What happen if you find out that the hosting plan does not have the scripts or features you wanted so much? Basically you have 2 choices, 1) You navigate to other hosting providers or 2) Talk to the hosting support and request an add on.

While in this case Lunarpages does give flexibility to their subscribers. Lunarpages allows addition of certain specific features onto your plan upon request. Most of the additional features are very specific that not all subscribers will need them, that is why Lunarpages does not include them in their plan.

For both Basic and Business Hosting Plan, the features that you can add on are:-

• ASP Enabled Account
• Dedicated IP
• Java/JSP Enabled Account
• Premium Restore Service
• Shell Access
• Apache 1.3 or 2
• Dedicated SSL Certificates

While for Windows Hosting Plan, the additional features are:-

• Dedicated IP
• Premium Restore Service
• Dedicated SSL Certificates

For Reseller Hosting Plan, the additional features are:-

• ASP Enabled Account
• Dedicated IP
• Java/JSP Enabled Account
• Dedicated SSL Certificates

If you still could not find the features that you wanted, you can make a manual request directly to Lunarpages Support at support@lunarpages.com. I am sure they can sort things out for you. By the way, the add on does come with cost. The charges will be based on monthly charges. However I think the charge is fair after all they have given you tons of conveniences.

For more info please visit Lunarpages Hosting.

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It is 2009 and it is a brand new start for all the web hosting providers. Lunarpages is not exceptional as well.

Lunarpages has just redesigned their website and now they have a better and more professional interface. Also, it is worth noting that the new design including site navigation is made for solution-based purposes. This is to serve the customers better in searching the best solution for their hosting needs. Their new design does improve on several things:-

• More professional interface
• Easier navigation through all the web pages
• Inclusion of more great support resources
• The better looking community section
• Easier access to the free webmaster tools
• Quick overview on the current special deals

Personally I think the design is great. However I feel that the word font being used is a bit “weird”. Perhaps I am not used to it yet. Anyway, well done Lunarpages for the great design!

You should take a look at their new design now if you have not done so yet.

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There are 2 scenarios when you first sign up Lunarpages web hosting, 1) you register your domain name with Lunarpages which acts as your primary domain name, 2) you register your domain name at other place like GoDaddy.

In scenario 1 you do not need to do anything on DNS settings as Lunarpages by default will set up the account for you. In scenario 2 you will need to modify your DNS so that your domain name points to the correct location of your files.

So when you first sign up, there is a welcome mail from Lunarpages informing you about your DNS. What you need to do is to modify the DNS in your domain registrant account. After that it take 24 to 48 hours for the DNS to be fully effective and your website will be live to the world then. Therefore DNS is the key to the correct redirecting your domain name to your files. So it is important to have your DNS recorded. The same process will need to be done when you have any add on domain later.

However, if you lose your DNS, you can always contact Lunarpages support to retrieve it. For your information, the DNS of Lunarpages looks something like this:-

• ns1.lunarservers.com
• ns2.lunarservers.com

The DNS above is for example purpose; yours will be contained in your welcome mail.

Related links:-

• Lunarpages Web Hosting
• Lunarpages Support

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Money back guarantee is one of the best marketing tools web hosting providers have. Being one of the leaders in the hosting industry Lunarpages provides 30 days money back guarantee. Below is the refund policy Lunarpages uses, be sure you understand it.

1. If you cancel your account within the first 30 days of new subscriptions or renewal, you are entitled with full refund. All cost incurred during the subscriptions will be returned except the money spent for domain registration.
2. Of cause when you pay for your domain name you have the right to keep the domain.
3. In the case if your domain comes free with your web hosting when you first sign up, you will have the option to choose whether to cancel the domain registration together or retain it. If your choice is the latter then a fee of $9.95 will be deducted from your refund as the domain purchasing.
4. After 30 days of subscriptions your subscription is confirmed and therefore there will not be refund.

If you have sign up with Lunarpages and by any mean you would like to cancel for refund, what you need to do is to send an email to billing@lunarpages.com together with information below:-

• Username
• Last 4 digit of the credit card associated with the hosting account (for ownership verification)
• Reasons of the cancellation

The refund will be done in a short while. After all with the great customer service awards won by Lunarpages, their efficiency is very encouraging. With their refund policy, it could be said that you are risk free in subscribing to Lunarpages as by anytime within the first 30 days you can cancel the account and ask for a full refund.

