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InMotion Hosting, Inc. is privately held company and provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting. As of September 2014, InMotion hosts over 242,217 domains. InMotion Hosting has offices in Los Angeles, CA and Virginia Beach, VA and data centers in Ashburn, VA and Los Angeles, CA.

The teams are mixed across offices but the focus in Los Angeles, CA is marketing, data center operations, and executive management.

The office in Virginia Beach, VA is home to the technical support, system administration, sales, web design, customer service, human resources and software development teams.

Infrastructure and Technology
InMotion Hosting operates a data center in Ashburn, VA and another in downtown Los Angeles, CA. Each data center has connectivity of 20 Gbit/s with multiple bandwidth providers. InMotion Hosting uses a combination of Brocade, Arista, and Dell gear for network services.

InMotion Hosting uses only Dell servers for to provide the hosting itself. Software available on various hosting plans include PHP, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cPanel. SSD drives are used for storage on shared servers and VPS servers since 2014.

History
InMotion Hosting was founded in 2001 by Todd Robinson and Sunil Saxena in Los Angeles, CA and, starting in 2003, worked from a 3 person office in downtown Los Angeles.

In May 2004, InMotion Hosting opened an additional 450 square foot office in Virginia Beach, VA.

In March 2006, the Virginia Beach office was relocated to a 1,300 square foot facility.

In September 2007, the Technical Support department began to operate 24/7/365.

In March 2008, the Virginia Beach office was relocated to a 5,500 square foot facility.

In 2009, InMotion opened a second data center in Ashburn, VA, and now offers shared, reseller, and VPS customers the choice of a data center, a feature called Max Speed Zones.

In 2010, InMotion opened a new green data center in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The data center utilizes Outside Cooling Technology to reduce the cooling energy footprint of the datacenter by 70%. InMotion also uses green hardware in data centers in an effort to reduce the energy footprint.

In March 2011, the Virginia Beach office was relocated to an 18,000 square foot facility.

In September 2011, InMotion had an internal security breach that resulted in a defacement of a large number of customer websites. InMotion was able to restore the majority of websites from backups.

In March 2012, InMotion Hosting began to expand the technical support center by investing $250,000 in equipment and staffing.

In September 2012, InMotion replaced the older Fantastico software installer with Softaculous. This gives customers access to many more free and open source applications.

In June 2013, InMotion began offering McAfee email protection services to customers. These services provide protection from Email spam.

In September 2013, InMotion began offering reseller hosting plans.

In June 2014, InMotion began offering SSD storage for shared servers.

In August 2014, InMotion began offering SSD storage for the virtual private servers.

Philanthropy
In 2012, InMotion held school supply drives in Virginia Beach and Los Angeles.

Later in 2012, InMotion associates contributed to the Salvation Army Angel Tree program.

InMotion had a food drive in 2013 for the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore.

In 2013, InMotion Hosting employees contributed towards the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for a holiday event.

In 2014, InMotion Hosting contributed $10,000 dollars to build schools through Pencils of Promise.

Open Source Software Support
InMotion Hosting is a supporting partner for the Apache Software Foundation ,Drupal, and PrestaShop.

In 2012, 2013, and 2014, InMotion sponsored the Apache Software Foundation as a Silver Sponsor for a total sponsorship of $60,000 to date.

InMotion Hosting also supports the WordPress community by attending and sponsoring several WordCamps including Wordcamp SF, Wordcamp LA, Wordcamp Miami, and many more.

Service Awards
InMotion Hosting became an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau in June 2003. The BBB rates InMotion as an A+.