VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Sept. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- InMotion Hosting, the industry leader in premium web hosting and customer support, is celebrating 20 years of empowering small businesses and entrepreneurs around the world. For two decades, InMotion Hosting has helped drive small businesses by providing great products, services, and support in a commitment to the success of their customers.

Since its first server went online in 2001, InMotion Hosting has consistently grown and evolved to meet the needs of its customers.

After having outgrown its Los Angeles headquarters, InMotion Hosting expanded to the east coast and began operations in a 450 square-foot office in Virginia Beach in 2004. In 2010, it became the first web host to Go Green, moving to a larger green data center in Los Angeles. The company introduced BoldGrid, its easy drag-and-drop website builder, in 2015, then celebrated the grand opening of its Denver office the following year.

In 2019, InMotion Hosting expanded yet again, purchasing and opening a 61,000 square-foot office in Virginia Beach that now serves as their east coast headquarters. Last year, the company demonstrated its commitment to open source technology by becoming an Open Infrastructure Foundation partner.

Despite all its growth and expansion, InMotion Hosting is still as committed to its customers' success as it was when it opened 20 years ago, and was named a PCMag Editors' Choice for The Best Web Hosting Services of 2021.

It also remains 100 percent employee-owned and operated, which is one of the reasons it was officially Certified by Great Place to Work this year.

"As we reflect on the last twenty years, we are thinking about our customers and team members, and how far we have come as an organization," said Todd Robinson and Sunil Saxena, Co-Founders of InMotion Hosting. "A lot has changed in 20 years, but our organizational goal has remained constant: to offer our customers the best service experience in the hosting industry, offering exceptional support services and best-in-class products. Today, we have the privilege of serving over 250,000 satisfied customers. It has been exciting to see our customers start and expand their businesses with us over the years, and it's rewarding to know our products and services helped them achieve their goals. As we look ahead to the next 20 years, we welcome the opportunity to evolve our business to meet our customers' changing needs. We thank our IMH team members for taking care of customers every day and for making IMH a great place to work. Looking forward to the next 20 years!"

Now, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, InMotion Hosting wants to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs. That is why the company is offering big discounts on Shared, WordPress, Reseller, and VPS Hosting. With this sale, customers can get their best-valued plan for the introductory price of their starter plans.

InMotion Hosting is offering the following deals:

*All offers end September 30th, 2021 at 12:00pm PDT.

The path for launching a successful business startup has changed a lot since 2001.

From website builders and tools, to creating eCommerce storefronts, to scalable cloud infrastructures, InMotion Hosting has empowered small businesses with the "next big thing" for more than 20 years.

Stay ahead of the curve on a powerful platform with innovative tools engineered to get you to your future successes.

About InMotion HostingInMotion Hosting is a privately held technology company providing web hosting, cloud-based solutions and managed services to businesses and entrepreneurs across the globe. With more than 250,000 satisfied customers, InMotion Hosting's mission is to bring tools, platforms and outstanding customer service within anyone's reach to transform their online presence. Since 2001, we have built our foundation around 24/7/365 U.S.-based customer support and open source technology. Our partnerships include SuperMicro and the Open Infrastructure Foundation.

Learn more about InMotion Hosting at inmotionhosting.com and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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MOSTA, Malta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudways (www.cloudways.com) has released a series of reviews with thorough testing of the best WordPress page builders for building truly stunning websites without using code.

WordPress page builders allow users without technical skills to create websites and helps agencies improve their workflows and increase revenue. The Cloudways team came together to launch top page builders on Cloudways servers, rigorously testing each plugin to help users make an informed decision.

There are plenty of choices when it comes to page builders, so we decided to put the top ones through meticulous scrutiny. Now weve released the results to help users take advantage of our methodical testing, says Saad Khan, Associate Vice President of Marketing at Cloudways. You get a complete overview of the page builders, how they perform on top of a world-class hosting environment, and which suits your business needs the most.

Cloudways users and readers, in general, can take advantage of this high-level effort to decide which page builder is best for their needs. Individuals without coding skills can deploy personal websites quickly, but its the agencies and SMBs that will truly benefit from the ease-of-use and enhanced workflows of page builders hosted on top of high-performance cloud hosting.

While page builders let users design websites easily, Cloudways provides a powerful cloud hosting environment that enhance the page builders further. With Cloudways managed WordPress hosting, users never have to worry about hosting hassles like speed or security issues and instead get to focus entirely on their business.

With Cloudways and the right choice of page builder, users can completely overhaul their business processes and go live with their WordPress websites in a matter of hours.

About CloudwaysFounded in 2012, Cloudways is an intuitive, one-click managed cloud hosting platform that hosts over 50,000 servers globally. E-commerce stores, design agencies, developers, and bloggers use Cloudways to host their websites on top of the worlds most reliable cloud infrastructure providers, including DigitalOcean, Vultr, Amazon, Google, and Linode. The bootstrap-funded platform features a web app management function that easily launches cloud servers for the deployment of WordPress, Magento, and PHP.

