InMotion Hosting vs Cloudways WordPress Hosting

Cloudways vs. InMotion Hosting – Managed WordPress Hosting

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

• InMotion Hosting offers Managed WordPress on either Shared servers or fully isolated VPS with Root access. In contrast, Cloudways does not provide root access in its plans.
• Unlimited bandwidth is included in our UltraStack 6GB RAM Managed WordPress plans and above. Unfortunately, Cloudways offers up to 9TB of bandwidth on its plans 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.
• PageSpeed Pros is an additional InMotion Hosting service to help you optimize your WordPress site’s performance. At Cloudways, optimization is up to you. But, with our top-tier Managed WordPress Hosting plans, we can audit and improve your website for you.
• Cloudways does not offer any money-back guarantee. Meanwhile, InMotion Hosting offers a 30-day and 90-day money-back guarantee for monthly and annual plans.
• Cloudways charges additional fees for phone support. However, at InMotion Hosting, phone support is included with Managed WordPress.
• 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 WordPress Hosting compares to Cloudways. 

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 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. 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.

InMotion Hosting offers up to 400GB of NVMe storage on our Managed WordPress Hosting plans.

UltraStack

UltraStack is InMotion Hosting’s custom operating system stack, optimized for speed and simplicity. 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. Therefore, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your WordPress server. As a result, WordPress pages load faster with zero server latency, plus the WordPress admin dashboard is super fast.

Meanwhile, Cloudways can only offer core infrastructures by third-party cloud providers with little control over performance-optimization technologies.

Unlimited Bandwidth

The InMotion Hosting advantage includes unlimited bandwidth on its higher-tiered plans, unlike Cloudways.

Unlimited Bandwidth provides valuable advantages:

• Scalability: Unlimited bandwidth helps 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 and Live-State Snapshot feature, you can trust your website is safe when hosted 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

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. For example, communications may drop, pass, or redirect based on the configured rules set.

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

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 WordPress hosting plan, professional developers, new freelancers, and small business owners get all-encompassing features to customize and integrate into any business-class WordPress hosting 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. Cloudways does not give root access, limiting autonomy over your website’s backend when you host with Cloudways.

Agency Program

InMotion Hosting provides a special Agency Program for groups that need WordPress hosting. 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 WordPress hosting 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 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. Meanwhile, Cloudways offers no money-back guarantee for their services.

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.

U.S.-Based Support

All our products include live, 24/7/365 U.S.-based 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. To this end, this makes InMotion Hosting a superior choice over Cloudways for users seeking a hassle-free, faster website experience.

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 Cloudways house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike Cloudways, 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.

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.

Cloudways, however, is owned by Digital Ocean, a publicly traded company whose obligation is to its shareholders.

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 support team waiting on the sidelines whenever needed.

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

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