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Web Hosting Review

Corporate Info: Lunarpages was founded in 2000 offering affordable shared hosting. They have been providing small to large scale managed and unmanaged hosting since 1997. Based out of La Habra, CA, Lunarpages has enjoyed great success for almost a decade by offering fantastic services to almost 200,000 customers!

Detailed Review

Value

Offering both Windows and Linux hosting with low rates starting at $6.95/mo, Lunarpages ranks among the top web hosting companies in the world. Best known for their support and product offerings, Lunarpages exceeds many of the capabilities of their competitors. Recently they have added Virtual Private servers, Windows Hosting AND reseller plans to the mix. We all must change with the times and by maintaining a step ahead is what needs to be done for a successful company.

Technology

Lunarpages uses industry leading infrastructure and the best equipment from Dell, Sun and Cisco. Their state of the art Los Angeles datacenter provides the highest levels of security, safety, redundancy, reliability, scalability and technology. The BGP4 routed gigabit fiber network is multi-homed with over 150 carriers, such as, Mzima Networks, Level3, NTT / Verio, Global Crossing, Genuity, SBC, Microsoft / MSN, AOL Time Warner, Japan Telecom, Hurricane Electric and Savvis.

Support

Again, Lunarpages shows that they are advancing by leaps and bounds by recently launching a new promotion with CoffeeCup Software and the interest has been phenomenal. As a result the usual response times for email and phone inquiries has increased.

Highlights

A good variety of services
Accepts Paypal
Offers Web design Services

Handicaps

Charges for other services like Java, ASP and Dedicated IP
Only one Windows, VPS and Reseller package
No Colocation Services (at least not yet)

Facts

Gain/Loss previous month: +1.9%

Products

Linux Hosting

Basic 350 GB disk space, 3,500 GB bandwidth, $6.95/month
Business unlimited disk space, 3,000 GB bandwidth, $21.95/month

Windows Hosting

Windows Plan 5 GB disk space, 400 GB bandwidth, $8.95/month

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated I 80 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $99/month
Dedicated II 120 GB disk space, 1,500 GB bandwidth, $130/month
Dedicated III 200 GB disk space, 2,000 GB bandwidth, $210/month

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Plan 1 GB Disc Space / 100 GB Bandwidth disk space, Unlimited customers bandwidth, $5/month

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	Rating
Total	78%
Price/Performance	21/25
Technical Utilities	21/25
Customer Support	20/25
Business Practice	16/25

Rating Details

	Price/Per formance
Subtotal	21/25
Price Value	4/5
Product Quality	4/5
Reliability	5/5
Guarantees	4/5
Special Offers	4/5

	Technical Utilities
Subtotal	21/25
Control Panel	4/5
Technical Quality	5/5
Security	4/5
Email Functionality	4/5
Hosting Functionality	4/5

	Customer Support
Subtotal	20/25
Support Speed	4/5
Support Quality	4/5
Phone Support	4/5
Email Support	4/5
Knowledge Base/Help Desk	4/5

	Business Practice
Subtotal	16/25
Website Usability	3/5
Order Process	3/5
Level Playing Field	3/5
Company Performance	3/5
User Feedback	4/5