How does InMotion Hosting compare with Wix? This comparison between a traditional web hosting plan and a website builder package takes a look at InMotion Hosting’s Business Hosting plan versus Wix’s eCommerce plan.
Disadvantages of Using InMotion Hosting
Disadvantages of Using Wix
In most cases, we would recommend InMotion Hosting over Wix in this comparison. InMotion is ideal for content management systems such as WordPress. The BoldGrid WordPress website builder that is included with your hosting plan can greatly speed up and simplify the process of creating a great looking WordPress website—rivaling the Wix website process.
Additionally, InMotion is great for many other types of websites (Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop). The cPanel hosting you get provides over 400 software applications for you to choose from. And, with InMotion Hosting you get email and all of the other features you need to grow your website and online business—everything is included in your base hosting plan.
Wix still does have an advantage in being somewhat quicker and easier to get a website up. However, you do have to pay additional fees for some features such as removing Wix ads from your website. You’re also limited in storage and in some cases bandwidth. And, we hate that Wix doesn’t have live chat support. Finally, there’s the issue of being locked into the Wix ecosystem and not being able to move your site somewhere else.
Unless you’re looking for a simple online brochure type of site that you want to get up as quick as possible, we recommend going with InMotion Hosting over Wix.
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Hi, I am in need of advice outside of my circle.
I have a website where I have some company info and articles on our industry and a shop. We are using inmotion hosting with wordpress. We also have a shopify site associated with it that has a different url that you go to by hitting shop on the main site. Firstly, I think the separate shopify is a bad idea so I am now trying to decide how to move forward. Do I keep the current inmotion with WP and simply build the ecommerce there or do I switch to Wix and do it all there. I appreciate your advice. This has been a tough thing to solve.
Hi Jason!
I would NOT recommend using Wix for anything these days as their service and support has gone down in my opinion.
I am curious as to why you feel it’s a bad thing to use both InMotion and Shopify. Makes sense to me as you get both good WordPress hosting with InMotion plus the convenience of the Shopify Ecommerce side. Is it more of a cost issue or you would rather just use one platform for everything?
You could ditch Shopify and just use InMotion WordPress hosting with WooCommerce for your online store. Probably depends on how large your current store on Shopify is. Alternatively, Shopify also has a blogging engine so you could move your WordPress stuff to Shopify. Again, depends on how much content you already have on your WordPress site.