Lunarpages

A review of the hosting company Lunarpages.

About Lunarpages

Started in 2000, Lunarpages offers cheap plans with great value with good service and also offer dedicated hosting. They have grown considerably over the past 5 years but this doesn't seem to be hurting their ability to service their customers well. Because Lunarpages has a great reputation and offers great value you know that they will always be around, which puts their customers at ease. Although Lunarpages is not a strong e-commerce host, it is definitely a good web hosting choice for many users because of their great features, price, support, and reliability.

Price & Capacity

Their main plan, "Shuttle Plan", is 1,500 GB of diskpace and 15,000 GB of transfer for $7.95 per month on the yearly plan. Even though this is pretty huge, they also offer an upgraded plan, "Business Hosting", with unlimited diskspace and 15,000 GB transfer for $22.95 per month. Dedicated hosting plans are available if you need them. Their basic plan comes with 1 free domain name for life. Their upgraded plan comes with 4 free domain names for life. Unlike most web hosts, they don't seem to have any hidden restrictions so you can be confident that you can take advantage of all that capacity.

Features

Two of their best features are the unlimited email accounts and unlimited MySQL databases. Their control panel is CPanel which is easy to use. They offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee. They offer CGI Bin, FrontPage Extensions, PHP, Python, Perl, and Web Based Email. Like most other web hosting companies, they offer many free tools like: blog, forum, photo gallery, osCommerce Shopping Cart, Cube Cart, and Zen Cart. On February 15, 2006 they added windows web hosting plan. ASP, SSL, and JSP are available for an addition fee.

Reliability and Support

Both customer support and reliability at Lunarpages is great and they seem to actually care about their customers which can be rare in the web hosting world. The have timely responses to email and phone calls. Lunarpages doesn't offer 24/7 phone support. This may be acceptable for most people, but some people like to get immediate solutions to problems if they're running a very profitable site. They also offer e-mail and live chat. They make an effort to provide the best reliability possible in the hosting market.

Random

Their forum, LunarForums, is a very popular forum where you can get help you from Lunarpages or directly from their users. They also has 2 nice extra offers. First, they have a Special Transfer Hosting Offer where you get a credit from your existing host when you transfer your web site to Lunarpages. And second they will also pay your transfer fees when moving a domain to them. Check the the site for any restrictions though.

Lunarpages Web Site