It’s not always easy finding the best web hosting provider for your websites, so I thought I would recommend the web host company I use. I set up my first website in 1996, and since then I have used several website hosting companies. Initially, I evaluated them based only on features and price. However, a couple of years ago my old web host had a system crash, and incredibly had no recent backups. I had my own local backups, fortunately, but I did lose some email. I immediately started searching around for a new web host, and settled on Lunarpages because they had everything I needed at a reasonable price. I thought I should write a little Lunarpages review to help you evaluate the many options for web hosting. (Note that if you sign up with Lunarpages through these links, I will earn a commission — so thanks in advance for supporting Semicolon.)
The main thing that attracted me to Lunarpages was their excellent support — I have used their “online community” extensively, but they also have tutorials, a knowledge base and email support.
Their features are very good too. Mostly I use PHP, MySQL and Apache of course — these are required to run WordPress. Lunarpages use the excellent CPanel administration interface — this gives you email configuration, web mail, subdomains, statistics, shopping cart, database administration, and about a zillion other things. Lunarpages even provide a pre-installed WordPress installation so you don’t need to download and install it. Of course, advanced users (like me :)) can install their own packages — I use several separate installations of WordPress, as well as a heap of home-grown software. The only big feature they don’t offer is shell access. Initially I was doubtful about this, but I have found that I don’t need it — CPanel’s File Manager does everything I need.
Overall I am very happy with Lunarpages. They have all the technical features I need at a good price, and they have been very responsive and helpful. I certainly plan to use them for my future web hosting needs.
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Lunarpages do get great reviews throughout the web but that is partially due to their service and secondly due to their generious affiliate program
True, their affiliate program seems good — but after several months nobody has yet signed up through my affiliate link, so it hasn’t done me any good at all.
As I said, the best endorsement I can give is that I am a satisfied Lunarpages customer. Feel free to ask any questions about my Lunarpages experience in the comments here.
I just wanted to let you know I’m signing up w/lunarpages though your affiliate link after reading several reviews on them and saw you comment about it not working out for you ,
Thanks fo the review