Lunarpages Web Hosting Review now Live
The web hosts reviewed at Clickfire this year have been sorely lacking in ratings. The highly rated BlueHost and HostGator passed moons ago. I kept wondering when we would see another winner. Things have changed. Lunarpages has so far eclipsed the other web hosts reviewed here in 2007. Why? They have one of the highest bandwidth offerings I have ever seen, several distinct features not offered by others and a respectable 24 hour customer support. Excerpt:
The Lunarpages Web Hosting company got its name from a Star Trek episode. I am not sure which episode or series, only that it involved images of a moon, planets and lunar material, if that helps narrow it down. After discovering this trivial fact, I set out on mission to go where no reviewer has gone before: determine whether Lunarpages’ hosting performance is stellar.
I did some probing of Lunarpages and found that the company got its start in the late 1990’s giving out free web hosting on the planet earth. Even when Lunarpages began charging for hosting, the competition was no where near what we see in the web hosting industry today where we see hosts piling up like tribbles. Over the years, Lunarpages began adding dedicated, VPS and Windows hosting to their shared offerings. Lunarpages determined to grow at a slow pace rather than risk crossing the neutral zone at warp speed. Timing and business acumen seem to have been critical factors in the company’s growth. Lunarpages host review is here.
Been assimilated? Either way, I want to hear about your experience with Lunarpages.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I was going to go with Bluehost or Lunar Pages and haven’t really decided yet. LunarPages seemed fine for my needs as long as their customer service wasn’t lacking.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
My two cents on Lunarpages: I’ve been hosted by Lunarpages for around 4 years now +/- and have been very well pleased. I even went to work for them for a brief period until my other job’s schedule interrupted. I now hang out there from time to time in their Forums as a volunteer Forum Moderator. Their customer support team is very well trained and with the user forums, they provide an abundance of information right at the user’s fingertips.
All this adds up to a very good host in my opinion. And I’m not being biased here either. If I didn’t have a good experience with LP…I’d say so.
Bluehost on the other hand…well I have had a bad experience with them. It’s been chronicled on Sounds Like Fudge dot com. (Didn’t think a link would be appropriate here.
But seriously, all in all…my experience at Lunarpages has been a good one.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 am
I know one of my readers is having problems with server load on Lunar Pages even when running wp-cache with Wordpress. Their solution seems to be to shut her site down rather than help diagnose the problem, but it is not like she receives massive social media traffic.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Blue Host and Host Gator have the highest bandwidth which other companies won’t provide. Lunarpages Web Hosting is also one of the best web hosting services.