Editors Lunarpages Review

Lunarpages Review

The web hosting industry is one of the most flexible industries today, with no entry and exit barriers and available technology, even a 13 year old can create a website offering web hosting service. Yes it’s as easy as that!

And the crowd is so confusing that it gets really difficult to find one reliable company. LunarPages is one such company I came across a couple of years back after a long and tiring research when I came across them, I could clearly differentiate them with the others out there at first sight. A fair price on services offered and a clear and unambiguous Terms of Service statement.

LunarPages Hosting Plans
LunarPages offers a number of web hosting packages, they actually have plans that could cater to the needs of almost every sort of user requirement. The plan that I had purchased and will be reviewing is their entry level plan called the ‘Basic Hosting Plan’ which is not so basic when you compare it with the packages offered by a majority of other hosts. Every ‘Basic Hosting Account’ comes with a free domain for life, unlimited MySQL Databases , up to 1500 GB of Storage, 15,000 Gigabytes Data Transfer, eCommerce, Blog, Forum & Photo Gallery, Microsoft® Frontpage® Compatible, Spam Protection and much more. This package is normally $6.95 on 24 months plan but currently you can get this plan for only $4.95 by using the coupn code "spring".

With this plan they provide a whole array of Website Scripts free of cost when u sign-up for a new account and allow you to host Unlimited domains from the same account as long as all domains are not exceeding the plan limits, and even if the limit is exceeded you can always add on GBs of Disk Space or Bandwidth to your existing plan at a nominal monthly fee. This plan also includes free OsCommerce, Cube cart and Zen Cart Shopping carts.

Reliability
LunarPages operate out of a world class data centre infrastructure located in Los Angles, assembled off the best equipments from Dell, Sun and Cisco. Their BGP4 routed gigabit fiber network is multi-homed with over 150 carriers, such as, Mzima Networks, Level3, NTT / Verio, Global Crossing, Genuity, SBC, Microsoft / MSN, AOL Time Warner, Japan Telecom, Hurricane Electric and Savvis. I can personally guarantee for their uptime claims as I’ve never noted any surprise downtimes neither have any of my clients.

Statement from LunarPages
The best equipment is only part of our approach. To ensure complete customer satisfaction, Lunarpages uses a proprietary Active Response Protocol to monitor servers for attacks and outages. We continuously benchmark our servers for web, FTP and email performance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our expert staff address issues before they become problems to ensure that your business stays online.

LunarPages Support
Support is available 24/7X365 via toll free numbers, unlike other web hosts they do not make they toll free number difficult to find or make it available only during weekdays and that too only during the business hours. Apart from toll free telephone support you can also reach their support staff through the regular ticket support, email them or look up their knowledgebase and FAQs for self help.

Conclusion
LunarPages is a web host I can personally recommend without second thoughts. Recently, they were rated number 1 for both uptime reliability and customer service. Although they offer a ‘30 Day Money Back Guarantee’ I would like to know if ever a customer has applied for the same!

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