And before I continue, please do remember that everything I write on this site is correct at the time of writing, if you find any of my information is out of date then please do let me know

Anyway, back to the freebies! Just take a look at what you can expect to get if you decide to become a Lunarpages customer:

The bonuses do look really tempting, but as with most things there is a catch. A lot of the items that Lunarpages offer you for “free” are actually only free trials for a certain length of time, you would then need to pay to continue using the services.

Here’s a breakdown of what you will actually receive if you want to take advantage of the special deals:

Parallels®  Workstation

Run Windows, Linux, and more with Parallels Workstation

Free Trial

Ratepoint

Manage your online reputation with RatePoint

60 day free trial

Filestream

Back up your most important photos with Photo TurboBackup and maintain maximum performance of your Windows PC with WinSettings.

Free if you fill out an opt-in form

Visitorville

Give your website great statistics tracking

3 months free

Logo Creator

Create amazing logos right from your PC or Mac with The Logo Creator’s Sports & Entertainment Editions

Possibly free, possibly paid – hard to tell!

Gafana

Stop your spam with up to 15 DNS Level accounts thanks to Gafana

Free

DMXReady

Update & manage your Contact Form from anywhere in the world using DMXReady’s Contact Us Manager

Free if you fill out an opt-in form

DeepTrawl

DeepTrawl checks your whole site for technical & content errors with one click. Scan for broken links, invalid html, spelling mistakes & many other issues.

Free if you fill out an opt-in form

LinkWorth

Get $100 credit from Linkworth by signing up and spending $125.

Bidvertiser

Get your get $20.00 in FREE advertising clicks from BidVertiser

So there you have it, a full breakdown of all the free bonuses that you are entitled to if you sign up for a Lunarpages hosting account, you are entitled to the freebies if you sign up to any of the following packages:

• Linux hosting
• Linux business hosting
• Windows hosting
• Reseller hosting
• Dedicated servers

If you are already a customer with Lunarpages, you can find the special offers section by logging into your client management area and clicking on “Specials”.

I already had a website that needed moving to a new host, so I decided that I would use that website as my primary domain and then add any additional domains to my hosting account as “Addon Domains”.

The website I wanted to move used a couple of PHP scripts so I went with a Linux hosting account rather than Windows.

At the time of signing up, Lunarpages were offering a “Winter Special” that would give me:

• Unlimited Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Unlimited MySQL Databases

And much more, for only $4.95 per month.

Although in reality, the price only worked out at $4.95 per month if you paid for 12 or 24 months upfront. If you wanted to sign up for a shorter contract then the options were:

• 6 months @ $8.95 per month
• 3 months @ $9.95 per month

The above plans also needed to be paid in full, there was no option to pay on a monthly basis.

The plan I signed up for also came with a Free Domain name, but as I already had my domain name registered elsewhere I didn’t take advantage of the free registration offer.

The actual signup was very easy, it was just a case of entering the domain name I wanted to host with them, and then filling in my personal information. They of course offered me a range of upsells as you can see in the screenshot below, but I didn’t bother with any of them!

When I had completed the checkout process, and completed my credit card payment I was presented with the following screen:

I think the reason they ask you to fill our the customer survey is actually a smoke screen just to make sure your order is genuine. I know from my own past experiences that hosts are very vunerable to spammers signing up for hosting accounts using compromised credit cards. So asking the customer a few questions goes a long way to proving that they are indeed genuine customers!

Anyway, what happened next?

Well, a few minutes after I had completed my order, my Lunarpages welcome email arrived in my Inbox, this welcome email contained my Lunarpages account username and password, as well as other important information such as:

• Nameservers
• Email Settings
• FTP Settings
• Affiliate Details
• And so on…

Shortly after another email arrived from Lunar Pages, this time it contained details of how I could access my free bonuses, valued at $775!

To tell you the truth, I haven’t had chance to review them yet so I’ll make another post about the free bonuses when I’ve had more chance to look through them

But I think that brings to an end this section on the Lunarpages web hosting signup process, all in all it was a good experience and I didn’t have any problems with the process!