InMotion Hosting vs Pantheon Hosting for WordPress

Pantheon vs. InMotion Hosting – Managed Hosting for WordPress

Here’s a quick look at the main differences between Managed Hosting for WordPress at InMotion Hosting vs Pantheon.

• InMotion Hosting offers Managed WordPress on Shared servers or fully isolated VPS with NVMe SSD. Meanwhile, Pantheon uses traditional SSDs on Google Cloud.
• Using handpicked caching technologies, we use a custom operating system stack, UltraStack, to optimize your website performance. Pantheon relies solely on Google Cloud’s performance.
• InMotoin Hosting offers website caching options with W3 Total Cache, unlike Pantheon.
• PageSpeed Pros is an additional service included in top-tie managed WordPress plans. We can audit and optimize your website performance for you.
• InMotion includes free DDoS protection, live state snapshots, and local backups, which Pantheon does not offer.
• Managed WordPress from InMotion Hosting will include Root, file, and database management access. Pantheon does not give its customers these levels of control.
• InMotion Hosting customers with high-tier plans can leverage free migrations with Launch Assist. Pantheon charges for migrations regardless of the plan.
• Email Management is included with InMotion Hosting’s WordPress service, but not with Pantheon.
• InMotion includes WP-CLI, while Pantheon provides Terminus, requiring familiarity with their platform.
• Domain registration and premium DNS management can be done with InMotion Hosting. Unfortunately, Pantheon does not provide these options.
• InMotion Hosting’s 90-day money-back guarantee for annual plans gives you time to test the quality of our services. Pantheon does not have a money-back guarantee.
• We are 100% employee-owned, with direct control over our servers for enhanced performance and security.

Keep reading to learn how InMotion Hosting’s Managed Hosting for WordPress compares to Pantheon. 

Faster WordPress Performance

InMotion Hosting is the go-to choice for fast and performance-driven hosting because our server infrastructure is built to deliver content in milliseconds. Moreover, we ensure all green Core Web Vital scores 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 and server hardware. As a result, hosting on NVMe drives improves the overall performance of your website.

Maximizing website performance improves your website’s visitor experience. Indeed, NVMe hardware allows websites to instantly serve text and rich media to visitors up to 40x faster than websites hosted on traditional SSDs or HDDs.

Pantheon plans do not offer NVMe SSDs. However, InMotion Hosting offers up to 400GB of NVMe storage on our Managed Hosting for WordPress plans.

UltraStack

UltraStack is InMotion Hosting’s custom operating system stack, optimized for speed. Specifically, 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.

Hence, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your WordPress server. WordPress pages load faster with zero server latency and support a more responsive admin dashboard.

Unlimited Bandwidth

InMotion Hosting’s advantages include unlimited bandwidth on its higher-tiered plans.

Unlimited Bandwidth provides valuable benefits:

• Scalability: Unlimited bandwidth can accommodate traffic spikes without additional costs or performance issues.
• Reliability: Your website is always available regardless of user volume.
• Cost-Effectiveness: No longer worry about bandwidth overage fees or upgrades.

Website Security & Reliability

InMotion Hosting’s Managed WordPress plans include a dedicated IP address, a robust firewall setup, and DDoS protection. Paired with fully isolated virtual private servers, you can trust your website is secure with InMotion Hosting.

Fully-Isolated VPS

Our Managed WordPress plans on Platform InMotion are exclusively hosted on fully-isolated VPS environments. For this reason, all resources, tools, and analytics focus on your website.

Platform InMotion servers are:

• Completely Isolated Containers (LXC)
• Easily Scalable
• Use Triple Failover Redundancy
• Free of cPanel server bloat

Free DDoS Protection

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection is a security feature included with all InMotion Hosting’s WordPress plans. Yet, you may see this feature missing from Pantheon’s plans.

DDoS protection keeps your sites online and accessible during an attack. As a result, you can continue your business, protect customer data, and maintain visitor satisfaction.

Without protection, your website may slow down or become unresponsive.

But, not at InMotion Hosting. Our customers can rest easy with free DDoS Protection.

ModSecurity

ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects your website from cyber threats.

ModSecurity’s engine deploys in your web server to detect potential threats. The engine then scans HTTP communications and applies user-configured rules to handle them.

