Lunarpages Basic Hosting Review After 23 Weeks

Posted on June 21, 2009 by

I am back with another honest review on Lunarpages basic hosting. I’ve had the Lunarpages basic hosting account for 23 weeks now, and I am glad that we are still with each other

My Experiences

Uptime

My last uptime evaluation of Lunarpages basic hosting was till 24th March, 2009 with details at:

http://lunarpageshostingreview.com/lunarpages-uptime-for-march-2009/

I checked from my serviceuptime.com (independent server monitoring service) account today and found that the total uptime from 25th March 2009 to 21st June 2009, i.e. 89 days is 99.96%. For my new readers, I want to inform that I have Lunarpages Linux basic hosting on Laima server.

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Why Choose The Lunarpages Basic Hosting Plan?

Posted on June 14, 2009 by

Choosing the right basic hosting plan can be really tough as there are many hosting providers offering a range of features to lure the prospective customer. The task of matching your upcoming site or blog requirements to the basic hosting plan can be more tough if you are new to web hosting.

Before buying the Lunarpages basic hosting plan customers often ask which sites it is best suited for. The purpose of this post is to tell you about some of the important technical features that go behind your decision to buy Lunarpages basic hosting.

After some research and comparison with other providers, I zeroed in on the Lunarpages basic hosting plan (Linux). The following specifications made ....Read Full Article

Lunarpages Shared Hosting Plan Popular Email Features

Posted on June 7, 2009 by

The Lunarpages Basic Hosting Pack offers vital and valuable email features. These email features are real value for money when weighted for their usefulness for prospective as well as existing customers.

In this post, I am writing about the email facilities that you get when you buy the Basic Hosting pack from Lunarpages.

First, some explanation of email and why people take paid email accounts.

Email is certainly the most popular way of online communication nowadays. The reasons behind the popularity of email are – Ease of use (setup and usage), economical (almost no cost) and quickness (deliverability in few seconds if everything is fine). I have seen even small school going kids communicating via email. Using email is great! Isn’t it?

There are plenty of free webmail service providers, such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc. But, the real charm of having an email ....Read Full Article

Lunarpages Uptime For March 2009

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Dan

Better late than never but I’m returning with the uptime report for Lunarpages for the month of March.

I didn’t update this site as much as I would have liked to during March, so I didn’t monitor the uptime “manually”, instead I’ve relied on the 3rd party uptime checker that I use to monitor my Lunarpages shared hosting account. It checks to see if this site is online every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so it’s very reliable!

Here are the statistics:

Lunarpages uptime review march 2009

If you review the chart above, you can see that there server my account is on was up 100% of the time, apart from a period of 3 days. 2 of those 3 outages were for around an hour each, which brought the average server uptime down under 99.9%, it was however still above 99% with an average of 99.8% which is a good average for a shared hosting account, especially considering the dirt cheap prices you pay for an account.

Overall I am still very happy with my ....Read Full Article

Lunarpages Hosting Uptime Report – February 2009

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dan

After January’s not so great uptime I have some good news to report – the uptime for this site hosted with Lunarpages for the month of February was 99.9% with just a couple of short outages experienced. Take a look at the detailed report below:

February Uptime

As I always try to point out with these posts is that the downtime (or uptime!) that I report here is for the server that my site is hosted on ONLY. Lunapages have thousands of servers across their network, so do remember that when reading these uptime posts.

As the uptime was at 99.9% for February, I’ve had no problems and nothing else to add to the report. It was a fine February when it comes to the Lunarpages uptime which is great considering the bad results from January. Fingers crossed that March continues where February left off.

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Lunarpages and WordPress 2.7 Blog Hosting

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Dan

I was actually going to write a different post today, but when I logged into the admin area of the website to make the post, I saw a message at the top of the page prompting me to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress.

Wordpress BTW is a very popular open source blogging/CMS platform and is used to run this website. Wordpress is great, but it can be quite resource intensive when running on a shared hosting plan. There have also been problems with some web hosts and the new automatic update feature, so I thought I would test it out on my account here with Lunarpages!

Wordpress Automatic Update

You can see that in the above screenshot there is an “Upgrade Automatically” button that I can push to update to the latest version, rather than having to do it manually via FTP.

So I pushed the button and waited to see if Lunarpages really were a Wordpress friendly web host

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Lunarpages Review After 6 Weeks

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Dan

I’ve now been with Lunarpages for around 6 weeks, so I thought I would write a small Lunarpages review looking at my time with the hosting company so far.

It all started off well, I was lucky enough to sign up whilst Lunar pages were offering their “Winter Special” discount coupon promotion. So instead of paying $6.95 per month I managed to get in at the low price of only $4.95 per month. I’m actually from the UK, but even with the current exchange rates, the price worked out a lot cheaper than if I were to sign up with the UK equivalent of Lunarpages.

Anyway, I already reviewed the pricing and the sign up process in earlier posts, so I’ll move onto the actual hosting now!

After you sign up you are given your very own “cPanel” that you can use to manage your Lunarpages web hosting account, from there you can manage pretty much all aspects of your site – emails, addon domains, stats, and so on.

Everything was good until I noticed that one of my favorite cPanel tools; AWStats had been disabled, after contacting support I was ....Read Full Article

Lunarpages Uptime Report – January 2009

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Dan

I’ve now been a Lunarpages hosting customer for just over 1 month, and in that time I have been using a 3rd party uptime monitoring service to keep a close eye on my Lunar pages web hosting account.

So each and every month I’ll be able to come back here and post my uptime reports! Remember that the uptime report monitors THIS website, so whilst it is a very accurate measure of this websites uptime (the site is hosted with Lunarpages), it is only monitoring the uptime of the server that this site is hosted on – Laima, Lunrpages have thousands of servers so do bear that in mind when viewing the report below!

Lunar pages January uptime

You can see from the report above that the overall Lunarpages uptime for January 2009 (on the Laima server) was 99.389%.

Whilst ....Read Full Article

Lunarpages Discount Coupon For Windows Hosting – Save $29.85

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Dan

Today I bring you my very first Lunarpages Discount Coupon/Special offer. From time time to Lunarpages promote special offers or discounts on a number of their hosting products.

The offer I am writing about today relates to the Windows hosting plans. This special discount offer allows you to receive 3 months of hosting absolutely free when you sign up for a new Windows hosting account with Lunarpages and select the 24 month package.

That’s a saving of $29.85!

You also receive a free domain as part of the offer, and you receive all of the usual Lunarpages support and hosting options.

Windows discount coupon

To receive your 3 months of free Windows web hosting, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Lunarpages site by clicking here.

2. Click on the “Web Hosting Solutions” tab, and then click on “Windows ....Read Full Article

Where Is AWStats On Lunarpages?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Dan

That’s the question I’ve been wondering about ever since joining Lunarpages – How Can I Access AWStats?

On all of my other web hosting packages with numerous different web hosts, I have been able to use my favourite stats package – AWStats.

AWStats, in my humble opinion is the best stats package out there. Not only does it produce “pretty” stats that are easy to understand, it also provides detailed information on how visitors found my site, specifically which search engine they came from and what keyword they used to find the site.

So I decided to check the stats for this website and I went inside my Lunarpages cPanel, clicked on “Statistics” and got the following screen:

AWStats is missing!

As you can see, AWStats isn’t listed as one of the stats packages to use!

I found this a bit strange as it had been included in my other hosting accounts that used the cPanel, so I contacted Lunar Pages support and asked if it was possible to enable AWStats for my hosting ....Read Full Article