The web host LunarPages is the winner of the Silver Award of the Top Ten Reviews and it is supposed to be the only web host that offers email accounts, unlimited. It supports the applications for interactive sites, forums, surveys, blogs, chat, multimedia and e-commerce. It has very recently upgraded its quota of storage to 1500 GB. This is better than many other web hosts. There are ten add-on domains now that include the basic plan. According to the plan you can host eleven sites on one plan.
Features
The Shuttle Share Plan of LunarPages offers the features that help to host any site that you want. It supports a data transfer of 15000 GB in a month and the storage space of 1500 GB. There is also an add-on domain features supporting e-commerce, POP3 email accounts that are POP3.
For the Shuttle plan which offers options for any business, they also offer support like the Fantastico, FAQ builder, Coppermine Photo album, Script Library and so on. It also supports three blogs, SMF forums, blogs and many more features along with its basic plan. One of the most unique features is the Quicksite Plan for the new users. This is meant for the novice people who can get a website up and running in two hours time with help from Lunarpages host.
Reliability and Security
There is reliability of 99.9% uptime tape back up, Connectivity of 2000 Mbit and a power generator to give it a support in case of power outages and a monitoring of the server for 24/7/365. LunarPages is recommended if any of you are interested in hosting a website that requires multimedia support, audio support, video and audio support, shockwave, MIDI capabilities, flash and so on.
You can also rely on LunarPages which supports two web mails, auto responders, spam protection. If you are looking to have e-commerce for your website, they offer osCommerce, ZEN, Shopping carts, and encryption along with an SSL Certificate for security. For e-commerce they offer Zen, osCommerce and Cube shopping carts as well as Open PGP /GPG encryption and a shared SSL Certificate.
Customer Service
The email, support tickets, chat rooms (live), forum style, and a toll free support are the different customer service options provided by LunarPages.
The only minus point is that the telephone support is not available 24/7. Therefore you have to resort to email on a weekend the response of which could take up to 24hours. Of course the accounts are set up very professionally. Besides, there are FAQ and tutorials to help.
Control Panel
LunarPages supports a Cpanel which is needed to manage the site, email accounts, domains are added on, sub domains are created, domain parking facilities. Contact lists, forums, guest books can be managed through the panel.
Pricing
LunarPages offers the hosting for $6.95 per month. There is a thirty day money back guarantee in place. This is a reliable service for launching a interactive and powerful website.
