INMOTION CLOUD VS. RUNNING YOUR OWN HARDWARE
Keep the control. Hand off the 2am pages.
Running your own servers means your team owns every alert, patch and hardware failure. InMotion Cloud gives you dedicated infrastructure with the same control, run by our engineers around the clock.
- Dedicated, not shared, hardware
- No hardware refresh to plan
- Migration run by our engineers
- Engineers in your Slack
ON-PREM
- 02:14The alert reaches your one person who knows the server.
- 02:50They drive in, or wait for the morning.
- 10:00Replacement disk ordered. Arrives in days.
- —Until then, one more failure means downtime.
INMOTION CLOUD
- 02:14Our on-call engineer is paged by monitoring.
- 02:16They acknowledge in your shared Slack channel and start work.
- 02:23Fixed. They set an alert so it doesn’t page anyone again.
- 09:05Your team reads the summary over coffee.
Same control. Fewer jobs for your team.
You keep root access, your data and the final say on changes. We take the work that keeps the lights on.
| What you compare | YOUR OWN SERVERS | INMOTION CLOUD |
|---|---|---|
| Who gets paged at 2am | Your on-call admin, often one person. | Our on-call engineer, 24/7. |
| Hardware failures | You diagnose, order parts and replace them. | We replace them. It’s our hardware. |
| Capacity | Buy ahead, wait for delivery, rack it. | Add capacity by changing plan. |
| Patching and backups | Your team. | Our engineers, on a schedule you approve. |
| Staffing | Hire and keep people who can run it.Source 1 | Our engineering team, from day one. |
| How you pay | Capital purchase, plus power, space and people. | One fixed monthly price. |
| Migration | Your team plans and runs it. | Our engineers plan and run it with you. |
Most outages start with people and process, not hardware.
Industry research on datacenter outages points to staffing and procedure as the recurring problem. Running it yourself means owning that risk.
Datacenter operators report difficulty retaining staff or finding qualified candidates.Source 1
Organizations that suffered a major outage caused by human error in the past three years.Source 2
Of those human-error incidents stem from staff not following procedures, or flawed procedures.Source 2
Organizations with a major outage that say better management or processes could have prevented it.Source 3
Dedicated hardware and the team to run it.
Infrastructure, 24/7 monitoring, patching, backups and the engineers who run it, in one monthly price.
Small plan · 15 TB egress included
Medium plan · 20 TB egress included
Large plan · 40 TB egress included
Off your racks, without a big-bang weekend.
Our engineers assess what you run, move it one service at a time with a parallel run where you need one, and agree rollback triggers with you in advance.
- 1
Assess
We inventory your servers, storage, network and dependencies.
- 2
Plan
We map each system and agree rollback triggers with you.
- 3
Migrate
We move one service at a time, with a parallel run where you need one.
- 4
Validate
We test with your team, then cut over when you approve.
| WHAT YOU RUN TODAY | ON INMOTION CLOUD |
|---|---|
| Physical servers | Instances |
| Hypervisor VMs | Instances |
| SAN / NAS storage | Block and object storage |
| Firewalls and VLANs | Security groups and private networks |
| Tape or disk backups | Managed backups |
Exact mapping is confirmed in your assessment.
Tell us what’s in your server room.
An engineer will review your servers, storage and network and plan the move with your team.
Order by Oct 30, 2026 and your first month on InMotion Cloud is half off with code SAVE50.
- [1]Uptime Institute: Global Data Center Survey 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- [2]Uptime Institute: Annual Outage Analysis 2025 (summary) (opens in a new tab)
- [3]Uptime Institute: 2025 survey, outages and AI (opens in a new tab)
Outage and staffing figures are from Uptime Institute research published in 2025.