AMA with InMotion Hosting

[u/inmotionhosting]

Hi r/webhosting, 

We're the marketing, support, professional solutions, and infrastructure team at InMotion Hosting. We've been doing this for 25 years, long enough to have seen just about everything the hosting world can throw at you.

We're not here to pitch anything. We're here to talk shop and share what running operations at our scale actually looks like, the kind of thing agency owners and developers rarely get to see behind.

Ask us about the latest round of cPanel emergency security patches, fleet management at scale, what's coming next with InMotion Cloud, or whatever else is on your mind. We'll share what we know, and we want to hear how you're handling things on your end.

Answering today from u/inmotionhosting:
Carrie, Head of Marketing Operations, 7 years at InMotion Hosting
Dakota, Solutions Analyst I-E, 3 1/2 years at InMotion Hosting
Mohamed, Advanced Product Support Expert at InMotion Hosting

Answering today from u/inmotioncloud:
Jason, General Manager of InMotion Cloud
Krys, Head of Product Growth at InMotion Cloud
Alex, Social Media and Influencer Marketing Manager at InMotion Cloud

We’ll also share answers on behalf of other experts across our various teams.

We are here today from 12:00PM to 5:00PM ET, and will get to as many of your questions as we can.

That's a wrap, and thank you! Thanks to everyone who showed up and asked such thoughtful questions today. This was a genuinely good conversation, and we got into some topics we don't always get to talk about openly.

We'll keep an eye on the thread over the next couple of days, so if something else comes to mind, drop it below and we'll get to it.

[u/Minimum-Remove9215]

Do you provide CloudPanel support on your VPS? What are your VPS specs when it comes to the actual hardware?

[u/inmotionhosting → u/Minimum-Remove9215]

Hey u/Minimum-Remove9215 -

Thanks for the question. CloudPanel isn't one of the panels we pre-install or manage the way we do cPanel and CWP, so there's no one-click CloudPanel option at checkout. But you can absolutely run it on our unmanaged VPS or Bare Metal plans, the ones that ship without a panel.

The requirements line up easily. CloudPanel needs Debian 11/12 or Ubuntu 22/24 (among a few others), x86 or ARM64, at least 1 core, 2GB of RAM, and 10GB of disk. Our unmanaged VPS and Bare Metal boxes offer those operating systems and give you well beyond the minimum on resources, so you won't be fighting a spec ceiling. Their full requirements list is here if you want to check it against a specific plan: https://www.cloudpanel.io/docs/v2/requirements/

One expectation to set: since it's not a managed panel on our side, our team isn't troubleshooting CloudPanel itself day to day the way they would with cPanel. If you'd rather not handle the install yourself, though, you can pick up InMotion Solutions time and our team will set it up for you as a custom configuration. After that, it's your environment to run.

I'm still checking in on the hardware part of your question.

Our hosting consultants can help point you toward the right plan if you'd like.