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Last week, Reuters reported based on two anonymous sources that Amazon Web Services, which controls 40 percent of web hosting in the world, plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies.

Over the coming months, Amazon will hire a small group of people in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division to develop expertise and work with outside researchers to monitor for future threats, one of the sources familiar with the matter said. It could turn Amazon, the leading cloud service provider worldwide with 40% market share according to research firm Gartner, into one of the worlds most powerful arbiters of content allowed on the internet, experts say.

Amazon declined to comment to Reuters for the story, then after the article published sent a statement insisting the report was wrong, claiming, AWS Trust & Safety has no plans to change its policies or processes, and the team has always existed.'

Weve always reserved the right to police who is allowed to speak on our internet is not a very comforting response to an article alleging a coming content crackdown. In addition, to this post-publication claim from Amazon, A Reuters spokesperson said the news agency stands by its reporting.

Dont forget the context: The Biden administration revealed a few weeks ago that they, mafia-like, pressure big tech entities like Facebook and Twitter to remove information that contradicts their political goals. (Thats an, um, misinformed piece of content over there on your platform. Sure would be a shame if the super-touchy Democrats controlling the entire federal government decided it was a reason to regulate and legally harass you.)

The reported Amazon Web Services crackdown also comes in the wake of news that the Jan. 6 congressional committee subpoenaed the cell phone records of GOP lawmakers, including the House minority leader, from their service providers, which already help the federal government spy on Americans through routinely recording the contents of everyones texts and calls.

Dont forget, either, that leftist pressure on big tech companies is a big reason they are economically and socially persecuting the lefts enemies. As Glenn Greenwald notes, The extraordinary destruction of Parler in January by three Silicon Valley monopolies Apple, Google and Amazon occurred after leading Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) publicly demandedthe platforms removal from the internet. And Democratic-led Congressional committeescontinue to summon Silicon Valley executives to demand they impose greater degrees of political censorship against their political adversaries or else face legislative and regulatory reprisals.

Amazon is obviously not immune to any of this, and Jeff Bezos is ideological kin to those demanding their political opponents be shut out of their livelihoods, ability to speak publicly, and financial services. Thats why Amazon cut off Americas Frontline Doctors from web hosting, for another example, but hosts Netflix despite its promotion of child pornography and donates on users behalf to mass-murder machine Planned Parenthood. Their biases are clear.

Now, both Patreon and Substack reportedly use Amazon Web Services for hosting most of their data. These platforms bill themselves as a way for creators to be independent and cut out the middlemen. But when infrastructure services like web hosts and banks get political, it turns out these independent sites just replaced the middlemen with themselves.

Patreon has a history of allowing leftist politics to moderate its platform. Famously, Jordan Peterson and David Rubin left it in 2018 to create their own crowdfunding platform, Locals, after Patreon selectively banned a creator with evidence it was due to political animus. Patreon has continued that bias to the present day, most recently banning investigative journalists for not parroting shifting government claims about COVID-19.

Locals also uses Amazon Web Services, though, or did as of earlier this year, making them also vulnerable through their host to the kind of crackdown Peterson and Rubin created the site to repudiate. The big domain name and hosting outfit GoDaddy uses AWS servers, and has also repeatedly defenestrated people on the right, from gun sites to, just over the weekend, Texas Right to Life in the wake of that organizations successful push for a bill protecting unborn babies after their heartbeats are detectable.

On that note, who could possibly be Amazons outside researchers who determine what they host? Not independent factcheckers like those Facebook pays to give them cover for blocking politically incorrect ideas, right?

Or what about lucrative leftist smear machines like the Antifa affiliate-supporting and violence-inciting Southern Poverty Law Center, which already partners with Amazon to block mainstream Christian and conservative organizations from Amazon Smile? Or how about the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, which influences on a partisan basis whom PayPal will bank with? The prospects look pretty dim indeed.

If servers like AWS will shut you down, that inherently threatens the economic independence of anyone who dares have different ideas than their speech monitors and whose livelihood is in any way routed through the Internet and whose isnt? Even meatspace-focused jobs like farmers and plumbers have to have websites and email addresses. Unless they happen to have a storefront on a busy intersection, they have to have at least a Google Maps shingle up, so enough people can find their services to keep food on their tables.

There can be no personal independence, no entrepreneurship, no social creativity if youre not allowed to use the roads, the phones, the banks, or the internet unless you publicly burn pinches of incense to the leftist gods. In a world like that, we are all slaves to the pagan religion of leftism and, more importantly, its priests.

This entire dynamic is also another example of the build your own infrastructure asymmetric warfare the new left is deploying, with increasing depth and force, against their opponents. Its endpoint is clearly, as Federalist Senior Contributor Nathanael Blake observed to me in an email, build your own government.

Thats because American governments essentially control who is allowed to start businesses you need building permits, and to follow health code, and to offer certain benefits, and to file your taxes a certain way, and on and on and on, all of which are potential chokepoints for a militant bureaucrat motivated by a woke mob to squeeze.