More Lunarpages post:-

• Lunarpages Review
• Lunarpages Hosting Plans
• Lunarpages Official Website

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As you have already known, Lunarpages is stationed at California. If you by any mean pass by their office, do snap a photo and share with me because my current location is too far to pay a visit to their headquater anyway. Below is a map to their office.

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Never mind their headquarters, their actual servers and databases are actually not located at their office. They have their backbones at San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles (California), as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. They have altogether 4 databases as discussed in Lunarpages Data Center.

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As a nature of business, it is certain that not 100% of customers will satisfy with a service. In Lunarpages web hosting, some subscribers think they have done a good job while some other subscribers have had a bad experience with them. And it is not difficult at all to find negative comments and complaints when you google Lunarpages review. Complaints about website deletions, rude customer supports, unstable up time and etc are easily available. Perhaps Lunarpages web hosting is really a bad host? And this is making Lunarpages to be infamous and further downgrade in their service?

To me, I try not to judge a web hosting just by their users review. This is because I believe a web hosting service (in fact every services in the world) is impossible to please each and every customers. Servicing is something very subjective and it is not easy to measure. How rude is rude for a customer support? I am sure everyone has their own definitions.

Lunarpages web hosting somehow remains as a quality hosting for me though I have read many complaints and agree that their experiences are horrible. (And I believe the stories are real and they have no reasons making up the stories) This is mainly because I do not have any experience that is considered as bad with Lunarpages after hosting with them for 3 years. So I thought what has gone wrong there? I have somehow come out with some find out.

While reading the complaints, I have realized a commonality among the reports. Most of the reports are written and filed a few years ago which I think they are no longer valid today. As web hosting is a tech-based business and obviously web hosting is improving from time to time. I am sure Lunarpages has learnt about their mistake (if any) and has improved a lot. Even Intel has gone into Quad core processors. There is no way Lunarpages is still running on Pentium III. Therefore if you got a chance in reading one of those reports, perhaps you should take a closer look at the date of writing.

Lunarpages is aggressive in their business all this while. They are alert from time to time on their market and hardware needs. They have recently upgraded their servers and have moved their data centers to American Internet Service (AIS), San Diego. AIS is one of the most prestigious buildings in the world with comprehensive facilities. Redundancy is a key concern in AIS and I am sure our data is well guarded with redundant OC48s and OC192s connections, redundant power supply, redundant data center and even redundant HVAC system. Clear enough if Lunarpages is not serious with their business they will not invest such an amount of money to upgrade their servers.

On top of the upgrades I am pretty surprised that Lunarpages does not increase their hosting charges. (Because I thought they want to cover back their initial cost of the new facilities) What is more surprising is that Lunarpages actually lower down their monthly charges! Lunarpages decreases the subscriptions fee even though they have better facilities now. So I think they are really aggressive in providing a quality web hosting.

That is how I see Lunarpages and those are the reasons why Lunarpages remains as a quality hosting for me. Although there are complaints on the hosting (which hosting companies do not have?) Lunarpages is working aggressively in improving themselves. It is undeniable Lunarpages is losing up the hosting market but that has nothing to do with providing quality services. (Perhaps Lunarpages is losing up in marketing?) And people are saying Lunarpages sucks? I seriously doubt it.

Please share your thought with me.

Quick Links:

• Lunarpages Features Review
• Lunarpages Data Centers
• Lunarpages Web Hosting

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Lunarpages web hosting provides great flexibility to user to do mostly whatever you want online. You can basically have anything and everything online, from business to hubby discussion forum.

Hosting your website

One of the best things you can do with Lunarpages is to host your website. No matter what kind of websites, what you need to do is to save your files into your hosting space, and get a good domain and that’s it. You are now on World Wide Web.

Hosting your blog

You can blog anything you wish to talk about and most importantly you have the world to be your audience. You are may be not a good writer but who cares, you can always blog your way out. Who knows you will be famous one day?

Unlimited email

In Lunarpages, you get unlimited email accounts and email sending with your own designated domain name. You email address will look something like this yourname@yourdomain.com. No matter you are in business or personal life, this email address will definitely give you a better image on internet communications.

