About LunarPages
Lunarpages was established by Ron Riddle in April 2000 as part of the Add2Net corporation’s expansion. Headquartered in California, the company owns three datacenters and serves over 150,000 customers. Lunarpages employs over 100 dedicated staff worldwide and the company states "we will never lose our close-knit feel and attitude because our connections with each other and our community are the reason for our success.”
Lunarpages Plans and Features
Lunarpages provides two shared hosting plans. The ‘basic’ plan costs $6.95 per month, serving 1.5 TB of storage and 15 TB of monthly bandwidth. By signing up for their 12 or 24-month plan, you get a free domain for life. Aside from your primary domain, you’re allowed to host up to 10 add-ons, unlimited subdomains and redirects. Databases and email accounts are also unlimited.
Supported programming languages include Ruby on Rails, PHP, PERL, PYTHON, and ASP. As a brilliant add-on to the hosting plan, there are over 35 free Fantastico scripts included. A few of these are shopping carts viz. osCommerce, Cube Cart, Zen Cart, a shared SSL certificate, 3 blog installations including b2evolution, and content management software.
The ‘business’ plan costs $21.95 per month and brings a few added features. These include 4 free domain names for life, unlimited storage space, free SSL installation, and one free dedicated IP address.
Lunarpages guarantees you 99.9% uptime, all backed by a 30-day money back guarantee.
Hosting Environment
The user control panel at Lunarpages is a version of the industry standard cPanel software. phpMyAdmin comes pre-installed in your control panel, from whence MySQL databases can be managed.
Joomla Features
If a Content Management System (CMS) is vital to your website, you can find Joomla as a one-click install from Fantastico.
Tech Support
With over 120 full-time support professionals, Lunarpages’ award-winning support system is undoubtedly one of the best in the industry. Their support options include a helpdesk, where support tickets can be submitted, and a 24-hour toll-free telephone. There is also a very extensive knowledgebase, a glossary, and lots of flash-based online movie tutorials for beginners. In addition to all this, lunarforums.com hosts forums where thousands of Lunarpages customers participate and help each other out.
Conclusion
Lunarpages is certainly a company that will be around for a long time. With exceptional features, top-notch support and some of most advanced equipment in the hosting industry, Lunarpages is a very viable choice for your Joomla site. If you’re looking for a premium web host with lots of experience and integrity, you can’t go wrong with Lunarpages.
