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!

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

Here are the results:

As you can see, the automatic upgrade was successful! So that’s a big plus point for anyone who doesn’t want to upgrade their WordPress version manually.

One final thing to mention about WordPress is a point I touched on earlier, and that is the high CPU and memory resources required by WordPress.

This site is hosted with Lunarpages, and is run on WordPress. So far I’ve had no CPU, memory or resource usage problems and as far as I can tell the website loads quite quickly. Although you can judge that for yourself

So in conclusion, if you are looking for a web host to run your WordPress blog on, then I would have no problem in recommending Lunar pages. I’m currently on the basic Linux shared hosting package and this blog runs without any problems.

I installed this blog manually via FTP, but Lunarpages do offer the latest version of Fantastico on all accounts so if you’d rather install using the simple online “1 Click Install Wizard” then you can do that as well!