Lunarpages Review - California Web Page Hosting Provider

Ranking:	Top 5
Monthly Price:	$7.95 & Free Setup
Key Features:	3,000 MB Disk Space, 40 GB Bandwidth
Corporate Office:	Add2Net Inc, Lunarpages Division, 100 East La Habra Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, USA
Toll Free Tel:	1-877-LUNARPAGES (1-877-586-2772)
Website:	Lunarpages.com

Latest News:
Jul 5, 2005 - Lunarpages' new transfer incentive program allows web hosting customers to move their current web hosting accounts to Lunarpages without losing any remaining time on their existing contracts. Lunarpages will compensate for the remaining duration of an existing contract at no additional cost and even offering transferring clients a 90 day money back guarantee.

Feb 19, 2005 - Lunarpage has increased the storage for its Shuttle plan from 1,000MB to 3,000MB at no additional cost.

June, 2004 - Lunarpages web hosting is now offering the Fantastico Script Library for all customers at no additional charge.

Overview
Founded in 2000, Lunarpages is a leading web hosting provider of affordable web hosting services worldwide. Within a short period of 5 years, Lunarpages had hosted more than 70,000 websites. Lunarpages is popular in the web hosting industry because they provide reliable web hosting experience and excellent customer service & support. Their top rated support staffs and fast response had produced many satisfied customers and we are just one of them!

We have two websites hosted with LunarPages. One of the website is about child brain development and early child development. Within 24 hours after we sign-up with them, Lunarpages's staff called us to confirm our credit card payment! So, make sure you also provide a valid telephone number if you plan to sign-up with Lunarpages. Even though the price is only US$7.95, Lunarpages hosting plan provides many superb hosting features to be discussed below.

Key Hosting Features
Lunarpages's Shuttle hosting plan offers 3,000 MB of disk space and 40 GB of bandwidth, which is more than enough for most of the websites. In addition, Lunarpages also supports many standard web hosting features such as server-side functionalities (CGI-BIN, Perl, SSI), FrontPage Extension, FTP function, unlimited email accounts, 'CPanel' control panel for server administration and website statistic analysis software .....and etc. Here, are few highlights:

Fantastico Script Library - The Fantastico Scripts Library is a collection of 37 popular scripts that can be auto installed directly from the control panel. And some of the example of the scripts that you can add into your website immediately are Blog Nucleus, phpBB2, PHPSurveyor and etc.

Add-On Domain - Typically, most of the websites will not used up the 3,000 MB disk space and 40 GB bandwidth. Nevertheless, you still have to pay the same hosting fee every month with these redundant resources going wasted. With the Add-On domains features, now you will have the option to add up to 3 more domains into a single Shuttle plan. In other words, you can run up to 4 different unique URL websites on just one Shuttle plan account! Each add-on domain only cost $2.50 per month. This feature alone will save you a lot of money if you own many websites or plan to have many websites in the future.

But we have to warn you that this is a good option only if you have few 'small' websites to share the un-used resources (3,000 MB disk space and 40 GB of bandwidth). That is to say, each website can shares an average of 750 MB of disk space and 10 GB of bandwidth if you have 3 add-on domains. However, should you overrun your disk space or bandwidth, you can always purchase additional disk space at $1.95 per 25MB and additional bandwidth at $3.95 per GB.

Control Panel - We like the LunarPages's 'CPanel' control panel very much as it is very user friendly. With intuitive interface using simple icons, it will help to simplify your website administration job. You can try out the CPanel demo here.

Customer Support
Lunarpages is renowned for its' superior customer support. From our point of view, Lunarpages will be an excellent choice if you are new to website hosting and you expect to request a lot of technical support or service in the foreseeable future. Because you can always receive fast and friendly responses from Lunarpages.

24/7 Toll-Free Phone - Lunarpages provides 24/7 toll-free telephone 1-877-LUNARPAGES (1-877-586-2772) for customers in US/Canada. While United Kingdom customers, can call the toll-free number 0800-072-9150. For customers living outside US/Canada, they still can reach Lunarpages at non toll-free number: 714-521-8150.

24/7 Email support - Lunarpages offers exceptional email support. Their support ticket system allows you to track your problem status and you can always expect to receive their reply promptly. In our experience, their technical staffs are awesome.

LunarForums - Lunarpages is only one of the few web hosting providers (besides, PowWeb and midPhase) that offer a discussion forum for their existing customers and potential customers like you. If you have any pre-sale questions before signing up with Lunarpages, you can post your queries there. On top of that, you can browse the LunarForums to find the hosting setup or configuration issues, advance assistance on web design, search engine and even basic Perl, CGI, or PHP coding. In general, a web hosting company that is not afraid to provide an open discussion forum is a strong indication that they have nothing to hide and must be very confident about their product and services.

Lunarpages Live Chat - If you need to chat online with a support staff, you can make use of Lunarpages 'Live Chat' that can be found at LunarForums.

Lunarpages FAQ - You can find helpful tutorials for beginners on various general web hosting topics.

Lunarpages Tutorials - Last but not least, this flash media tutorials cover various subjects, including working with CPanel, setting up email client, upload website with FTP, using Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash and Microsoft FrontPage all for free.

Data Center
Reliability is the utmost import criteria in selecting a web hosting company. Lunarpages offers industry leading infrastructure built with the best equipment, including: Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers (equipped with dual Xeon 2.8 GHz processors and 4GB memory), Sun and Cisco Network Devices to ensure maximum performance.

As a California web page hosting provider, their state of the art data center is located in Los Angeles, California. It provides the highest level of security, safety, redundancy, reliability, scalability and technology. Their BGP4 routed 2 Gigabit fiber network is multi-homed with over 60 carriers, such as, Mzima Networks, NTT/Verio, Global Crossing, Genuity, SBC, Microsoft/MSN, AOL/TimeWarner and Cable & Wireless.

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Summary
How does LunarPages measure up? With careful price/quality evaluation, Lunarpages is one of the best quality web hosting providers that we had found. With $7.95 per month for 3,000 MB of disk space and 40 GB of bandwidth, Lunarpages's Shuttle plan is an excellent choice for most of the websites. On the flip side, Lunarpages's Shuttle plan is not for you if you plan to have a business website that requires e-commerce support such as shopping cart and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You would have to sign-up their Voyager hosting plan at $22.95 per month if your website needs to support e-commerce.

If you're looking for a hosting solutions that you can absolutely rely on, backed by a totally committed technical support team, then we would like to recommend that you check out Lunarpages for yourself. If you find Lunarpages does not meet your expectation, they offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee. You have nothing to lose.

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