Previously, these kinds of administrative functions were seen as neutral and available to all, but especially since the Obama years, these bureaucrats have unmasked themselves like never before as blatantly partisan actors. Remember Lois Lerner? So people who want to start competing and alternative infrastructure better as hell have political patrons all the way up the ladder, plus a big group of funders and lawyers, who will block for them.

In other words, today even building private infrastructure requires government permission, at some level, and typically at many. The massive size of our government and the multitudinous duties it has assumed have multiplied the pressure points that partisan activists can apply to anyone they see as their political enemy. Fixing this private infrastructure problem requires fixing the big-government problem that weaponizes it.

You wouldnt believe how many people come up to me and they say, Hey, Martin, you got to start a bank. And Im like, Well, what Ill do is Ill stand up a bunch of server infrastructure so that bank wont get pulled by the internet provider,' Right Forge CEO Martin Avila told The Daily Signal in June. And then were talking to people who are starting banks. Were talking people that are thinking about Stripe and how much power it has, or Square, like point of sales. And theres entrepreneurs that are just beelining to create solutions because they see the enormity of the market. And what RightForge can do is support those things where they wont be taken down.

And who is going to bat for RightForge if IRS bureaucrats decide its taxes need some extra scrutiny? Or if politically motivated hackers wage an attack? Or come up with your own speculation, because lets not give bad guys any ideas.

When Sen. Tom Cotton gets asked next time what he can do about cancel culture, he and every other Republican candidate should be able to whip out a list of painful legal and other penalties their legislative assistants have written up that will be applied to entities that abuse the public trust in any of these ways. Democrats got big business to be their lapdogs, not just because big business leaders are catechized in the leftist religion in college, but also because big business isnt afraid of Republicans but they are of Democrats.

That needs to change, or Republican voters will be increasingly banned from basic infrastructure and subjected to economic insecurity in America, based entirely on their politics. Even more than in 2016, that will have them pondering why in the blazes do they even come out to vote for such a freaking useless political party that has no idea what to do with power. People abandon leaders who dont bring home the bacon, and thats exactly what this issue is all about.

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HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs has announced that it has joined the Managing General Agents Association (MGAA) to actively work with leaders in the community that will benefit from Insuritys technology solutions. The MGAA is a non-profit organization delivering value to MGAs across the U.K. and ROI by representing members interests with government and regulatory bodies, maintaining industry professional standards and best practice guidelines, and hosting events to connect brokers, insurers, suppliers, and MGAs.

MGAs have historically relied on fragmented technology solutions with few digital capabilities to respond to changing market demands and new opportunities. Trusted by 7 of the top 10 US MGAs and 15 of the top 25 P&C carriers, Insuritys MGA solutions are purpose-built for product distribution and underwriting as well as e-trading, geospatial analytics, intelligent risk placement, and automated capacity management functionality.

Insuritys MGA software automatically integrates across multiple functional areas including pricing, underwriting, proposal generation, policy issuance, and bordereaux production, said Jake Hampton, SVP, Product Management at Insurity. This allows MGAs to reduce underwriting costs, decrease response times, and create a superior customer experience across the board.

Insurity will be showcasing its MGA solutions at the annual MGAA 2021 conference, held on September 15 in London.

We are excited for Insurity to join our supplier partners, said Michael Keating, CEO of MGAA. Insurity offers a best-in-class digital platform supported by deep industry expertise to carriers, brokers, and MGAs, allowing them to optimize their business operations. Insurity will provide tremendous value to our members.

We are looking forward to growing our relationship with the MGAA and expanding our presence in the U.K. market, said Kevin Grimes, SVP and General Manager for MGA Markets at Insurity. Insurity MGA software and digital capabilities enable insurance distribution and the customer experience to be seamless and efficient for MGAs. We are excited to partner with members of the MGAA and help them quickly capitalize on new opportunities and add value to their organizations.

To learn more about how Insuritys MGA software can benefit your insurance organization, please contact Laura.Krause@insurity.com.

About Insurity

Insurity is a leading provider of cloud-based software and analytics for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs. Insurity is trusted by 15 of the top 25 P&C Carriers in the US and has over 250 cloud-based deployments. Through its best-in-class digital platform and with unrivaled industry experience and thought leadership, Insurity is uniquely positioned to deliver exceptional value, empowering customers to focus on their core businesses, optimize their operations, and provide superior policyholder experiences. Insurity is a portfolio company of GI Partners. For more information, visit http://www.insurity.com.

About MGAA

The Managing General Agents Association (MGAA) is a UK based not for profit organisation dedicated to representing true MGAs. Formed in 2011, the MGAA also aims to provide a better understanding of what MGAs are and the contribution they make to the insurance industry. The MGAA currently has 155 full MGA members representing over 6bn of underwriting capacity. They are joined by 42 market practitioner members, 88 supplier members. The board of elected directors leads the organisation. In addition, five separate committees deliver benefits for members with a clear aim of shaping the future of delegated underwriting.

For more information visit http://www.mgaa.co.uk,

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