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Lunarpages
was founded in 2000 when Add2Net Corporation expanded its hosting offerings to include shared hosting. For the previous 3
years, Add2Net had been providing large scale managed and unmanaged hosting services.
Lunarpages has grown into one of
the premier web hosting firms, primarily because of their exceptional service. Even with their growth, they
have maintained excellent support levels when compared to the rest of the web hosting industry.
Lunarpages has
earned a reputation as a provider with superior customer support and a top notch web hosting data center.
Unlike most web hosting companies, you can always get through the phone line with
Lunarpages.
Also, the basic package offering of $6.95/month (or only $8.95/month for Windows hosting) is excellent for
individuals and most small- to medium-sized companies looking for a very reliable website presence on the
Internet.
Lunarpages also has a great reseller program.
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Hosting Ratings: |
| Price Value |
8 / 10 |
| Performance |
8.5 / 10 |
| Reliability |
9.5 / 10 |
| Customer Support |
9 / 10 |
| Control Panel |
8 / 10 |
| User Feedback |
8 / 10 |
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Overall Grade:
51 / 60 |
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Price Value
Lunarpages offers good pricing on their
web hosting plans. The Basic Plan, at $6.95 per month, offers 350 GB of space and 3500 GB of traffic.
This basically will cover 90% of all websites on the market and is an excellent deal.
Also included, $700 CoffeeCup Design Software FREE, 1 FREE Domain Name for Life, 24/7 Award Winning Support, Unlimited
Databases, Unlimited Email/FTP Accounts, Blog, Forum and Photo Gallery, Fantastico (Over 35 Scripts),
JSP/ASP Available, Spam Protection- IMAP Support, Microsoft® Frontpage® Compatible, Dreamweaver Compatible,
Ruby on Rails 6, PostGReSQL, MySQL 4+, PHP 4+, MySQL 5 and PHP 5.2+ Available! Free Web Design Templates
and Webmail (Horde and Squirrel).
With the exception of some of the e-commerce functions. The same holds true for those that require Windows
hosting, which is offered for only $8.95/month.
If you have a high-traffic website, you may want to
switch to their Business package, which for $21.95 gives you unlimited storage space and 3 Terabytes of traffic.
We understand that there are some hosts offering large bandwidth, but keep in mind that these hosts may
have other restrictions, such as file size limit, daily bandwidth limit, or even binary files bandwidth limit
(pictures, MP3s, Flash, etc.). Lunar Pages
does not have such restrictions with your disk space and bandwidth usage. You can upload a single 3500 MB file if
you want and you can finish your 3500 GB bandwidth in 1 day.
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Reliability
Lunarpages devotes a large portion of their resources
into making sure they provide the best reliability possible in the current hosting market. This company
provides the best equipment available to its customers, including Dell, Sun and Cisco Network Devices.
For exceptional redundancy and superior technical hardware, Lunarpages proudly utilizes the facilities of
three unparalleled datacenters: One Wilshire in Los Angeles, California and Marquisnet in Las Vegas, Nevada and
Riverside, California.
With 656,000 square feet of prime data center real estate, LA’s One Wilshire has become the premier communications
hub on the Pacific Coast and houses most of the world’s most powerful networks. With cooling to support up to 150 Watts
per square foot, redundant AC/DC UPS power, generator-backed power of up to 150 Watts per square foot, managed
fire detection and suppression equipment, simply having your severs stored in One Wilshire nearly speaks for itself!
The knowledgeable technicians are at the top of their field and on site 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year to
make sure your Dedicated Server is running smoothly.
Marquisnet has recently emerged as one of the biggest and most intuitive data centers in the world. Still a growing
data center, Lunarpages utilizes the incredible amount of space and cooling facilities to house many of our newest
Shared and Dedicated servers. With multi-layer security control procedures, biometric palm entry, and motion-activated
video surveillance, you can be sure your servers are in the very able hands. Adding to that uninterruptible redundant
AC/DC power, Dual Backup Generators and electrical feeds, HVAC redundant air distribution under raised flooring for
maximum temperature control, fire suppression, and even humidity control, Marquisnet is one number one choice for
secure server housing.
They employ a BGP4 routed gigabit fiber network that is multi-homed with over 150 carriers.
They also utilize a proprietary system called the Active Response Protocol. This program not only monitors the system
for attacks and outages, but continuously benchmarks the system for web, ftp, and email performance - year round.
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Control Panel
Lunarpages uses CPanel as the web site
control panel. It allows you to control a lot of functions, including e-mail accounts, MySQL databases,
custom error messages, password- protected directories, setting up forums, shopping carts, chat rooms,
cron jobs, sub domains, MIME types, apache handlers, search engine submission, free CGI scripts and much
more. You can even upload and manage your files with its powerful file manager.
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Customer Support
Lunarpages have dedicated staff, which includes more than 120 professionals who are instantly willing to assist
you with any questions or concerns you may have regarding your account, billing terms and add-ons,
upgrades, and troubleshooting. Customer support at
Lunarpages is superior and they
are very responsive to your questions. Even e-mail support questions always get answered in a
timely manner. This is very different from most other web hosting companies out there. Accounts are
set up promptly after they verify the order with you via a direct telephone call.
Lunar Pages has excellent telephone
and e-mail support. LunarForums is a very popular forum board that willl help you through the
whole process, with feedback from direct users.
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