Managed Hosting
Your Guide to Managed Hosting Services and Professional Web Hosting
Managed hosting is at the heart of powerful, flexible, and dependable online businesses and is key for websites and apps requiring strong and reliable web hosting. Managed hosting offers a comprehensive approach to web hosting, providing you with the competitive advantage of fully managed services.
What is Managed Hosting?
Managed Hosting is a full-service web hosting solution focused on making your server run its best and stay safe.
Managed hosting services go beyond unmanaged web hosting by:
- handling your server provisioning
- operating system updates and patches
- optimizing server resources to align with your needs
- implementing security measures to help ensure the reliability and scalability of your website
- and more
It’s great for businesses who want a solid online presence but don’t want the hassle of managing their servers. With fully managed hosting, you can focus on your business while our in-house team of experts handles server maintenance, scheduled backups, security updates, and more.
Managed Web Hosting Plans and Solutions
Whether you need managed shared hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, or dedicated hosting, we offer a range of products and services to meet your specific requirements. Our managed hosting solutions have built-in optimization and 99.9% uptime to keep your website running smoothly.
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Dedicated Hosting
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The Benefits of Managed Hosting
Fully managed hosting offers comprehensive support including server deployment, proactive updates, and security monitoring.
Managed hosting puts a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and security to keep servers at peak performance.
It’s a top choice for companies that lack the IT skills needed for service management like colocation.
Managed hosting services can be shaped to fit a wide variety of business needs and industry requirements.
When considering hosting options for your business, understanding the difference between managed and unmanaged hosting is crucial. Choosing managed hosting brings many perks that help your business succeed online. It focuses on performance and reliability and safeguarding your websites and applications. This level of hosting support creates a strong base for your business, making it easier for your website and business to do well. It makes sure your site is up, doesn’t go down, and fights against new online threats.
Managed hosting typically involves a web hosting service where the provider takes care of maintaining the hosting environment, ensuring it remains up-to-date and securely configured. This can include proactive monitoring for threats like DDoS attacks, implementing disaster recovery plans, and ensuring compliance with compliance requirements. In contrast, unmanaged hosting is a web hosting service where your business is solely responsible for its network infrastructure and security. This means that unmanaged hosting can cost less upfront but can lead to increased risks and downtime if not properly managed, costing your business more in the long run.
Managed web hosting not only enhances performance and security but also allows for easier scaling as businesses grow. The hosting company provides services like built-in backups, SSL certificates, and MySQL support, helping to keep your business operational and minimizing latency issues. A dedicated team of specialist engineers is available to assist with onboarding and help you choose the best solutions tailored to your needs. With scalable plans, resources can be adjusted as your online store or applications gain traffic, ensuring you have the infrastructure to propel your business forward.
Moreover, managed hosting providers allow you to focus on your core business while leaving the technical aspects to experts. For the managed hosting products, our team employs a proactive approach to maintain the health of your hosting infrastructure, which is particularly beneficial for businesses looking to minimize the risk of a hack or other vulnerabilities. In contrast, unmanaged hosting may leave you vulnerable without the same level of support, requiring a higher degree of technical knowledge to navigate issues effectively. Ultimately, the choice between the two depends on your business’s specific needs and resources.
The public cloud does not offer dedicated resources but provides the flexibility to scale as needed, allowing businesses to adjust resources according to demand. However, while public cloud hosting may seem cheaper at first, many providers offer à la carte services, enabling companies to select specific features like content management and content delivery that quickly start adding on costs. Businesses using the public cloud have to manage their own infrastructure in a cloud environment, which can detract from focusing on their core mission-critical activities.
A private cloud solution provides a single-tenant environment, allowing businesses to rent space in a highly customizable infrastructure. This advancement offers greater control over service level agreements (SLAs) and the flexibility to scale resources according to demand. However, these dedicated resources tend to cost a lot to build and keep. It often requires a more extensive team to manage the infrastructure compared to managed hosting, which can be a deciding factor for organizations looking to minimize overhead while maximizing efficiency.
Types of Managed Hosting Solutions
As companies get bigger, they need reliable, scalable, and secure hosting. Managed hosting solves these issues well. The best providers include managed hosting as part of their various types of web hosting plans so that there is sure to be a perfect-fit managed hosting solution for you.
Fully Managed Hosting
InMotion Solutions is our fully managed hosting service that connects you directly with our team of in-house system administrators. Our managed hosting team is dedicated to providing you with higher-touch customer support that will streamline your server management and free you to focus on your business. It means we work closely with you from choosing the right hosting plan, building and managing your custom infrastructure, and optimizing over time based on your business operations and goals.
