SiteGround and InMotion; both are quite popular names in the field of website hosting. It’s been more than a decade since both these companies started providing web hosting service for their customers. InMotion Hosting began providing web hosting service back in 2001; they are based in Los Angeles, CA and Ashburn, VA. On the other hand, SiteGround started conducting business in the same field in 2004. Their headquarters are located at Chicago IL, Amsterdam NL, Singapore SG and London UK. Apparently, both these companies hold a great BBB rating and their timespan of service has made a lot of customers to put faith in both SiteGround and InMotion web hosting.
Shared Web Hosting Service
Shared Web Hosting is the golden spot of business for almost any web hosting company. These servers are usually available for much lower price; and they offer flexibility of service. If a customer feels shared web hosting isn’t being able to cope up with the demands, they could seek updates from the same company as well. Below are the shared web hosting plans offered by SiteGround and InMotion web hosting companies.
SiteGround: SiteGround has three shared hosting plans; one is initial for new website owners, the mid-tier plan is for those new website owners who are planning to upgrade to a better plan and the last shared hosting plan is for the advanced users. They go by the name StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek. You can get upto 50% discount with SiteGround coupon code and free domain name too. Startup comes at $6.95/month and offers one website domain, 10 GB HDD space and 10,000 visits worth of monthly bandwidth. GrowBig offers 20 GB HDD space, multiple domains and bandwidth worth 25k monthly visits at $9.95/month and GoGeek offers 30 GB HDD space, 100,000 monthly visit worth of bandwidth and multiple domain names at $14.95/month.
InMotion: InMotion names their shared hosting plans by the name ‘Business Hosting’. Technically, these plans are shared web hosting plans. There are three plans – Launch, Power and Pro; put according to their tier from lower order to higher. Launch offers 2 website domains, 2 MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for $5.99/month, Power offers 50 MySQL databases and 6 website domains for $7.99/month and Pro offers unlimited numbers of databases and website domains for $13.99/month. All these plans offer unlimited data storage and bandwidth.
Advantages
Both website hosting companies are fantastic in their own terms, however each of these companies have a set of advantages of their own; especially focused in this discussion for the readers to make a wise decision while picking one.
SiteGround:
- SiteGround shared hosting offers free website transferring capabilities for free. If you are moving in from another hosting company, you could easily do so using the built in wizard type tool and it takes no cost.
- Three regional data centers make it easier to focus a specific region for your website traffic.
- SiteGround offers managed WordPress and Joomla servers.
- The support is excellent.
InMotion
- Only two regional servers, both in USA; thus much helpful for US based webmasters. However, Max Speed Zones improve the website performance in all regions.
- Free data restoration.
- Softaculous allows easier installation of cPanel, 1 click method.
- Separate section in the management section for billing and account matters.
Conclusion
If you had been considering a new web server, give both SiteGround and InMotion hosting servers a thought; however include the regional preference and value proposition for both services in mind.
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