InMotion Hosting vs. Bluehost Shared Hosting

Discover how InMotion’s Shared Hosting plans stand out from Bluehost.

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Bluehost vs. InMotion Hosting – Shared Hosting

Here are some significant differences between Shared Hosting with InMotion Hosting and Bluehost.

• InMotion Hosting employs NVMe drives on our Shared Hosting servers to achieve up to 20x faster website speeds. Meanwhile, Bluehost only offers the standard solid-state drives on their Shared Hosting plans.
• We use a custom operating system stack, UltraStack, to optimize its web hosting caching system. This system includes NGINX, Redis and PHP-FPM Handlers.
• Our Shared Hosting plans provide unlimited bandwidth and storage, unlike Bluehost.
• Monarx Security powers our security features at InMotion Hosting. Monarx Security is an anti-malware tool that detects threats based on code behavior. Bluehost offers Sitelock but at an additional cost.
• InMotion Hosting supports more coding languages, including Node.JS, Ruby, and Git Version Control.
• We are 100% employee-owned and we own our servers. As a result, we can manage server performance better to accommodate changing customer needs, more bandwidth, and tighter security.

Read on to learn more about InMotion’s Shared Hosting features and how they compare to Bluehost. Or, try out our services risk-free with our 90-day money-back guarantee.

Faster Website and Performance

InMotion Hosting is the go-to choice for fast and performance-driven hosting. The infrastructure of our servers is built to deliver content in milliseconds. We ensure up to 20x faster website speeds on our proprietary UltraStack configurations, powered by NVMe SSD storage.

NVMe

We are proud to be an industry leader in NVMe Hosting. NVMe SSD hardware offers faster data transfer rates between storage devices and other server hardware. As a result, hosting on NVMe drives will improve the overall performance of your website.

Achieving maximum performance on your website gives you a competitive edge and improves your site visitor experience. NVMe technology allows websites to instantly serve text, images, and files to visitors faster than websites hosted on the average SSD or HDD web hosting.

Bluehost does not offer options for NVMe SSDs on any of their Shared Hosting plans. In contrast, InMotion Hosting includes unlimited NVMe storage on their Launch, Power, and Pro plans.

UltraStack

UltraStack is InMotion Hosting’s custom operating system stack, optimized for speed and simplicity. It provides powerful caching options and leverages open-source technology such as NGINX, Apache, and PHP-FPM.

UltraStack intelligently caches frequently used resources and saves them in memory so you can access them faster. Therefore, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your shared server. As a result, your website runs and loads pages faster, while your back-end admin area becomes more responsive.

Bluehost’s shared plans do not support NGINX or Apache. Notably, the UltraStack server stack is a combination of caching software that is unique to InMotion Hosting’s servers.

Unlimited Resources

The InMotion advantage includes access to unlimited resources for a variety of crucial web hosting features. However, the same can not be said for Bluehost, whose plans include limits to storage and websites.

Conversely, InMotion hosting offers unlimited bandwidth for all our Shared Hosting plans. Moreover, our Launch, Pro, and Power plans come bundled with

• Unlimited NVMe SSD Storage
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited Email Accounts and Storage
• Unlimited Websites (On Power and Pro plans.)

Website Security

Keeping your online presence safe from possible dangers is a must to protect your data, visitors, and reputation.

On website security, InMotion Hosting and Bluehost may look similar. But, InMotion stands out with unique security features to safeguard your website.

Monarx Security

Monarx security is a next-generation web firewall (NGWF) and anti-malware software for websites.

In 2021, InMotion Hosting began its partnership with Monarx to enhance website security for our Shared Hosting customers. During our first year, we saw a 40% reduction in security-related customer support cases.

Monarx focuses on the behavior of PHP code and other coding languages to identify malware and mitigate falsely marked files. This feature is exclusive to our Shared Hosting and protects from threats like

• Web shells
• Adware
• Phishing
• Mailers and more.

Like us, Bluehost offers Free SSL certification and basic malware scanning. But, they lack additional inclusive security software to help monitor and isolate online threats to your website.

Developer-Friendly Shared Hosting

Web developers looking for a fast, easy, and cost-effective Shared Hosting solution can benefit from a range of tools. Particularly, tools that can enhance productivity and simplify complex tasks in website creation. InMotion Hosting provides extensive developer tools in their Hosting Plus bundle. It’s another feature that sets us apart from competitors like Bluehost.

Hosting Plus

Hosting Plus is a Shared Hosting feature that gives developers access to popular frameworks and automation tools. Our Hosting Plus bundle includes a wide range of development tools for our web dev experts.

