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Lunarpages Expands Storage and Bandwidth

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:14:45 +0000

Web Hosting provider, Lunarpages, has instituted extensive upgrades to its Basic and Business Web Hosting Plans, including more storage and bandwidth, than other typical hosting plans.

The Lunarpages Basic Hosting Plan now comes with 1,500 GB of storage space and 15,000 GB bandwidth, several times what the competition currently offers. Their Business Plan, already boasting unlimited storage space, was increased as well to include 15,000 GB of bandwidth.

Amy Armitage, Business Development and Marketing Director at Lunarpages noted, ”We know it’s hard to find the perfect web host for your website. So we’re making it one step easier to sign up with us and get the service and support you need. We offer the best 24/7 support in the industry, Free Domain Registration, and incredible hosting services for every level of webmaster. Now, we’ve added the biggest storage web space and data transfer rates in the industry. That’s hard to beat.”

In addition to the new plan increases, Lunarpages continues to provide free 24/7 support to their 140,000 ecstatic customers, and plans even bigger upgrades and add-ons in the future.

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 100,000 customers in over 200 countries, offers affordable award winning shared and dedicated web hosting and web design services. Lunarpages offers the webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to individual needs. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive and recommended host, while encouraging community interaction via the Lunarpages Forums and the Lunarpages Blog. Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers,with multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers.

Lunarpages Debuts Bonus Incentives

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:10:28 +0000

Provider of shared, windows, VPS, and dedicated services and webhosting solutions firm, Lunarpages Web Hosting, has launched a new software and services bundle for its web hosting plans.

Valued at $775, the software and webmaster services bundle is completely free to all new and existing Lunarpages customers. Lunarpages has partnered with ten successful companies to offer solutions that will please every customer. They are giving away free with every hosting account full registered versions of Parallels Workstation, WinSettings, an award winning Windows security software from FileStream that helps you gain maximum performance from your PC; Photo TurboBackup, a very popular backup software also from FileStream, which easily backs up photos and saves them in various formats.

Also included is two editions of The Logo Creator’s logo design software; 2 months free with RatePoint; 3 months free subscription to Visitorville, the website statistics program that’s Sims meets stats; 15 DNS level accounts from Gafana to offer 100% accurate spam and virus protection; DMXReady’s Contact Us Manager to update contact forms effortlessly from anywhere in the world; 3 months free of SiteScout; $100 free advertising from LinkWorth; and $20 free advertising from BidVertiser.

Amy Armitage, Director of Lunarpages Business Development noted, ”We’ve chosen to partner with some of the biggest and best companies in the world, and this is just the beginning. In the coming months, we will be adding more, so stay tuned.”

Soeren von Varchmin, VP of SaaS at Parallels remarked, ”Lunarpages again demonstrates their leadership position in the hosting industry. We’re pleased to partner with Lunarpages to offer users Parallels’ industry-leading desktop virtualization products such as Parallels Desktop for Mac and Parallels Workstation.”

Robert Savage, Founder and self-appointed Mayor of Visitorville added, ”I’ve been an entirely satisfied customer of Lunarpages for years, and know firsthand how great their service and support is. It was only natural that I would want to partner with such a great organization. This is going to be wonderful/”

Gabriel Afana, Founder of Gafana explained, ”In working with Lunarpages, I’ve learned that they are a fantastic company run by genuine people who truly care about their customers. Our offer includes our 100% accurate spam solution, virus protection, consolidation of multiple email addresses into one place, public calendar with txt message and telephone reminders, auto-updating address book, media storage/sharing, and much more. This package is valued at $125 but in staying true to their commitment to their customers, Lunarpages has arranged to have this service provided for free.”

Tom Serani, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, RatePoint added, ”We are extremely excited to have Lunarpages join us as a partner. Lunarpages’ commitment to offering the RatePoint offering is another clear sign that merchants are looking for powerful customer feedback solutions and additional ways to connect with their customers.”