Picture and video sharing

You also can upload your photos and video to you hosting. The photo gallery function found in fantatisco gives you the conveniences to share your moments with your family and friends.

These are only some of the basic things you can do with Lunarpages. With the Fantatisco and Control Panel on your hosting, you can do even more things and it is always thrilling to know that the world will be your audiences on your piece of work.

Learn more about Lunarpages features

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California Web Hosting Lunarpages – http://www.lunarpages.com - 99.9% Uptime - Unlimited Storage & Bandwidth - Free 1 Permanent Domain & unlimited Add-on Domain - Free $775 Worth of Software - JSP, ASP, IMAP, MySQL, PHP - Unlimited Email, Database, FTP - Dreamweaver & Frontpage Compatible - Fall Promotions Link – $4.95/mo

Who is Lunarpages? Lunarpages with their base in California have been in the web hosting service for more than 8 years. With 4 data center across the states, Lunarpages host most than 150,000 website worldwide. The year of services and the number of customers speak for itself the quality of their service. Numerous awards won by Lunarpages along the years and the recent one will be :- FrontPage Hosting award by “Find My Host” (2008) HostPedia’s Editor’s Choice by “HostPedia” (2008) Full Won-Awards List What can you get from Lunarpages? Something that I have stressed enough – a quality support. What differ this California web hosting company from others is the supports that they are providing. Lunarpages provides all sort of supports from email,telephone to ticket sumitting. They also have a good FAQ sessions. Actually having these features is nothing great about them but what is impressive is their speed in responding to the queries which I call it “an effective customer support”. Lunarpages Review Lunarpages is definitely committed in serving their customers. Why am I so confident? Because I myself am their customer for more than 3 years. I have several websites hosted with them including this one. I am satisfied with their service and have no complain. Although I gave only a “9 out of 10″ to them is because I hope they will not settle for what they have achieved now. The remaining 1 point deducted is with the hope that they will continue striving for the best of the best. View my full Lunarpages review. The Specifications of Service Previously they are still providing limted storage(1500Gb) and bandwidth(15Tb) but they have now gone UNLIMITED. It is officially published in their website. You can now store as much data as you like and no worries on your traffic volume. On top of that you get an absolutely FREE domain. Also upon fall, every new signed-up customer is entitled to enjoy a $775 dollars worth of Free Sotrware. I do not know how useful of them to you but for me, I love using these 4 out of many – Gafana Spam Blocking, DMXReady’s Contact Us Manager, Photo TurboBackup and Logo Creator. You can learn more about the free bonus here. The Fall Promotions Yes. It is officially started. Lunarpages is now doing promotions that they have revised their price and specsifications to a even more competitive package. As mentioned above, unlimited storage and bandwidth, free domain and unlimite add on domains which means you can host as much website as you like. And on top of all of these extra benefits, the pricing is only $4.95/month which is 20% lower han before! It is definitely a bargain! I seriously wonder will this promotions apply to those existing customers because I have already tied up for 2 more years with them! Argh.. How long will the promotions last? I have seriously no idea. They name it Fall Promotions. How long you are expecting Fall will last? With the global warming issue nowadays, it is really unpredictable, don’t you think so?  Follow this link to get the Lunarpages Fall Promotions.

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Lunarpages has gone UNLIMITED!

Great news! Lunarpages the web hosting leader is now on sales! Great promotions on their hosting plan this fall. Lunarpages has not only given out UNLIMITED storage and bandwidth, they have also lowered down their monthly charges to $4.95/mo now. Find it out fast because this is a limited time offer.

Lunarpages Fall Promotions Summary

Wait no more!

• Sign up the limited time offer
• Visit to Lunarpages web hosting
• Learn more on Lunarpages hosting plans
• Lunarpages full review

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Lunarpages Web Hosting http://lunarpages.com Current Pricing: 24 months: $6.95/mo $4.95/mo 12 months: $7.95/mo $4.95/mo 6 months: $8.95/mo 3 months: $9.95/mo

Lunarpages Latest Promitions

Lunarpages Fall Promotions: Unlimted bandwidth Unlimited storage Unlimited add on domains Only $4.95/mo for 12 & 24 months plan $775 worth of free software Lunarpages fall promotions link

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