InMotion Hosting triples base port speed without touching price tag

Bandwidth conversations in the dedicated server space tend to follow a familiar pattern: more capacity costs more money, full stop. InMotion hosting just broke from that pattern in a way that high-traffic operations will likely notice quickly.

Effective February 18th, the company bumped the base port speed across its High Capacity and Extreme AMD Dedicated Server plans from 1 Gbps to 3 Gbps. Existing pricing stays the same, which means current customers on new orders effectively get three times the baseline throughput without absorbing any additional monthly cost.

The flagship CC-4000 High Capacity server goes further, shipping with a full 10 Gbps port speed included at no premium. For context, a 10 Gbps connection handles roughly ten times the concurrent traffic of the old 1 Gbps baseline, which is a meaningful jump for anyone running video streaming infrastructure, large-scale eCommerce operations, or data-intensive SaaS platforms where traffic spikes arrive without much warning.

Beyond the base upgrade, InMotion introduced a tiered scaling model that lets customers add port capacity in 1 Gbps increments above the 3 Gbps floor, with each additional gigabit running $60 per month. Every tier, regardless of where a customer lands on that scale, includes unmetered data transfer with no monthly caps. That combination of granular scaling and uncapped transfer gives operations a cleaner way to right-size their infrastructure rather than jumping between fixed plan tiers whenever traffic grows.

Trey Faison, Director of Products at InMotion Hosting, put the reasoning plainly: businesses need room to absorb traffic spikes without paying for capacity they do not consistently use. The tiered model tries to solve that specific tension by letting customers pay precisely for what their current traffic demands, then adjust incrementally as those demands shift.

Port speed, for those less familiar with the technical side, controls how much data flows through a server connection simultaneously. During a traffic surge or a large file transfer event, a congested port becomes the bottleneck regardless of how powerful the underlying hardware is. Raising the base from 1 Gbps to 3 Gbps directly addresses that ceiling for everyday operations, before scaling even enters the picture.

The upgraded speeds apply to all new orders placed after February 18th across the affected server lines.