We start with building your custom hosting solution and personalized onboarding experience for a fast and hassle-free setup. After your system is up and operational, we offer 24/7 management to keep your infrastructure and applications current, secure, and performing optimally for users worldwide. As your business grows and your technology and resource needs evolve, we will be there every step of the way to help scale and optimize your web hosting solution with the best possible performance and security measures.
- 24/7/365 Human Support
- Fully managed network infrastructure
- Fully managed hardware and servers
- System-level health monitoring
- Installation and full support of core software package
- Core operating system updates and patches
- Security enhancements
- Full Linux web server support
- Virus and spam protection
- Data Migrations
- Full control panel support
- Control panel updates and patches
- Speed-tune your LAMP environment
- Custom server architecture
- Multi-server deployments including clusters and private cloud
Managed Shared Hosting
For those starting out or on a budget, managed shared hosting might be perfect. It means sharing server resources with others. But, the provider takes care of security and maintenance. This lets you focus on your business without worry.
Managed WordPress Hosting
Managed WordPress Hosting is for the over one-third of the web that uses WordPress. It ensures that WordPress sites are running their best: fast-loading pages with WordPress-optimized resource allocation, secure from malware and hack attempts, and ready for lots of visitors at once.
Managed VPS Hosting
Virtual Private Servers (VPS) give you the best of both worlds, providing the performance and reliability benefits of dedicated resources with the flexibility to grow seamlessly. Even better, get a managed VPS hosting plan to eliminate tedious administration tasks and let your provider take care of server security and maintenance.
Managed Dedicated Server Hosting
Managed dedicated servers are ideal for those with high-traffic websites, resource-intensive applications, or unique security or compliance needs. You get one or more servers all to yourself with dedicated resources and a custom server environment tailored to your specific needs, directly supported and managed by our team of in-house system administrators.
Why Choose InMotion Hosting as Your Managed Hosting Provider?
Managed Hosting for Your Specific Needs
Managed Hosting from InMotion Hosting connects you directly to our team of server and network administrators that adapt to your individual needs. We have managed hosting products and services for many popular use cases to help you achieve your goals.
E-commerce
The performance and security of your website or application have a direct impact on eCommerce success. Whether you build your site on WordPress, WooCommerce, or Magento, we have tailored managed hosting services to ensure your business is always up and running with fast website performance. Let our eCommerce hosting experts handle your SSL installs, set up optimization tools like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, help you maintain PCI compliance and other security standards, and more.
High Traffic
Website downtime and degraded performance can destroy the momentum of growing businesses of all sizes. Our high-traffic enterprise hosting is a managed dedicated hosting solution with available custom hardware and multi-server clusters. Receive consultation on complex infrastructure or hardware requirements, get bespoke hosting solutions and multi-server configurations, redundancy solutions, and more.
Media Streaming
Media streaming can demand a ton of hosting resources like storage space, bandwidth, and processing power. Get a high-performance managed dedicated server that can accommodate the speed and resources you need, supported by our team of managed hosting experts to optimize your server performance and prevent security issues like DDoS attacks.
Data Migration
Looking to save time or money on moving your data from another server or web host? Our managed hosting team offers white-glove migration services for handling your server transfer. No matter how large or complex your migration needs, we can help tailor a migration plan that works for you.
World-Class Data Centers and Network
We take great pride in delivering fast and dependable hosting solutions that businesses and web professionals like you rely on worldwide. Our commitment to thrilling site owners through a fast, reliable, and secure server and network infrastructure is what drives us every day to improve our technology and expand our network capabilities to provide perfect-fit web hosting solutions for more than 20 years.
With multiple data center locations available, experience lightning-fast and reliable performance on robust infrastructure no matter where your business or customers are in the world.
- Your valuable data is always safe and your website is always online.
- We are connected to four Tier 1 Internet service providers (ISP). If a natural disaster should occur your website will always be online and have high-availability.
- Our data centers sit directly on the Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam IXPs.
- Our web hosting network is based on the fast and reliable Linux and Unix operating systems. With fully redundant (N+1), climate-controlled data centers in the United States and the Netherlands.
Friendly Human Support from a Team of Experts
Every single product and service we offer is backed by live, 24/7/365 U.S.-based customer support. You can relax knowing you can always reach a helpful human here when you need it. When you have InMotion Professional Services, you get an advanced support agent from our team of in-house system administrators dedicated to your individual needs. You can rely on your agent to provide you with a fast and smooth support experience whenever you need us.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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