InMotion Hosting vs WP Engine Hosting for WordPress

WP Engine vs. InMotion Hosting – Managed Hosting for WordPress

Here is an overview of the significant differences between Managed Hosting for WordPress with InMotion Hosting and WP Engine.

• InMotion Hosting offers Hosting for WordPress on either Shared servers or fully-isolated VPS with Root Access and NVMe SSD. In contrast, WP Engine relies on traditional hard drives and does not provide root access in its plans.
• Unlimited bandwidth is included in our UltraStack 6GB RAM Managed WordPress plans and above. Unfortunately, WP Engine offers up to 500GB of bandwidth before charging for more.
• We use a custom operating system stack, UltraStack, to optimize our web hosting caching system. This system specifically includes NGINX, Redis, and PHP-FPM Handlers.
• InMotion Hosting offers website caching options with W3 Total Cache, unlike WP Engine.
• PageSpeed Pros is an additional InMotion Hosting service to optimize your WordPress site’s performance. With top-tier Managed WordPress plans, we audit and improve your website performance.
• InMotion Hosting provides better website security using a Web Application Firewall. WP Engine does not include this option with its plans.
• InMotion Hosting’s 30-day and 90-day money-back guarantee for monthly and annual plans gives you time to test the quality of our services. WP Engine offers 60 days.
• We are 100% employee-owned and we own our servers. As a result, we can directly manage server performance to accommodate changing customer needs, offer more bandwidth, and lock down security.

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

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 gives you a competitive edge and improves your website’s visitor experience. Indeed, NVMe technology allows websites to instantly serve text, images, and files to visitors up to 40x faster than websites hosted on traditional SSDs or HDDs.

WP Engine 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. As a result, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your WordPress server. WordPress pages load faster with zero server latency, and the admin dashboard is also speedy.

Unlimited Bandwidth

InMotion Hosting’s advantages include unlimited bandwidth on its higher-tiered plans, unlike WP Engine.

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, free SSL, and protection from DDoS attacks. Paired with our fully isolated virtual private servers, you can trust your website is safe when hosted with InMotion Hosting.

Fully-Isolated VPS

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

UltraStack ONE for WordPress servers are:

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

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

Although WP Engine offers some security features, it fails to provide a robust Web Application Firewall to protect your website.

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

Free Dedicated IPs

A dedicated IP assigns a unique address to your websites and is crucial for a secure SSL certificate.

Dedicated IP addresses ensure that customer data is encrypted and protected. Thus, it can build trust, and enhance your reputation and the security of your online business. Additionally, a dedicated IP can strengthen the reliability and security of email delivery.

InMotion Hosting includes a free dedicated IP in our Managed WordPress plans. But, WP Engine does not since AWS and Google, their providers, don’t support it.

Developer Friendly

With our UltraStack ONE for WordPress plans, 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
• Email creation and management
• 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. WP Engine does not give root access, limiting autonomy over your website’s backend.

Agency Program

InMotion Hosting provides a special Agency Program for groups that need hosting for WordPress. When you qualify, you get access to a dashboard where you can manage everything, including your team and clients from one place. 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.

Money-Back Guarantee

Our UltraStack ONE for WordPress plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee for monthly plans, and a 90-day money-back guarantee for yearly plans. In contrast, WP Engine offers a 60-day money-back guarantee.

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.

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. Then, after 280+ hours of training, our support team is ready to give you top-notch customer service.

Page Speed Pros

InMotion Hosting offers customers a speed optimization service called PageSpeed Pros. Our team of WordPress experts audits your top pages to identify opportunities to improve your core web vitals. Then, we ensure you get the best site performance by helping you leverage our UltraStack VPS technologies to optimize your page speed.

For example, see how we increased site performance for Amacor Printz by 153%, with 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. We perform the audits and then give you the choice to take the wheel or let us optimize for you while you focus on your business.

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 WP Engine house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike WP Engine, we have full ownership over our servers and access to our server locations. This puts us in a unique position to better 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.

While WP Engine does have servers overseas, its infrastructure is owned by AWS and Google. This makes them inflexible in managing server-side issues that impact their ability to provision dedicated IPs and scalability.

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.

By comparison, 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 expert support team waiting on the sidelines whenever needed.

If you’re unsatisfied with your WP Engine services, then it’s time to switch to InMotion Hosting.

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