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 me decide upon the purchase:
- Unlimited disk usage (Yes it’s true, hard disk storage with no limits).
- Unlimited bandwidth (No bandwidth limit exceeded errors!).
- 30 day money back guarantee (Try and see if it suits your hosting needs).
- Unlimited – MySQL databases, Add-on domains, Sub domains and parked domains (999 display in cpanel is due to server display restriction and can be increased by Lunarpages when needed by you).
- 99.9% uptime (Almost very close to 100%).
- Free 24-7-365 hours online support via email/web interface (No worry about support issues! Normal low response time of 30 minutes to 4 hours. Free telephonic support too during office hours!).
- 2,000 Mbit connectivity (My, that’s huge!).
- Protection against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks (Another factor for downtime avoided).
- All at a price of just $ 4.95 per month!
So if you are looking for economical yet proven hosting with great hosting features, go for Lunarpages basic hosting.
Deciding if the Lunarpages basic hosting is the right work environment for your site? Here is the checklist:
- Personal, small or medium website or blog with most of the dynamic content as text
- Typically less than 90,000 hits/month (Shouldn’t have 1000 HITS/second, 90,000 HITS/month is just a broad measure, not a hard and fast rule)
- Less demand for hosting server resources, i.e, RAM, processor and MySQL queries etc.; suitable for non Images and non Videos hosting.
- Simple Machine Forum (SMF) software support for forums site via Fantastico (automated installation).
- ASP (Active Server Pages – Microsoft Server side script engine) support is built in for free in Windows hosting plan but for Linux hosting plans, $2.95 per domain or subdomain is needed.
- Support for addition of dedicated IP address at $ 2.95 per month. Dedicated IP is commonly needed for dedicated SSL certificate and anonymous FTP access. Dedicated Basic SSL certificate is provided at $ 99 per year.
- Addition of JSP (Java Server Pages) at $ 4.95 per month per domain or subdomain.
- Apache 1.3 (available by default) Or Apache 2 addition (upon request)
- Shell access to the account at an extra fee of $2 per month
- Premium Restore Service at $ 1.50 per month (In case of accidental deletion of any of files at yours Lunarpages basic hosting account, Lunarpages will restore the files if you are a Premium Restore service member. Restoration of files dated up to 3 days previously).
- Supports upgradability and scalability with addition of new features
* Prices written are applicable at the time of writing this post
* For server resources monitoring, i.e. point 3, unfortunately there is no accurate monitoring tool. However, you can request Lunarpages support to monitor your site and warn you in advance if you are reaching the basic hosting plan server resources limit!
These separate payment options mean you only end up paying an extra amount for the features that you need. As most of the sites don’t need all of these features, the charges remain reasonable.
Kindly note that Videos and Images hosting sites demand huge server resources (depending on the volume of traffic). Lunar pages basic or shared hosting is not designed to suit these type of sites, as with other providers. If you are anticipating high resource usage for your site, you should choose Lunarpages dedicated or VPS hosting plan.
Lunarpages has been hosting websites from 1998 and hosts over 1,50,000 sites. Their basic hosting pack provides all the features needed for small and medium sized sites.
If you have some queries related to Lunarpages basic hosting purchase, let me know. I would be glad to help!!!