Not only does ModSecurity strengthen server security, but it also gives you flexibility and control over

• Real-time security monitoring
• Passive security assessments
• Logging and filtering HTTP traffic

Live State Server Snapshots & Backups

InMotion Hosting offers Live State Snapshots and local backup storage, which automatically save your site’s current state as a backup on your server. Server snapshots allow users to create backups of their site at any time, capturing the exact state of the server. This makes it easy to restore your site quickly should anything go wrong.

Pantheon doesn’t offer server snapshots. This means users have less flexibility and control during disaster recovery compared to InMotion Hosting.

eCommerce Ready

Our Managed WordPress plans are designed to be eCommerce friendly. No matter what kind of online store you run, your WordPress plan is built to deliver fast frontend and backend experiences, especially with WooCommerce.

In fact, at InMotion Hosting, you can expect

• Fully-isolated cloud servers
• Caching profiles for fast load times
• Dedicated IP address
• Free SSL

Developer Friendly

With our hosting for WordPress plan, professional developers, new freelancers, and small business owners get all-encompassing features to customize and integrate into any business-class hosting for WordPress website.

Features include:

• Scalable SSD NVMe storage
• SFTP and SSH Root Access
• Dedicated Opcode Cache Pool
• Brotli Compression
• Advanced server caching
• WP-CLI
• Linux platform powered by NGINX
• PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3 and Database access

Root Access

Root access grants you unparalleled control and flexibility of your hosting environment. Specifically, with root access, users can tailor their web hosting environment to their needs, including:

• Installing custom software
• Optimizing server configurations
• Adding advanced security measures

This level of control is invaluable for developers, advanced users, or those with unique requirements. Pantheon customers do not get Root access, limiting their ability to customize and optimize.

File & Database Manager

Having management access to website files and databases offers unparalleled control and flexibility. Users can customize configurations, optimize performance, and troubleshoot issues directly. Thus, allowing for tailored solutions to fit your specific needs.

InMotion Hosting’s Managed Hosting for WordPress offers more control than Pantheon. For users who need granular control and autonomy over their online presence, InMotion Hosting is the superior choice.

Agency Program

InMotion Hosting provides a special Agency Program for groups that need hosting for WordPress. After qualifying you can access a central dashboard to manage everything, including your team and clients.

Additionally, qualified Agencies receive $1,000 in free hosting credits with extra discounts for:

• Top-tier hosting plans
• Consultation time with our Web Performance Experts
• Extra server purchases

This program, thus, provides Agencies with everything they need for hosting for WordPress in one convenient package, with plenty of savings and support.

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.

PageSpeed Pros

InMotion Hosting offers customers a speed optimization service called PageSpeed Pros. Our team of WordPress experts audits your top pages for opportunities to improve your core web vitals.

We then ensure the best site performance by helping you leverage our UltraStack VPS technologies to optimize your page speed.

For example, we increased site performance for Amacor Printz by 153%. This includes page speeds clocking in at 3.1 seconds on mobile and 0.7 seconds on desktop.

The PageSpeed Pros service is complimentary to customers on our top-tier Managed WordPress plans.

Money-Back Guarantee

Our Platform InMotion WordPress plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee for monthly plans, and a 90-day money-back guarantee for yearly plans.

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

In contrast, Pantheon does not offer any money-back guarantee for their customers.

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 improving your web hosting so 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.

After 280+ hours of training, our support team is ready to deliver top-notch customer service.

Global Presence

With its global reach, InMotion Hosting offers superior web hosting services to clients overseas. Customers with an international presence or global audience enjoy more localized data centers. As a result, they experience less latency and better website speed.

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

International Data Center

Both InMotion Hosting and Pantheon house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike Pantheon, we have full ownership over our servers and access to our server locations. This puts us in a unique position to accommodate our customers.

Owning our servers gives us complete control to implement tighter security and monitoring to enhance the protection of your data.

We can, therefore, 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.

In contrast, Pantheon relies on Google for its Cloud server infrastructure. This makes them inflexible when managing server-side issues.

Employee-Owned

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

Remaining employee-owned allows us to mold our business around your needs, ensuring reliable services.

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. As a result, your visitors will have a smooth experience with 99.9% uptime on your website. Plus, assistance is easy to find with our 24/7 support team waiting on the sidelines whenever needed.

If you’re unsatisfied with your services at Pantheon, it’s time to switch to InMotion Hosting.

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