Here’s how our Hosting Plus compares to Bluehost:

Excellent Support and Guarantee

Part of our mission at InMotion Hosting is to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. So, we start by offering a satisfaction guarantee on our products and 24/7 support from a team of highly-trained web hosting experts.

Money-Back Guarantee

All our Shared Hosting plans come with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Meanwhile, Bluehost’s money-back guarantee ends after 30 days.

Our industry-leading money-back guarantee reflects our commitment to customer satisfaction. We promise reliable hosting, skilled help, and excellent service for everything we offer.

Expert Human Support

All our products include live, 24/7 expert human customer support. We keep an eye on your website and data while working on making them better so that you can rest easy.

Our web hosting experts have years of experience. Additionally, all support team members undergo a rigorous internal training program. Training covers technical subjects such as WP-CLI, Linux, NGINX, and more. Then, after 280+ hours of training, our support team is ready to give you top-notch customer service.

Community Forum

Whether you are a blogger, developer, or entrepreneur, access to a community forum allows you to connect and share your experiences.

InMotion Hosting provides a community forum that serves as another hub for problem-solving. It is a collaborative space where you can find quick fixes to technical issues and overcome challenges. Likewise, our forums help you build a support network with both our experts and fellow users.

Furthermore, the community forum promotes transparency and trust. Customers can discuss their experiences, provide feedback, and offer suggestions for improvement. This direct line of communication helps us, as a web hosting provider, to better understand your needs and tailor our services.

Similarly, Bluehost offers a comprehensive knowledge base of support articles. But, it lacks a communal environment that links you directly to our experts. Our community forums help to foster a strong sense of community and enhance our transparency with you, the customer.

Easy-to-Use

InMotion Hosting offers easy and convenient features that make Shared Hosting a breeze. Our Shared Hosting plans are user-friendly, especially with a cPanel control panel. It’s all you need for a seamless hosting experience.

cPanel

cPanel empowers you to easily manage your web hosting from a central dashboard. Therefore, it provides a user-friendly interface that allows easy website management, file uploads, domain configurations, and other essential tasks.

cPanel is the most popular web control panel for web hosting and is included in all Shared Hosting plans.

Drag & Drop Website Builder

Where would we be without easy-to-use drag-and-drop site builders? With website builders, you can easily create a website that looks professional in just a few minutes, even if you don’t have any technical skills.

Most hosting providers offer their proprietary site builders as an alternative to WordPress, including InMotion Hosting and Bluehost.

InMotion Hosting’s website builder, BoldGrid, integrates with WordPress. Thus, giving you an intuitive drag-and-drop experience. BoldGrid allows you to replace, edit, and resize images and other content on the front end of your webpage. This way, you can preview exactly what your visitors will see. And, it comes with 200 different site layouts to help kick-start your website.

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Global Presence

With its global reach, InMotion Hosting can offer superior web hosting services to clients overseas. Customers who have an international presence or target a global audience can benefit from more localized data centers. As a result, these data centers can reduce latency and improve website performance for international users.

Further, GDPR compliance enhances your data privacy and can assist your websites to meet these requirements too.

International Data Center

Both InMotion Hosting and Bluehost house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike Bluehost, InMotion Hosting owns the server locations. This puts us in a unique position to better accommodate our customers.

Owning our server locations gives us complete control to implement tighter security and monitoring to enhance the protection of your data. We can directly optimize our servers to meet our customers’ needs for performance and scalability. Moreover, if a customer goes over their bandwidth, we can accommodate them.

Explore our international data centers.

Employee-Owned

As a 100% employee-owned and operated company, InMotion Hosting prioritizes your needs above all else. We base our decisions on what is best for you, without any influence from external stakeholders or focusing only on the bottom line.

Bluehost is owned by Newfold Digital, which owns at least 80 other hosting companies (including HostGator, HostMonster, Network Solutions, and iPage).

Being employee-owned allows us to mold our business around your needs, ensuring reliable services. There is no chance you will get lost in the shuffle as you might with one of Newfold Digital’s 80+ brands.

Switch to InMotion Hosting

At InMotion Hosting, we offer web hosting services that are reliable, fast, and cared for by teams of highly skilled technical experts. Visitors will have a smooth experience with 99.9% uptime on your website. Plus, assistance is easy to get with our 24/7 support team waiting on the sidelines whenever you need them.

Our 90-day money-back guarantee reflects our confidence in our services. If you’re unsatisfied with your services at Bluehost, it’s time to switch to InMotion Hosting.