InMotion Hostings VPS

A company with over 15 years of experience, InMotion Hosting has lots to offer with its services and dedicated staff. InMotion Hosting, based in California, USA but operates all around the world; has a great repertoire within the web hosting industry and for great reasons of course. With a staff of web administrators, each having 10+ years of experience, and also employing web hosting experts, each with a minimum of 4 years of experience; you can rest assured that your VPS service is in good hands.

The hardware has been one of InMotion’s defining qualities in the industry, and they continue to deliver with over the top standards. This name in the community is not un-founded and is supported by the fact that InMotion Hosting was voted the best hosting service by a handful of top hosting award sites. The actual quality regardless of awards should serve as a basis of our selection quota. And how, you may ask is the quality of InMotion Hosting?

VPS Service
InMotion Hosting holds nothing back in providing a quality service to its users. The company separates its VPS packages into three main selections. Not the most wide range of choices but they generally cover most bases. But then again, a greater variety of selection with the specifications is always more beneficial to the user. Whatever the case may be, the three packages are assisted by several add-ons.

Every VPS package is differentiated by the usual specifications RAM, Bandwidth and Disk Space. But otherwise all three packages come with the following features:

1. Free SSD
2. Free Domain
3. Dedicated IP Address
4. Full cPanel License
5. Unlimited Domains/Websites
6. CentOS 6 Enterprise  Class Linux
7. Free Setup

Additionally they also come with:

1. SSH Access
2. Unlimited MySQL Databases
3. Reseller Access with WHM
4. Unlimited Email Accounts
5. Unlimited Individual cPanel Sub-Accounts
6. eCommerce optimized
7. Optional root Access
8. Easily scalable solutions
9. Unlimited FTP accounts

It is clear why InMotion Hosting is one of the best VPS service provider when it comes to server speed, uptime, and customer service. You also do not even have to worry about hidden costs as is stated clearly on their website, and is made clear from the dozens of customer reviews.  You would expect so many of these features to come with only the more expensive VPS packages. But InMotion Hosting does what few other companies do and strap these additional features and add-ons for free.

Now moving on to the specifications of the VPS packages themselves they are pretty straightforward.

InMotion Hosting has a 90 day return policy in place as well; say if you are not satisfied with your service then you can always get a 100% refund. But with features such as free site backups, optimized eCommerce, selection of data centers, managed hosting, and many more; it will be almost impossible to not be satisfied with InMotion Hosting services.

HostGator VPS Review

HostGator is an absolute monster when it comes to hosting, just about every internet marketer has heard of them. I mean, with over 8 million domains under its belt, it comes as no surprise that HostGator is one of the top hosting companies in the industry. Whether that claim of 8 million domains is true or not, it honestly does not matter. The high quality service that HostGator provides is quite un-matchable. It can be said without a doubt that HostGator is one of- if not the best hosting out there.

HostGator has gathered quite a number of awards for its excellent service, securing themselves a name in the top three hosting services of all time. But like we have said time and again, the awards, although given for great service, should not become the only requisite for your selection of quality VPS hosting services. It has been observed time and again, companies beginning to slack and go down once their egos have been boosted a bit after receiving an award. But is HostGator one of those companies? No, they are not. They continue to maintain a near spotless track record.

VPS Review
Well what with all the praise you just heard about HostGator, you might be thinking to yourself they have got to lack in some aspect, right? Well their VPS service does not even let that question arise. It is exemplary in its working and quality. Downtime is a word un-heard of at HostGator, with servers that have perpetual uptime. But in retrospect we do have one complaint and it is one that is prevalent with many top-tier companies, it is that they do not offer much variety with their selection of VPS packages. But for most customers, they don’t need  any kind of specialized hosting plans; as most of the VPS packages are suitable for the majority of customers.

The VPS Hosting Packages are divided into the following categories:

Despite the lack of diversity in the VPS package selections, with the lowest being $19.95/month then the next package being at a whopping $49.95/month, Hostgator really is worth the price.

Other Amenities
You can choose to have full root access with the VPS package so that you can install personalized software for a greater optimized service.

HostGator uses only the best hardware, and it has upgraded every time newer and better hardware comes out.

Their 24/7/365 customer support has even earned numerous more awards. They can be consulted for just about any problem s the user may encounter, and will help them to solve it.

All in all, HostGator is a reliable name you can definitely trust when it comes to VPS hosting.

EboundHost: Review

This is a web hosting company that has been around for 16 years. Since 2000, they have built quite a reliable reputation serving customers with every hosting needs big and small.  The company is US based, so all of its servers are located within the US itself.  EboundHost specializes in Virtual Private Severs (VPS), shared hosting and dedicated servers for customers with all requirements.  This becomes even truer when it seems that EboundHost, rather than offering the same standard hosting services to everyone, they instead tailor to every customer’s requirements.  If a company has specific requirements, EboundHost will cater to them accordingly, same goes for any individual customers as well.