Ron Wikcer, CEO of LinkWorth noted, ”I think it says a lot about a company that actively seeks for additional value to extend to their customers. For customers, after finding the perfect hosting company, the next logical step is marketing your site. LinkWorth has agreed to help all Lunarpages customers get off to the right start with a $100 advertising credit.”

Shahar Jacobi, CEO of BidVertiser noted, ”It was a pleasure partnering with Lunarpages and we are thrilled to offer their customers their first boost of traffic for free using the BidVertiser $20 advertising credit. Best of all, this credit does not require any initial deposit. Setting up a website is not enough and you have to drive targeted traffic to it - Lunarpages now gives their customers a way to do it for free.”

Lunarpages is currently offering their award-winning Basic Hosting Plan for $4.95/month, which includes Free Domain Name, Unlimited Emails, Ecommerce and Blog Software, and more. Add that intense discount to this new software bundle worth over $775 and you have a web hosting value that cannot be beat.

Marc Sylvesterm CEO and Founder of The Logo Creator added, ”I’ve been online selling my software since 1998 and had countless hosting providers over the past 10 years. All of them lacked certain things I wanted and specific things I needed. I was lucky enough to finally find Lunarpages, where they provide incredible customer support, easy to use back end tools, and my hosting plan is the fastest I’ve ever had. What I really like about them is their personal touch to everything. I’m proud to offer my software to all Lunarpages members. We’re all family - and it really feels that way.”

Lunarpages Web Hosting, based in California and serving over 150,000 customers in over 200 countries, offers affordable, award-winning Linux and Windows personal, small business, VPS and dedicated Web Hosting Solution. Lunarpages has the staff, patience and high service levels expected to assist their webmaster community to easily and quickly build and maintain a website that is customized to their individual needs. Lunarpages.com provides a free domain for life to customers, and offers multiple domain packages for shared and dedicated accounts, hosted on UNIX and Windows Servers. The company is consistently rated the most dependable, responsive, and recommended web host by industry leading hosting resource firms.

For more information on this new exclusive software bundle, please visit: www.lunarpages.com/free-bonus.php.

cPanel in LunarPages

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:58 +0000

Website hosting is extremely helpful for customers to make money with fun and thrill. A large number of hosting plans are available that can assist customers in hosting their favorite website. This can be done simply by searching for the right kind of hosting plan in the customer reviews. Such reviews are available in various websites.

LunarPages has a hosting plan with an effective customer interface. The control panel with LunarPages is highly satisfying when they are easy to work with. They have designed their interface effectively. The control panel with LunarPages supports PHP hosting as well. Customers can easily log into the cPanel of LunarPages. They will be guided through the interface on how to use it.

LunarPages cPanel is responsible for the effective hosting plan available with them. They are simple, easy and convenient to use as the menu and links are well designed. It is fast and speedy to work with LunarPages cPanel when the user can understand the working with a simple glance of the site. The ftp, email and other features can be easily located on the top of the page. Domain manager and database need not be located using long range browsing.

Lunarpages Review

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:57:22 +0000

Overview:

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.

As many lunarpages review scores around the web goto show - this is one of the oldest running and stable companies around. They host hundreds of thousands of sites and service professionally an equal amount of satisfied customers each year. If you are looking for affordable, reliable, and great web hosting for your domains and websites, lunarpages web hosting delivers with the best of them!

Features and Prices:


Figure 2: The layout of what the Disk Usage section looks like. This section clearly shows many details on how the disk space purchased is being used.	Figure 3: The Backup section allows a user to upload a backup unto the server in case of file corruption or sabotage.

