LunarPages has always been one of the giants in the world of web hosting. Known for being one of the older, more established companies, they have expanded since 2000 to include and facilitate more and more hosting varieties. (Shared hosting, windows hosting, dedicated servers, reseller servers, and VPS) Both of Lunar Page’s data centers and their call center are located within the US. With over 100,000 satisfied customers and 100 staff personnel, they certainly maintain their position as an industry leader while still offering low cost hosting solutions.
LUNARPAGES is running a Fall Special. All Basic 12 and 24 month hosting plans now qualify for Unlimited Storage and Bandwith and will only be $4.95 a month. While this deal runs all the coupons for Basic hosting plans will not be available.
Lunarpage's Shuttle Shared Plan offers just about every feature and ability that anybody, hosting any type of site, could ever want. Plus, this host supports a generous amount of unlimited storage and bandwith. This plan also includes one free add-on domain, unlimited POP3 email accounts and features that support ecommerce as well as applications to assist online educators, auctioneers, and just about everybody else.
Moodle is included for educators and PHPAuction for online auctions. In addition, the Shuttle plan includes a long list of extremely useful features such as, Fantastico Script Library, a FAQ builder, Image and Coppermine Photo Gallery. It also includes the ability to support up to three blogs, chat and SMF forums-just to list a few. Lunarpage offers many more features with the basic plan.
One of the most useful features for new users is the Quicksite Plan. This feature is for novice website creators who need to get a site up and running in under 2 hours with assistance from Lunarpages.
Lunarpages supported programs include PHP, Perl, FrontPage, MySQL, PostgresSQL databases and a CGI directory, and they are one of the few top hosts that support ASP (for an extra $1/month).
In terms of reliability they boast 99.9% uptime, 2,000 Mbit Connectivity, tape backup, a power generator to protect against power outages, Ddos protection and 24/7/365 server monitoring.
If you are interested in hosting a site that requires multimedia support, Lunarpages provides streaming video and audio support, Real Media audio and video, as well as flash, shockwave and MIDI capabilities.
Lunarpages offers an array of email capabilities, including forwarding, auto responders, two forms of web mail, catchall, spam protection and SMTP. Lunarpages also supports sub-domains in a "www.subdomain.website.com" format.
For eCommerce they offer Zen, osCommcerce and Cube shopping carts as well as Open PGP /GPG encryption and a shared SSL Certificate.
Lunarpages offers other features not listed and is capable of hosting most sites efficiently, and includes about any tool you could need, from surveys to running classifieds.
Lunar Pages offers various forms of 24/7 support. They offer a lot of resources right on their site, such as an online community where users discuss issues and ideas, email ticket system, a knowledge base, a glossary, an in depth FAQ page, and an online tutorial section. They also offer a tech line which is also accessible 24/7 and a copy of the control panel manual is also available.
Lumarpages uses a Cpanel that contains most of what you need to manage your site, including the ability to park domains, create subdomains, add-on domains and email accounts as well as filter and forward email. From this panel you can also monitor site traffic and the guest books, forums and contact lists. The Cpanel displays over 40 icons that link to many website management functions and are arranged intuitively and logically.
Lunarpages does everything and does it well-all for $4.95 a month. They also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee and comprehensive customer and technical support. With Lunarpages as your web host, you can expect reliable service and launch a powerful, interactive website.
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