccess. You can use it to view IP addresses of your visitors, analyze cache performance and more. How to View the GoAccess Tool GoAccess Logs Features A lot of information is available from GoAccess. Here, we’ll cover Read More >

Release Update: InMotion Central v3.1

by Harry Jackson

Version 3.1 of Managed WordPress Hosting has arrived! This is a major release with many new features, both in the InMotion Central interface and on the Managed WordPress UltraStack VPS. New Features The latest version of Central is out with several new improvements including a new look for our UI! Lets explore all the changes Read More >

Release Update: Platform i v3.0.35

by Harry Jackson

Version 3.0.35 for Platform InMotion has arrived, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to unveil the updates it brings! New Features Platform i v3.0.35 makes it easier than ever to create and submit support requests, provides secure access to your server via sFTP, and features a new look to our support page within your Teams Read More >

Release Update: Platform i v3.0.32

by Jesse Owens

Platform InMotion v3.0.32 has been released! This is a very large release, with several new features and enhancements to help improve your experience using the platform. New Features The newest features we have added are designed to improve the your experience and convenience using Platform i. Highlights include the ability to better control provisioning for Read More >

Migrating WordPress to UltraStack ONE Manually with rsync

by Jesse Owens

A manual transfer is the most reliable way to ensure that your migration is successful for large or busy websites. In this guide, we’ll focus on using the command line and the rsync protocol. Remote synchronization using rsync has a few major advantages, including the ability to easily resume interrupted transfers and quickly resync any Read More >

Starting From Scratch with your UltraStack VPS

by Jesse Owens

When you’re getting started with your new UltraStack VPS on Platform InMotion, you have two options to begin with: If you’re not planning to move a site from another hosting provider to your new VPS, the best option is to start from Scratch. What is “Starting from Scratch?” When you start from scratch, you’ll begin Read More >

How to Upgrade or Downgrade Your UltraStack VPS

by Carrie Smaha

InMotion Central makes it easy to upgrade or downgrade your UltraStack VPS as your budget and performance needs change. When you upgrade or downgrade your server tier, it will change all of your server’s resources including Disk Space, RAM, vCPU Cores, and Bandwidth. However, you cannot currently change your subscription length (monthly or yearly) with Read More >

How to Add a Modpack to your Minecraft Server

by Shea

While Setting up a Modpack on your Minecraft Server Hosting plan can sound like quite the task, it is actually quite simple. Whether you are looking to spice up your gameplay or try out something new, modpacks can give an entirely different experience depending on the modpack you go with. This guide will cover step-by-step Read More >

How to start your Minecraft Server with a Custom JAR

by Shea

There are a lot of different ways you can customize your Minecraft Server Hosting plan. Before you can do that you will need to know how to start your server from Custom JARs in order to be able to use the platforms such as Paper, Forge, Spigot, etc. This guide will cover how to set Read More >

How to Connect to your Minecraft Server

by Shea

Congratulations, now that you have a Minecraft Server Hosting plan it’s time to get you connected and gaming. This process is quite simple and we’ll be covering it in a few brief steps to get you started. Topics Include: Finding Your Server Address Before we can connect to your Minecraft server, you will first need Read More >

How to Set a Custom World Seed on your Minecraft Server

by Shea

Have you ever wanted to play on the same world as your favorite content creator or friend, but all you receive when you look into it is a Seed composed of a random line of numbers and letters you don’t know what to do with? This guide will answer that question of how you can Read More >

How to Create a New World on your Minecraft Server

by Shea

While Deleting or Creating a new world on your Minecraft Server Hosting plan can sound quite daunting, it is sometimes a necessary act, whether it is to start a new world or if you just acquired a server and want to generate a specific world type or seed instead of the one automatically generated with Read More >

Release Update: Introducing Platform InMotion

by Carrie Smaha

Today, we are thrilled to announce the dawn of a new era in managed WordPress hosting with the launch of Platform InMotion.  Platform InMotion is WordPress-as-a-Service that’s designed to revolutionize the way you manage WordPress sites. Create, manage, and deploy websites to high-performance VPS optimized for WordPress in one place. Platform InMotion Updates Over the Read More >

Using the Site URL Tool in InMotion Central

by Jesse Owens

When you’re ready to change the URL of your WordPress website in InMotion Central, the Site URL tool makes it easy. All of the different tasks that are normally required, like setting up an SSL and replacing entries in the database, are performed automatically by the tool. What Does the Site URL Tool Do? When Read More >

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