With a lot of experience and a lot of services, EboundHost is definitely a reliable option. To prove the quality of their services, they even offer a generous 90-day money back guarantee, so there isn’t much to lose when opting for EboundHost’s services.

Uptime
EboundHost proves its reliability again here. They do an exceptional job of keeping their customers’ websites up and running. According to a server’s statistics page (of their own), their servers have had an average downtime of 15 minutes per month since they started out in 2000, which is very impressive to say the least.  This consistency is due to the fact that they have a high-end data center, which guarantees a 99.97% uptime.

Features
EboundHost offers two types of services of the upper tier, a virtual Private Server option or the dedicated server option.  It doesn’t matter which option you opt for, because EboundHost offers a terrific migration service to move your website big or small from your current host. Customers will have peace of mind know that their websites are hosting from a high security data center.  The secured data center uses biometric scanning, single entrance, video surveillance and a lot more.

Support
EboundHost offers some of the best quality email and phone tech support out of many of the VPS hosting companies. They, however, only do their tech support through email and phone, which is hugely different from other major companies. This leads to problems being ticketed, which makes customers frustrated. But when customers do call in for support, the tech support help is very fast, and the problems are fixed quickly. The service does not itself include a big customer knowledgebase.

Pricing
The prices are not as cheap when compared with other VPS hosts. But EboundHost’s quality does match their services, and you won’t feel any of the services are overpriced, you’ll get what you paid for.

Advantages

• The hosting is absolutely reliable, with a guarantee of 99.97% uptime, you can’t go wrong.
• A plethora of different services. With EboundHost, you don’t have to go anywhere else.
• Most important of all, it isn’t complicated; it’s very easy to understand.
• SSH, SSL, cPanel, unlimited MySQL accounts are available but depends on what services you order. 

Disadvantages

• No live chat support.
• Very little options or tutorial knowledgebase to help yourself if a problem arises. But the good thing is that there are almost no problems to worry about.

DreamHost: A Review

DreamHost is a California based company that was founded in 1997 by the same 4 college students who found Dream Network LLC in 1996.  Dream Network LLC owns DreamHost and the same co-founders are still involved actively today, and Simon Anderson is the CEO. The company did restructure, and created a new welcoming and friendly tone on for DreamHost’s homepage.

DreamHost provides extremely reliable VPS hosting services, however they are most known for their budget shared hosting plans though. They recently just launched a cloud service as well. DreamHost is one of the few hosting companies that provide a rather generous 97 day money –back guarantee ,and with that a two week free trial period for all customers.  To prove their generous attitude even further, they have cash back rewards and new domains with each new account. To top it all off, they are an environmentally friendly company that claim to be completely carbon neutral, even when hosting over a million domains.

Hosting Plan

DreamHost has a Debian Linux based shared hosting system and their whole target is to appeal to the budget market. They appeal to customers by offering low cost hosting options while still offering unlimited diskspace and bandwidth.

The VPS hosting system is also a Linux based one, where users are given a domain for free for the duration of one year. Independent servers have a dual core or quad core processor variety for the customer that DreamHost offers.  Customers have the option of running either Nginx or Apache, whichever they feel would fit best to their needs and budget.  DreamHost again proves it’s generosity by offering absolutely free web hosting for US registered non-profit charity organizations. These organizations have to first prove their registration to be able to be able to use DreamHost’s services.

Uptime/Downtime

DreamHost guarantees a 100% rate of uptime for all hosting, shared or dedicated and on VPS as well. If by some chance, you website, database or any of the sorts were to crash, DreamHost will offer compensation of free web hosting for every hour spent in downtime.

Information about uptime or downtime is not published on their main website, however a detailed status updates can be found on their supporting website: DreamHoststatus.com.

DreamHost operates from two data centers, both in Los Angeles. One of the data center is in downtown LA while the other one is near the LAX airport. The building and accommodations for its safety and operations are sure to be highly scalable. As an example, an interrupted 3 megawatt supply of electricity is supplied to the buildings.

Support

Support is where we can say DreamHost lacks when compared with its competitors. There is no telephone support. All support is through email and a ticketing system. A small fee can be paid to have a dedicated staff member to call you and or live chat with you as well.

VPS Hosting Plans

The VPS packages start at $15/month for 1GB ram, 30 GB SSD storage, and unlimited bandwidth. The most popular plan is $30/month with 2 GB ram, 60 GB SSD storage, and unlimited bandwidth. DreamHost is one of the few high quality VPS hosting provider that offers unlimited bandwidth for all of its VPS hosting plans.