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Experts Sessions
1 th
Year

The Hosting Decision Matrix for Growing Agencies

Carrie Smaha

Senior Manager of Marketing Operations

InMotion Hosting

About the Session

As web agencies grow, the infrastructure decisions that once felt simple become far more strategic. What works for five client sites rarely works for fifty, and what works for fifty can quickly break down at five hundred. In this session, InMotion presents a practical framework for navigating that evolution, helping agencies decide when it makes sense to resell hosting, when partner programmes offer the best balance of flexibility and support, and when a self-managed approach becomes the smarter long-term move.

The talk also explores how AI-assisted maintenance, the rise of no-code and low-code tools, and increasingly hybrid infrastructure are reshaping the way agencies deliver services and scale operations. Rather than focusing on products alone, the session gives attendees a clear way to think about operational maturity, margin, control, and client needs at each stage of growth. InMotion’s own offerings serve as real-world examples within that framework, showing how agencies can make more confident infrastructure decisions as they scale.

Carrie Smaha spent 12 years in the agency space, leading one for half of that time, before taking her skills in-house as Senior Manager of Marketing Operations at InMotion Hosting. She’s the kind of marketer who reads the data, writes the code, and ships the campaign. Having lived the agency grind from both sides of the table, she brings end-to-end ownership to every channel she touches.

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