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InMotion Hosting : InMotion Hosting Reviews : Not good for Wordpress sites
Jun 16, 2007 by Noel Dickover (Hidden)
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to this review here Inmotionhosting was good as long as my throughput was low. At that stage, their customer service is very good, and they are very helpful. I run a simple Wordpress site with a few plugins, and a low-volume PhpBB site. I do scifi movie reviews on my site. My site started getting somewhat popular (70,000 page views per month) and all of a sudden Inmotionhosting.net starts sending me notices about server resources being eaten away, and recommends that I go to a Virtual Host account for $49 bucks.
This only got worse as my page views went higher. Finally, when my site was averaging around 400,000 page views per month, I started getting almost daily "Final Termination" notices with immediate "contact us or else". According to them, serving up individual gif and jpg files were tapping up to 30% of total server resources. And yes, I had my cache pluging working correctly.
I finally missed one of the contact us or else messages and they yanked my site offline. I still don't know if this was just their "marketing strategy" or just really bad server set-up administration. I have since left to Dreamhost. Bottom line, in my opinion they are a poor choice if you're looking to run a Wordpress site.
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NightMare Host Said,
Dec 09, 2008 @ 00:49
My friend, if you left InMotion for DreamHost, you are REALLY in for a bumpy ride. DreamHost has become the kings of downtime & their customer support is simply pitiful (no phone contact available)-you think you had it bad...how do they say, Out of the frying pan & into the FIRE :p
James Said,
Mar 28, 2009 @ 03:41
Are you kidding? Wordpress can be horrible for shared hosting. I am hosting with Inmotion as well and was looking around the web to see how many other people have this problem,and you'd be surprised how many people got booted from their hosts for having overbearing WP sites. I to received an email from Inmotion about "high resource usage" and Vannessa from system administration gave me my logs and helped me fix the problem. It turned out that a forum plugin that I was running was making over 600,000 database queries per half hour and causing a problem on their server. I respect that a hosting company cares that much about the performance of their servers to filter out the sites that are being a problem, but unlike other hosts they are actually willing to work with you to fix it instead of just turning your site off like bluehost did to me. Noel if they did send a bunch of emails like you say they did and you didn't fix the problem, it's your fault they turned your site off. At least they gave you a chance to look into it.