All of Lunar Page’s plans come with a 30 day money back guarantee and 24/7 online and phone support. Lunar Page’s “Basic Hosting Plan” is very impressive and comes with an abundance of tools and options that will fill the need of virtually any small business or personal site. They offer 350GB of hard drive space along with 3,500GB of bandwidth. (note this is on their cheapest plan) The numbers alone there are impressive, most hosts can’t even hold a candle to space and bandwidth like that. The plan also comes with 10 add-on domains, unlimited parked domains and unlimited sub domains. Unlimited FTP accounts and unlimited MySQL databases are also part of the plan. Email isn’t a problem either, with their unlimited email accounts, email forwarding, and email auto responders, a mailing list is also included to help organize and send emails. The plan is e-commerce ready with a variety of shopping carts and password protected directories as well as encryptions. If media is your thing, the package includes that as well. Your site will support streaming Video, streaming audio, Real media, Flash, Shockwave, and MIDI. Lunar Pages also offers larger packages to suit any client, but their starter package is by far more than enough for most users out there.
Their control panel is user friendly and after about an hour of playing around with it becomes virtually second nature to use. Lunar pages offers a ton of easy to install scripts to help build and add to your site. Popular scripts such as Fantastico and Wiki are included. They also currently have a promotion where if you sign up for a 12 month plan or more, you can receive Coffee Cup software (a $700 value) free.


Figure 4: The FrontPage Extensions section of the control panel allows users to add, remove, or update Microsoft FrontPage Extensions as needed as their websites continue to grow and develop.	Figure 5: In the FTP Manager section of the control panel, users can do many things to alter the creation, edition, or deletion of FTP accounts and access.

Their pricing is super competitive, and you will be hard pressed to find better deals. The pricing for their basic plan is shown below

24 months - $6.95 per month, Free Coffee Cup software
12 months – the price goes up by $1 to $7.95 per month, Free Coffee Cup software
6 months - $8.95 per month, no Coffee Cup software
3 months - $9.95 per month, no Coffee Cup software

They also offer business, VPS, reseller, and dedicated hosting, starting at the following prices.

Business hosting starting at $21.95 per month
VPS hosting starting at $39.95 per month
Reseller hosting starting at $5.00 per month
Dedicated hosting starting at $99.00 per month


Figure 6: The Image Manager section of the control panel allows users with option of resizing images, converting images to different formats, or designating thumbnails; all important aspects of an interactive website that pulls in customers.	Figure 7: This is what the Addon Scripts section of the control panel looks like, and here users can install scripts to improve their website, such as shopping carts and PHP scripts.

Service and Support:

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.
I’ve called them on 3 separate occasions and their staff has always been skilled, professional, and courteous. My first 2 calls were answered in less than a minute, and my 3rd call took about 15 minutes. Since the first 2 experiences had been phenomenal, I will give them the benefit of the doubt on that 3rd call. I also like the fact that you speak to an actual technician and not a machine which simply gives out automated responses which may or may not help.

Reliability wise, their servers are rock solid and I have no complaints in that respect.


Figure 8: The Web/FTP Stats section of the control panel allow users to view some interesting stats about their website, such as, error logs, bandwidth info, the latest 300 visitors, and much more! The using this useful information, users can update their website in order to maximize profits!	Figure 9: In the Webmail section of the control panel, users can choose to access one of three webmail programs to access.

Conclusions:

Pros – 350GB of storage and 3,500GB of bandwidth is almost absurd, free Coffee Cup software with long term plans, ton of features many of which are unlimited, 24/7 professional customer support, established company which has been around the proverbial block. They are the proprietors of their own servers, you are don’t need to wonder if you are buying from a reseller. Incredibly server stability and reliability, low price for unbelievable value.
Cons – that one call took a while to get answered, Coffee Cup software not available if you don’t sign for 12 months or more. 3 month is minimum commitment. Without long term plan price goes up by $3 on basic plan
Other Thoughts – I’d give them a 4/5 if you are looking for short term hosting (i.e. less than 3 months) great service, but the price goes up considerably. If you are planning to stay with Lunar Pages for 12 months +, then bump that up to a 5/5 due to their incredible service and offers. In any case, Lunar Pages is an excellent choice for anyone and everyone looking for a webhost.