Before I could get started on my Lunarpages Review I needed to first sign up to a hosting package with them!

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!